The Kyiv Suvorov Military School (KvSVU) (

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: Київське суворовське військове училище,

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: Киевское суворовское военное училище) was a boarding school in

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, the capital of the

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. It was affiliated to Suvorov Military School in the

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for military cadets. It was succeeded with the Ivan Bohun Military High School following

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's independence in 1991.

History

It was founded on 27 September 1943 as the

Kharkov Kharkiv ( uk, Ха́рків, ), also known as Kharkov (russian: Харькoв, ), is the second-largest city and municipality in Ukraine.

Suvorov Military School. It was located on the Donets near Kharkov's Lenin Square. On 1 July 1947, the school was relocated from Kharkov to

, where it was renamed the Kyiv Suvorov Officers School. On 20 September 1943, Major General Pyotr Eremin took over the command of the school. According to the Department of Military Educational Institutions of the

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, from 18 to 20 November 1943, 415 pupils from the Kharkov and

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regions of the

, as well as from

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, Tula and the Moscow Oblast of the RSFSR. The school was located in the building of the former 2nd Kyiv Red Banner College of self-propelled artillery named after

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. On 1 August 1955, it was renamed to the Suvorov Military School. In 1992, by the decree of the

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on 19 August 1992, the Ivan Bohun Military High School was established on the basis of the Kyiv Suvorov Military School. Over the years, 44 graduations of cadets have been conducted. In 1953, cadets of the school marched in the October Revolution Parade on

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. Prior to that, it had also taken part in the International Workers' Day parade on the square since 1951. On 24 January 2019, the monument to Alexander Suvorov, erected in front of the building of the former school in 1974, was demolished.https://ukranews.com/news/609559-foto-dnya-v-centre-kieva-snesli-6-metrovyi-pamyatnik-suvorovu

Heads of the school

* 1943-1944 - Peter Eremin * 1944-1945 - Viktor Vizzhilin * 1945-1954 - Andrei Tomashevsky * 1954-1956 - Ivan Kisses * 1956-1958 - Terenty Umansky * 1958-1970 - Boris Kibardin * 1970-1985 - Ivan Kaurkin * 1985-1992 - Viktor Sidorov

Notable alumni

* Ruslan Bogdan – Ukrainian businessman and politician *

Viktor Bondar Viktor Vasylyovych Bondar ( uk, Ві́ктор Васи́льович Бо́ндар ; russian: Виктор Васильевич Бондарь, Viktor Vasil'evich Bondar) is a Ukrainian politician, a member of Ukrainian parliament (Verkhovna ...

– Former

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Anatoliy Hrytsenko Anatoliy Stepanovych Hrytsenko ( uk, Анатолій Степанович Гриценко; born 25 October 1957) is a Ukrainian politician, independent member of the current Ukrainian parliament, former Minister of Defence, member of the Our U ...

– Minister of Defence of Ukraine * Mikhail Davydov – Russian doctor and oncologist *

Anatoly Kostenko Lieutenant-General Anatoly Ivanovich Kostenko ( Belarusian: Анатоль Іванавіч Касценка; born on 27 January 1940) was the Minister of Defence of Belarus from 28 July 1994 – 6 June 1995. He was preceded by Paul Kozlowski an ...

– Former

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References

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History

Heads of the school

Notable alumni

See also

References