There existed an evolved system of military education in the

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that covered a wide range of ages. The

Soviet Armed Forces The Soviet Armed Forces, the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union and as the Red Army (, Вооружённые Силы Советского Союза), were the armed forces of the Russian SFSR (1917–1922), the Soviet Union (1922–1991), and th ...

had many tri-service educational opportunities as well as educational institutions for the

Ground Forces An army (from Old French ''armee'', itself derived from the Latin verb ''armāre'', meaning "to arm", and related to the Latin noun ''arma'', meaning "arms" or "weapons"), ground force or land force is a fighting force that fights primarily on ...

, the

Air Forces An air force – in the broadest sense – is the national military branch that primarily conducts aerial warfare. More specifically, it is the branch of a nation's armed services that is responsible for aerial warfare as distinct from an ar ...

, and the

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. The Soviet Border Troops, the

KGB The KGB (russian: links=no, lit=Committee for State Security, Комитет государственной безопасности (КГБ), a=ru-KGB.ogg, p=kəmʲɪˈtʲet ɡəsʊˈdarstvʲɪn(ː)əj bʲɪzɐˈpasnəsʲtʲɪ, Komitet gosud ...

and the

Internal Troops The Internal Troops, full name Internal Troops of the Ministry for Internal Affairs (MVD) (russian: Внутренние войска Министерства внутренних дел, Vnutrenniye Voiska Ministerstva Vnutrennikh Del; abbreviat ...

also maintained service academies.

Overview

Commissioned officers training

Soviet military academies provided higher education to higher officers and officers of specialized kinds of armed force (engineering, medical, etc.). All able-bodied male students of civilian

universities A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, ...

and many other institutions of higher education were subject to mandatory training at the military departments (russian: военная кафедра) within these institutions to become

reserve Reserve or reserves may refer to: Places * Reserve, Kansas, a US city * Reserve, Louisiana, a census-designated place in St. John the Baptist Parish * Reserve, Montana, a census-designated place in Sheridan County * Reserve, New Mexico, a US vi ...

officers (although not all civilian institutions had military departments). Training at military departments of civilian institutions of higher education was mandatory also for all able-bodied female medical students. Soviet professional military education was also available for persons from the

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and from the perceived

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among the

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countries. Soviet military education was aimed at training of officer-specialists in narrowly-defined military occupational specialties, and it differed greatly from American military education system in which newly-qualified second lieutenants receive particular specialties in the framework of their "career branch" only after graduation from

military academy A military academy or service academy is an educational institution which prepares candidates for service in the officer corps. It normally provides education in a military environment, the exact definition depending on the country concerned. ...

or ROTC. Students of Soviet civilian universities having military departments could not choose military occupational specialty because each civilian specialty taught by university was attached to particular military occupational specialty taught by military department of the same university by the

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's order, and it also differed from American military education system in which student can choose between available types of ROTC. In addition, there were 2 other ways to receive officer rank in

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: junior officers courses and special assessment at the conclusion of

conscript Conscription (also called the draft in the United States) is the state-mandated enlistment of people in a national service, mainly a military service. Conscription dates back to antiquity and it continues in some countries to the present day un ...

service. Junior officers courses were open to persons completed secondary school and finished their military service as conscripts. Persons graduated from civilian institutions of higher education without military departments and drafted into military service as soldier/sailor could pass special exams at the end of their

service; such persons were demobbed with officer's rank. Unlike graduates of military schools and military departments within civilian universities, persons who used these ways were promoted to

junior lieutenant Junior lieutenant is a junior officer rank in several countries, equivalent to Sub-lieutenant. Germany In the National People's Army, the rank of () was introduced in 1956. Eastern Europe In many Eastern European countries, the rank of junior ...

as first officer's rank, but not

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. After several years service, officer could get into military academy of branch of service to deepen his military occupational specialty knowledges. Graduates of such academies could be promoted to

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captain 1st rank Captain 1st rank (russian: Капитан 1-го ранга, Kapitan 1-go ranga, lit=Captain of the 1st rank) is a rank used by the Russian Navy and a number of former communist states. The rank is the most senior rank in the staff officers' ca ...

and to appointed to a position of the commander of

regiment A regiment is a military unit. Its role and size varies markedly, depending on the country, service and/or a specialisation. In Medieval Europe, the term "regiment" denoted any large body of front-line soldiers, recruited or conscript ...

/first-rate warship. After graduating from military academy of branch of service and several years service in relevant positions, officer could been accepted into Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces. This academy trained a highest ranking military officers. Teaching staff of military academies was prepared in adjunctura established in 1938. Adjunctura was a military analogue of

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. Officers enrolled in adjunctura were called adjuncts. They wrote theses in the military field and got academic degree of candidate of military sciences after successful defense. Officer with such degree could be appointed to a teaching position in military academy but also he could continue to serve in military units.

Warrant officers training

Warrant officers schools were established by the Minister of defense Order of 20 December 1980 №365. Only enlisted personnel and non-commissioned officers, finished their military service as conscripts, could be accepted to enter warrant officers schools. The period of training was ten and half months.

Enlisted personnel and non-commissioned officers training

All able-bodied males obtained basic and specialized military training during obligatory 2-3 year male draft. There also existed schools for non-commissioned officers, often part of the draft service for distinguished soldiers, as a step towards the professional military career. Reservists were subject to periodic training exercises of duration 2–6 weeks once in several years.

Military secondary schools and pre-conscription preparatory courses

Suvorov Military Schools for boys of 14-17 (established in 1943) delivered education in military subjects.

Nakhimov Naval School The Nakhimov Naval School (russian: Нахимовское военно-морское училище) or Nakhimov School (russian: Нахимовское училище) is a form of military education for teenagers introduced in the Soviet Unio ...

s were similar to the Suvorov ones, specializing in

subjects. Civilians could receive military-related training in military-support organizations

DOSAAF DOSAAF (russian: ДОСААФ), full name ''Volunteer Society for Cooperation with the Army, Aviation, and Navy'' (russian: Добровольное общество содействия армии, авиации и флоту), was a parami ...

(initial name was OSOAVIAKHIM).

Under the Ministry of Defense

General Staff of the Armed Forces

Academies

* Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces (

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) * Military Diplomatic Academy (Moscow)

Institutes

* Military Institute of the Ministry of Defense

Engineering

* Voronezh Higher Military Engineering College of Radio Electronics * Cherepovets Higher Military Engineering College of Radio Electronics

Special communications

* Shtemenko Krasnodar Military Institute

Specialists

* 8th Central Officer Refresher Courses for Officers of Mobilization Bodies of the Armed Forces ( Saratov)

Main Directorate of International Military Cooperation

* Krasnodar Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots * Odessa Higher Military Combined Command Engineering School of Air Defense * Odessa Higher United Military Schoo

* Simferopol United Military School ( Perevalnoye) * 5th Central Courses for the Training and Improvement of Aviation Personnel (

Kant Immanuel Kant (, , ; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers. Born in Königsberg, Kant's comprehensive and systematic works in epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and aest ...

)

Office of the Chief of Space Facilities

* A.F. Mozhaysky Military-Engineering School *

Riga Higher Military Political School The Riga Higher Military Political School named after Marshal of the Soviet Union Sergey Biryuzov (; ) was a military academy in the Soviet Union located in the capital of the Latvian SSR, the city of Riga. In the years it existed, it trained mili ...

(one faculty)

Main Political Directorate of the Soviet Army and Navy

Academies

Lenin Military-Political Academy The V. I. Lenin Military-Political Academy ( (VPA)) was a higher military educational institution of the Soviet Armed Forces from 1919 to 1991 that provided advanced training to political workers. History The predecessor of the academy was ...

Military-Political

*Donetsk Military Political College of Engineers and Signal Corps * Kiev Naval Political College * Lvov Military-Political School *

Minsk Higher Military-Political School The Minsk Higher Military-Political Combined Arms School (MVVPOU) () was a specialized military higher educational institution of the Soviet Army based in the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. Located on Kalinovsky Street in Minsk, it served ...

Tallinn Higher Military-Political Construction School The Tallinn Higher Military-Political Construction School (; ) was one of the military academies of the Soviet Union. In the years it existed, it trained military personnel in a number of specializations. It was located in Tallinn, which was the c ...

*Kurgan Higher Military-Political Aviation School *Leningrad Higher Military-Political School of Air Defense named after

Yuri Andropov Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov (– 9 February 1984) was the sixth paramount leader of the Soviet Union and the fourth General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. After Leonid Brezhnev's 18-year rule, Andropov served in the p ...

*Novosibirsk Higher Military-Political Combined Arms School named after the 60th anniversary of the

Great October Socialist Revolution The October Revolution,. officially known as the Great October Socialist Revolution. in the Soviet Union, also known as the Bolshevik Revolution, was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin that was a key moment ...

*Sverdlovsk Higher Military-Political Tank-Artillery School named after

Leonid Brezhnev Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev; uk, links= no, Леонід Ілліч Брежнєв, . (19 December 1906– 10 November 1982) was a Soviet politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union between 1964 and ...

Simferopol Simferopol () is the second-largest city in the Crimean Peninsula. The city, along with the rest of Crimea, is internationally recognised as part of Ukraine, and is considered the capital of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. However, it is ...

Higher Military-Political Construction School

Under other departments

Military Institute of Physical Culture The Twice-Red Banner Military Institute of Physical Culture of the Ministry of Defense of Russia (russian: Военный дважды Краснознамённый институт физической культуры Министерства � ...

(under the Sports Committee) * Military Institute of Military Conductors (under the Military Band Service) *Leningrad Higher Military Topographic Command School (under the Military Topographical Directorate of the General Staff) *Military Law Department of the Military Institute (under the Legal Service)

Rear of the Soviet Army

Academies

* Military Academy of Logistics and Transport (

Leningrad Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

)

Command

*Moscow Higher Command School of Road and Engineering Troops ( Balashikha)

Rear

*Volsky Higher Military School of Logistics *Gorki Higher Military School of Logistics named after

Ivan Bagramyan Ivan Khristoforovich Bagramyan,; russian: Ива́н Христофо́рович Баграмя́н, link=no also known as Hovhannes Khachaturi Baghramyan; russian: Оване́с Хачату́рович Баграмя́н, link=no ( – 2 ...

Engineering

*Ulyanovsk Higher Military Technical School named after Bohdan Khmelnytsky

Under the
Soviet Army uk, Радянська армія , image = File:Communist star with golden border and red rims.svg , alt = , caption = Emblem of the Soviet Army , start_date ...

Combined Arms Institutions

Academies

Frunze Military Academy The M. V. Frunze Military Academy (russian: Военная академия имени М. В. Фрунзе), or in full the Military Order of Lenin and the October Revolution, Red Banner, Order of Suvorov Academy in the name of M. V. Frunze (rus ...

Command

Alma-Ata Higher All-Arms Command School Almaty (; kk, Алматы; ), formerly known as Alma-Ata ( kk, Алма-Ата), is the largest city in Kazakhstan, with a population of about 2 million. It was the capital of Kazakhstan from 1929 to 1936 as an autonomous republic as part of t ...

* Baku Higher Combined Arms Command School * Far Eastern Higher Combined Arms Command School *

Kiev Higher Combined Arms Command School Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the seventh-most populous city in Europe. Ky ...

Moscow Higher Military Command School The Moscow Higher Combined Arms Command School ''"Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR"'' (abbreviated to MVOKU) is a higher military educational institution of the Russian Armed Forces. History The school was formed in December 15, 1917 (O.S., December ...

Tashkent Higher All-Arms Command School The Tashkent Higher All-Arms Command School () was a military academy of the Ministry of Defense of Uzbekistan. It was previously known as the Tashkent Higher Combined Arms Command School named after Vladimir Lenin (). It was one of the oldest mi ...

Tank Forces

Academies

Malinovsky Military Armored Forces Academy The Malinovsky Military Armored Forces Academy (Военная академия бронетанковых войск имени Маршала Советского Союза Р. Я. Малиновского) was one of the Soviet military academ ...

Command

Tashkent Higher Tank Command School The Chirchiq Higher Tank Command and Engineering School (), formerly the Tashkent Order of Lenin Higher Tank Command School named after Pavel Rybalko () is a military academy of the Ministry of Defense of Uzbekistan, responsible for training armor ...

*Blagoveshchenskoye Higher Tank Command School *Kazan Higher Tank Command School *Ulyanovsk Guards Higher Tank Command School *Kharkov Guards Higher Tank Command School *Chelyabinsk Higher Tank Command School

Engineering

*Kiev Higher Tank Engineering School *Omsk Higher Tank Engineering School

Rocket and Artillery Forces ( GRAU)

Academies

* Kalinin Military Artillery Academy (Leningrad)

Command

* Kolomensky High Artillery Command School * Leningrad Higher Artillery Command School * Odessa Higher Artillery Command School * Sumy Higher Artillery Command School *

Tbilisi Higher Artillery Command School The Tbilisi Higher Artillery Command School () was one of the military institutions of the USSR. In different years she trained specialists of various military specialties. It was located in Tbilisi in the Georgian SSR. History The school was ...

* Khmelnytsky Higher Artillery Command School

Command-Engineering

* Kazan Higher Military Command-Engineering School * Saratov Higher Military Command-Engineering School

Signal Troops

Academies

Budyonny Military Academy of the Signal Corps The S. M. Budyonny Military Academy of the Signal Corps is a military university in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation, founded in 1919. The academy trains officers for service in the Signal Troops of the Russian Ground Forces. History * ...

Command

* Kemerovo Higher Military Command Liaison School * Novocherkassk Higher Military Command School of Communications ( :ru:Новочеркасское высшее военное командное училище связи) * Poltava Higher Military Command School * Ryazan Higher Military Command School of Communications * Tomsk Higher Military Command School of Communications * Ulyanovsk Higher Military Command School of Communications

Engineering

* Kiev Higher Military Engineering School of Communications * Leningrad Higher Military Engineering School

Engineering Forces

Academies

* Kuibishev Military Engineering Academy

Command

* Kamenets-Podolsk Higher Military Engineering Command School * Tyumen Higher Military Engineering Command School

Engineering

* Kaliningrad Higher School of Engineering

Chemical Troops

Academies

* Timoshenko

NBC Protection Military Academy The Marshal Semyon Timoshenko NBC Protection Military Academy () is a military university in Kostroma in the Kostroma Oblast training officers for service in the Russian NBC Protection Troops of the Russian Ground Forces. It was established in 19 ...

Command

* Kostroma Higher Military Command School of Chemical Defense * Tambov Higher Military Command School of Chemical Defense

Engineering

* Saratov Higher Military Engineering School of Chemical Defense

Air Defence Troops of the Ground Forces

Academies

Vasilevsky Military Academy of Army Air Defence Forces Vasilevsky, also transliterated as Vasilievsky or Vasilyevsky, is a Russian surname (russian: Василе́вский) or place name (), derived from the given name Vasily. It may refer to: Places *Vasilyevsky Island, an island in Saint Petersbu ...

Command

* Leningrad Higher Anti-Aircraft Missile Command School * Orenburg Higher Anti-Aircraft Missile Command School * Poltava Higher Anti-Aircraft Missile Command School

Engineering

* Kiev Higher Anti-Aircraft Missile Engineering School * Smolensk Higher Anti-Aircraft Missile Engineering School

Soviet Airborne Forces The Soviet Airborne Forces or VDV (from ''Vozdushno- desantnye voyska SSSR'', Russian: Воздушно-десантные войска СССР, ВДВ; Air-landing Forces) was a separate troops branch of the Soviet Armed Forces. First formed be ...

Command

Ryazan Guards Higher Airborne Command School The General V.F. Margelov Ryazan Guards Higher Airborne twice Red Banner Order of Suvorov Command School (RGVVDKU) () is a military educational institute of the Russian Ministry of Defense, situated in Ryazan, about southeast of Moscow. It was f ...

Automotive Troops

Ussuriysk Higher Military Automotive Command School Ussuriysk (russian: Уссури́йск) is a city in Primorsky Krai, Russia, located in the fertile valley of the Razdolnaya River, north of Vladivostok, the administrative center of the krai, and about from both the China–Russia border and ...

( :ru:Уссурийское высшее военное автомобильное командное училище). The school was disbanded in June 2007, and replaced by a centre for the training of automotive service specialists, in turned disbanded 2012. After that the 70th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (from 2018, 114th Guards MRR / 127 MRD) took over the site. * Ryazan' Higher Military Automotive Engineering School * Chelyabinsk Higher Military Automotive Engineering School *

Samarkand Higher Military Automobile Command School The Samarkand Higher Military Automobile Command School (; ) is a military academy of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Uzbekistan and a former educational institution under the Soviet Defence Ministry. History Soviet period As it relates to i ...

Under the
Soviet Air Defence Forces The Soviet Air Defence Forces (russian: войска ПВО, ''voyska protivovozdushnoy oborony'', ''voyska PVO'', ''V-PVO'', lit. ''Anti-Air Defence Troops''; and formerly ''protivovozdushnaya oborona strany'', ''PVO strany'', lit. ''Anti-Air De ...

Academies

Zhukov Air and Space Defence Academy The Zhukov Air and Space Defense Academy, or formally the Military Academy of Air and Space Defence named after Marshal of the Soviet Union G. K. Zhukov (russian: Военная академия воздушно-космической оборон ...

* Govorov Military Radio Engineering Academy

Command

* Gorky Higher Anti-Aircraft Missile Command School * Dnepropetrovsk Higher Anti-Aircraft Missile Command School * Ordzhonikidze Higher Anti-Aircraft Missile Command School * Engels Higher Anti-Aircraft Missile Command School of Air Defense *

Yaroslavl Higher Military School of Anti-Aircraft Warfare Yaroslavl Higher Military School of Anti-Aircraft Warfare (russian: Ярославское высшее военное училище противовоздушной обороны) is Russian higher military school conducting commissioned offic ...

* Vilnius Higher Command School of Radio Electronics *

Krasnodar Higher Military Aviation School Krasnodar (; rus, Краснода́р, p=krəsnɐˈdar; ady, Краснодар), formerly Yekaterinodar (until 1920), is the largest city and the administrative centre of Krasnodar Krai, Russia. The city stands on the Kuban River in southern ...

Command and engineering

* Zhytomir Higher School of Radio Electronics * Pushkin Higher School of Air Defense

Engineering

* Minsk Higher Engineering Anti-aircraft Missile School * Kiev Higher Engineering Radio Engineering School

Pilots

* Armavir Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots * Stavropol Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots and Navigators PVO

Under the
Soviet Air Force The Soviet Air Forces ( rus, Военно-воздушные силы, r=Voyenno-vozdushnyye sily, VVS; literally "Military Air Forces") were one of the air forces of the Soviet Union. The other was the Soviet Air Defence Forces. The Air Forces ...

Academies

Gagarin Air Force Academy Gagarin Air Force Academy () is a Russian military aviation academy located in Monino, Moscow Oblast. The academy prepares high-ranking military personnel for the Russian Air Force. Among the academy alumni are around 700 Heroes of the Soviet ...

Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy () – is a higher military educational institution for training and retraining of engineers for the Russian Air Force. The academy trains specialists – engineers, research engineers in the following sp ...

Flying and Navigator Schools

* Balashov Higher Military Aviation School * Barnaul Higher Military Aviation School * Borisoglebsk Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots * Eisk Higher Military Aviation School *

Kacha Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots The Kacha Higher Military Aviation twice Red Banner order of Lenin School of Pilots named for A.F. Myasnikov (KVVAUL) (Качинское высшее военное авиационное дважды краснознаменное ордена Л ...

* Krasnodar Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots * Orenburg Higher Military Aviation School * Saratov Higher Military Aviation School * Syzran Higher Military Aviation School * Tambov Higher Military Aviation School * Ufa Higher Military Aviation School * Kharkov Higher Military Aviation School * Chernigov Higher Military Aviation School *

Lugansk Higher Military Aviation School of Navigators The Lugansk Higher Military Aviation School of Navigators was a flying training school of the Soviet Air Forces and later the Ukrainian Air Force. Established in 1966 in Voroshilovgrad (Lugansk), the school trained navigators until its closure in ...

Chelyabinsk Red Banner Military Aviation Institute of Navigators The Chelyabinsk Military Aviation Institute of Navigators is a Russian Air Force school, located in Chelyabinsk Shagol Airport. The previous name's translation was the Chelyabinsk Higher Military Aviation Red Banner Navigation School named after ...

Engineering

* Voronezh Higher Military Aviation Engineering School * Daugavpils Higher Military Aviation Engineering School * Irkutsk Higher Military Aviation Engineering School *

Kiev Military Aviation Engineering Academy Kyiv Military Aviation Engineering Academy ( uk, Київське вище військове авіаційне інженерне училище, КВВАІУ) in Kyiv, Ukraine was one of the leading military university-level institutions and re ...

* Riga Higher Military Aviation Engineering School * Tambov Higher Military Aviation Engineering School * Kharkov Higher Military Aviation Engineering School * Kharkov Higher Military Aviation School of Radio Electronics

Medium Technical Aviation

Achinsk Achinsk (russian: А́чинск) is a city in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located on the right bank of the Chulym River near its intersection with the Trans-Siberian Railway, west of Krasnoyarsk. It has a population of 109,155 as of the 2010 C ...

Military Aviation Technical School * Vasilkovskoe Military Aviation Technical School *

Kaliningrad Kaliningrad ( ; rus, Калининград, p=kəlʲɪnʲɪnˈɡrat, links=y), until 1946 known as Königsberg (; rus, Кёнигсберг, Kyonigsberg, ˈkʲɵnʲɪɡzbɛrk; rus, Короле́вец, Korolevets), is the largest city and ...

Military Aviation Technical School * Kirov Military Aviation Technical School (

Volgograd Volgograd ( rus, Волгогра́д, a=ru-Volgograd.ogg, p=vəɫɡɐˈɡrat), formerly Tsaritsyn (russian: Цари́цын, Tsarítsyn, label=none; ) (1589–1925), and Stalingrad (russian: Сталингра́д, Stalingrád, label=none; ) ...

) * Lomonosov Military Aviation Technical School (

Lebyazhye, Lomonosovsky District, Leningrad Oblast Lebyazhye (russian: Лебя́жье; fi, Lepäsi) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Lomonosovsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the coast of the Gulf of Finland west of Lomonosov and east of Sosnovy Bor. ...

) * Perm Military Aviation Technical School

Under the Soviet Navy

Academies

* Gretchko Naval Academy (Leningrad) * Higher Special Officer Classes (Leningrad)

Command

* M. V. Frunze Naval College (Leningrad) *

Higher Naval School *

Caspian Higher Naval School The Azerbaijan Higher Naval Academy () is an educational institution of the Azerbaijani Naval Forces. It is part of the education system of the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan. It was originally founded in 1939 In Soviet times, it was called the ...

( Baku) *

Pacific Higher Naval School The Makarov Pacific Higher Naval School () is one of the Russian Navy's two higher educational institutions under the Ministry of Defense of Russia, with this school being located in Vladivostok in Eastern Russia, the only naval educational inst ...

(

Vladivostok Vladivostok ( rus, Владивосто́к, a=Владивосток.ogg, p=vɫədʲɪvɐˈstok) is the largest city and the administrative center of Primorsky Krai, Russia. The city is located around the Golden Horn Bay on the Sea of Japan, c ...

) * Black Sea Higher Naval School (

Sevastopol Sevastopol (; uk, Севасто́поль, Sevastópolʹ, ; gkm, Σεβαστούπολις, Sevastoúpolis, ; crh, Акъя́р, Aqyár, ), sometimes written Sebastopol, is the largest city in Crimea, and a major port on the Black Sea ...

) *Lenin Komsomol Submarine Navigation Higher Naval School (Leningrad)

Engineering

*Dzerzhinsky Higher Naval Engineering School (Leningrad) *"V.I. Lenin" Leningrad Higher Naval Engineering School (

Pushkin Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (; rus, links=no, Александр Сергеевич ПушкинIn pre-Revolutionary script, his name was written ., r=Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin, p=ɐlʲɪkˈsandr sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈpuʂkʲɪn, ...

) *Sevastopol Higher Naval Engineering School *Higher Naval School of Radio Electronics "

Alexander Stepanovich Popov Alexander Stepanovich Popov (sometimes spelled Popoff; russian: Алекса́ндр Степа́нович Попо́в; – ) was a Russian physicist, who was one of the first persons to invent a radio receiving device. declassified 8 Janua ...

" ( Petrodvorets)

Secondary and primary vocational education

*Auxiliary Fleet (civilian specialists) * Lomonosov Naval School

Under of the
Strategic Missile Forces The Strategic Rocket Forces of the Russian Federation or the Strategic Missile Forces of the Russian Federation (RVSN RF; russian: Ракетные войска стратегического назначения Российской Фед� ...

Academies

* Dzerzhinsky Missile Force Academy (Moscow)

Engineering

* Serpukhov Higher Military Command and Engineering School of Rocket Forces named after the Lenin Komsomol * Krasnodar Higher Military Command and Engineering School of the Missile Forces * Perm Higher Military Command and Engineering Red Banner School of Missile Forces * Rostov Higher Military Command and Engineering School of Missile Forces * Kharkov Higher Military Command and Engineering School of Missile Forces * Stavropol Higher Military Engineering School of Communications named after the ''"60th anniversary of Great October"''

Under the
Ministry of Internal Affairs An interior ministry (sometimes called a ministry of internal affairs or ministry of home affairs) is a government department that is responsible for internal affairs. Lists of current ministries of internal affairs Named "ministry" * Ministry ...

Internal Troops

Command

*Novosibirsk Higher Military Command School of the Internal *Ordzhonikidze Higher Military Command School of the Internal Troops named after S.M. Kirov *Perm Higher Military Command School of the Internal Troops *Saratov Higher Military Command School of the Internal Troops named after Dzerzhinsky

Rear

*Kharkov Higher Military School of Logistics of the Internal Troops

Military-political

Higher Political-School of Internal Troops named after the 60th anniversary of the Komsomol

Under the
KGB The KGB (russian: links=no, lit=Committee for State Security, Комитет государственной безопасности (КГБ), a=ru-KGB.ogg, p=kəmʲɪˈtʲet ɡəsʊˈdarstvʲɪn(ː)əj bʲɪzɐˈpasnəsʲtʲɪ, Komitet gosud ...

RIAN archive 700215 Cadets of the KGB Moscow Higher Frontier Guards Command Academy

* Dzerzhinsky Higher School of the KGB (Moscow) *Higher Courses of the KGB (

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) *Higher Courses of the KGB ( Gorky) *Higher Courses of the KGB ( Kiev) *Higher Courses of the KGB (

) *Higher Courses of the KGB (

Minsk Minsk ( be, Мінск ; russian: Минск) is the capital and the largest city of Belarus, located on the Svislach and the now subterranean Niamiha rivers. As the capital, Minsk has a special administrative status in Belarus and is the admi ...

) *Higher Courses of the KGB of the USSR ( Sverdlovsk) *Higher Courses of the KGB of the USSR (

Tashkent Tashkent (, uz, Toshkent, Тошкент/, ) (from russian: Ташкент), or Toshkent (; ), also historically known as Chach is the capital and largest city of Uzbekistan. It is the most populous city in Central Asia, with a population of 2 ...

) *Higher Courses of the KGB of the USSR (

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)

First Chief Directorate The First Main Directorate () of the Committee for State Security under the USSR council of ministers (PGU KGB) was the organization responsible for foreign operations and intelligence activities by providing for the training and management of cove ...

Institute of the KGB

Third Chief Directorate

* Courses of Military Counterintelligence ( Novosibirsk)

Soviet Border Troops

* Higher Border Command Courses (

)

Command

* Higher Border Command School of the KGB named after Dzerzhinsky (

) * Moscow Border Guards Institute of the Border Defence Forces of the KGB "Moscow City Council"

Military-political

* Voroshilov Higher Border Military-Political School of the KGB (Golitsyno)

Government Liaison Troops

Command

* Oryol "Mikhail Kalinin" Higher Military Command School of Communications of the KGB

Under the
Ministry of Medium Machine Building The Ministry of Medium Machine-Building Industry of the USSR (russian: Министерство среднего машиностроения СССР - Минсредмаш СССР, МСМ СССР) was the government ministry of the Soviet Unio ...

*Volga Higher Military Construction Command School (

Dubna Dubna ( rus, Дубна́, p=dʊbˈna) is a town in Moscow Oblast, Russia. It has a status of ''naukograd'' (i.e. town of science), being home to the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, an international nuclear physics research center and one o ...

)

Under the Ministry of Construction in the Eastern Regions

* Khabarovsk Higher Military Construction School

Secondary Schools under the Ministry of Defense

* Suvorov Military School **

Yekaterinburg Suvorov Military School The Yekaterinburg Suvorov Military School ( Russian: Екатеринбургское суворовское военное училище, ЕкСВУ) is one of the Russian Armed Forces's many Suvorov Military Schools located on the territory of ...

Kazan Suvorov Military School The Kazan Suvorov Military School (KzSVU) (Russian language, Russian: Казанское суворовское военное училище) is a Russian military academy based in Tatarstan. It serves as one of the country's many Suvorov Militar ...

** Moscow Suvorov Military School **

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** Leningrad Suvorov Military School ** Kalinin Suvorov Military School ** Ussuriysk Suvorov Military School ** Kiev Suvorov Military School **

Minsk Suvorov Military School The Minsk Suvorov Military School (MnSVU) ( be, Мінск Сувораўскае ваеннае вучылішча; russian: Минское суворовское военное училище) is one of the Suvorov Military Schools in Belarus a ...

** Nakhimov Naval School (Leningrad)

Secondary schools under the
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The task of these schools were to train future officers from among the Soviet nationalities. *Republican Special Boarding School with in-depth study of the Russian language and enhanced military-physical training named after

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Baurzhan Momyshuly (

) *Republican Special Boarding School with in-depth study of the Russian language and enhanced military-physical training (

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) *Republican Special Boarding School with in-depth study of the Russian language and enhanced military-physical training ( Chisinau) *Republican Special Boarding School with in-depth study of the Russian language and enhanced military-physical training (

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) *Republican Special Boarding School with in-depth study of the Russian language and enhanced military-physical training ( Riga) *Republican Special Boarding School with in-depth study of the Russian language and enhanced military-physical training (

) *Republican Special Boarding School with in-depth study of the Russian language and enhanced military-physical training (

) * Republican special boarding school with in-depth study of the Russian language and enhanced military-physical training named after the 60th anniversary of the Communist Party of Kirghizia ( Frunze) * Special Boarding School with in-depth study of the Russian language and enhanced military-physical training ( Baku) * Special Boarding School with in-depth study of the Russian language and enhanced military-physical training (

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) *Special Boarding School with in-depth study of the Russian language and enhanced military-physical training (

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) *Special Boarding School with in-depth study of the Russian language and enhanced military-physical training (

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) *Special Boarding School with in-depth study of the Russian language and enhanced military-physical training ( Leninabad) *Special Boarding School with in-depth study of the Russian language and enhanced military-physical training ( Samarkand) *Special Boarding School with in-depth study of the Russian language and enhanced military-physical training ( Tashauz) *Special Boarding School with in-depth study of the Russian language and enhanced military-physical training (

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) *Special Boarding School with in-depth study of the Russian language and enhanced military-physical training ( Ferghana) *Special Boarding School with in-depth study of the Russian language and enhanced military-physical training (

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) *Special Boarding School with in-depth study of the Russian language and enhanced military-physical training (

Shymkent Shymkent (; Шымкент, Şymkent), known until 1993 as Chimkent ( uz, Çımkent, چىمكېنت; Yañalif: Çimkent ()); russian: Чимкент, translit=Chimkent (), is a city in Kazakhstan. It is near the border with Uzbekistan. It is one ...

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Commissioned officers training

Warrant officers training

Enlisted personnel and non-commissioned officers training

Military secondary schools and pre-conscription preparatory courses

Under the Ministry of Defense

Academies

Institutes

Engineering

Special communications

Specialists

Main Directorate of International Military Cooperation

Main Political Directorate of the Soviet Army and Navy

Academies

Military-Political

Under other departments

Academies

Command

Rear

Engineering

Under the Soviet Army uk, Радянська армія , image = File:Communist star with golden border and red rims.svg , alt = , caption = Emblem of the Soviet Army , start_date ...

Combined Arms Institutions

Academies

Command

Tank Forces

Academies

Command

Engineering

Rocket and Artillery Forces ( GRAU)

Academies

Command

Command-Engineering

Academies

Command

Engineering

Academies

Command

Engineering

Academies

Command

Engineering

Academies

Command

Engineering

Soviet Airborne Forces The Soviet Airborne Forces or VDV (from ''Vozdushno- desantnye voyska SSSR'', Russian: Воздушно-десантные войска СССР, ВДВ; Air-landing Forces) was a separate troops branch of the Soviet Armed Forces. First formed be ...

Command

Automotive Troops

Under the Soviet Air Defence Forces The Soviet Air Defence Forces (russian: войска ПВО, ''voyska protivovozdushnoy oborony'', ''voyska PVO'', ''V-PVO'', lit. ''Anti-Air Defence Troops''; and formerly ''protivovozdushnaya oborona strany'', ''PVO strany'', lit. ''Anti-Air De ...

Academies

Command

Command and engineering

Engineering

Pilots

Under the Soviet Air Force The Soviet Air Forces ( rus, Военно-воздушные силы, r=Voyenno-vozdushnyye sily, VVS; literally "Military Air Forces") were one of the air forces of the Soviet Union. The other was the Soviet Air Defence Forces. The Air Forces ...

Academies

Flying and Navigator Schools

Engineering

Medium Technical Aviation

Under the Soviet Navy

Academies

Command

Engineering

Secondary and primary vocational education

Under of the Strategic Missile Forces The Strategic Rocket Forces of the Russian Federation or the Strategic Missile Forces of the Russian Federation (RVSN RF; russian: Ракетные войска стратегического назначения Российской Фед� ...

Academies

Engineering

Under the Ministry of Internal Affairs An interior ministry (sometimes called a ministry of internal affairs or ministry of home affairs) is a government department that is responsible for internal affairs. Lists of current ministries of internal affairs Named "ministry" * Ministry ...

Internal Troops

Command

Rear

Military-political

Under the KGB The KGB (russian: links=no, lit=Committee for State Security, Комитет государственной безопасности (КГБ), a=ru-KGB.ogg, p=kəmʲɪˈtʲet ɡəsʊˈdarstvʲɪn(ː)əj bʲɪzɐˈpasnəsʲtʲɪ, Komitet gosud ...

First Chief Directorate The First Main Directorate () of the Committee for State Security under the USSR council of ministers (PGU KGB) was the organization responsible for foreign operations and intelligence activities by providing for the training and management of cove ...

Command

Military-political

Government Liaison Troops

Command

Under the Ministry of Medium Machine Building The Ministry of Medium Machine-Building Industry of the USSR (russian: Министерство среднего машиностроения СССР - Минсредмаш СССР, МСМ СССР) was the government ministry of the Soviet Unio ...

Under the Ministry of Construction in the Eastern Regions

Secondary Schools under the Ministry of Defense

Under the
Soviet Army uk, Радянська армія , image = File:Communist star with golden border and red rims.svg , alt = , caption = Emblem of the Soviet Army , start_date ...

Under the
Soviet Air Defence Forces The Soviet Air Defence Forces (russian: войска ПВО, ''voyska protivovozdushnoy oborony'', ''voyska PVO'', ''V-PVO'', lit. ''Anti-Air Defence Troops''; and formerly ''protivovozdushnaya oborona strany'', ''PVO strany'', lit. ''Anti-Air De ...

Under the
Soviet Air Force The Soviet Air Forces ( rus, Военно-воздушные силы, r=Voyenno-vozdushnyye sily, VVS; literally "Military Air Forces") were one of the air forces of the Soviet Union. The other was the Soviet Air Defence Forces. The Air Forces ...

Under of the
Strategic Missile Forces The Strategic Rocket Forces of the Russian Federation or the Strategic Missile Forces of the Russian Federation (RVSN RF; russian: Ракетные войска стратегического назначения Российской Фед� ...

Under the
Ministry of Internal Affairs An interior ministry (sometimes called a ministry of internal affairs or ministry of home affairs) is a government department that is responsible for internal affairs. Lists of current ministries of internal affairs Named "ministry" * Ministry ...

Under the
KGB The KGB (russian: links=no, lit=Committee for State Security, Комитет государственной безопасности (КГБ), a=ru-KGB.ogg, p=kəmʲɪˈtʲet ɡəsʊˈdarstvʲɪn(ː)əj bʲɪzɐˈpasnəsʲtʲɪ, Komitet gosud ...

Under the
Ministry of Medium Machine Building The Ministry of Medium Machine-Building Industry of the USSR (russian: Министерство среднего машиностроения СССР - Минсредмаш СССР, МСМ СССР) was the government ministry of the Soviet Unio ...