Abramtsevo Art and Industrial College is under threat of closure. About the school: Abramtsevo art and industrial college (Abramtsevo art and industrial school akhpu). Artistic processing of bone
License for educational activities dated June 12, 2010 No. 64733
Certificate of state accreditation dated November 22, 2007 No. 0878
About the college
Abramtsevo Art and Industrial College named after Vasnetsov is a state educational institution that provides its graduates with secondary vocational education. This is a unique institution in terms of its significance and role in the culture of modern Russia, because many rare specialties are taught only here. The history of the college dates back to 1870 from the beautiful Abramtsevo estate in the Moscow region. Today the educational institution is one of the branches of the Moscow Academy of Arts and Industry.
Specializations
Abramtsevo College trains students in the following specializations:
- artistic woodwork,
- painting and artistic processing of bone,
- artistic work on stone,
- working with metal,
- artistic ceramic processing,
- painting.
Upon graduation from college, graduates receive the specialties of master artist and painter, and teacher of applied arts. Many of the proposed professions are considered quite rare today, so the issue of subsequent employment is usually resolved in the shortest possible time.
Duration of training
The duration of study is 3 years and 10 months for applicants after 11th grade and 4 years 10 months for applicants who have completed 9 grades of a secondary school.
College Features
One of the main features of the Abramtsevo College of Arts and Industry is its unique teaching staff, thanks to which the educational institution has educated and brought into the world of creativity more than one generation of talented painters and craftsmen. The second characteristic feature of the “Abramtsevo school” is the teaching of rare folk arts and crafts.
However, college teachers try to take into account all the socio-economic and cultural changes in the country, as well as the demand for the professions they graduate in the labor market. Thus, in addition to teaching familiar specialties, the college is working to open departments for restoration, storage of works of art, mastering computer design and painting. These are new and quite in-demand professions that are relevant to the modern labor market.
There is a museum on the college grounds that houses the best works of graduates. Abramtsevo Art and Industrial College named after Vasnetsov is a special creative world where harmony, beauty and mystery reign.
Form of study: Full-time
Type of training: Paid, Free
Cost of education: 18300 - 27500 rubles per year
Training is based on grades 9 or 11
Specialties:
Decorative and applied arts and folk crafts Painting
Exam subjects:
mathematics, Russian language, history, creative test
The history of the college begins from the Abramtsevo estate near Moscow, which belonged to patrons and connoisseurs of Russian art Savva Ivanovich and Elizaveta Grigorievna Mamontov.
In the 1870-1880s. An artistic circle was formed here, which later received the name “Abramtsevo”. It included outstanding Russian artists V.M. Vasnetsov, I.E. Repin, V.A. Serov, M.A. Vrubel, V.D. Polenov and others. In their work, they turned to the national artistic heritage and looked for new forms of national self-expression.
Samples of works of peasant art, collected by members of the circle in the surrounding villages and during trips to the northern and central provinces of the country, served as a source of inspiration for artists and became the basis of collections when creating a folk art museum in Abramtsevo, and several educational art workshops - a carpentry, pottery and workshop women's handicrafts. The artistic carpentry workshop laid the foundation for Abramtsevo College.
V.M. Vasnetsov 
Elizaveta Grigorievna Mamontova. Photo, late 1860s 
Elena Dmitrievna Polenova. Photo, 1874. 
Elena Dmitrievna Polenova. Photo, late 19th century. 
E.D. Polenova. Sketch of the “Fairytale” door. Early 1890s. Paper, watercolor. AHPK im. V.M. Vasnetsova 
E.D. Polenova. Sketch of a chest. 1880s. Paper, watercolor. AHPK im. V.M. Vasnetsova.
The educational process in the workshop followed the mainstream of pan-European art education. The use of authentic monuments of traditional art in teaching was considered an advanced method.
“Our district,” wrote E.G. Mamontov, is full of small artisans working for the Trinity Lavra, toys, caskets and various wooden things. I have long wanted to update this production through school, mainly by introducing new artistic
samples... The final goal of the workshop is to prepare artisans with a more developed taste, who always have at hand a Museum with ready-made art samples and a Workshop, ready at any time to provide assistance with advice and in the sale of goods.”
E.G. Mamontova sought to embody a philanthropic idea - to provide each master who graduated from the workshop with a solid income that would not “tear him away from life in the village.”
The art and carpentry workshop was established in 1885 on the basis of a carpentry workshop that existed in Abramtsevo since 1876 at a literacy school for peasant children. Its first artistic director was a talented artist, the sister of Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov - Elena Dmitrievna Polenova (1850-1898).
V.M. had a huge influence on the artist’s work. Vasnetsov. “I didn’t study with Vasnetsov in the literal sense of the word, i.e. I didn’t take lessons from him, but somehow I gained an understanding of the Russian folk spirit from him,” wrote Elena Dmitrievna. It was he who convinced Polenova to use her numerous sketches of peasant household items, as well as authentic monuments of wood carving and painting, when creating new samples of products for the carpentry workshop.
Starting with paintings of objects made by peasants, Polenova moves on to designing the objects themselves, starting with quoting folk art motifs, moves on to creating new motifs and new objects, to free creativity according to the principles of peasant art.
E.D. Polenova. Sketch of a shelf (“hanging cabinet”). 1880s. Paper, watercolor. AHPK im. V.M. Vasnetsova 
E.D. Polenova. Sketch of a stool (“with windows”) – part of a furniture set. 1880s. Paper, watercolor. AHPK im. V.M. Vasnetsova. 
E.D. Polenova. Sketch of a bench. 1880s. Paper, watercolor. AHPK im. V.M. Vasnetsova. 
Art and carpentry workshop in the Abramtsevo estate. Photo, early 20th century. 
Students and graduates of the Abramtsevo art and industrial workshop. In the center is a portrait of E.G. Mamontova, to his right is E.A. Zelenkov, sitting under the portrait: M.F. Yakunchikova, A.S. Mamonova, N.Ya. Davydova. Photo, September 1, 1910, property of T.N. Manushina. 
Work in the Free State Abramtsevo Arts and Crafts Training Workshop of Carpentry and Carpentry. Photo, early 1920s, AHPK im. V.M. Vasnetsova.
In total, more than 100 pieces of furniture were made according to the artist’s sketches and drawings: various cabinets, shelves, tables, benches, frames, table accessories, decorated with patterns of triangular-recessed and flat-relief carvings, painting and tinting. V.M. was also involved in designing the samples. Vasnetsov, V.D. Polenov, A.S. Mamontov (son of S.I. Mamontov) and other members of the circle.
The opinion about Vasnetsov’s decisive attention to the formation of the artistic orientation of the Abramtsevo carpentry workshop, and through it - furniture and interiors in the neo-Russian style, is not an exaggeration. Polenova's first works were created with the direct participation of the artist. The latter are truly an encyclopedia and a truly inexhaustible source of motifs, techniques, and forms of the entire system of neo-Russian style.
The novelty of the artistic language of Abramtsevo's items, their compliance with the tastes of society of that time and the affordable price ensured great consumer demand and recognition at Russian exhibitions in Nizhny Novgorod, St. Petersburg and Moscow.
Every year, boys from surrounding villages who had graduated from primary school were accepted into the workshop for a three-year period. The training was free. Through the efforts of E.G. Mamontova and E.D. Polenova’s workshop had a special atmosphere that instilled in children a love of creativity and respect for the traditions of national culture. There were frequent conversations and meetings with artists from the Abramtsevo circle, reading aloud, and getting to know the museum exhibits.
The nature of the program was developed taking into account the social background of the students and the craft skills they acquired at home. The children were instilled with an attentive attitude to the execution of each item, with the obligatory development of its design. The development of artistic taste and skills was facilitated by copying numerous ancient caskets and other exhibits of the Abramtsevo museum. Experienced craftsmen, who also came from peasant backgrounds, supervised the execution of the work. History has preserved the names of the first mentors - Kuzma Fedorovich Denisov and Ivan Antonovich Komissarov.
Abramtsevo art and woodworking school FZU. Photo, 1933, AHPK im. V.M. Vasnetsova 
Abramtsevo art and woodworking school PTS. Carving classes. 
A.A. Toporkov. Photo, 1930s. AHPK im. V.M. Vasnetsova. 
Abramtsevo art and woodworking school FZU. Sample room. Photo, 1933, AHPK im. V.M. Vasnetsova. 
Teachers and students of the Abramtsevo art and woodworking school of the FZU. In the center, in the first row – V.I. Sokolov, I.A. Shirokov, G.G. Fadeev. Photo 1934. AHPK im. V.M. Vasnetsova. 
Alkhimovich Tamara Vladimirovna. Casket with a round lid, 1981. Wood, geometric carving. 11x30x12.5. Museum-reserve ‘Abramtsevo’
After graduation, graduates, receiving a workbench and a set of tools as a gift, continued to work as apprentices on orders from the workshop for a year. She continued to take care of them as much as possible, taking care of the sales of their products. All 28 people who graduated from the workshop during E.D.’s lifetime. Polenova, continued to live in neighboring villages, working on her orders.
Little information has been preserved about the training workshop for women's handicrafts and the pottery workshop. The latter existed on the estate under the leadership of technologist P.K. Vaulina from 1890 to 1896, and then was transferred to Moscow. The high level of teaching pottery craft there is evidenced by the gold medal of the Nizhny Novgorod All-Russian Exhibition of 1896, awarded to the works of students. Their products were “imitations of antique metal objects.” Most likely they
were made using the traditional folk technique of black-polished ceramics. Along with the works of students, the exhibition featured works by the outstanding artist Mikhail Vrubel, who actively collaborated with Abramtsev’s pottery workshop.
After the death of E.D. Polenova, the “handicraft” nature of the carpentry workshop’s activities began to change. Since 1898, the artist Natalya Yakovlevna Davydova (1873-1926) became its leader, and in 1908 she was joined by Maria Fedorovna Yakunchikova (1864-1952), who had previously been fruitfully involved in organizing domestic artistic crafts. Under them, the production part of the workshop was significantly expanded to the volume of a furniture factory, where orders for the production of iconostases, libraries, and canteens were carried out.
The duties of the senior master since 1894 were performed by Yegor Abramovich Zelenkov (1875-1939), a former graduate of the workshop. From 1911, training was extended to four years due to the introduction of the subject of polishing. According to surviving information, in the period from 1885 to 1912. About 200 experienced craftsmen left the workshop.
The fruitful work of the Abramtsevo workshop inspired the leaders of the Moscow provincial zemstvo to organize educational workshops in Sergievsky Posad: a toy workshop and then an art and carpentry workshop. Many famous artists and art critics successfully collaborated with these workshops - V.M. I am. Vasnetsov, S.V. Malyutin, N.D. Bartram, N.Y. Davydova, V.I. Sokolov and others.
Tamara Vladimirovna Alkhimovich. Leading artist at the Khotkovo factory of art products. Photo from 1980. 
Handicraft carvers. Standing (from left to right): V.P. Vornoskov, M.P.Vornoskov, V.I.Khrustachev. Sitting: A. Khrustachev, N.A. Alexandrov, K.I. Khrustachev, N.I. Ryzhov 
The teaching staff of the school. 
Icon ‘Sergius of Radonezh’ by O.N. Salomakina. Late 90s Mammoth bone. 
Decorative screen ‘Sergius of Radonezh’ by N.N. Salomakina. Late 90s Mammoth bone. 
B.Ya. Semenkov, master carver. In his work he continues the line of established mastery of V.P. Vornoskov, the traditions of his plant ornaments.
Zemstvo activity in Sergievsky Posad marked the beginning of wood burning and painting, as well as carpentry. Furniture sets and individual furnishings designed by artists were replicated by craftsmen and students of both the Posad and Abramtsevo workshops. Both workshops jointly created a collection of carved products and decorated with decorative carvings the Handicraft Pavilion of the Russian Department at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900, where the furniture of the Abramtsevo workshop was awarded a gold medal.
Since the late 1890s. in the zemstvo posad workshop worked carver Vasily Petrovich Vornoskov (1876-1940) from the village of Kudrino, a graduate of the Abramtsevo carpentry workshop, who is considered one of the founders of the famous “Abramtsevo-Kudrino” direction in wood carving. Thanks to natural talent, hard work, and masterful mastery of carving techniques, Vornoskov managed to organically combine techniques and ornamental motifs of traditional carving with new methods of wood processing. The main feature of the carving is a flattened relief pattern with softened (“ovalized”) edges in the form of freely curved branches with “finger” leaves and birds sitting on them, tinted in a golden brown color. The production of various cabinets, shelves, caskets, ladles, and dishes decorated with “Abramtsevo-Kudrin” carvings quickly grew, turning into a trade.
After the October Revolution, the state’s need for the export of handicraft products of “a clearly expressed national character” contributed to the preservation and further activity of the art and carpentry workshop. In 1918, the Abramtsevo estate was nationalized and transformed into a state museum, and the Abramtsevo carpentry workshop was transferred to the subdivision of the Art Industry under the People's Commissariat for Education and transformed into the Central State Woodworking Educational Production and Demonstration Workshop. About 40 students studied in the workshop under the guidance of experienced instructors E.A. Zelenkova, A.S. Maksimov, artists N.V. Filasov and A.S. Mamontova, daughter of S.I. Mamontov, who also worked as a curator of the Abramtsevo Museum. The gifted artist Konstantin Vasilyevich Orlov, a graduate of the Stroganov Art and Industrial School, was appointed director. In addition to special ones, the new curriculum included general education subjects and the then mandatory political literacy, designed to educate “conscious fighters for socialism.”
Vasily Petrovich Vornoskov (1876-1940). 
Andrey Vladimirovich, grandson of V.M. Vasnetsova, full member of the Academy of Arts, with college students. 
M.V. Vornoskov, great-grandson of the famous carver. Continuer of the traditions of Abramtsevo-Kudrin carving. 
K.G. Zorilov, master of decorative sculpture, one of the first bone carvers in the Moscow region. 
Alkhimovich T.V. Dish ‘Firebird’, 1977. Wood, flat-relief carving, staining, varnish. Diameter 68. Abramtsevo Museum-Reserve. 
Alkhimovich T.V. Triple casket, 2001 Wood, flat-relief carving, staining. 22x23.7x18.7. Museum-reserve ‘Abramtsevo’
The materials of the All-Russian Agricultural Exhibition of 1923 testify to the high level of training of the craftsmen. The exposition of the section of the exhibition dedicated to the Abramtsevo production and demonstration workshop was represented by a decorative eight-meter long boat, topped with horse heads and filled with small carvings made by teachers and students.
On the initiative of the Moscow Provincial Committee of the RKSM, in 1924, not far from Abramtsevo, in the former hotel of the Intercession Khotkov Monastery, a Training and Production Carpentry and Carving Workshop was opened for 150 children from orphanages. For two years, it trained carpenters and woodcarvers, using the educational experience of the Abramtsevo workshop.
The Abramtsevo production and demonstration workshop itself was transformed into the Art and Wood Finishing Furniture School of Handicraft Apprenticeship in 1926. Despite the economically difficult decade for the country, from 1918 to 1928. it trained 94 craftsmen and 8 carpentry instructors. The school mainly worked on self-support, surviving through the export sale of products made according to Polenov’s designs, as well as the production of furniture for kindergartens, decorated with Soviet symbols.
In 1931 As a result of the reorganization, both educational institutions were combined into one - the Abramtsevo woodworking vocational school with a two-year training period, which is now located in the former monastery hotel in the village of Khotkovo. A large team with 250 students was led by experienced teachers - artists A. A. Toporkov
(1896-1995), a graduate of the Stroganov School and V.I. Sokolov (1891-1957), who wrote a well-illustrated book “Wood Carving” in 1936, which became a methodological guide for students and teachers of vocational art schools for many years.
First of all, the vocational school trained qualified specialists in carpentry for the Abramtsevo-Kudrinsky trade that was gaining strength.
At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the Abramtsevo vocational school was closed. However, already in August 1942, in connection with the Government decree on the restoration and development of artistic crafts, it was reopened. Much credit for preserving the school and transferring it to a qualitatively higher level of training of specialists belonged to the director Viktor Dmitrievich Mochalov. During the war years, famous sculptors A.V. taught at the school. Petrov, I.K. Altukhov, artist A.M. Gavrilyuk, instructors A.S. Maksimov, K.D. Prosviryakova, N.I. Starostin, A.I. Tselovalnikov were other masters returning from the front after being wounded.
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In 1944, the school changed its name to Abramtsevo Professional Art School. The duration of training was increased from two to three years. The teaching of general education subjects was introduced in the scope of a seven-year school, as well as modeling, drawing, and composition. In addition to training cabinetmakers and masters of “Kudrin carving,” experienced carver M.N. Zinin taught a group of children in the specialty “Bogorodsk carving”, due to the fact that the neighboring Bogorodsk vocational school was closed.
Many aspired to the school, however, only those who studied well and successfully passed the entrance exams were accepted into it. Recalling his years of study during the war, carver A.G. Tishin testified: “There was a friendly atmosphere at school, holidays were held, and there was a training brass band. Despite the time of famine, students were provided with hot free meals, uniforms, hostel accommodation and even a scholarship.”
The emergence of the subsequently famous bone-carving craft in Khotkovo is directly related to the creation of a department for training bone carvers at the Abramtsevo vocational school. The art of miniature wood and bone carving has existed in the Trinity Sergius Monastery since ancient times. In the 1930s the state made an attempt to revive this extinct art. Courses for training miniature carvers were organized at the Scientific Experimental Institute of Toys in Zagorsk. In 1947, their best graduates were V.E. Loginov and F.M. Mozikov - became the first instructors of the new bone-carving department of the Abramtsevo vocational school. The main task of the department was to train personnel for the newly organized bone-carving artel “Folk Art” in Khotkov, in which the first 20 graduates came to work already in 1948. In the 1950s and 1960s. the artel was an experimental laboratory for the study and implementation of new technologies and equipment, a methodological center for masters of similar industries. In the products of the Khotkovsky craft, an original artistic and figurative handwriting was discernible; realistically interpreted modern subjects, images of birds and animals, complemented by characteristic plant “Abramtsevo-Kudrin” motifs of patterns, prevailed.
In 1957, the Abramtsevo Art and Industrial School was created on the basis of a vocational school. It trained master artists for folk art enterprises not only in the Moscow region, but throughout the country.
The flourishing of the school, which began during the “thaw”, is associated with the activities of its director Yuri Yakovlevich Tsypin (1920-1987), an honored teacher of the RSFSR, who led the team for about 30 years. He invited ASPU graduates who graduated from capital art universities to become teachers, and encouraged their creative inclinations and searches for new teaching methods.
New departments were opened at the school: artistic ceramics, ceramic painting (existed until 1991), artistic processing of metal and stone. An educational building, dormitory buildings and educational and production workshops were built. In 1991, the school was transformed into a college with a branch in the city of Pyatigorsk. On the 100th anniversary of its founding, for its success in training master artists for folk art crafts, the fishing rod was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor and named after one of the founders, the artist Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov.
In June 2014, AHPK officially became a branch of the Moscow State Academy of Arts and Industry named after. S.G. Stroganov.
Based on a careful study of the traditions of folk art, comprehending the art of drawing, sculpture, painting, composition, here they learn to create artistically expressive household items and decorative items. The school pays great attention to the creation and strengthening of the educational and material base necessary for high-quality training of specialists. An educational building, training and production workshops and a dormitory for 502 places were built.
Artistic processing of bone has its own characteristics. In order for the product to be expressive in color and plasticity, it is necessary to demonstrate high skill. The cabinet of art samples contains many items made from the tarsus (animal bone) and sperm whale tooth. These are decorative cups, chess, pincushions, jewelry, caskets, and boxes.
The technologies and their execution and design methods are different. Stone products are no less diverse in their artistic designs: decorative sculptures, panels, grooves, lamps.The metal works presented are very diverse. made in different techniques: caskets, forged candlesticks and fireplace sets, chased and engraved panels, jewelry, boxes and inserts, decorated with cloisonné and painted enamels, filigree, and enamel.
Along with artistic woodworking, one of the leading specialties at the school is artistic ceramics and painting. Students master the skill of producing basic types of ceramics, methods of decorating them and create majolica pottery, earthenware, porcelain dishes, panels, fireclay dishes with painting and stucco, and decorative sculpture. They design classrooms, assembly and reading rooms, dormitories, and training and production workshops.
All training sessions are conducted in bright, spacious classrooms and offices.
The library has the necessary literature fund. Training and production workshops, in terms of their equipment, ensure the implementation of practical training programs throughout the entire technological cycle. In 1978, the training and production workshops were transferred to economic accounting and transformed into experimental training and production art workshops (ZUPHM). During training sessions in workshops, students, engaged in productive work, produce products of high artistic and technological quality, which are sold in stores in Moscow, Sergiev Posad and Khotkov. Profit received as a result of economic activities of EUPHM. used to strengthen the educational and material base. Interest in practical training, in mastering skills, and in the results of one’s work has grown, which in turn leads to an increase in the quality of training of specialists. The subject of diploma design is expanding, target and real diploma design is being introduced.
Abramtsevo Art and Industrial College named after Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov is famous for its graduates not only in our country, but also abroad.
Its history began in the Abramtsevo estate in 1870, when this estate was bought by a large industrialist and philanthropist Savva Ivanovich Mamontov. Together with his wife, Elizaveta Grigorievna, who was madly in love with art, they were able to unite leading Russian artists around them. This is how a creative circle was formed, which later received the name “Abramtsevo”.
Spiritual unity reigned in the circle; the atmosphere was conducive to the creation of wonderful works of art. Much attention was paid to the preservation and development of folk art. Elizaveta Grigorievna opened a school for children from surrounding villages, and then with her - educational carpentry workshop. One of the workshop teachers was Elena Dmitrievna Polenova. Gradually, the children learned to create decorative furniture using folk art motifs in carvings, on the basis of which they developed new compositions.
After the death of E.D. Polenova’s “handicraft” nature of the carpentry workshop’s activities began to change, the production part of the workshop was significantly expanded, turning into a kind of furniture factory, where orders were carried out for the production of iconostases, furnishings for rooms, libraries, and dining rooms.
Since the late 1890s. a carver worked in the zemstvo posad workshop Vasily Petrovich Vornoskov(1876-1940) from the village of Kudrino, a graduate of the Abramtsevo carpentry workshop, who is considered one of the founders of the famous “Abramtsevo-Kudrino” trend in wood carving. V.P. Vornoskov managed to organically combine techniques and ornamental motifs of traditional carving with new methods of wood processing.
After the October Revolution, the state's need to export handicrafts contributed to the preservation and further activities of the art and carpentry workshop. In 1918, the Abramtsevo estate was nationalized and transformed into a state museum, and the Abramtsevo carpentry workshop was transferred to the subdivision of the Art Industry under the People's Commissariat for Education and transformed into " Central State Woodworking Educational Production and Demonstration Workshop».
After the end of the Civil War, a war against homelessness was declared in the country.
On the initiative of the Moscow Provincial Committee of the RKSM, in 1924, not far from Abramtsevo, in the former hotel of the Intercession Khotkov Monastery, another institution was opened for children from orphanages - the Training and Production Carpentry and Carving Workshop, which included 150 people. For two years, it trained carpenters and woodcarvers, using the educational experience of the Abramtsevo workshop.
In 1931 as a result of the reorganization, both educational institutions were merged into one - Abramtsevo woodworking vocational school with a two-year training period, which is now located in the former monastery hotel in the village of Khotkovo.
In 1944 the school changed its name to Abramtsevo professional art school. The duration of training was increased from two to three years. It introduced the teaching of general education subjects in the scope of a seven-year school, as well as modeling, drawing, and composition.
The emergence of the famous bone carving industry in Khotkovo is largely due to the creation of a department for training bone carvers at the Abramtsevo vocational school. The art of miniature wood and bone carving has existed in the Trinity-Sergius Monastery since ancient times. In the 1950s - 1960s. the artel was a kind of experimental laboratory for the study and implementation of new technologies and equipment, a methodological center for masters of similar industries. The products of the Khotkovo craft have an original artistic and figurative style.
In 1957 on the basis of a vocational school was created Abramtsevo Art and Industrial School, the flourishing of which is associated with the activities of the director Yuri Yakovlevich Tsypin(1920-1987), Honored Teacher of the RSFSR, who led the team for about 30 years. Under him, the school went through a period of formation, strengthening its material and technical base, and qualitative growth in the level of teaching. Yu.Ya. Tsypin invited ASPU graduates from capital art universities to teaching positions, encouraged their creative inclinations, and the search for new teaching methods. The school opened new departments - artistic ceramics, artistic metal and stone processing.
During classes, students had the opportunity to use materials from the still life and methodological collections, a library of about 30 thousand books, take part in the work of clubs, and an amateur film studio, which received the title “People's Photo Studio”. The Museum of Military Glory of the 326th Infantry Warsaw Red Banner Division was created at the school, where war veterans have been coming for meetings for many years in a row. About two thousand exhibits are stored in the school’s art room.
In 1991 Abramtsevo Art and Industrial School was reorganized into Abramtsevo Art and Industrial College named after. V.M. Vasnetsova.
Thanks to the work and talents of the majority of graduates, many traditional artistic productions in Russia have been revived: ceramic crafts in Gzhel, Skopin, Dulevo, Ramon, Kazan, bone-cutting and stone-cutting centers in Arkhangelsk, Perm Territory, woodworking industries in Khotkov, Sergiev Posad, Kirov and other regions.
In 2005, AHPK named after. Vasnetsov celebrated his 120th birthday. On this occasion, a big celebration was organized at the Gagarin Palace of Culture, all visiting guests, former students, and teachers received memorable gifts.
Currently, the college provides training for 5 years in six areas - artistic ceramics, artistic processing of metal, stone, bone, wood, and decorative painting. Students receive diplomas of secondary specialized education and become master artists.