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 military establishments of the

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preparing

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s for the

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. The school was disbanded after former

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gained independence in 1991 and became the Republic of Uzbekistan. The last banner of the school was removed from the No. 1 Guard Post and deposited into the State Museum of the Armed Forces of Uzbekistan.

History

TVOKU, or as it was called colloquially, the Leninsky College was founded on July 12, 1918, when the Military Commissariat of the Turkestan Soviet Republic ordered the government to organize the Turkestan Soviet command courses in

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for the training of Bolshevik commanders. On the 31st of that month, it was announced that a command school would be created in

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 ...

. On September 17, 1918, the school began regular classes, which had their own ceremonial opening 5 days later. At the time, the basis of training was political indoctrination and immersion in military subjects, with tactical training being given particular attention. During the

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(known in the West as the

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), the school prepared about 8,000 commanders to fight in the

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against the

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. Many who graduated at the time fought in the Eastern Front, including in the

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in 1941 and the

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in 1943. On March 28, 1957, the banners of the school, which were previously stored in the Central Museum of the Soviet Army, were delivered to the school from

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. By July 1970, the school was exporting its students to other Soviet universities, as well as importing cadets from other cadet schools, which would later make up the 1st Cadet Battalion. In the 80s, graduates of the school were immediately commissioned into the

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and transferred across the Afghan border with the

to participate in the

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. On 26 March 1993, it was reestablished by the Ministry of Defense of Uzbekistan just the Tashkent Higher All-Arms Command School. In 2017, President

Shavkat Mirziyoyev Shavkat Miromonovich Mirziyoyev ( Uzbek Latin: ''Shavkat Miromonovich (Miromon o‘g‘li) Mirziyoyev'', Uzbek Cyrillic: Шавкат Миромонович (Миромон ўғли) Мирзиёев ; born 24 July 1957) is an Uzbek politician ...

, ordered that the school be reestablished as the Academy of the Armed Forces of Uzbekistan.

Alumni

* Qobul Berdiyev, Uzbek military officer who formerly served as

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. * Stanislav Hazheev, former

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. *

Albert Makashov Colonel General Albert Mikhailovich Makashov (russian: Альберт Михайлович Макашóв; born 12 June 1938) is a Russian officer and a nationalist-communist politician. Biography Makashov was born in Levaya Rossosh, Voronezh O ...

, a

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n officer and a

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politician. * Pavel Pavlovich Kozlovsky, the second

of Belarus. *

Esen Topoev Esen Tolenovich Topoev ( ky, Эсен Толенович Топоев) is a Kyrgyz general and the former Minister of Defense of Kyrgyzstan. Career Soviet Army service He was born on 28 February 1952 in the city of Kyzyl-Kiya. He joined the ...

, former Minister of Defense of Kyrgyzstan. *

Valdas Tutkus Lieutenant General Valdas Tutkus (born 27 December 1960) is a former Chief of Defence of Lithuania. He served in this position from 30 June 2004 to 3 July 2009. Biography From 1978 to 1982, he studied at the Tashkent Higher All-Arms Comm ...

, a Lithuanian general who was the 3rd

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. *

Ilýa Weljanow Lieutenant General Ilýa Weljanowiç Weljanow (Cyrillic: Илья Вельджанович Вельджанов) was a Soviet-Turkmen politician and diplomat, as well as a Belarusian public figure. He is the first Turkmen general in the Soviet Ar ...

, Turkmen general and diplomat.

References

Links

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Alumni WebsiteТВОКУ 100 лет
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