Military Academy of Strategic Missile Forces named after Peter the Great: description, history and interesting facts

The Military Academy of the Strategic Missile Force, named after Peter the Great, has for many decades been considered one of the most prestigious. In the domestic education, this university is elevated to the rank of not only an authoritative military educational institution, but also a research and development center that is actively and successfully engaged in developments in the field of technical sciences.

What made the school famous?

Military Academy of the Strategic Rocket Forces. Peter the Great has a long and interesting history, a lot of state awards and famous graduates, which the whole country can be proud of. After the implementation of reforms in the field of military education, the academy included two military institutions of the city of Rostov-on-Don and Serpukhov. At the moment, the latter is a branch of the Military Academy of Strategic Missile Forces. In the article we will briefly review the history of creation and reforming of each institution, the faculties that currently function on the basis of this university, and also recall the famous personalities who were associated with this institution.

Military Academy. Peter the Great: history of creation and reforming

This educational institution exists about two centuries. Of course, during this time the academy underwent numerous changes, reforms and received different names. For today it is considered that the prototype of the academy was the Artillery School opened in St. Petersburg in December 1820 with officer classes. A little later, in 1845, he was given the name of Mikhailovskoye, in honor of Prince Mikhail Pavlovich, who founded him. In another 10 years, this establishment was called the Mikhailovsky Artillery Academy, and after the revolution in 1919 a widespread RKKA prefix was added to the name.

In 1926, the university was renamed the Military Academy. F. Dzerzhinsky, and in 1934 the institution is called the Artillery Academy of the RKKA them. Dzerzhinsky.

Since 1938, the Academy is located in the capital, in the building of the Imperial Educational House. There it was before the Second World War.

From 1941 to 1944 the university was temporarily deployed in the city of Samarkand. After the war, the academy was returned to Moscow. An additional faculty for missile weapons appeared in its walls, which had no analogues not only in the USSR, but throughout the world.

Also, the university starts active and successful training of qualified rocket engineers. Since 1953, the school has already been named the Artillery Engineering Academy. Dzerzhinsky. On the eve of the new 1960, it was included in the new division of the Military Forces, and it begins to bear the name of the Military Academy of the Strategic Missile Force.

Assignment of the name, which the university has so far

For the long history of its existence, the institution often changed its main strategic purpose, and accordingly the names changed. The final name, which the university holds to this day, was given to him in August 1997. It was then that, in order to revive the traditions, the president signed a decree granting the institution the definitive title "The Military Academy of Strategic Missile Forces named after Peter the Great". The decision to name the military high school in honor of this particular statesman was due to the merits of Peter I in the creation of the Russian regular army.

In 1998, the first branch of the Military Academy of the Strategic Missile Force, Peter the Great, was opened in Kubinka. They became the former Moscow School of Radio Electronics. And in 10 years, in 2008, the Academy was given 2 more branches. One is located in the city of Serpukhov and the second - in Rostov-on-Don. In 2015 the Academy was relocated to Balashikha.

State awards

For the whole history of its existence in different periods of time, the Military Academy of the Strategic Missile Force has been awarded many state awards:

• The Order of Lenin was received in 1938 for the training of artillery engineers and commanders;
• Order of Suvorov I art. Received in 1945 for military service to the Fatherland and training for the Red Army highly qualified cadres;
• The Order of the October Revolution was awarded in 1970 for the training of personnel, for contributions to the development of technology and science.

Training invaluable military personnel

It is very difficult to overestimate the importance of this institution and the staff it prepares for. The Academy supplied the military sphere with highly qualified specialists for many years, especially its graduates were valued during the Second World War. Further, its graduates became the backbone and the base of the officer corps, which served nuclear forces. Largely due to their dedication and professionalism, in due time the long-awaited parity in the field of nuclear missile weapons between the United States and the Soviet Union was achieved.

To date, the Military Academy of the Strategic Missile Forces of Peter the Great has been training officers of engineering and command profiles. Its graduates are able to work on absolutely any modern, even the most complex technique and in any conditions.

The training of such personnel is carried out on three gradual levels:

1. Receiving the highest special military education, in which cadets receive the qualification of engineers in the specialties of various military profiles (ballistic, mechanical, electronic, chemical, nuclear-missile, electrical).
2. Advanced training of leading cadres.
3. Training of scientific and pedagogical staff.

Scientific work and unquestionable contribution to the military sphere

Throughout its activity, this university has not only been training indispensable personnel. The Military Academy of the Strategic Missile Forces has always conducted scientific activity. For a long time it was an invaluable base, on the basis of which the theory of weapons developed, the development of the foundations and standards for the production of rocket devices. On the basis of the Academy, dozens of effective weapons were developed, designed to destroy and destroy the enemy completely.

Employees of the Academy have made a truly invaluable contribution to the development and activation of such components of military skill as operational art, strategy and, of course, tactics.

The scientific and pedagogical school, successfully operating on the basis of this academy, is still considered the undisputed leader in the development of operational art and the development of the theory of tactics of the Russian Missile Forces.

Brilliant teachers and talented graduates

Familiarity and recognition not only in the homeland, but also in the whole world, received weapons systems that were created on the basis of scientific works of such cadets of the Academy as F. Petrov and V. Grabin. Among the military professionals of the world, the names of Fedorov, Kotin, Mosin and Sudayev are well known. On the basis of their work, small arms, self-propelled artillery installations and magazine rifles, which are rightly considered to be one of the best in the world, were created.

Throughout its existence, the Military Academy of the Strategic Missile Forces has issued more than 300 laureates of various state prizes. Among its cadets there were 128 people who later became Heroes of the Soviet Union, three were awarded the title Heroes of the Russian Federation. Her students at one time were outstanding generals, infantrymen and marshals. Also, the academy can be proud of its graduates, who later became brilliant military commanders and commanders. Among them one should note Chernyakhovsky, Odintsov and Nedelin.

Rostov branch

In 2008, the Military Academy of the Strategic Missile Force was given two branches, one of which was the Rostov Military Institute. The structure of the academy. Peter the Great, this institute came into being as a separate formation. This is not surprising, because Rostov University. Nedelina had something to be proud of. Despite all his services and a rich history, unfortunately, since 2011 it does not function. In 2014, its territory was actively carried out repair work. What will happen to the university further, it is difficult to predict. Despite this, consider the history of the establishment of this institution.

In 1937, an artillery school was founded in Rostov. In 1951 the Council of Ministers of the RCC issued a resolution on the establishment of the Higher Artillery Engineering School on the basis of this institution. Ten years later he was given the name of M. Nedelin ─ the commander-in-chief of the missile forces, who died heroically in the tests of the strategic missile at Baikonur.

In 1998, the school received the status of a military institute of missile forces.

Faculty of Rostov Military Institute

The branch of the military academy in Rostov accepted candidates for five faculties:

• "Missile control systems";
• "Automated control systems";
• "Moral and psychological support" (specialty - Pedagogy and psychology)
• "Technical and launching missile systems";
• "Radio engineering means and metrology".

Famous branch in the suburbs

Unlike Rostov, the branch of the Military Academy of the Strategic Missile Forces of Serpukhov has been working successfully to the present day. The history of the establishment of this institution originates in 1941. Then the II Moscow Aviation School was opened. In 7 years it was transformed into a military aviation technical school.

In 1962, after the order of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR, the school began to prepare command and engineering personnel and was renamed the Higher Command and Engineering School in Serpukhov. In 1998, by decision of the Government of the Russian Federation, the educational institution was awarded the title of Serpukhov Military Institute of the RV.

In 2008, due to numerous reforms in the field of military education, the university was included in the Military Academy. Peter the Great and began to be called its branch in Serpukhov (Military Academy of Strategic Missile Forces).

Work not only in the direction of training

Employees of the Institute actively participated in the creation of the theory of operation and preparation of diverse missile weapons. At one time they made a huge contribution to the development of military art in the sphere of the Missile Forces. At its departments, the most important principles of maneuver tactics for the units armed with the PGRK were carefully developed.

Faculty of the branch in Serpukhov

To date, on the basis of the branch of the Military Academy of Strategic Missile Forces named after Peter the Great, five faculties have been opened for cadets, among them:

• "Technical and launching missile complexes";
• "Relationships and systems of Strategic Missile Forces";
• "Nuclear weapons";
• "Missile control systems";
• "Automated control systems".

During the training, students are provided with all the necessary, they are paid a decent scholarship. Annually in these areas the Serpukhov Military Academy of Strategic Missile Forces produces 500 highly professional officers who faithfully and faithfully serve after the release of their Fatherland.