The orchestral years saw several foreign tours, encounters with many internationally famous conductors, Bol'shiyanov's 1st prize at the 1953 Bucharest competition and the founding of his quintet. His chamber music activities included a performance of the Stravinsky "Octet" under the composer's direction. Although he left the Leningrad Philharmonic for health reasons in 1968 (he was made an Honoured Artist of the RSFSR for his work there), he still plays and tours abroad with the orchestra. The quintet, too, still performs. The present members are Messrs. Chirskov (trumpet), Buyanovskiy (horn), Venglovskiy (trombone) and Galuzin (tuba).
From his first teaching job in the secondary school attached to the Conservatoire Bol'shiyanov rose swiftly through the ranks of the Conservatoire's teaching staff, becoming head first of trumpet and chamber music, then of the orchestral and then of the wind department. In 1976 he was appointed Vice-Rector and in 1978 Rector, the first wind player to hold this post, although in 1980, again for health reasons, he had to return to less strenuous teaching activities on the Conservatoire's two campuses in Leningrad and Petrozavodsk. The fruits of this work are twofold. On the one hand, most of the members of the Leningrad Philharmonic (both orchestras!) and the Kirov Theatre trumpet sections are Bol'shiyanov pupils. On the other hand, a collection of teaching material written during his tenure of office is to be published soon and will be of great interest to teachers and students alike.