Red Square

Red Square High Academy

The **Red Square High Academy** (赤の広場ハイアカデミー) is one of the major schools in PaA. Themed after the Soviet Union; their culture, background, and even inventory are all based or reminiscence to that from the Red Star.

## Overview

* Red Square's Flag
* Red Square's Senshado Insignia
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The Red Square High Academy is one of the unique schools in Japan, not only that the school is situated in Sakhalin, specifically the town of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, but the school's history as well, showing that even different ideologies cannot forever restraint the benefits of nurturing students through education and cultural exchanges.

Named after a famous square in Moscow, the Academy is famously known for their impressive standing in terms of Recrelympics, even able to compete internationally as part of a coalition during the Motov-Torp Tournament. But other than that, the school can certainly appeal to potential students through their imposing culture and engaging techniques.

## Background

The Academy is famously known as the school that united the citizens of both Russians and Japanese in the island of Sakhalin. The school acted as a beacon to these two nations during its creation and continued to do so even after its eventful transformation into a School-Ship. The school is regarded as one of the instances that not even opposing ideologies can bend the will of preserving peace through diplomacy and cultural exchanges.

### History

History of Red Square's Formation was dated back during the aftermath of the Russo-Japanese War, where the Japanese managed to take a hold of a portion of the Sakhalin South of 50°N, though relations between the two were quite unexpectedly good, and during the start of the 1920s, relations between Japan and the Soviet Union were calm at best described. As a way to establish relations with the Japanese, the Soviets planned to build a School in Toyohara (now known as Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk), capital of Karafuto Prefecture, as a response of the Japanese withdrawing their troops from the northern part of Sakhalin, in which the Japanese openly obliged as it was time for reconciliation and cooperation between these two nations.

In May 23, 1928, the Beautiful Square Academy was created in Toyohara, the same day as Ratification were exchanged in Tokyo. Between 1928-1932, the School was opened to all within the area of Sakhalin, but after the relations between the two deteriorated in the 1932 and beyond, the School was closed down. But the School was reopened temporarily during the Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact in April 13, 1941 but it quickly closed again in August 1945 as the Soviets invaded the Karafuto Prefecture, during the midst of the battle, the Academy was burnt down as it was described, "The Beautiful Square was set ablaze, red as fire, hot like hell."

After the War, Karafuto Prefecture was no more and the Sakhalin Oblast was established in February 1946, and the Beautiful Square that was a beacon of Soviet-Japanese relationship was gone into the history books as a "Great School that was established in the worst period of time." But the School's recreation was rekindled by the Treaty of San Francisco in 1951 that renounced Japan's right in Karafuto Prefecture even though it ended its legal entity on June 1, 1949. Japan renounced its rights to Sakhalin, but did not formally acknowledge Soviet sovereignty over it. In response, the Soviets gave a proposal to the Japanese, they will rebuilt the School and hand it to the Japanese as an effort of restoring relationship, though the idea behind this was unknown, either it was intended to bride the Japanese or something else, either way, the Japanese sought to improve relationships with the Soviets and thus they allowed them to rebuild the School again in the same spot as it was before, in Yuzho-Sakhalinsk. After the day of the Soviet–Japanese Joint Declaration of 1956, in October 20, 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, 1558, 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 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 expression of the Soviet-Japanese relations. The School only became viable to a School-Carrier around the start of the 21st Century, as it was Russian efforts that collaborated with the Japanese that sought the important School to become a modern School, being able to compete against its rivals such as Yankee High and Royal Baron. Therefore the Russians and Japanese started to rebuild the School again, this time it is on top of a School-Carrier, which was handed by the Chernomorsky Shipyard 444 (Black Sea Shipyard) and on the date of October 20, 2000, the School-Carrier of *Kremlin* was finished and with it, Red Square Academy come along with it.

The Von Pavlov Family is one of the sponsors of the development and some considered them to be the only Family who sponsored the entire program, this sponsorship led to the decision of the Chairperson (who is called the President) of the School to allow the Von Pavlov's children to control the School, and still to this day as Michio Alexander Von Pavlov is the current Prime Minister of the Academy.

The name "Red Square" was used instead of "Beautiful Square" because the archaically Russian word красная (*krasnaya*) meant "beautiful", but now means "red", with the current word for "beautiful", красивая ('krasivaya'), being derived from it. Contrary to what People believe, the School is not a reference to the Soviets (at least not anymore) but instead it followed its Russian Translation of "Кра́сная пло́щадь, tr. *Krásnaya plóshchaď"* meaning Beautiful Square.

### Location

When the Academy was first built on land in the Island of Sakhalin, its location was specifically located in the city of Toyohara, which is it now known as Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. After the school transformed into a School-Ship during the start of the 21th century, the Port of Korsakov became its official home port.

### School-Ship

The School-Ship of Red Square High is based on the designs of the Soviet aircraft carrier Ulyanovsk, an unfinished nuclear-powered supercarrier. Almost sharing the same dimensions as Yankee High's Enterprise, but smaller than Numazu's Shinano. The vessel's construction was awarded to the Black Sea Shipyard, which coincidentally were also the one who constructed the original carrier, it took them 9 years to construct the massive ship.

Through the classification of Japan's Ministry of Transportation, they concluded that the School-Ship is a **School-Carrier**. And the name of this School-Carrier is the **Kremlin**, appropriate to the school's architecture and theme.

## Culture

The Red Square's culture, similar to its namesake and theme, has a long and rich cultural history ever since its first opening in the late 1920s. Steeped in its architecture, courses, tradition, and many more, the school became a preeminent center of Russia's successful cultural exchange program with the Japanese Government, it has a similar position with its unofficial sister's school, Pravda Girls High School.

Comparable to other schools' prosperous and rich flavorful culture, the *Moskva* (Red Square's nickname for its surface deck) offers a wide variety of options and beautiful scenery to attract potential students, inhabitants, and tourists alike. Since the school was originally called "Beautiful Square", the school put that mindset into their hearts when developing the school's culture.

### Architecture

Moskva is famously known for its long river that stretches across the entire deck, the school-city is also known for its unique road system, and its underdeck railway system. They also recreated some famous buildings and 40 percent of its deck are mostly covered in greenery, making the school different from the rest of the popular and renowned school-ships. The school follows the architecture style of Constructivist, Postconstructivism, and Stalinist, making the surface more similar to that in the Soviet Union than the Russian Empire and its contemporary variant, the Russian Federation.

Though as the architecture style is mostly referencing the ones heavily emphasized by architects during its development under Soviet's control and influence, Moskva also offers some unorthodox buildings, such as recreating famous buildings such as the Saint Basil's Cathedral, the Moscow Kremlin, the Spasskaya Tower, the State Historical Museum, the 3 elliptical road rings, and many more.

Probably the most famous aspect of the Moskva's prominent places is its iconic square, the **Red Square**. Acting as the largest square that ever built inside Japan's territory, though much smaller than the actually square that got its name from, the square became the main central hub for tourists as it is located on the center of Moskva, surrounded by buildings that students use and tourists likely visit.

What listed below are the recreated buildings that got rebranded and repurposed for the benefit of the inhabitants of Red Square.

Students of the Red Square lived in a 3-storied to 5-storied apartment buildings, these buildings were 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. Each building can accommodate students in the hundreds, with complete amenities that students can use for their convenience as compensation in living a large building while sharing a lot of room.

This building style follows the doctrine of *large in numbers*, accommodating the ever-increasing amount of both students and inhabitants alike that constantly grows the population of the famous Academy. Every apartment building that the student uses/lives at are mostly single rooms, these rooms offer a combined bathroom, a small kitchen, a small hallway and a living room that are all compressed into one large square-shaped room. One thing to note at about these buildings is that they don't have an elevator, claiming that they were unnecessary and waste a lot of money in maintaining these apartment 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 diverse in the fashion department compared to other schools, but this diverse trait is shared to other school-ships, notably school-ships that functions as a diplomat tool for cultural appreciation and culture assimilation.

Students of the General Courses wear their predominant dark olive and green olive uniform, while the students of 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 Kremlin 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 suits alongside their iconic undershirts, with the exception of those in the Maintenance Department as their sailors suits are replaced with a crimson red coveralls.

### VChk

    The **All-Students Extraordinary Commission**, commonly abbreviated as the VChK or Cheka, is the Red Square'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 the them joining the trilateral cooperation group, the "Big Three".

### Red Square March

The "Red Square March" is the main theme song of Red Square, composed by Dzheykob Khannigan, written in a style of Russian epic/military music and performed by a choir.

**Lyrics**
 * Russian
* English
* Japanese

*Nash Soyuz na Krasnoy ploshchadi utverzhdayet gospodstvo*

*Ot Okinavy do Khokkaydo*

*Скоро все в конце концов узнают*

*Nash Prem'yer, nasha vodka i nash moguchiy Soyuz!*

*Nezhnaya kak Volga, surovaya kak Ural'*

*Ob"yedineny kak odno, kak Sodruzhestvo*

*My vse gordo stoim, kogda vse poyem*

*Samyy moshchnyy gimn Yaponii!*

Our Red Square Union asserts dominance

From Okinawa to Hokkaido

Soon everyone will eventually know

Our Premier, our vodka, and our mighty Union!

Gentle as the Volga, harsh like the Urals

United as one, like the Commonwealth

We all stand proudly when we all sing

The most powerful anthem in Yaponiya!

私たちの赤の正方形の連合は支配を主張します

沖縄から北海道へ

すぐに誰もが最終的に知っているだろう

私たちのプレミア、私たちのウォッカ、そして私たちの強大な連合！！

ヴォルガのように優しく、ウラルのように過酷

連邦のように一つに統合

私たち全員が歌うとき、私たちは皆誇らしげに立っています

ヤポニヤで最もパワフルな国歌!

Due to its popularity, this inspired James Hannigan, Dzheykob's relative, to create the "*Soviet March*", the theme song of the Soviets in the popular RTS game, Red Alert 3.

## Recrelympics

Regarded as the most powerful team in Recrelympics in the Northern parts of Japan, the school's team shouldn't be underestimated at all. Known for acquiring even the strangest and unique assets for Recrelympics, the school is famously known for their heavy and powerful inventory, aggressive playstyle, and regimented players.

There are four components that makes up the **Krasnaya Banner**, and they are: The **Red** **Armored Sakhalin Hammer**, the infantry **Guards' Sickle Rifle**, the aeronautical **Red Aviation Dibbers**, and the maritime **Korsakov Trident Flotilla**.

### Infantry-Craft

The **Guards' Sickle Rifle**, also known by its nickname as the **Sickle Guards** is the first component of the Krasnaya Banner that formed in Red Square Academy. Adaptive in winter warfare and urban skirmishes, they're known for their aggressive pushes in matches through their uses of spearhead fireteams.

Their combat uniform consists of a khaki or dark olive smock, a leather belt along with a holster for their secondary firearms, 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 Armored Sakhalin Hammer**, or the **Sakhalin Hammer** is RS' main Panzerkraft club and team. 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 fast and cavalry-speed tanks such as the BTs and T-70s.

Even though they have the firepower to beat the German Tanks such as JIGA or Kuro and have the 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 the Precision Bombing, a sport constituted by the Aces' Board of Japan itself.

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 stations through a thorough training session, 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 would match the other nations as well. Often than not, the sailors in this fleet are aspiring sailors that will join the navy, and thus this is a perfect training ground for them to participate with.

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.

## Known Members

The following list below are the known members that (once) affiliates themselves with the Academy.

### Michio Alexander Pavlov

A third year student from the Academy and the current Premier of the aforementioned school. He's known for his fondness with photography and he often takes pictures whenever he goes, often calling them as him "conquering" them. He's the brother of Alina and second sibling of the family.

### Alina Pavlov

A former student from the Academy. She was a tank commander from their Panzerkraft team and she was even able to participate the Motov-Torp Tournament when she was still a student of the Academy.

### Sandra

A student from the Academy and probably a member of the VChk due to her duties of "watching" and reporting it back to Michio.

## Trivia

* Alina stated in the series that she's also a student of Red Square, probably she became a first year student there before she transferred to Oarai after graduation.
* Michio was hinted to be a photographer as detailed on chapter 20, depicting that his room is, "filtered with pictures like a gallery museum."
	+ Interestingly, Rommel calls him "Mr. Photographer of Russia Academy" in Chapter 22.
* They have their (country) theme songs as well, and these are:
	1. *Three Tankist*
	2. *Meadowlands/Polyushko-polye*
	3. *1812 Overture*
	4. *The Red Square March*

* The Red Square March is a parody to the popular piece of James Hannigan, the "Soviet March".

## Gallery

 Red Square's EmblemRed Square's Senshadou InsigniaRed Square's Flag