 On release he moved to Leningrad where he was able to establish himself at the Gorky Drama Theatre directing a Ukrainian ethnographic choir.This ethnographic choir later was transformed by him into a bandurist capella modelled on the Poltava Bandurist Capella and playing on Kharkiv-style banduras.After a performance of the Kiev Bandurist Capella in Leningrad in 1937, he was arrested once again and this time was sentenced to 10 years' hard labour in the Kolyma work camps in the Far East.