Moscow Higher Combined Arms Command School

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Moscow Higher Combined Arms Command School
Московское Высшее Общевойсковое Командное Училище
Emblem of the academy
Typemilitary academy
Established1917 (1917)
Head of the SchoolMajor General Alexander Novkin
Location
Moscow
,
Russia
LanguageRussian
Awards

The Moscow Higher Combined Arms Command School "Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR" (Russian: Московское Высшее Общевойсковое Командное Училище, МВОКУ; abbreviated to MVOKU) is a higher military educational institution of the Russian Armed Forces. Alumni of the school have served with the Soviet Army and the Russian Ground Forces in many local and international deployments. The school's cadets are also known affectionately as the Kremlin Cadets or the Kremlovtsy (Russian: Kремлёвских).

History

Early decades

Lenin Mausoleum
in 1924.

The school was formed in December 15, 1917 (O.S., December 28 N.S.), by order of

Moscow Kremlin. During that period, in 1922 Vladimir Lenin
was awarded as the young institution's first honorary cadet; he was later made its only honorary commandant.

The Kremlin was its campus until 1935, when the school was moved to Moscow's

Moscow Region and the city itself. Many of its cadets and alumni later received state medals and decorations (several were awarded posthumously). In October 1941, the school was granted the honorary title "Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR
".

Post-war

In October 1945, five months after the

Moscow Victory Parade of 1945, it was moved to Kuzminki District in Moscow. This is its current location. In June 1958 the school was transformed into the Moscow Higher Combined Arms Command School. The school had a training period of four years. On May 7, 1965, the school was awarded the Order of Lenin. On February 21, 1978, the school was awarded the Order of the October Revolution
.

Russian Federation

In 1995, the 4-year training period was lengthened to one of 5 years. In August 2004, the university was renamed as the Higher Professional Education Institution of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (and was retitled the Moscow Military Command Training School). In 2010, the school was integrated into the Combined Arms Academy of the Russian Armed Forces. In 2017, the Military Institute was removed from the Combined Arms Academy and was renamed again as the Moscow Higher Military Command School (Combined Arms).[1][2] To mark its centennial year in 2017, the MHMCACS was awarded the Order of Zhukov.

Traditions

In honor of its 1917 establishment and status as the oldest officer cadet school in Russia, since 1967 it has been the final school and military unit to mark the end of

military parades in Moscow's Red Square. During the Moscow Victory Day Parade, members of the school also take part in the historical part.[3] It also maintains privilege, granted in the 1920s, to hold graduation and commissioning parades there. From 1924 to 1935, the Corps of Cadets mounted guards of honour (No.1 Sentry) at Lenin's Mausoleum by orders of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee. In addition to Lenin, individuals honored as honorary cadets by the school were Mikhail Kalinin, Mikhail Frunze, Kliment Voroshilov, Nikolai Podvoisky, Sergey Kamenev, Avel Yenukidze, Georgy Chicherin, David Petrovsky, and Iona Yakir
.

Honorable cadets of the Moscow Higher Military Command School

The MVOKU Military Band is the premier musical unit of the academy. It is part of the Military Band Service of the Armed Forces of Russia under the Ministry of Defense. It performs at military ceremonies, the unveiling of monuments, and the annual Moscow Victory Day Parade.[4]

Notable graduates

Soviet leaders

Russian leaders

Post-Soviet space

Other countries

Gallery

In popular culture

  • A Story by Konstantin Vorobyov "Killed near Moscow" (1963), which tells about the participation of a company of Kremlin cadets in the defense of Moscow in the fall of 1941.
  • Exam for Immortality (1983), Soviet feature film based on the stories of Vorobyov's "Killed near Moscow" and "Scream".
  • Kremlin cadets (2009) is a Russian television series that describes the fictional life story of cadets of the Moscow Higher Military Command School.
  • An episode in Nikita Mikhalkov's film Burnt by the Sun 2 (2010)

See also

References

  1. ^ "Московское высшее общевойсковое командное орденов Ленина и Октябрьской Революции Краснознаменное училище : Министерство обороны Российской Федерации". ens.mil.ru. Retrieved 2017-08-15.
  2. ^ RXcoder. "Кремлёвские хроники". www.mkpu.ru. Retrieved 2017-08-15.
  3. ^ "Прототип характера: по Красной площади пройдет техника, которую еще не показывали на публике". 23 June 2020.
  4. ^ "Оркестр Московского высшего общевойскового командного училища — Спасская башня".
  5. ^ Barsukov Bio Archived 2010-12-19 at the Wayback Machine, Agentura.ru
  6. ^ Number (2020-06-17). "Красавцы, как на подбор: Армянские военнослужащие прибыли в Москву для участия в Параде Победы". Dalma News (in Russian). Retrieved 2021-07-09.

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