Mikhailovsky Artillery Academy

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MIKHAILOVSKY ARTILLERY ACADEMY (МАА), military scientific and educational institution of higher retraining of artillery command personnel. It was based in 1855 on the basis of officers’ classes at the Mikhail Artillery High School within the General Staff Academy; from 1863 it has been an independent academy. It trained officers to take a position of battery commander and superior (training time - two years) as well as to serve at artillery plants and scientific institutions of artillery department (training time - 3). All first-rate Russian scientists in the field of artillery and arms constructors of the 19th - the early 20th centuries studied in MAA. In 1918, it was renamed into the Artillery Academy of the Red Army and moved to Moscow. It occupied a complex of buildings (today 17 Arsenalnaya Embankment - 22 Komsomola Street). Today it is situated in the Mikhailovsky Military Artillery University.

References: Трижды орденоносная Военная академия имени Ф. Э. Дзержинского: Очерк истории. М., 1982; Кондрашин А. В. Военно-учебные заведения Санкт-Петербурга: история, реальность и перспективы развития // Санкт-Петербург и Вооруженные Силы: Науч.-практ. конф.: Сб. ст. СПб., 1995. Вып. 2. С. 9-11.

G. V. Kalashnikov. Arsenalnaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 17
Komsomola St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 22
Трижды орденоносная Военная академия имени Ф. Э. Дзержинского: Очерк истории. М., 1982
Кондрашин А. В. Военно-учебные заведения Санкт-Петербурга: история, реальность и перспективы развития // Санкт-Петербург и Вооруженные Силы: Науч.-практ. конф.: Сб. ст. СПб., 1995