Militärakademie für Ingenieure der Luftstreitkräfte „Prof. N. J. Schukowski“
He resumed his studies in 1921, first at Turkestan University and then at the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy. Vakhmistrov built gliders at the academy: the training AVF-8 "Condor" (1924), the AVF-22 Serpent Horynych (1925, with M. K. Tikhonravov), and Gamayun and Skif (1928, with Tikhonravov and A. A. Dubrovin). In the glider Skif during the sixth All-Union gliding competition (October 6–23, 1929, in Koktebel), pilot A. B. Yumashev set an all-Union flight altitude record for gliders of .