Military Academy of Field Anti-Aircraft Defense named after Marshal of the Soviet Union A.M. Vasilevsky (russian: Военная академия войсковой противовоздушной обороны имени Маршала Советского Союза А.М. Василевского) is

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conducting warrant officer programmes,

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programmes (specialitet), advance training career commissioned officer programmes (magistratura), and adjunctura programmes. It is located in

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History

The Academy was founded in 1970 as Smolensk Higher Anti-Aircraft Artillery School. It was transformed into Military Academy of Anti-Aircraft Defense of Ground Forces by the Presidential Order of 31 March 1992 №146-RP. It was transformed into Military University of Field Anti-Aircraft Defense by the

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Order of 29 August 1998 №1009. Then it was transformed into Military Academy of Field Anti-Aircraft Defense by the

Order of 9 July 2004 №937-R. It was given the name of

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Aleksandr Vasilevsky Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Vasilevsky ( ru , Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Василе́вский) (30 September 1895 – 5 December 1977) was a Soviet career-officer in the Red Army who attained the rank of Marshal of the Soviet ...

by the

Order of 11 May 2007 №593-R.

Educational programmes

The Academy prepares

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officers for the

Ground Forces An army (from Old French ''armee'', itself derived from the Latin verb ''armāre'', meaning "to arm", and related to the Latin noun ''arma'', meaning "arms" or "weapons"), ground force or land force is a fighting force that fights primarily on ...

References

External links

Official website
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