She soon met with the member of the USSR Council of Ministers Arts Committee and future Deputy Minister of Culture Vladimir Surin who had happened to know Talyshinskaya from a pop music contest in Moscow, in which she had participated and won back in 1938.
She then ran into Vladimir Surin, a member of the USSR Council of Ministers Arts Committee and future Deputy Minister of Culture, with whom she had previously connected through a Moscow pop music event that she had won in 1938.