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Svomas or SVOMAS (Russian: Свомас or СВОМАС), an abbreviation for Svobodnye gosudarstvennye khudozhestvennye masterskiye (Russian: Свободные Государственные

Studios (Pegoskhuma) created in its place; this was renamed the Petrograd Svomas (Free Art Studios) in 1919, the Petrograd State Art-Educational Studios

October Revolution, his school was closed and later incorporated into "Svomas" as the "Second Free Art Studio". He continued teaching, however, for the

is gradually smoothed out. In 1918, Kuprin took a post as professor at Svomas in St. Petersburg and also at the Vkhutemas design school in Moscow (State

English. In 1917, Lubetkin enrolled at the Vkhutemas in Moscow and the Svomas in Petrograd, studying under Constructivist figures such as Alexander Rodchenko

the October Revolution the school was reorganized and became one of the SVOMAS, known as the First Free State Art Workshops. Since 1930 it became the Moscow

art and technical school founded in 1920 in Moscow, replacing the Moscow Svomas. The workshops were established by a decree from Vladimir Lenin with the

school was transformed in 1918 into the Second Free State Art Workshop (Svomas). Art workshops eventually disintegrated. In 1939, Igor Grabar launched

mentor her. In 1919 she began studying painting at the State Free Studios (Svomas) with the constructivist artists Nadeshda Udaltsova, Lyubov Popova and Aleksandr

took over the former Imperial Academy of Arts, renamed to Free Workshops (SVOMAS) where Matyushin led his own art class on Colour. In 1921 the state relaunched