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Mikhailovsky Artillery Academy
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.
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Arsenalnaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 17
Komsomola St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 22
Bibliographies
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
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Arsenalnaya Embankment
ARSENALNAYA EMBANKMENT on the right bank of the Neva River between Arsenalnaya Street and Akademika Lebedeva Street. It was so named in 1887 after Novy Arsenal Plant (today, Arsenal Joint-Stock Company situated in house 1)
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Chernov D.K., (1839-1921), Metallurgist
Chernov Dmitry Konstantinovich (1839, St. Petersburg - 1921), scientist of metallurgy. He graduated from St. Petersburg Technological Institute (1858), and later taught there in 1859-68 (26/49 Moskovsky Avenue; commemorative plaque)
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Fedorov V.G. (1874-1966), constructor
FEDOROV Vladimir Grigoryevich (1874, St. Petersburg - 1966), constructor of small arms, professor (1940), Lieutenant General (1943), and Hero of Labour (1928). Graduated from Mikhailovsky Artillery College (1895) and the Mikhailovsky Artillery
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Guards' Case
GUARDS' CASE (Spring case), one from the series of cases fabricated by the Joint State Political Administration Board against former officers of Imperial and White Armies
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Lavrov P.L. (1823-1900), revolutionary, sociologist
LAVROV Peter Lavrovich (1823-1900), philosopher, sociologist, essayist, political figure. He graduated from the Artillery School in St. Petersburg, in 1842, and its Officer classes. From 1844, he taught mathematics in military colleges in St
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Lieutenant General G.R. Vasmund (1810 – 1904)
G.R. Vasmund participated in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878. He was awarded the IV Class Order of St. George. He was made the Commander of His Majesty's Life-Guards 1st Rifle Regiment in 1877
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Mikhailovsky Military Artillery University
MIKHAILOVSKY MILITARY ARTILLERY UNIVERSITY (MMAU) (22 Komsomola Street) is a higher military educational institution for training of command and engineer personnel for missile and artillery units; it also possesses a research centre
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Military Colleges (entry)
MILITARY COLLEGES, military high schools for training army officers. They appeared in the early 19th century. Reorganised and unified in 1859-64, they had uniform admission rules, curriculum and organisation
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Miloradovich M.A. governor-general in 1818-25
MILORADOVICH Mikhail Andreevich (1771-1825, St. Petersburg), count (1813), statesman and military figure, infantry general (1809). He attended Koningsberg and Gottingen universities, studied the science of warfare in Metz and Strasbourg
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Mosin S.I., (1849-1902), Designer
MOSIN Sergey Ivanovich (1849-1902) was a designer of arms, Major-General (1900). He graduated from Mikhailovskaya Artillery Academy (1875). Mosin headed the Sestroretsk Arms Plant (1894-1902)
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Ostrogradsky M.V., (1801-1861), mathematician
OSTROGRADSKY Mikhail Vasilevich (1801-1861), mathematician and mechanic, member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1828). He graduated from the University of Kharkov in 1820 and settled in St. Petersburg eight years later
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Petrov Grigory (1866-1925), priest
PETROV Grigory Spiridonovich (1866-1925), priest, public figure and publicist (under the pen-name of Russky). He graduated from St. Petersburg Theological Seminary in 1886 and St. Petersburg Theological Academy in 1891
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Political Persecution
POLITICAL PERSECUTION refers to large-scale punitive measures organized by the Soviet Government from October 1917 on with a purpose of physical removal of real or potential political opponents
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Ravdonikas V.I. (1894-1976), archaeologist
RAVDONIKAS Vladislav Iosifovich (1894-1976, Leningrad), archaeologist, corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR from 1946. He was interested in archaeology from the mid-1910s and dug in Tikhvinsky Uyezd (District)
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Yaroshenko N.A., (1846-1898), artist
YAROSHENKO Nikolay Alexandrovich (1846-1898), painter. Lived in St. Petersburg from the mid-1850s. He graduated from the First Cadet Corps in 1863, the Mikhaylovsky Artillery School in 1865, and the Mikhaylovsky Artillery Academy in 1870
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