[citation needed] On March 14, 1917, the Commissioner of the Provisional Government for the institutions of the former Ministry of the Imperial Court, Fyodor Aleksandrovich Golovin, notified the meeting of members of the academy and the Council of Professors of the Higher Art School that he was leading.

According to the project, the School's classes were eliminated, and instead, main (major) and auxiliary workshops were introduced.

The auxiliary courses were intended to cover a number of artistic subjects and art history.

However, neither by the beginning of the academic year, nor in the first months after the October Revolution, the reform of the academy took a practical course.

In 1932, INPII was transformed into the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, which in 1944 was named after Ilya Efimovich Repin.