By 1924 Tarkovsky moved to Moscow, and from 1924 to 1925 he worked for a newspaper for railroad workers called Gudok, where he managed an editorial section written in verse. In 1925–1929 he studied literature at a university college:ru:Высшие государственные литературные курсы in Moscow. At that time he translated poetry from Azerbaijanian, Georgian, Armenian and Arabic.
