グネーシン音楽大学
During the Soviet era, the Pavlova family was transferred to Moscow in 1961, where Alla studied music in the Gnessin State Musical College. She studied with Armen Shakhbagyan, a composer with a reputation established in the 1970s, and paid special attention to the works of Anna Akhmatova. This influenced a good part of her production until the 1990s.