Nakhimov Naval School (Saint Petersburg)

The Nakhimov Naval School (Russian: Нахимовское военно-морское училище) in Saint Petersburg is a military boarding school of the Russian Navy.

Nakhimov Naval School
Нахимовское военно-морское училище
Emblem of the school
Typeboarding school
Established1944 (1944)
FounderMinistry of Defense of Russia
Affiliation Russian Navy
Officer in charge
Vice Admiral of the Reserve Aleksey Maksimchuk
Students240
Address
Petrogradskaya Embankment
,
Saint Petersburg
,
Russia

59.9556°N 30.3362°E / 59.9556; 30.3362
LanguageRussian

Overview
The school building.

The Leningrad Nakhimov Naval School was created in accordance with the decree of the Council of People's Commissars on 21 June 1944 and the People's Commissariat for Military and Naval Affairs. The date of publication of the order (23 June), is set as the annual holiday of the school. It was the first Nakhimov Naval School to be formed, with the school being named after admiral of the Imperial Russian Navy Pavel Nakhimov.[1] On 18 September 1944, the first admission to the school took place. In the first academic year, 408 pupils studied at the school. In 1948, the first graduation of cadets took place. In 2016, the Vladivostok Presidential Cadet School and the Sevastopol Presidential Cadet School became branches of the school.[2][3] By order of President Vladimir Putin on 1 September 2017, the Murmansk Nakhimov Naval School became the third branch of the school.[4] On 25 May 2017, it was awarded the public Order "To the Glory of the Russian Fleet" 1st Degree.[5]

Currently, the term of study at the school is 7 years. It is among the first pre-university educational institutions of the Ministry of Defense of Russia to start the academic year.[6]

The school has been representing the Soviet Navy at military parades on Moscow's Red Square and Saint Petersburg's Palace Square on many occasions (Victory Day (9 May), October Revolution Day (7 November), and International Workers Day (1 May)). In 1996, the parade regiment of the school received a personal certificate of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief (then Boris Yeltsin) for its march in the 1996 Moscow Victory Day Parade. In 2013, by order Minister of Defense Sergey Shoygu, it returned to the Moscow Victory Day Parade. In 2020, thirty-one cadets of the school came down with a case of COVID-19 while preparing for the postponed victory parade that year.[7][8]

School Commandants
The Russian cruiser Aurora was the first campus of the school.
  • Vice Admiral of the Reserve Aleksey Maksimchuk (2020—present)

Notable graduates

See also

References
  1. "nmvu.ru - НВМУ". nvmu.ru. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  2. "Выступление на встрече с воспитанниками филиала Нахимовского военно-морского училища во Владивостоке" (in Russian). Президент России. 31 August 2016. Retrieved 2019-08-26.
  3. "Видеоконференция с руководителями Нахимовского военно-морского училища в Санкт-Петербурге и филиала в Севастополе" (in Russian). Президент России. 31 August 2016. Retrieved 2019-08-26.
  4. "В Мурманске замминистра обороны РФ Тимур Иванов провел рекогносцировку местности под строительство Нахимовского училища". Министерство обороны Российской Федерации. Retrieved 2019-08-26.
  5. "История Нахимовских училищ ⋆ НАХИМОВСКОЕ ВОЕННО-МОРСКОЕ УЧИЛИЩЕ". НАХИМОВСКОЕ ВОЕННО-МОРСКОЕ УЧИЛИЩЕ. Retrieved 2019-08-26.
  6. "Они запомнят этот день! - "Красная звезда"". redstar.ru.
  7. "Участвовавшие в репетиции парада нахимовцы и контр-адмирал больны Covid-19". EADaily. 17 April 2020.
  8. "COVID-19 добрался до военных училищ России? Под подозрением уже два из них". tsargrad.tv. April 17, 2020.
  9. "Командующий Черноморским флотом представил нового командира Новороссийской военно-морской базы" (in Russian). flot.com. Retrieved 22 August 2019.
  10. "Igor Schvede, Military Representative of Estonian to NATO".
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