MILITARY TRAINING INSTITUTIONS OF THE USSR

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• Publication Date: October 12, 1949
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COUNTRY USSR
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All military training institutions of the Soviet Army which
have been identified since World War II are listed in the
grouped in military districts. To give an over-all
picture, also contains all identified schools of
the Sovi e , it Force and the Soviet Navy. Training insti-
tutions for non-commissioned officers are only referred to
if they are officially designated as "schools". The few
training regiments which have been identified since World War II
are, therefore, also excluded. Non-commissioned officer can.-
didai;es ..:o usually trained in training units of the combat
units. Only non.-commissioned officer candidates of the
special branches of service, such as tank troops and signal
troops, receive a four-to eight-month course in training
regiments or at NCO schools in the Soviet Union,
The identification of numerous milit
ary schools dates back
as far as the fall of l945a It is therefore doubted that all
theoe schools are still in existence as several may have been
dissolved in 1946 in connection with the demobilization. As
some schools which moved farther to the east during the war
later : harned to their previous locations in the western mili-
tary districts, some may have been recorded twice.
3. Numerous schools may not have been identified because this
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al number of listed schools may come near the actual
number as there may be some schools which are recorded twice,
some tit ,kern dissolved, and. ??~;1;;~ s that are still unlmown.
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Eli'! itary academies (aus -i.an: Vo ennaYa Akadem-I
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dividlial branches of service. Y -Y" of ;'ae in-
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a,, iiisuiars; T'r inin. of of:Ciceru for Nervice so rc ixiental
co.Tfr;iai11'..er or equivalent appointment s in the branch of
c;ervico concerned.
b. of u:z ir:,a~ion: officers a:e those up to 32
years of age who coapls ued throe ye:a:-:i ss coriwia:ndiri o ~ icor of
unit (at least of a company) , who -raduiled from junior
Haig i school and attended a military school or higher milita-
ry school, and who passed the entrance examinotion .(The
mei._ical, veterinury, ;.;n%: lc,-;:l tnilit:.,r academies also ad-
mitted civilian high school draduatee
c. Length of training;: ijoz';-t acadermies: Three ye_iru.
Politic.-,lAlitary ticademys Four years.
:..e ical and Te torinary cademy: five year,
d. .umber of atudents: 1OC to 2CC per year.
e. Nuxnbe w of military - aca emies identified after the v m?r:
Ei ;:-Lteen (inc ludin;; the ' A'`runze :4litury academy and the
Voroshilov Iii'her i:iilitary academy)
f. The :stSc:ti;.~ L..V. .Frunze Military iica.demy is the .nfuntry
academy and the academy for general staff officers at medium
level, such as chief of staff of a division or s_3 of a corpo.
Len ,pia of training: Three years.
Number of stui_.enits in one course: Two hundred (no postwar
infor;:iation) .
The i::v XU 3 "K. Ye. V orochilov'r Iii, hher :.iilitary ~icademy
is the hi;--;hest militucy traininC institute of the oviet
awned forces. It trains co,, ariders of combined-arms units
(division) anct. -;enral staff officers at hih level. The
iiiZh I:iilitury academy is directly subordinate to the Chief
of the .,rued .Forces deneral V'taff.
:fetus of .admission: L'lisihlc officers are those who gradu-
ated from a niilits. y academy, who completed trio years .as
re~ i.mcai-Ual co .iaande or equivalosit position, who speck one
foreign langua c fluently and who pa so the entrance exami-
nation.
Length of training: Two years
Dumbea: of students in one course: i;-ne hundred (estimated)
higher milit.zry schools (Uusf3ian: Vysheye Voyennoye 'Uchilishche
and courucs (Russian: Vyshiye Kursi' ) of the individual
branches of :service.
a., d :.::ion: idv,-Mced traini:_ of officers for service as
unit co.,,vianders (sorapany and b ttalion).
b. Length of trr.,ininv: to :Pour months (differs accord--
in,; to branch of service)
cr ):'iu .b: r of students in one course: 150 to 200.
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di, I3urabor of hi h6r militsxy sehoo14 identified
Fif teon.
a1 ter tho ,-'ax:
60 :.Iilitir:; ;schools uu: ana VQyennoyoo I3chi.shche ) of the ndi-
viduo br..aiche o -serv ce.
a. L.L ions Trainiil:r of officer cundid,*~, ues for ; ervioO ao
ofricei (oub-lieutanaxits).
b. `leerrus of adnijL ,ion: Eli; ible man aru thooe bet,.-,teen 18 and
23 year; of a e, el-thor civilians .Atli zi_ino school yG {xw or
reco:.:raon.ded ELI ;::nd INGOs Alullu ei ~xL school year" Who pauc the
entrance examinatioai.
of trriinin;s Two ye -arc
d, Nur bor of otadeiitu- in one course: 3LG to 500 el-r year.,
e. I.Iwbcr of .:ioviet dMny iailitaa:y schooV13 Identified after the.
wart
lrfantry
43
Art;Lllery
32
Tank Troops
12
Cavalry
3
.,.;zeal. Troops
5
i n;;:Lneep
2
Transportation.
Troops
3
I:iedical
3
Others
3
Political
6
Total:
112.
..'uVoroV mii .txr. schools (tur suns Sxvaravalroye Vogeivnago
'chiliehohe)
a . iucions Premilitw y traznin (C e in cadet schools) for the
,ovic t ; rz