Combined Arms Academy of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation

Combined Arms Academy
of the Armed Forces of
the Russian Federation
Общевойсковая академия Вооружённых Сил Российской Федерации
Type	Military academy
Established	1998
Rector	Lieutenant General Aleksander Romanchuk
Location	Moscow, Russia

The Combined Arms Academy of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation is a military academy in Moscow which provides graduate education for officers of the Russian Armed Forces. The full name reads: The Combined Academies Order of Lenin Order of the October Revolution Red Banner Order of Suvorov of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation-Military Educational and Scientific Center of the Russian Ground Forces (Russian: Военный учебно-научный центр Сухопутных войск "Общевойсковая орденов Ленина и Октябрьской революции, Краснознаменная, ордена Суворова академия Вооруженных Сил Российской Федерации").

There are 30 departments within the academy. They are housed in two main buildings in the

Lieutenant General

Aleksander Romanchuk.

History

The predecessors of the Academy were the Frunze Military Academy and the Malinovsky Military Armored Forces Academy and the Shaposhnikov Vystrel Higher Officer Courses. The CAA was formed in 1998 on the base of both the Frunze Military Academy and the Armored Forces Academy. Since 2006 the Military Institute of the Engineering Troops was included as a structural unit in the reorganization of the V. V. Kuybyshev Military Engineering Academy.

In December 2008, its name was expanded to reflect its status as an institution. The reorganization was carried out by joining the academy with state educational institutions of higher professional education:

Far Eastern Higher Combined Arms Command School
Kazan Higher Military Command School
Moscow Higher Military Command School
Novosibirsk Higher Military Command School
Yekaterinburg Higher Artillery Command School
Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School
Omsk Tank Engineering Institute
Chelyabinsk Higher Military Automobile Command Engineering School
Penza Artillery Engineering Institute
Tula Artillery Engineering Institute
Military Institute for Advanced Studies of Specialists of Mobilization Bodies of the Armed Forces (Saratov)

In June 2007, in accordance with the a decree of the President Vladimir Putin, a combat banner was awarded. The Academy is subordinate to the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Ground Forces.^[1]

Activities

The Combined Arms Academy carries out the following activities: training for commanding officers and military engineers with higher professional education and conducting fundamental and applied scientific research aimed at solving the problems of strengthening the country's defense capability and improving the professional education of military personnel.

Organizationally, the academy consists of a command with a management apparatus, a military institute for the engineering troops, 1 branch, faculties, departments, research groups and laboratories, academic courses, doctoral studies, postgraduate studies, units and educational process support services.

Foreign cadets

Officers and cadets of foreign armies are trained at special faculties.

Band

Band of the Combined Arms Academy was formed in 1998 from Frunze Military Academy Band and the Malinovsky Military Armored Forces Academy Band. This gives the band an over 85-year history. By order of the Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council in December 1931, a military band at the Frunze Military Academy was created. The first artistic director of the band was Colonel V. Gurfinkel. During the

Great Patriotic War, many musicians of the band as part of the front-line brigades went to the front with concerts for fighters and commanders of the Red Army.^[2]^[3]

It has performed at the largest concert venues in Moscow: including the

Champs Elysees in Paris.^[4]^[5]