Pacific Higher Naval School
The Makarov Pacific Higher Naval School (
Vice-Admiral Stepan Makarov
.
History
It was first established as the Third Naval School on 8 November 1937 on the basis of a resolution
Leningrad. It was renamed to the Pacific Naval School (TOVMU) in May 1939, and in 1940, the school was given the status of a university. On 21 April 1954, it received its current honorific name of Admiral Makarov. In September 1951, a navigational faculty and a mine-torpedo faculty was established at the school. Additional faculties were established in 1969, 1978 and 1995. Since 2009, the institute ceased to be an independent educational institution and became a branch of the Kuznetsov Naval Academy. In 2009, 18 females were admitted to the Faculty of Radio Communication for the first time. In 2014, the institute received the status of a Higher Naval School.[1]
Since its foundation, the school has graduated around 13,000 naval officers.[2] Graduation from the school is correlated with higher rates of promotion to the rank of vice admiral.[3]
Structure
Training of cadets is carried out at six faculties and one affiliated school.
- Faculty of Navigation
- Faculty of Mines and Torpedoes
- Faculty of Radio Engineering
- Faculty of Radio Communication
- Faculty of Coastal Forces and Naval Aviation Weapons
- School of Technicians
Heads of the school
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- Regimental Commissar Alexander Baruzdin (1937-1938)
- Captain 2nd Rank Alexey Poskotinov (1938-1943)
- Rear Admiral Krill Osipov (1943-1945)
- Rear Admiral Alexey Barinov (1951-1954)
- Vice-Admiral Pyotr Plotnikov (?—1965)[4]
- Vice Admiral Valentin Starikov (1965-1972)[5]
- Vice Admiral Boris Potekhin (1972-1977)
- Rear Admiral Boris Davidovich (1977-1980)
- Rear Admiral Igor Karmadonov (1980-1986)
- Rear Admiral Alexey Belousov (1986-1994)
- Vice-Admiral Valery Kozhevnikov (1994-2002)
- Vice Admiral Yevgeny Litvinenko (2002-2007)
- Captain 1st Rank Igor Leukhin (2007—2010)
- Rear Admiral Oleg Garamov (2010—2012)
- Captain 1st Rank Alexander Shevchenko (2012—2018)
- Rear Admiral Oleg Zhuravlev (2018—Present)
Distinguished graduates of the school
- Viktor Chirkov, former Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy[6]
- Mikhail Khronopulo, former Commander of the Black Sea Fleet
- Vasily Arkhipov, a Soviet Navy officer credited with preventing a Soviet nuclear strike during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
See also
References
- ^ "Тихоокеанское высшее военно-морское училище имени С.О. Макарова". ens.mil.ru. Retrieved 2020-11-24.
- ^ "150 cadets of Pacific Higher Naval School practise operating on ships and submarines of Pacific Fleet". ens.mil.ru. 29 January 2018. Retrieved 2020-11-24.
- ^ "A Guide to Becoming an Admiral in the Russian Navy". War on the Rocks. August 20, 2019.
- ^ Личности военно-морского образования России, 1701—2015. СПб. 2016. p. 395.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "Три адмирала Сарапула. Ошибка историка? | "Всё смогу - Всё узнаю"".
- ^ "Viktor Chirkov". Ministry of Defence. Mil.ru. Retrieved 18 April 2013.