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.
Talyshinskaya soon met with Vladimir Surin, a prominent figure in the USSR's arts committee, who had previously encountered her at a Moscow pop music contest where she had triumphed in 1938.