After Aleksandrov's death in November 1982, his colleagues from the Department of Higher Geometry and Topology, in which he had held the chair, sent a letter to Moscow University's rector A A Logunov proposing that one of Aleksandrov's former students should become Head of the Department, to preserve Aleksandrov's scientific school.
Aleksandrov pagkatapos ng kamatayan sa Nobyembre 1982, ang kanyang mga kasamahan mula sa Kagawaran ng mas mataas na geometry at Topology, na kung saan siya ay gaganapin sa silya, ng isang sulat na ipinadala sa Moscow University's rektor AA Logunov minumungkahi na ang isa sa Aleksandrov ng dating mag-aaral ay dapat na maging Head ng Kagawaran, upang pangalagaan ang Aleksandrov's pang-agham na paaralan.