The Main Political Directorate of the

Soviet Army uk, Радянська армія , image = File:Communist star with golden border and red rims.svg , alt = , caption = Emblem of the Soviet Army , start_date ...

and Soviet Navy (russian: Главное политическое управление Советской армии и Военно-морского флота СССР, Glavnoe politicheskoe upravlenie Sovietskoy armii i Voenno-morskogo flota SSSR) was the central ilitarypolitical organ of administration in the

Soviet Armed Forces The Soviet Armed Forces, the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union and as the Red Army (, Вооружённые Силы Советского Союза), were the armed forces of the Russian SFSR (1917–1922), the Soviet Union (1922–1991), and th ...

in 1919 through 1991 and controlled by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The directorate was created at the

7th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) The 7th (extraordinary) Congress of the RSDLP(b) ( Russian Social Democratic Labor Party), also known as the Extraordinary 7th Congress of the RCP(b) (Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)), was held between 6–8 March 1918. During this congress t ...

on the order of the Republic's Revolutionary Military Council No.674 of 18 April 1919 to implement political control in the Red Army and Fleet.Политическое управление Красной Армии
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Names and leaders

Educational institutions

Military-political academy

Lenin Military-Political Academy The V. I. Lenin Military-Political Academy ( (VPA)) was a higher military educational institution of the Soviet Armed Forces from 1919 to 1991 that provided advanced training to political workers. History The predecessor of the academy was ...

(Moscow)

Military-political colleges (higher schools)

* KGB Military-Political Border Service College (

Golitsyno, Moscow Oblast Golitsyno (russian: Голи́цыно) is a town in Odintsovsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia, located west of Moscow. Population: History It was founded as a settlement in 1872 and was granted town status in 2004. Administrative and mun ...

) * General Yepishev Military-Political College of Engineers and Signal troops (

Donetsk Donetsk ( , ; uk, Донецьк, translit=Donets'k ; russian: Донецк ), formerly known as Aleksandrovka, Yuzivka (or Hughesovka), Stalin and Stalino (see also: cities' alternative names), is an industrial city in eastern Ukraine loca ...

) * Kiev Naval Political College ( Kiev) * Kurgan Military-Political Aviation College (

Kurgan, Kurgan Oblast Kurgan ( rus, Курган, p=kʊrˈgan) is the largest city and the administrative center of Kurgan Oblast in the south of the Urals Federal District of Russia. Population: . Until 1782 Kurgan bore the name ''Tsaryovo Gorodishche''. History ...

) * Komsomol 60th Anniversary MVD Political College (

Leningrad 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 ...

) * Andropov Military-Political College of Anti-Aircraft Defense (

) * Military-Political College (

Lviv Lviv ( uk, Львів) is the largest city in western Ukraine, and the seventh-largest in Ukraine, with a population of . It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is one of the main cultural centres of Ukrain ...

) * Military-Political Combined Arms College (

Minsk Minsk ( be, Мінск ; russian: Минск) is the capital and the largest city of Belarus, located on the Svislach and the now subterranean Niamiha rivers. As the capital, Minsk has a special administrative status in Belarus and is the admi ...

) * Great October 60th Anniversary Military-Political Combined Arms College ( Novosibirsk) * Marshal of the Soviet Union Biryuzov Military-Political College ( Riga) * Brezhnev Military-Political Tank-Artillery College ( Sverdlovsk) * Military-Political Construction College (

Simferopol Simferopol () is the second-largest city in the Crimean Peninsula. The city, along with the rest of Crimea, is internationally recognised as part of Ukraine, and is considered the capital of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. However, it is ...

) * Military-Political Construction College (

Tallinn Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju '' ...

) * Military-Political Faculty of the Marshal of Artillery Nedelin Command and Engineer College

References

Resources

* * КПСС в резолюциях и решениях съездов, конференций и пленума ЦК, 7 изд., ч. 1. — М., 1954. * КПСС о Вооружённых Силах Советского Союза. Документы 1917–1968. — М.: Воениздат, 1969. * ''Мозговой С. А.'' «Не за страх, а за совесть…». К 100-летию создания Политорганов ВМФ // Морской сборник, 2019, No. 5. С. 38–41. * ''Петров Ю. П.'' Строительство политорганов, партийных и комсомольских организаций Армии и Флота. — М.: Воениздат, 1968.

External links

Historic reference

Handbook of the Workers'-Peasants' Red Army
History of Political institutions in the Russian Army. Dossier (История военно-политических органов в российской армии. Досье)

TASS The Russian News Agency TASS (russian: Информацио́нное аге́нтство Росси́и ТАСС, translit=Informatsionnoye agentstvo Rossii, or Information agency of Russia), abbreviated TASS (russian: ТАСС, label=none) ...

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