Nakhimov Navy School

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NAKHIMOV NAVY SCHOOL (before 1991, the Leningrad Nakhimov Navy School), at 2-4 Petrogradskaya Embankment, is a specialised men's boarding secondary school named after Admiral P.S. Nakhimov (1802-1855). It was created upon the Decree of the Council of the People's Commissars of the USSR of 21 July 1944, along the lines of a cadet corps, to teach and bring up children who became orphans during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45 (today sailors' children have advantages for acceptance). Officers and naval foremen were given educational work. The apprenticeship originally varied between eight and four years, and, from 1964, lasted between two and three years, accepting young men who have finished school up to eighth grade. After the Riga (1953) and Tbilisi (1955) Nakhimovsky Navy Schools were closed, their pupils were partly transferred to the Leningrad school, which had become the only educational institution of its kind. Besides general education, the program specialised in navy and combined arms study, as well as intense physical training. Many of the school's graduates continued studying at higher navy educational institutions. The Nakhimov Navy School was situated in the former Peter the Great Municipal Boarding College (see Boarding Colleges), until 1946, when it was moved to former primary school № 88 at 3 Michurinskaya Street, where another building was added in the 1970s. A Summer camp was organised for school cadets at Sulayarvi Lake (from 1951, the Nakhimovskoe Lake) of the Karelian Isthmus. Sailing schooners that the school had at its disposal in 1947-56 included the Free Wind, the Hope, and the Study; the Aurora cruiser became its training base in 1948-60. From 1957, graduates of the school gained sea experience on the Navy's military and training ships, taking part in long-distance sea cruises, in Leningrad garrison troop parades, and, from 1946, in military parades in Moscow. Many of the school's graduates hold high posts at the Navy (Rear Admiral A.A. Berzin, Rear Admiral V.L. Khmyrov, and General Major T.A. Apakidze were awarded the title Hero of the Russian Federation). The Kronstadt Naval Cadet Corps was created on the basis of Nakhimov Navy School in 1996. The movie Happy Sailing, based on the school's cadets, was filmed at LENFILM in 1947. In March, 1993, the school choir received a diploma from the Fifth International Slavic Choir Assembly .

References: Путь в моря: Очерки о Ленингр. Нахимовском воен.-мор. уч-ще / Сост. А. А. Раздолгин. Л., 1984; Иванов В. П. Нахимовцы. М., 1994; Грабарь В. К. Нахимовское училище. СПб., 2003.

V. K. Grabar. Apakidze Timur Avtondilovich
Berzin Alexander Alexandrovich
Khmyrov Vsevolod Leonidovich
Nakhimov Pavel Stepanovich
Michurinskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 3
Petrogradskaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 2
Petrogradskaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 4
Путь в моря: Очерки о Ленингр. Нахимовском воен.-мор. уч-ще / Сост. А. А. Раздолгин. Л., 1984
Грабарь В. К. Нахимовское училище. СПб., 2003
Иванов В. П. Нахимовцы. М., 1994 Cadet Corps (entry)
College Buildings
Aurora, cruiser
1911