The Peter the Great Naval Corps - St. Petersburg Naval Institute (), formerly known as the M.V. Frunze Higher Naval School (named after

Mikhail Frunze Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze (russian: Михаил Васильевич Фрунзе; ro, Mihail Frunză; 2 February 1885 – 31 October 1925) was a Bolshevik leader during and just prior to the Russian Revolution of 1917. Born in the modern-day ...

, in ), is the oldest of the Russian Navy's naval officer commissioning schools. It is located in

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

History

The school traces its origins to the School of Mathematics and Navigation Sciences, founded in 1701 by Peter the Great, in Moscow's

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. After the city of St. Petersburg was built, the school was relocated there. The school was later reorganized as the Naval Cadet Corps."The NAVY of the Russian Empire", St. Petersburg, 1996, After the Russian Revolution of 1917, it was eventually renamed to M.V. Frunze Higher Naval School. Today, it is called the Peter the Great Naval Corps - St. Petersburg Naval Institute. Other Russian Navy officer commissioning schools include F.F. Ushakov Baltic Naval Institute in Kaliningrad; A.A. Popov Naval Radioelectronics Institute in Petrodvorets (St. Petersburg area); the Naval Engineering Institute in Pushkin (St. Petersburg area);

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, and the Nakhimov Naval Academy in

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Historical Name Progression (in translation)

*1701-1752 - School of Mathematic and Navigational Sciences, Moscow *1715-1752 - Academy of the Naval Guard, St. Petersburg *1752-1802 - Naval Gentry Cadet Corps, St. Petersburg (1771-1796 - Kronshtadt) *1802-1867 - Naval Cadet Corps, St. Petersburg *1867-1891 - Naval School, St. Petersburg *1891-1906 - Naval Cadet Corps, St. Petersburg *1906-1916 - Naval Corps, Petrograd *1916-1918 - Naval School, Petrograd *1918-1919 - Fleet Command Courses, Petrograd *1919-1922 - Fleet Command School, Petrograd *1922-1926 - Naval School, Petrograd, Leningrad *1926-1936 - M.V. Frunze Naval School, Leningrad *1936-1939 - M.V. Frunze Red Banner Naval School, Leningrad *1939-1951 - M.V. Frunze Orders of Lenin and Red Banner Higher Naval School, Leningrad, Astrakhan, Baku, Leningrad *1951-1962 - M.V. Frunze Red Banner Orders of Lenin, Red Banner, and Ushakov Higher Naval School, Leningrad *1962-2002 - M.V. Frunze Orders of Lenin, Red Banner, and Ushakov Higher Naval School, Leningrad, St. Petersburg *2002–present - Peter the Great Naval Corps - Orders of Lenin, Red Banner, and Ushakov St. Petersburg Naval Institute, St. Petersburg

Distinguished graduates

*1745 - Chichagov, Vasiliy Yakovlevich *1758 - Povalishin, Illarion Afanasyevich *1766 - Ushakov, Fedor Fedorovich *1780 - Senyavin, Dmitriy Nikolayevich *1788 - Lysianskyi, Yuriy Fedorovich *1793 - Golovnin, Vasiliy Mikhailovich *1797 - Bellingsgausen, Fadey Fadeyevich *1818 - Nakhimov, Petr Stepanovich *1818 - Vrangel, Ferdinand Petrovich *1823 - Kornilov, Vladimir Alekseyevich *1823 - Novosilskiy, Fedor Mikhailovich *1832 - Gennady Ivanovich Nevelskoy *1894 - Kolchak, Aleksandr Vasilyevich *1926 - Kuznetsov, Nikolay Gerasimovich *1931 - Gadzhiev, Magomet Imadutinovich *1931 - Gorshkov, Sergey Georgiyevich *1931 - Kasatonov, Vladimir Afanasyevich *1956 - Chernavin, Vladimir Nikolayevich

References

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History

Historical Name Progression (in translation)

Distinguished graduates

See also

References