The formalists’ ideas havenever been mentioned in the textbooks or in the teachers’ manuals but influenced the whole system of literary education. It became an implicit motto of school analysis. Though official education cursed ‘the formalism’ as the heresy that confronted ‘marxist methodology’ many formalists’ tools and methods were widely in use. In the 20s their representative was I. P. Plotnikov. M.I. Rybnikova, and later M.G. Kachurin, G.I. Belen’kii and G.G. Granik developed that line in the secondary school textbooks.  So, the mechanism of phenomena survived and still influences school literature as a discipline.