Kuznetsov Naval Academy

Coordinates: 59°59′04″N 30°18′13″E / 59.98444°N 30.30361°E / 59.98444; 30.30361
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N. G. Kuznetsov Naval Academy
Military academy
Staff college
Established1827
PrincipalAdmiral Nikolai Yevmenov
Location
Saint Petersburg
,
Russia

59°59′04″N 30°18′13″E / 59.98444°N 30.30361°E / 59.98444; 30.30361
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The N. G. Kuznetsov Naval Academy[a] is the main staff college and postgraduate institution for the Russian Navy and is located in Saint Petersburg.

In 1827 Admiral

Ivan Kruzenshtern initiated an Officers' Class at the Naval Cadet Corps
. In 1862 the Class was reorganized into an Academic Course of Maritime Science. In 1877, to mark its fiftieth anniversary, the Class was renamed the Nikolaev Naval Academy (Nikolayevskaya Morskaya Akademiya) and in 1910 was completely detached from the Naval Cadet Corps. The Academy's last pre-revolutionary class was in 1913.

Towards the end of the

U.S. Naval Academy
.

Imperial Period

Advanced Officers' Class (1827-1877)

Russian scholar

age of sail the future of naval education in Russia and its transformation was reviewed by a special commission in 1862.[2]

Transition to Academy

By the 7 August 1862 order of the

Naval Cadet Corps.[3]

  • Nikolayev Naval Academy (1877-1917)

In 1872 the council of the Academic Course developed a proposal for a full-fledged Academy. On 28 January 1877, the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Officers' Class, by the imperial directive of Aleksandr II the Officers' Class was renamed the Nikolayev Naval Academy. At this time both the Naval Cadet Corps and the Naval Academy were headed by the same naval officer.[4]

  • Heads of the Academy during Imperial times
    • Advanced Officers' Class (1827-1877)
      • Krusenstern, Ivan Fyodorovich (1827-1842)
      • Rimskiy-Korsakov, Nikolay Petrovich (1842-1848)
      • Kazin, Nikolay Glebovich (1848-1851)
      • Glazenap, Bogdan Aleksandrovich (1851-1855)
      • Davydov, Aleksey Kuzmich (1855-1857)
      • Nakhimov, Sergey Stepanovich (1857-1861)
      • Rimsky-Korsakov, Voin Andryevich (1861-1871)
      • Epanchin, Aleksey Pavlovich (1871-1882)
    • Nikolayev Naval Academy (1877-1917)
      • Arsenyev, Dmitriy Sergeyevich (1882-1896)
      • Kriger, A.Kh. (1896-1901)
      • Damozhirov, A.I. (1901-1902)
      • Chukhnin, G.P. (1902-1905)
      • Rimskiy-Korsakov, Nikolay Aleksandrovich (1905-1906)
      • Voyevodskiy, Stepan Arkadyevich (1906-1908)
      • Rusin, Aleksandr Ivanovich (1908-1910)
      • Shulgin, Grigoriy Ivanovich (1910-1917)

Soviet Period

After October 1917 the various Officers' Classes were combined into a single institution - the Navy Combined Special Officers' Classes. Initially there were five specialties: artillery, mines, submarine, navigation, and electrical equipment. In 1920 two new classes, mechanical and shipbuilding, were added. On 28 September 1920 the classes were classified as a higher special naval educational institution. In the Fall 1925 the institution was renamed Special Courses for Improving Fleet Commanders and later as Special Courses for the Navy Command Staff. In 1938 the Courses received their own building (Bldg 80 Malookhtenskiy Prospekt, St. Petersburg) and they remain there today. In 1939 they were again renamed - Advanced Special Courses for the Command Staff of the Workers' & Peasants Navy. During the 900-day siege of Leningrad the Courses were moved and continued to function in Astrakhan and Samarkand. In 1946 the Courses transitioned to a peacetime work regime and received the name they carry today - Navy Advanced Special Officers' Classes (Вышие спецальные офицерские классы ВМФ).

Leningrad's Palace Square
in 1983.

Russia (post Soviet) Period

Navigators of the Russian Navy undergo retraining at the Mostik-2000 training complex
  • N.G. Kuznetsov Naval Academy

Present day

The Advanced Officers' Classes are separate from the N.G. Kuznetsov Naval Academy and provide more focused and specialized study to prepare naval officers for assignment as Commanding Officers or for the advancement of technical qualifications for Flag Specialists. Today the "Classes" are the only institution of their type for retraining and advancing qualifications. 40 different specialties are covered encompassing officers of the entire tactical level of the navy. The basic aspect of training is that it covers what is directly and practically required now and in the immediate future by the fleet. Since 1918, the academy has prepared more than 19,000 commanding officers and 20,000 flag specialists. On 28 January 2007 the Classes marked their 180th anniversary.[5]

Notes

  1. ^ Russian: Военно-морская академия имени Н. Г. Кузнецова, romanized: Voyenno-morskaya akadamiya imyeni N. G. Kuznetsova

References

  1. ISBN 5-88654-011-3
  2. ^ Voyenno-Morskaya Akademiya, Leningrad, 1991, V.N. Ponikarovskiy
  3. ^ Voyenno-Morskaya Akademiya, Leningrad, 1991, V.N. Ponikarovskiy
  4. ^ Voyenno-Morskaya Akademiya, Leningrad, 1991, V.N. Ponikarovskiy
  5. ^ http://www.vsok-vmf.narod.ru (Russian)

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