 In 1930, the Joint State Political Directorate collegium subjected Andreev to administrative expulsion to Alma-Ata for 3 years, accusing him of being a part of a counterrevolutionary group.However, he returned to Tashkent ahead of schedule.In 1934, at the suggestion of the Council of People's Commissars of the Tajik SSR and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Tajikistan, Andreev carried out an expedition to the Pamir region to replenish previously collected ethnographic and linguistic data in the Khuf Valley and other valleys near it.