Saint Petersburg Naval Institute

The Peter the Great Naval Corps - Saint Petersburg Naval Institute (Russian: Морской корпус Петра Великого — Санкт-Петербургский военно-морской институт, romanized: Morskoy korpus Petra Velikogo – Sankt-Peterburgskiy voyenno-morskoy institut), formerly known as the M. V. Frunze Higher Naval School (named after Mikhail Frunze, in Russian: Военно-морское училище имени М. В. Фрунзе, romanized: Voyenno-morskoye uchilishche imeni M. V. Frunze), is the oldest of the Russian Navy's naval officer commissioning schools. It is located in Saint Petersburg. History The school traces its origins to the School of Mathematics and Navigation Sciences, founded in 1701 by Peter the Great, in Moscow's Sukharev Tower. After the city of Saint Petersburg was built, the school was relocated there. The school was later reorganized as the Naval Cadet Corps. After the Russian Revolution of 1917, 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 Red Navy. 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. Other Russian Navy officer commissioning schools include the Ushakov Baltic Higher Naval School in Kaliningrad; the Naval Polytechnic Institute in Pushkin (Saint Petersburg area); Pacific Higher Naval School in Vladivostok, and the Nakhimov Black Sea Higher Naval School in Sevastopol. Historical Name Progression (in translation) 1701-1752 - School of Mathematic and Navigation Sciences, Moscow 1715-1752 - Naval Guards Academy, Saint Petersburg 1752-1802 - Naval Gentry Cadet Corps, Saint Petersburg (1771-1796 - Kronstadt) 1802-1867 - Naval Cadet Corps, Saint Petersburg 1867-1891 - Naval School, Saint Petersburg 1891-1906 - Naval Cadet Corps, Saint Petersburg 1906-1916 - Naval Corps, Petrograd 1916-1918 - Naval School, Petrograd 1918-1919 - Fleet Command Courses, Petrograd 1919-1922 - Fleet Command School, Petrograd 1922-1926 - Naval School, Petrograd, Leningrad 1926-1936 - M.V. Frunze Naval School, Leningrad 1936-1939 - M.V. Frunze Red Banner Naval School, Leningrad 1939-1951 - M.V. Frunze Orders of Lenin and Red Banner Higher Naval School, Leningrad, Astrakhan, Baku, Leningrad 1951-1962 - M.V. Frunze Red Banner Orders of Lenin, Red Banner, and Ushakov Higher Naval School, Leningrad 1962-2002 - M.V. Frunze Orders of Lenin, Red Banner, and Ushakov Higher Naval School, Leningrad, Saint Petersburg 2002–present - Peter the Great Naval Corps - Orders of Lenin, Red Banner, and Ushakov Saint Petersburg Naval Institute, Saint Petersburg Distinguished graduates 1745 - Chichagov, Vasiliy Yakovlevich 1766 - Ushakov, Fedor Fedorovich 1780 - Senyavin, Dmitriy Nikolayevich 1788 - Lisyansky, Yuriy Fedorovich 1793 - Golovnin, Vasiliy Mikhailovich 1797 - Bellingsgausen, Fadey Fadeyevich 1818 - Nakhimov, Petr Stepanovich 1818 - Vrangel, Ferdinand Petrovich 1823 - Kornilov, Vladimir Alekseyevich 1832 - Gennady Ivanovich Nevelskoy 1894 - Kolchak, Aleksandr Vasilyevich 1926 - Kuznetsov, Nikolay Gerasimovich 1931 - Gadzhiev, Magomet Imadutinovich 1931 - Gorshkov, Sergey Georgiyevich 1931 - Kasatonov, Vladimir Afanasyevich 1956 - Chernavin, Vladimir Nikolayevich References