Red Square High

The **Red Square High** is a school from the Ace Und Panzer Universe. Regarded as one of the northern schools in Japan, yet even though it is under the Karafuto Prefectural Board of Education, the school operates under the authority of the Pavlov Family, making it a Pavlov School.

## Overview

The **Red Square High Academy** is a school located in the City of Maoka in the Maoka Sub-Prefecture. Currently the school is in the ownership of the Pavlov Family, the founders of the School. Its theme, culture, and assets are based from a mixture of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, making the school a work of wonders due to its current culture and past history.

The Academy is also one of the few schools in Japan that are able to participate in international competitions, such as the Vollmer-Zaslavsky Tournament recently.

## Background

Regarded as a Beautiful Square, this almost-rectangular shaped Academy has withstood time ever since its first inauguration in the 1860s. Facing multiple relocations, burndowns, and temporarily acted as a fortress in one occasion, thanks to its unique and bittersweet history, this shaped its culture that made the school popular in the Karafuto Prefecture.

As mentioned before, the school is considered as a Pavlov School with the current School Tsar being a family member to the Pavlov Family.

### History

The Academy's origin came from the result of the Treaty of Shimoda between the Russian Empire and the Tokugawa shogunate in 1855. In this Treaty, it stated that the island of Sakhalin/Karafuto was not to be partitioned and it remained under a joint Russo-Japanese condominium. While the specifications of this would backfire and resulted a dispute in the future, it nonetheless gave both sides a chance to invest the island of Sakhalin.

#### Square of Muravyovsky

Before the Academy was established in Kholmsk, the site was a small fishing village in which it had frequent visits with the Matsumae clan during its time. There, the village became a trading hub between the Ainu people and the Japanese in the early 1790s. This wasn't until on September 22, 1853 in which a Russian expedition, commanded by Gennady Nevelskoy, raised the Russian flag at the settlement and renamed it "Fort Muravyovsky", after Governor-General of Eastern Siberia Nikolay Muravyov.

They settled in the village for a quite a while, during this time, they erected a paved town square inside the wooden walls of the fort, providing platform for the outpost and its inhabitants, with the village's sacred temple located directly in front of the square, thus becoming a platform for worshipers to participate in religious ceremonies of the temple, much to the Russian's despise.

But their settlement in Muravyovsky would abruptly stopped for a while doing the Crimean War in 1854. They wouldn't until a decade later on August 1869, now renaming the town "Fort Korsakovsky," in honor of then-Governor General of Eastern Siberia Mikhail Korsakov. The square remained and it was properly maintained by the villagers in the town, surprising the returning Russians.

#### Fort Korsakovsky

While the Russians disappeared from the village and the Treaty of Shimoda in 1855 was signed, this only caused confusion on who has the right to the Island itself, this includes the multiple settlements established by both sides. And so the territorial claims on this land would blur for two decades until the Treaty of Saint Petersburg of 1875 was signed and became effective. In it, the whole Sakhalin including the village was ceded to Russia while the Japanese would have the Kuril Islands that was formerly owned by the Russian Empire.

And now with the Russians fully administering the island, Fort Korsakovsky would become an important center that serves as the Island's penal servitude system and a final destination for hundreds of prisoners from European Russia, sentenced to forced labor for particularly serious crimes. And due to a myriad of things that hindered the development of the Fort and the Island itself, the Square that the villagers maintained for so long would result its inevitable reconstruction to a labor camp for these Prisoners, destroying the paved platform.

It was during this time that the founder of the Academy's father would arrived at the Fort as a Warden for the newly established camp.

##### Warden Éyrik Pavlov

When Fort Korsakovsky became a labor camp, the Russian Administrator in the region would appoint Éyrik Ivanovich Pavlov, whose father is one of the first Russians to set foot on Japan during the First Russian Circumnavigation under the command of Adam Johann von Krusenstern in 1803. By the time he was appointed as Warden in 1976, he was already 64 years old.

Prisoners would refer Éyrik as Éyrik the Kind due to his relaxed policies in the camp that unexpectedly resulted an efficient output by the prisoners there, even doing such as meeting them directly and have them rewarded by drinking with him in the cafeteria. This resulted great admiration from the staff and prisoners towards to this particular Warden, a sight they have never seen before until Éyrik's appointment.

Éyrik Ivanovich Pavlov would later die in his deathbed in Vladivostok at the year of 1895 in the age of 73. His son would later be responsible in founding the Red Square.

#### Destruction of the Fort

During the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905, a naval engagement happened near the coastline of the Fort, this battle was known as the Battle of Korsakov that happened on August 20 1904. But it wasn't until the Invasion of Sakhalin in the year afterward that the destruction of the fort was assured where on July 7 1905, the Japanese forces commenced landing operations between Aniva and Korsakov (Fort Korsakovsky). The Japanese moved on to occupy Korsakov the next day, which they were greeted by the ashes of the fort that was set on fire by the retreating Russian garrison and laborers after having been defended for 17 hours by 2,000 men led by Colonel Josef Arciszewski.

When the Treaty of Portsmouth was signed in 1905, the Japanese would gained control of the South of Sahkalin below the 50°N ceded from the Russian Empire. And upon the ashes of Fort Korsakov the Japanese rebuilt a place with stone-clad infrastructure with paved streets and electricity, renaming it to Ōtomari, a translation of the Ainu words "Poro-an-tomari" (Big Harbor).

##### Obishiro Nayaro and **Tikhmenevsky**

When the Japanese ceded South Sakhalin, they too were able to control all villages and towns across their newly conquered land, including the adorned outpost of the Tikhmenevsky (which is now Shisuka), a small Russian outpost that was well-fortified but managed poorly by the Russians when the Japanese came to their doorsteps. And though the Fort was semi-destroyed by the battle that took place near the outpost, the invaders would preserved the rest of the outpost as the Russians would surrendered after a couple of days.

Unlike other Outposts that became small fortresses like the one in Korsakov, this particular fortress was adorned with wooden designs and a stylized roof reminiscent to the ones seen in Red Square, Moscow. This was due that the Outpost overseer there was a former architect and instructed the nearby labor camp to do the construction of the cosmetic fortress after its inauguration in the 1870s. But this adorned defenses of Tikhmenevsky would inspire Obishiro Nayaro to lay out a psuedo-Russian style fortress in Shisuka (which is Tikhmenevsky) as part the Shikuka Fortified District, which was created in order to prevent potential invasion and provide a base for offensive operation in the future.

Scholars found out that one of the troops stationed in Tikhmenevsky was the founder of the Academy himself, and stated that he was inspired by its design that he personally requested the similar design to be erected on the grounds of the Academy when he founded the school in 1928.

#### Shisuka Camp

The Japanese build a fortress around the area of the ancient fortification in Tikhmenevsky (which is now named as Shisuka) alongside a small camp for the garrisons in the area. Nayaro in particular has a tendency to work creatively on his designs when he became the Island's main Architect for many defensive districts in Sakhalin (which is also now called as Karafuto), and thus using the designs left by the Russians from their constructed places across the island, he used that as his basis to create an elaborate scheme and littered the Karafuto Fortresses which Russian-like style outposts and defenses.

For example, in Shisuka, Nayaro erected a similar town square within the camp when he discovered the remnants of the Square in Korsakov, upon his close inspection to it, he discovered that the stone-paved platform had adornments that created the image of Russia's Imperial Eagle when looked above, this fascination led him to create a similar layout in Shisuka, Toyohara, and Maoka.

#### The Japanese and Paul Pavlov

When the Japanese backed up the White Russians during the Russian Civil War, Paul Éyrikovich Pavlov, son of Éyrik the Elder was one of the officers stationed in Vladivostok that helped the logistics of the newly established Provisional Priamurye Government there. His excellence in managing the Government meant that the others can focus their attention towards defeating the ever-growing threat of the Bolsheviks, but that wasn't enough to stop their tracks even when the Allies backed the White Russians.

The Government disestablished itself after its eventful surrender in 1923, just two years of the country's existence. Paul surrendered himself to the Bolsheviks and was sent to the Gulags in the Kolyma Region. Later that year he was released by the Soviet Union as member of the Bolsheviks after he helped them during the Invasion of Xinjiang, which gave him a pardon in exchange for his service. Reasons for his released is still unknown till this day.

#### Formation of the School's Ancestor

When tensions cooled down under the period of the Quiet Cooperation between the Soviets and the Japanese. In May 23, 1928, Paul Éyrikovich Pavlov founded the Beautiful Square Academy in Toyohara, the same day as the Ratifications were exchanged in Tokyo. Between 1928-1932, the School was opened to all within the area of Sakhalin, providing education to those around the area, but after the relation between the two deteriorated in the 1932 and beyond, the School was inevitably closed down in hopes to preserve Paul's dream.

The school remained shut down till the Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact in April 13, 1941, where the Japanese requisitioned the land and used its facilities to train garrison troops around the already established district. While Paul objected their demand at first, The Empire in return would deport him back to Vladivostok, taking his family while leaving his dream school in the hands of the Japanese Military.

It wasn't until after the Soviet Invasion of the Prefecture that Paul would see his Beautiful Square Academy again.

#### Formation of Red Square

After the War, Karafuto Prefecture no longer exists and was replaced with the Sakhalin Oblast under the Soviet authority. The once beacon school in Sakhalin was now a repurposed military academy for Soviet soldiers there. Even after the land was restored in the hands of the Japanese in 1951 during the Treaty of San Francisco, the academy was disbanded and the school buildings were left abandoned before the Japanese could legally acquired them again.

In 1955, with tensions between the Soviet Union and Japan easing, the Pavlov family regained control of the school property and began planning to reestablish the academy as a civilian school. The planning was spearheaded by Nicolas Paulovich Pavlov, the son of Paul Pavlov and Kyasarin Pavlova. After some careful planning and a lot of negotiations, in October 19, 1956, the Academy is now being rebuilt by both the hands of the Japanese and Soviets.

It took quite a time to rebuilt the Academy but after 2 years, in October 19, 1958, the same day as Soviet–Japanese Joint Declaration was signed, the Red Square Academy was founded. The School was intended to be a staple of the Soviet-Japanese improving relationships and it did worked, effectively, it was a school of mutual interest and cooperation, even though both Nations faced a lot of tension during the start of the 1960s until the dissolution of the USSR, the School remained intact and became a lasting piece of the Soviet-Japanese relations. The school upgraded itself into a School-Carrier around the beginning of the 21st Century.

#### Modernity of the Red Square

The School became viable to a School-Carrier transition when the Pavlov Family saw the opportunity to improve the Academy's capacity. It was also the sign for them to stand alongside the big schools across Japan such as the Okinawan Yankee High and the Tokyo Royal Barons. The designs of the School-Carrier was awarded to the Chernomorsky Shipyard 444, and on the date of October 20, 2000, the School-Carrier of *Kremlin* was finished and with it, the Red Square Academy came along with it.

The school officially opened on October 20, 2000, with the Pavlov family becoming the school's primary sponsor. The school underwent significant changes. The most notable was the construction of a full-sized replica of the Red Square on the deck of the carrier. The Red Square served as the centerpiece of the School-Ship's architecture, offering elaborate and intricate buildings within the area around the plaza that values education to the highest. Over time, the Red Square High became renowned for its rigorous academic programs and exceptional athletics, particularly in the area of Recrelympics.

Today, Red Square High Academy remains a prestigious institution, known for its strong emphasis on discipline, academic excellence, and military-style training. While the school's ties to the Pavlov family are no longer as strong as they once were, the family remains involved in the school's operations and continues to support its growth and development, with the current school's Prime Minister a part of the Pavlov Family.

### Location

The school is situated in the City of Maoka in the Maoka Sub-Prefecture. The location of the school was carefully chosen to be strategically advantageous for both economical and educational purposes. Maoka was an important port city with easy access to the Sea of Japan and a railway road leading to the rest of Island. It was also an important port city since it has a hub for trade and commerce, which provided students with unique opportunities to gain real-world experience in business and economics.

The city itself it also the main port of operation of the Red Square's Kremlin.

### School-Ship

The School-Ship of Red Square High is based from the proposal designs of the Ulyanovsk. It was a planned supercarrier of the Soviet Navy that was never completed due to the collapse of the Soviet Union. However, the design was impressive enough to inspire the creation of a School-Ship for the School. The Carrier's construction was awarded to the Chernomorsky Shipyard 444, which coincidentally were also the one who constructed the original carrier, it took them many years to construct the massive ship.

## Culture

The culture of Red Square High Academy reflects its namesake and themed nation. It has a long and rich culture that spans across its architecture, courses, tradition, and many more. Recognized as a centerpiece of the integration of Russian Culture and Japanese Society. With its motto being "Unbreakable Unity," reflecting the spirit of cooperation and friendship between the two nations. Red Square High Academy is one of unity, respect, and a celebration of both Russian and Japanese heritage.

### Architecture

With their Surface Deck amply called the *Krasivaya Ploshchad* or commonly shortened as the *Krasichad* which meant "Beautiful Plaza" due to its rectangular shape and prominent eye-catching buildings, the school's architecture distinct itself with elements that reflects both Russian and Japanese influences. From the grand buildings that educates students towards the houses that relaxes them, the Plaza of Red Square's Kremlin offers all and can accommodate to every need a person may want and eventually need.

Krasichad is also known for having an interesting series of roadways called the Plaza Roads, these are four large rectangular roadways that encompasses the surface deck, decreasing in size as its goes to the center of Krasichad. Between these roadways are districts that are divided by their categories, these are: Industrial/Agricultural, Commercial, Residential, and finally the Educational sector. And in between these categories are small amenities scattered across the four districts.

#### Dormitory

When it comes to the Students' housing, the core principals of Red Square planners are equality to all students, encouragement for communal living, and complete all amnesties. These core principals resulted with the introduction of the *Microdistricts* in the Residential Area of Krasichad. Microdistricts are essentially blocks of self-contained residential neighborhood designed to provide most of the necessary services and amenities for its residents within walking distance. Buildings ranging from 3 to 5-story level mostly inhabited in a Microdistrict, it is inspired by the *Khrushchyovka*, a type of building that is known for its low-cost, concrete-paneled or brick styled apartment buildings that were constructed in large numbers in the Soviet Union.

In addition to the large apartment buildings, there are also smaller dormitories available for students who prefer a more intimate living space. These dormitories are designed with a mix of traditional Japanese and Soviet architecture, featuring clean lines and minimalist designs.

Each and every building within the Residential Area can accommodate students in the hundreds, with complete amenities that students can use for their convenience as compensation in living these shared buildings.

(An example of this building can be seen in this image)

### Uniform

The uniforms in Red Square are all inspired from the designs and practicality to their counterparts, each set of clothing from different courses and clubs are unique to one another, making them very distinguishable. As a general rule of thumb, students from the General Courses wear their predominant dark olive and green olive uniform, while the students from the Nautical Courses wear their pure white, navy blue, and crimson red uniforms.

Boys from the General Courses wear a dark olive gakuran uniform with 4 buttons with a two button closure layout. Their collars can stand and fall depending in which they prefer, their buttons are also hidden for evoking a simplistic appearance. An insignia of the school's emblem is sown on their left lapel for showing their affiliation with the Student's Union, the students of the Red Square.

Girls meanwhile wear their dark olive buttoned blouse with olive drab skirts. Their blouses are fitted with a collar and a red scarf underneath it as their accessory for showing affiliation with the school. Tying the scarf is entirely depends on the student's method and preference, though from the rules of the Internal Safety stated, the scarf **must not** hide the school's emblem from their left lapel.

When it comes to the winter season, the students of the general courses are required to change their attire in order to combat the cold weather. Though their winter variant are the same for most of its designs, they're much thicker and it's distinguishable for their pullover designs. Ushankas were also encouraged for students to wear during this season alongside long socks and winter boots.

Students from the Nautical Courses are prominently known across the Krasichad for their horizontally white and blue striped undershirts, these shirts are a reference from the Telnyashka shirt, an iconic garment that the Russian Navy wore till this day. These undershirts compliment well to their cloud-white and sea-blue sailor suits. In both studying and working duties, the students in this courses are always required to wear their sailor suit alongside their iconic undershirt, with the exception of those in the Maintenance Department as the sailors suits there are replaced with a crimson red coveralls.

### VChk

Red Square is famously known for its Intelligence Agency within its prestigious courses involving surveillance. The **All-Students Extraordinary Commission**, commonly abbreviated as the VChK or simply Cheka, is one of the well-known agencies in the surveillance courses, and the school's Recrelympics Intelligence Agency. The full name of the Organization is the "All-Students Extraordinary Commission for Intelligence Gathering, Surveillance and Public Order."

The Commission is divided by two departments: the **Internal Safety**, and **Overvessel Intelligence**. The Internal Safety's task is to preserve the Public Order and maintain the School's tranquility and harmony between its students, meanwhile the Overvessel Intelligence's mission is to gather enemy intelligence and analyze them in order to ensure and give the Red Square the edge in regards of any upcoming Recrelympic Matches.

A Member of the Cheka is called the Chekist, often these members wear black leather clothes, typically a black long coat, as well as a Greek-style worry beads made of amber, though the ones wearing the latter are often Cheka's officers since the said accessory is not mandatory to all Chekist.

Often than not, the Chekists are often seen in cooperation with the Pravda's Intelligence Services, such as the Pravda's Commissaries of Internal Affairs (PKVD) and the Student's Commissaries for Collective Security (SKGB). Though in recent times, it seems like the Chekist are also in cooperation with the Royal Baron's Secret Information Service (SIS), and the Yankee's Office of Spying Services (OSS), as part of their trilateral agreement, the "Big Three".

## Recrelympics

Regarded as the most powerful team in Recrelympics in the Northern parts of Japan and the Far Eastern part of Russia, the school's Recrelympics teams shouldn't be underestimated to begin with. Known for acquiring even the strangest and unique assets for Recrelympic uses, the school is also famously known for their heavy and powerful inventory, aggressive playstyle, and regimented players trained though tough and intense training.

There are four components that makes up the **Krasnaya Banner**, and they are: The **Red** **Sakhalin Hammer**, the infantry **Guards' Sickle Rifle**, the aeronautical **Red Aviation Dibbers**, and the maritime **Korsakov Trident Flotilla**. All four of them are named after tools that made up the agriculture and industrial prowess of Red Square Students.

### Infantry-Craft

The **Guards' Sickle Rifle**, also known by its nickname as the **Sickle Guards** is the first component of the Krasnaya Banner. Adaptive in winter warfare and urban skirmishes, they're known for their aggressive pushes in matches through their uses of spearhead fireteams and frequent use of submachine guns such as the PPSh-41.

Their combat uniform consists of a khaki or dark olive smock, a leather belt along with a holster for their secondary firearm, matching color trousers, and tough jackboots. Their smocks are sown with three long tabs called the *razgovory* across the chest with bright colors to distinguish their roles in combat.

### Panzerkraft

The **Red Sakhalin Hammer**, or the **Sakhalin Hammer** is the main team that represent the school's Panzerkraft curriculum. Mostly they fielded heavy and powerful tanks such as the T-34/85s, the SU-152s, and even the IS-3. Though they also fielded some quick and cavalry-speed tanks such as the BT series and T-70s.

Even though they have the firepower to beat the German Tanks such as Lünenburg and have the number supremacy compared to Yankee High or Royal Baron, the only thing that lacks the team is their communication methods, since almost all of the tanks don't offer radios and only rely on signal flags and hand gestures, though this is sometimes compensated through the use of cell phones.

The tanker's uniform of Sakhalin Hammer is a dark olive green coveralls with jet black jackboots, along with a heavy duty leather-made gloves and their iconic combat helmet, the TSh-4 headset, though this helmet doesn't offer an integrated microphone or *headset*, so it's only a headcover albeit its name.

### Aerial-Aces

The **Red Aviation Dibbers**, commonly known from their iconic nickname, the **Red Divers** is the RS' most prominent Aeronautical Sport Club. The name of the club was actually a reference of a gardening tool that makes holes from the ground, similar to the club's legacy back in the day for their frequent participation of *Precision Bombing*, a sport constituted by the Aces' Board of Japan.

Members of this club are often encouraged to wear their official club uniform, it is an olive drab flight suit, inspired by the designs of the VKK flight suit, with the exclusion of its hoses design around its body but still retained the laces and zippers. They also are required to wear a dark brown leather helmet, this helmet has integrated throat microphone, a button chin strap, and a steel headphones for better communication and hearing.

### Aquatic-Warfare

The **Korsakov Trident Flotilla** is a combat-oriented naval fleet that the RS has to offer to its sailors from the Nautical Courses. This fleet is only allowed to sailors who are eligible to manned these ships through a thorough training sessions, and being able to join the reserves is already a blessing to some of them.

The reason why the process is strict in enrolling new sailors is because the fleet is used for international tournaments, so the standards of the crew must be set as high as possible so their competitiveness could compete with the greatest of opponents. Often than not, the sailors in this fleet are aspiring sailors that aspires to join the navy, and thus this is a perfect training ground for them to participate.

Same as they wore in their Nautical studies, Sailors often wear their white or navy blue Sailor Suits, but Team Leaders and Captains are entitled to wear their peaked caps with the school's emblem embroidered on it. Their sailor suit is noticeable and distinct from the others due to their unique design of using the Telnyashka shirt underneath their sailor blouses, only the members of the Nautical Courses and Maritime related clubs are allowed to wear these sleeveless shirts.

## Inventory

Considered having the most amount of equipment among all the schools in Japan, the Krasnaya Banner can easily intimidate everyone with its assets alone, though this cannot be said to the status of its equipment as the cold climate means expensive maintenance, and so the school decides to locked them, using only the necessary ones.

## Known Members

The following list below are the known members of Red Square, this list also includes former members as well.

### Michio Nikolaevich Pavlov

The second sibling of the Pavlov family. Michio is currently the Prime Minister of Red Square and has the highest authority in the Students Soviet. He is also a Tank Commander in the Sakhalin Hammer, fielding the mighty IS-3.

## Trivia

* Red Square has its own theme songs as well, these are:
	1. *Three Tankist*
	2. *Meadowlands/Polyushko-polye*
	3. *1812 Overture*
	4. *The Red Square March*
* The Red Square's star is an interpretation of the Kremlin Star by Fyodor Fedorovsky.