The Naval Cadet Corps (), occasionally translated as the Marine Cadet Corps or the Sea Cadet Corps, was an educational establishment for educating naval officers for commissioning in the

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. The Saint Petersburg Naval Institute traces its lineage from the Naval Cadet Corps.

History

The first maritime educational school was established by Peter the Great in

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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 or the

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

. In 1762 it was renamed the Naval Cadet Corps. Following the destruction of the building in a fire in 1771 the school transferred to

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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

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was built to house the school. In 1827 a class for officers was created (later becoming the

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). 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 ''

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'' in the Imperial Navy.

Post Revolution

The school closed in March 1918. On 15 September 1918, a special order established courses for the navy command staff, which opened on 10 October in the former Naval School building. The courses educated officers for the new

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. In 1926 the school was named the M.V. Frunze Higher Naval School. The school was merged with the Higher Naval School of Submarine Navigation in 1998, and renamed the Saint Petersburg Naval Institute. In 2001, it received the name Peter the Great Naval Corps - Saint Petersburg Naval Institute, marking the 300th anniversary of naval education in Russia.

External links

Page in Russian from Kotlin.ru

History of the Kronshtadt branch

Cadet Schools in Russia

Nakhimov Naval School

References

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