The Marshal

Semyon Timoshenko Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko (; ; – 31 March 1970) was a Soviet military commander, Marshal of the Soviet Union, and one of the most prominent Red Army commanders during the Second World War. Born to a Ukrainian family in Bessarabia, ...

Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Defense Military Academy () is a military

university A university () is an educational institution, institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several Discipline (academia), academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase , which roughly ...

Kostroma Kostroma (, ) is a historic city and the administrative center of Kostroma Oblast, Russia. A part of the Golden Ring of Russian cities, it is located at the confluence of the rivers Volga and Kostroma. In the 2021 census, the population is 267, ...

training officers for service in the Russian NBC Defense Troops of the

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. It was established in 1932 in

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and is named after

. It provides training and conducts research related to the protection of military and civilian personnel from the

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History

The Military Chemical Academy of the

Red Army The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union. The army was established in January 1918 by a decree of the Council of People ...

was created in accordance with the resolution

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and by direct order of the

Revolutionary Military Council The Revolutionary Military Council (), sometimes called the Revolutionary War Council Brian PearceIntroductionto Fyodor Raskolnikov s "Tales of Sub-lieutenant Ilyin." or ''Revvoyensoviet'' (), was the supreme military authority of Soviet Rus ...

on 13 May 1932, on the basis of the military chemical department of the Military Technical Academy of the Red Army and the 2nd Moscow Institute of Chemical Technology. The formation of the academy was completed by 1 October 1932. Its structure included the military engineering, special and industrial faculties. By order of the Revolutionary Military Council on 15 May 1934, it was given the honorific name

Kliment Voroshilov Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov ( ; ), popularly known as Klim Voroshilov (; 4 February 1881 – 2 December 1969), was a prominent Soviet Military of the Soviet Union, military officer and politician during the Stalinism, Stalin era (1924–195 ...

. In 1937, the academy was renamed to the Military Academy of Chemical Defense named after Voroshilov. In 1958, by decree of the

Council of Ministers of the USSR The Council of Ministers of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ( rus, Совет министров СССР, r=Sovet Ministrov SSSR, p=sɐˈvʲet mʲɪˈnʲistrəf ˌɛsˌɛsˌɛsˈɛr), sometimes abbreviated as Sovmin or referred to as the ...

of May 27 No. 2052, the academy was renamed into the Military Academy of Chemical Defense (the name of "Voroshilov" was withdrawn). In connection with the

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anniversary of the

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and the

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in 1968, the Presidium of the

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on Defender of the Fatherland Day awarded the academy with the

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. Two years later, it was given the honorific "

". In 1982, it was awarded with the

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in honour of the 50th anniversary. Over 30 graduates of the academy were awarded with the titles of the

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, and Hero of Russia.

Academy Music Band

The band was created in 1968 on the basis of the Band of the Kostroma Higher Command School of Chemical Defense and has taken part in all the most significant events of the

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. Over the years, the unit has been led by such military conductors as Alexei Dmitriev, Viktor Valuev, Alexander Kolesnikov (an Honored Artist of

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), and Alexander Povzhik. Since 1999, the band has been led by Lieutenant Colonel Eduard Klein. It has performed during the opening of an automobile bridge across the

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, a new building of the railway station, a circus, and the first high-speed train from Kostroma-

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. In 2002, the band took part in the visit of the Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow. In 2010, the band took part in the production of

Modest Mussorgsky Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (; ; ; – ) was a Russian composer, one of the group known as "The Five (composers), The Five." He was an innovator of Music of Russia, Russian music in the Romantic music, Romantic period and strove to achieve a ...

's opera ''

Khovanshchina ''Khovanshchina'' ( rus, Хованщина, , xɐˈvanʲɕːɪnə, Ru-Khovanshchina_version.ogg, sometimes rendered ''The Khovansky Affair'') is an opera (subtitled a 'national music drama') in five acts by Modest Mussorgsky. The work was writte ...

'' on Susaninskaya Square in Kostroma in collaboration with the Novaya Opera Theatre. From 2010 to 2012, the band participated in

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s on

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Heads of the Academy

* Corps Commissioner Yakov Avinovitsky (1932-1937) * Major General Pyotry Lovyagin (1937-1941) * Military Engineer of the 1st Rank Yuri Klyachko (1941-1942) * Colonel Alexey Kislov (1942) * Lieutenant General of the Technical Troops Dmitry Petukhov (1942-1960) * Colonel General of the Technical Troops Dmitry Gorbovsky (1960-1972) * Colonel General of the Technical Troops Vladimir Myasnikov (1972-1990) * Lieutenant General Vladimir Kavunov (1990-1993) * Lieutenant General Boris Ivanov (1993-1996) * Lieutenant General Yuri Koryakin (1996-2002) * Lieutenant General Vladimir Manchenko (2002-2005) * Lieutenant General Nikolai Alimov (2005-2007) * Major General Yevgeni Kuchinsky (2007-2012) * Colonel Aleksey Bakin (2012—2014) * Major General

Igor Kirillov Igor Leonidovich Kirillov (, 14 September 1932 – 29 October 2021) was a Soviet and Russian news presenter, announcer and actor. He was a news anchor for Soviet Central Television (CT USSR) and announcer for the CT USSR news program ''Vremy ...

(2014—2017) * Major General Igor Emelyanov (2017—Present)

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History

Academy Music Band

Heads of the Academy

See also

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