Rostov College of Arts

In the period of M. L. Presman's activity, the school for the first time moves from the old premises (Kazansky Lane – now the corner of the Moscowskaya Street and Gazetny Lane) with three small rooms and a hall for collective lessons in a new one – on Bolshaya Sadovaya Street, 83 with a good concert hall (formerly a women's room gymnasium); a large number of musical instruments are purchased and a music library is created.

During the Second World War, the building was destroyed, a music library, tools, equipment and archives were lost.

Pushkinskaya, 95 on the basis of the music library named after Rimsky-Korsakov, and later in the house of the actor on the Gorky Street.

1900 – the official date of the founding of the school, the founding of the four first departments – solo singing, pianoforte, strings and wind instruments; 1918 – thanks to the professionalism of the pedagogical collective and the high level of training of the graduates of the Musical College, the educational institution was given the status of the Conservatory.

1922 – reorganization of the Conservatory into the Musical-Practical Institute; 1927 – return to the status of secondary vocational education and renaming in the Musical College.