Naval Cadet Corps building in 2014
The Naval Cadet Corps (russian: Морской кадетский корпус), occasionally translated as the Marine Cadet Corps or the Sea Cadet Corps, is an educational establishment for educating naval officers for commissioning in the
Russian Navy in
Saint Petersburg
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History
The first maritime educational school was established by Peter the Great in
Moscow
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as the ''School of Navigation and Mathematical Sciences'' in 1701. The school was moved to St Petersburg in 1713 as the'' Naval Guard Academy''. The school was renamed the ''Naval Cadet Corps'' on 17 February 1732 and was the key educational establishment commissioning officers for the
Imperial Russian Navy
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Following the destruction of the building in a fire in 1771 the school transferred to
Kronstadt
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until 1796 when the Emperor
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ordered a new building in the capital. A new building on the Neva River embankment on
Vasilievsky Island
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was built to house the school - its current location. On 15 December 1852 the school was enlarged and renamed the ''Naval Gentry Cadet Corps'' () with an intake of 360 students. The school expanded and became the Naval College in 1867 and renamed again to the Naval Cadet Corps in 1891. The Corps was granted an Imperial charter in 1894 and closed after the revolution in 1918.
Post Revolution
The College reopened in 1918 to educate officers for the new
Red Navy between 1926 and 1998 the school was named the
M.V. Frunze Higher Naval School. The school was merged with the Higher Naval School of Submarine Navigation in 2001 and renamed the Peter the Great Naval Corps -
St. Petersburg Naval Institute
The Peter the Great Naval Corps - St. Petersburg Naval Institute (), formerly known as the M.V. Frunze Higher Naval School (named after Mikhail Frunze, in ), is the oldest of the Russian Navy's naval officer commissioning schools. It is located ...
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External links
Page in Russian from Kotlin.ruHistory of the Kronshtadt branchCadet Schools in RussiaNakhimov Naval School
References
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Education in Saint Petersburg
Naval academies
Military academies of Russia
History of forestry education
Forestry in Russia
Naval Cadet organisations