 In November 1918, the Turkestan Oriental Institute opened, lead by Andreev, who was responsible for selecting teachers, organizing facilities, provisioning educational equipment, building a library, organizing archaeological and numismatic collections, as well as many other tasks.Andreev himself taught classes in the Persian language and Tajik on the ethnography of Tajiks.His activity at the Turkestan Oriental Institute and as an assistant professor and professor at the Oriental Department of the First Central Asian State University lasted more than 20 years.