The seminar of Amateur composers - the unique state system of free elective learning in the USSR people gifted in music.
The idea of such state institutions grew out of the Leningrad branch of the Union of composers of the USSR in the mid 1940s immediately after the great Patriotic War.
After a successful experience with participation The Leningrad Seminar of Amateur composers such workshops have appeared in other cities of the USSR.
Because of the political situation before the revolutionary events of the 1990s in the USSR, Abram Ysfin was unable to hold a Seminar in working condition.
The ability for any gifted man to get a free high quality education in the field of musical disciplines became unavailable.