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.
History
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The first maritime educational school was established by Peter the Great in Moscow as the School of Navigation and Mathematical Sciences by his decree of 14 January 1701. A branch of the school was created in 1713 as the Naval Guard Academy or the Saint Petersburg Naval Academy. The first instructor there was an Englishman who entered Russian service in 1698, and Peter the Great personally took an interest in the running of the academy. The Moscow Navigation School and the Naval Guard Academy were combined as the Naval Gentry Cadet Corps on 15 December 1752 and it became the key educational establishment commissioning officers for the Imperial Russian Navy. In 1762 it was renamed the Naval Cadet Corps.[1]
Following the destruction of the building in a fire in 1771 the school transferred to Kronstadt until 1796, when the Emperor Paul I (who held the rank of general admiral of the navy) ordered a new building in the capital. A new building on the Neva River embankment on Vasilievsky Island was built to house the school. In 1827 a class for officers was created (later becoming the Naval Academy). The Corps was renamed to the Naval School in the 1860s military reforms before its name was restored as Naval Cadet Corps in 1891. Graduates were commissioned with the rank of michman in the Imperial Navy.[1]
Post Revolution
editThe 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.[citation needed]
External links
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edit- ^ a b Kuzmin-Karavayev, Vladimir (1907). "Морской кадетский корпус" [Naval Cadet Corps]. Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (in Russian).