after a conflict with students of kiev commercial institute (1917) and the "case of stashevskiy" (1917), dovnar-zapol'skiy resigned from almost all professorial work. he then became professor at the kharkiv institute of people's economy in december 1919 and at kharkiv university in 1920, remaining there until 1921. he was also pro-rector of azerbaijan university and professor of the baku polytechnical institute from 1922 to 1925. following that he was professor of belarusian history at the belarusian state university from october 1925 to fall 1926, creating the archeographical commission of inbelkult together with dovgyallo in 1925. after the forced move to moscow in the fall of 1926, he frequently had to seek occupation outside the field of science. he was professor at timiryazev academy in the 1930s. in the 1920s and 1930s, he occupied several management positions in the system of management of the economy in soviet ukraine, azerbaijan, belarus and russia.