Music and Time Annotation << Back About Professionalizing of Music Education of Bayan Players in Nizhny Novgorod S.A. Ozerov The article is devoted to the development of professional music education on folk instruments, particularly the accordion in Nizhny Novgorod. The author organizes the information, some facts published for the first time. The observed relationship Nizhny Novgorod performing school with traditions of the great Russian orchestra of V.V. Andreeva. The article covers the period from the opening of the Nizhny Novgorod Irmo (1873) in the second half of the twentieth century, where the formation of a three-tier system of vocational training in the city. The scheme “communication of generations», which reflects the origins and development of professional music education. The whole process of the evolution of the professional music education of the Nizhny Novgorod art of Bayan, the author of the article divides into two periods. Keywords: folk instruments Department, Department, Bayan, Nizhny Novgorod performance school. Contacts: E-mail: serguey79@mail.ru Pp. 14-17.