The University includes the Institute of Commerce (Irkutsk), the Institute (a branch of BNUEL) in Chita, Institutes (branches) in Ust-Ilimsk, Bratsk, Yakutsk; College of Business and Law, College of Trade and Economy, Post-Graduate and Post Doctoral Courses in 17 areas.
From the late 1950s he travelled extensively in the USSR, as a special correspondent for the Pravda, Komsomolskaya Pravda and Literaturnaya Gazeta newspapers, and the journals Ogonyok and Yunost, documenting these trips with drawings and prints of the Bratsk and Krasnoyarsk hydropower plants, the industrial Urals, the oil fields of Baku, and the Moskvich car factory in Moscow.
Convinced too that the plot Igor was facing was a threat to his own country and the world as a whole, they undertook feverish trips across the USSR, from Leningrad, to Moscow, to Tashkent, Bratsk, and finally, Odessa.