Peter the Great Military Academy of Strategic Rocket Forces: description, history and interesting facts

The Strategic Missile Forces Military Academy, named after Peter the Great, has been considered one of the most prestigious for many decades. In domestic education, this university is elevated to the rank of not only an authoritative military educational institution, but also a research center, which is actively and successfully engaged in developments in the field of technical sciences.

What is the educational institution famous for?

Military Academy of the Strategic Missile Forces named after Peter the Great has a long and interesting history, many state awards and famous graduates, which the whole country can rightfully be proud of.

After the implementation of reforms in the field of military education, the academy included two military institutes of the city of Rostov-on-Don and Serpukhov. At the moment, the latter is a branch of the Strategic Missile Forces Military Academy. In the article, we briefly consider the history of the creation and reform of each institution, the faculties that currently operate on the basis of this university, and also recall the famous personalities who were associated with this institution.

Military Academy named after Peter the Great: the history of creation and reform

This educational institution has existed for about two centuries. Of course, during this time the Academy underwent numerous changes, reforms and received various names. To date, it is believed that the prototype of the academy was the Artillery School with officer classes, opened in St. Petersburg in December 1820. A little later, in 1845, he was given the name Mikhailovsky, in honor of Prince Mikhail Pavlovich, who founded it. After another 10 years, this institution was called the Mikhailovsky Artillery Academy, and after the revolution in 1919, the common Red Army prefix was added to the name.

In 1926, the university was renamed the Military Academy. F. Dzerzhinsky, and in 1934 the institution is called the Artillery Academy of the Red Army. Dzerzhinsky.

Since 1938, the Academy has been located in the capital, in the building of the Imperial Educational House. There she was before the start of World War II.

From 1941 to 1944, the university was temporarily deployed in the city of Samarkand. After the war, the academy was returned to Moscow. An additional faculty of missile weapons appeared within its walls, which had no analogues not only in the USSR, but throughout the world.

The university also begins active and successful training of qualified rocket engineers. Since 1953, the educational institution is already called the Artillery Engineering Academy. Dzerzhinsky. On the eve of the new 1960, she was included in the new unit of the Military Forces, and she begins to bear the name of the Strategic Missile Forces Military Academy.

Assignment of the name that the university still bears

Throughout the long history of its existence, the educational institution often changed its main strategic purpose, and accordingly the names changed. The final name, which the university bears to this day, was given to it in August 1997. It was then that in order to revive the traditions, the president signed a decree on providing the institution with the final name “Peter the Great Military Academy of Strategic Rocket Forces”. The decision to name the military university in honor of this particular statesman was due to the merits of Peter I in the creation of the Russian regular army.

In 1998, the first branch of the Military Academy of the Strategic Missile Forces of Peter the Great was opened in Kubinka. They became the former Moscow School of Radio Electronics. And 10 years later, in 2008, another 2 branches were given over to the academy. One is located in the city of Serpukhov and the second in Rostov-on-Don. In 2015, the academy was relocated to Balashikha.

State awards

Over the entire history of its existence at different periods of time, the Strategic Missile Forces Military Academy has been awarded many state awards:

• The Order of Lenin was received in 1938 for the training of artillery engineers and commanders;
• Order of Suvorov I Art. received in 1945 for military services to the Fatherland and training for the Red Army highly qualified personnel;
• The Order of the October Revolution was received in 1970 for training personnel and for contributing to the development of technology and science.

Training invaluable military personnel

It is very difficult to overestimate the importance of this university and the personnel it prepares. The Academy supplied the military sphere with highly qualified specialists for many years, especially its graduates were appreciated during the Second World War. Further, its graduates became the backbone and base of the officer corps serving the nuclear forces. Largely due to their dedication and professionalism, the long-awaited parity in the field of nuclear missiles between the United States and the Soviet Union was achieved at one time.

To date, the Peter the Great Military Academy of Strategic Rocket Forces is engaged in the training of officer personnel in engineering and command profiles. Its graduates are able to work on absolutely any modern, even the most complex equipment and in any conditions.

The training of such personnel is carried out at three gradual levels:

1. Obtaining a higher specialized military education, in the framework of which cadets receive qualifications of engineers in the specialties of various military profiles (ballistic, mechanical, electronic, chemical, nuclear missile, electrical).
2. Advanced training of leading personnel.
3. Training of scientific and pedagogical personnel.

Scientific work and an indisputable contribution to the military sphere

This university throughout its activities was engaged not only in the training of irreplaceable personnel. The Military Academy of the Strategic Missile Forces has always conducted scientific activity. For a long time, it was an invaluable base on the basis of which the theory of weapons was developed, and the foundations and standards for the production of missile devices were developed. On the basis of the academy, dozens of the most effective tools designed to defeat and completely destroy the enemy were developed.

The Academy staff made a really invaluable contribution to the development and activation of such components of military skill as operational art, strategy and, of course, tactics.

The scientific and pedagogical school, successfully functioning on the basis of this academy, is still considered the undisputed leader in the formation of operational art and the development of the theory of tactics of Russian missile forces.

Brilliant teachers and talented graduates

Arms systems, which were created on the basis of the scientific works of such academy cadets as F. Petrov and V. Grabin, gained fame and recognition not only at home, but throughout the world. The names of Fedorov, Kotin, Mosin and Sudaev are well-known among military professionals around the world. Based on their work, rifle assault rifles, self-propelled artillery mounts and magazine rifles were created, which are rightfully considered to be among the best in the world.

Over the entire period of its existence, the Strategic Missile Forces Military Academy has issued more than 300 laureates of various state awards. Among its cadets, there were 128 people who later became Heroes of the Soviet Union, three were awarded the title of Heroes of the Russian Federation. Her students at one time were prominent generals, infantry and marshals. Also, the Academy can be proud of its graduates, who later became brilliant military leaders and commanders. Among them, it should be noted Chernyakhovsky, Odintsov and Nedelin.

Rostov branch

In 2008, the Strategic Missile Forces Military Academy was given two branches, one of which was the Rostov Military Institute. The composition of the Academy. Peter the Great, this institution entered as a separate formation. This is not surprising, because the Rostov University. Week was something to be proud of. Despite all his merits and a rich history, unfortunately, since 2011 it has not been functioning. In 2014, repair work was actively carried out on its territory. What will happen to the university next is difficult to predict. Despite this, consider the history of the establishment of this institution.

In 1937, an artillery school was founded in Rostov. In 1951, the RCC Council of Ministers issued a decree on the establishment of the Higher Artillery Engineering School on the basis of this institution. After 10 years, he was given the name of M. Nedelin ─ Commander-in-Chief of the Missile Forces, who heroically died in tests of a strategic missile in Baikonur.

In 1998, the school received the status of a military institute of missile forces.

Faculties of the Rostov Military Institute

The branch of the military academy in Rostov accepted candidates for five faculties:

• "Missile Management Systems";
• “Automated control systems”;
• “Moral and psychological support” (specialty ─ Pedagogy and Psychology)
• "Technical and launch complexes of missiles";
• "Radio engineering and metrology."

The famous branch in the suburbs

Unlike Rostov, a branch of the Military Academy of the Strategic Missile Forces of Serpukhov has been successfully operating to this day. The history of the establishment of this institution dates back to 1941. Then the II Moscow Aviation School was opened. After 7 years, she was transformed into a military aviation school.

In 1962, after the order of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR, the school began to train command and engineering personnel and was renamed the Higher Command and Engineering School of Serpukhov. In 1998, by decision of the Government of the Russian Federation, the educational institution was awarded the title of Serpukhov Military Institute of the Republic of Tatarstan.

In 2008, in connection with numerous reforms in the field of military education, the university became part of the Military Academy. Peter the Great and began to be called its branch in the city of Serpukhov (Military Academy of the Strategic Missile Forces).

Work not only in the direction of training

Institute staff actively participated in creating the theory of operation and preparation of diverse missile weapons. At one time, they made a huge contribution to the development of military art in the field of missile forces.

At its departments, the most important bases of tactics of maneuvering actions for units armed with PGRK were carefully developed.

Faculties of the branch in Serpukhov

To date, five faculties are open for cadets at the branch of the Peter the Great Military Academy of Strategic Rocket Forces, including:

• "Technical and launch complexes of missiles";
• "Communications and Strategic Missile Forces systems";
• "Nuclear weapons";
• "Missile Management Systems";
• "Automated control systems."
  

During the training, students are provided with everything necessary, they are paid a decent scholarship. Each year, in these areas, the Serpukhov Military Academy of the Strategic Missile Forces graduates 500 highly professional officers who serve faithfully and faithfully after graduation to their Fatherland.