Military affairs today is just as relevant as several thousand years ago, only the level of training and professionalism is higher. In special schools and academies, officers are trained in all fields, as well as workers in communications, transport communications and rear services.
Any military academy in St. Petersburg, regardless of its field of study, has its own history and hundreds of professionals who have proved themselves both in battles and in peacetime.
Military educational institutions of St. Petersburg
Although St. Petersburg is a fairly young city, its military glory is well known not only in the homeland, but also abroad. Specialists who graduated from its military educational institutions showed their prowess both in the campaigns that Tsarist Russia waged and during the Second World War.
Today every year every military academy in St. Petersburg graduates new specialists, and the competition for many faculties is still high. The list of similar academies and universities of the city includes:
- Military Space them. A.F. Mozhaysky.
- Aerospace Defense. Zhukov.
- Naval them. N. G. Kuznetsova.
- Communication to them. S. M. Budyonny.
- Military medical them. S. M. Kirov.
- University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.
- Military Transport University of Railway Troops.
- University of IT technology, mechanics and optics.
- Military Academy of Logistics Khrulev.
- Military University of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
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It is considered important that all these educational institutions of St. Petersburg form a single educational complex.
Military-medical Academy
Rescue the wounded and help fighters who were injured during the battle - this is the main task of field doctors. The Military Medical Academy in St. Petersburg appeared due to the realization that the restoration of combat-ready soldiers is a guarantee of a strong army. As you know, it is better to have one experienced soldier returning to service than two unshooted newcomers.
The prehistory of the organization of the medical educational institution was the opening of two hospitals under Admiral Peter the Great - the Admiralteysky and the Land, and already in 1173 the first surgical schools appeared, which became the basis of the future medical academy, which in 1808 was honored to be called the Imperial by order Tsar Alexander I.
At one time, such great scientists as Botkin and Sechenov, Pavlov and Bekhterev, Kolomnin, the first to use blood transfusion under military conditions, and Sklifosovsky taught here.
Today, the Military Medical Academy in St. Petersburg is training medical officers who are able to work in extreme situations and in places where there are no necessary sanitary conditions for mass admission of victims.
Within the walls of the academy, doctors are trained for both the missile and ground forces, the air force, navy, foreign armies and other specialists.
Home Front Training
For the first time that the army needed specialists who would uninterruptedly provide it with equipment, weapons and food, thought in 1900, therefore, the world's first school of quartermasters was opened. Today its successor is the Military Academy of Logistics, which trains officers capable of providing all types of troops with the necessary resources both in peacetime and during the fighting.
The graduates of the academy proved themselves in all wars, starting from the Russo-Japanese and World War I and ending with local conflicts in the 21st century. Often, the outcome of the battle depended on their timely delivery of ammunition and weapons.
Military Academy named after Khruleva in St. Petersburg offers training in the following faculties:
- team engineering;
- rear and railway troops;
- technical and transport support;
- retraining and advanced training;
- training battalion of junior specialists.
Today, this military academy in St. Petersburg annually graduates from its walls specialists responsible for supplying troops. This is due to the growing needs of the army.
Military Space Academy
Engineering troops appeared in the Russian army thanks to Peter I. The military academy in St. Petersburg dates back to 1712, when it was still an engineering school, founded by royal decree. According to the tradition of that time, its graduates spent the entire training period on the rights of ordinary soldiers and received the officer rank only upon arrival at the regiment.
Only in 1760, after military training and practice were introduced into the educational process, cadets began to receive an officer rank immediately after graduation. At one time, Dobrolyubov and Chernyshevsky studied here, and most of the officers of the artillery regiment on the battlefield near Borodino were its graduates.
Military Space Academy Mozhaisky is training military personnel today in the following engineering specialties:
- aircraft design;
- space rocket management;
- electronic systems;
- ground space management;
- data collection and processing;
- military topography;
- space rocket defense;
- automated systems for command and control.
The training of officers who provide the army with the necessary defensive and offensive equipment is the Academy’s primary task. Therefore, every year she graduates 1,100 people who have completed a higher or secondary vocational education program.
Military University of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
It was founded on July 20, 1994 as a result of the merger of the Humanitarian Academy of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (the former Military Political Academy named after V.I. Lenin) and the Military Academy of Economics, Finance and Law of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (established in November 1992 on the basis of the former Military Institute Armed Forces of the USSR). Its reformation took place more than once, since the needs for educational and propaganda work in the army were constantly changing. For example, in 1919 there was an acute question of the general illiteracy of the Red Army, many of whom simply could not write and read. Today, specialists from 10 faculties and institutes are training here.
Faculties and institutes of the University of the Ministry of Defense
- Military Institute (military conductors).
- Faculty of Humanities.
- Faculty of Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.
- Faculty of Finance and Economics.
- Faculty of Law
- Prosecutorial and Investigative Department.
- Faculty of Foreign Languages.
- Faculty of retraining and advanced training.
- Special Faculty.
- Extra-budgetary faculty.
Among the graduates of the Academy are Heroes of the Soviet Union and Russia, astronauts.
Signal Training
The Military Communications Academy in St. Petersburg was founded back in 1919, and in 2008 it became a federal state military educational institution for the training and retraining of officers in the following specialties:
- information and communication technologies and special purpose systems;
- operation and use of automated special-purpose systems.
Over the years since 1919, the Academy graduated about 40,000 communications officers for the Soviet and Russian army and more than 4,500 officers of foreign armies.
To enter the Military Academy of Communications, you must submit documents to the military registration and enlistment office at the place of residence before April 1. The completed personal file of the candidates is sent to the selection committee, which, after studying them, calls the selected applicants for the entrance exams.
This is a prestigious military educational institution, among whose graduates there are 15 Heroes of the USSR, 3 Heroes of Social Labor and 2 Heroes of Russia.
Naval academy
Founded in 1827, the officer classes at the Naval Cadet Corps a century later became the leading educational institution for the preparation of higher command staff for the Russian Navy.
The Naval Academy in St. Petersburg bears the name of N. G. Kuznetsov. One of its founders was I.F. Kruzenshtern, thanks to which officers of the Russian Navy became not only great discoverers and explorers of new lands, naval commanders and inventors, but they were comprehensively developed people with a broad outlook.
Today it is a prestigious higher military educational institution in which the competition is 4.5 people per place. Admission is made to the faculties:
- command post;
- team engineering;
- advanced training.
The academy provides training in 8 military specialties. In addition, 14 faculties for retraining.
Military schools
By the end of the 19th century, military science was taught in St. Petersburg not only in academies, but also in schools and cadet corps. St. Petersburg military schools of that time trained artillerymen, cavalrymen, topographers and sailors. The traditions of those distant years have been preserved, one of which is to prepare people for service with honor and courage, but today there are many more such institutions. Some of them are accredited by the Higher Military School.
Suvorov School
The St. Petersburg Suvorov Military School became the successor of the famous Page Corps, which at one time graduated from the Decembrists Pestel, Ivashev and Svistunov. Among his graduates are cosmonaut Romanenko R. Yu., Doctor of medical sciences Baranovsky A. Yu., Lieutenant general of aviation Bobrovsky A.I. and many others who later became politicians, entrepreneurs, scientists, researchers, public figures and heroes, combatants.
The St. Petersburg Suvorov Military School is quite young, it is only 60 years old, but it is considered one of the most prestigious educational institutions, where cadets are trained for further higher education.
Nakhimov School
The need to prepare young men for the subsequent higher naval education became the reason for the creation of the Nakhimov School in 1943. Initially, only children of the dead Red Army soldiers and partisans, as well as party workers and collective farmers, were accepted into it. This was the help of the Soviet state to orphans, since it took care of all the support.
It was founded in Leningrad in 1944, and the entire educational process was organized so that the children, leading a military-style life, had the opportunity to improve themselves, get acquainted with the culture and architecture of the city, getting the physical and spiritual training that the sailor needed so much. St. Petersburg military schools are very popular today with young men from different regions of Russia.