SOVIET MILITARY SCHOOLS AND ACADEMICS

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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
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• Publication Date: May 20, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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Soviet Military Schools and Academies
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1. The military schools in the USSR can be divided into two groups:
officer candidate schools and military academies.
Officer Candidate Schools
2. there are many officer candidate schools in the USSR. The
entrance requirements for civilian applicants are 10 years
of education, a clean political record, and an examination.
Requirements for non-cpmmissioned officers entering schools
from services are eight years of education, practical army
experience, and an examination. Almost all of these schools
have two courses: one for civilian applicaNts which lasts
three years, and the other for NCOs with army experience,
which lasts two years. Attendance at these schools varies
from 300 to more than 1000 students. Thete may be 100 to 300
graduates from each school annually. Upon graduation students
are commissioned second lieutenants and assigned to the line
units as platoon commanders. Almost every large city in the
USSR has one or several officer candidate schools. I know
the following, all of which were identified by me in 1951
unless otherwise indicated:
(a)
Moscow Infantry School. This is located in Moscow and is
the oldest Russian officer candidate school. Curriculum:
Infantry tactics and infantry weapons.
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(b) Kiev Infantry School. Located in Kiev. Infantry tactics
and weapons. This school was identified by me in 1940.
During WWII it was transferred to some other location. I .
do not know whether it was moved back to Kiev after the war.
(c) Ryazan Machine Gun School. Located in Ryazan . It
teaches machine Via tactics and nomenclature Of Soviet Army
machine guns. Graduates are assigned as platoon leaders
with infantry machine gun companies..
(d) First Moscow Artillery School: Field artillery tactics
and nomenclature of field artillery piecesand field
howitzers.
(e) Second Moscow Artillery School: he same curriculum as
under (d)2
(f) Kiev Artillery School: Field artillery tactics. Iden-
tified in 1940.
(g) Leningrad Artillery-Technical School ("LATU"). The school
is located in Leningrad and has three faculties: optical
equipment (instrumentalrnyy), pyrotechnical, and mechanical
(spetslyalisty po pushkam). Ida not know whether this
school was a universal artillery-technical school for all
types of artillery or solely for AAA. I know that the
emphasis was placed on AA artillery. Graduates of this
school were assigned as chiefs of artillery maintenance
shops with artillery regiments, as optical equipment
technicians, pyrotechnicians, gun mechanics, and as
specialists for all kind of gun maintenance.
(h) Chkalov AAA School. Located in Chkalov. Curriculum:
AAA tactics and nomenclature of small and medium caliber
AA guns. Graduates are assigned as platoon commanders
with AA units equipped with 37- and 85-mm AA guns.
(i) Baku AAA School. Located in Baku.L5urriculum as in h.7
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Tomsk AAA School. This is the former Gorkiy AAA School
which was transferred. to Tomsk in 1950 after its building
was occupied by the newly created Gorkiy Military District
headquarters. It was composed Of four battalions each
with four batteries. Total attendance was 1500 students.
Number of graduates annually was 250. Curriculum: AAA
tactics and nomenclature of small and medium caliber
AA guns.
(k) Dnepropetrovsk AAA School. This school was organized in
Dnepropetrovsk after the war. (It may have been trans-
ferred from some other locality such as Sevastopol). It
had the same curriculum and attendance as Tomsk School.
(.1). Kiev Tank School. Tank and tactics of mechanized units and
nomenclature of weapons. I identified this school in 1940
and know that it was later .transferred to some other
location I have no further information.
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Leningrad Electro-technical School. Located in Leningrad.
Allegedly prepares electro-technicians for remote control
equipment. In addition to this, prepares platoon leaders
for AAMG companies.
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Chkalov Aviation School. Located in Chkalov. Aviation-
technical and flight school. I have no,further information.
Leningrad Naval School. Located in Leningrad. Four year
course.
Sevastopol Naval School imeni Lenin Komsomol. Identified
in Sevastopol in 1940.
Kiev Signal School imeni Kalinin. Identified in Kiev
in 1940,
Gorkiy Political School. Located in Gorki'. Two year
course. Graduates are assigned. as deputy commanders
(political) in company size units:
iMjljrcademjes
These are higher military schools for officers below the age
of 30 years .7A:hji have practical army experience. The entrance
requirements vary according to the specialty taught at the -
academy, but generally they are rather stiff and the system of
selection is rigid.. Graduates of these academies are given
better chances for advancement and other Privileges and there-
fore officers are very eager to attend these schools-,
following academies in the USSR:
(a) Frunze Academy in Moscow. This is a War College preparing
high, level ground force commanders. The course lasts
five years. The attendance is several hundred , officers.
It was organized immediately after the 1917 revolution
and at that time it was known as the Red. Commanders
School (Shkola Krasnykh Komandirov).
(b) Vorpshilov HigherMilitary Academy. I have no information
available except the name.
(c)
Kalinin War Academy. Located in Moscow. This is an
academy for rear services. The course lasts three or
four years,
(d) Academy for Military Justice. This is the school for
judge advocates. It is located in Moscow. The course-lasts
four Years
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Military Engineering School imeni Zhdanova. Located in
Leningrad. This is an electro-technical academy where a
course lasts four years.
Higher Military Pedagogical Institute imeni Kalinina.
This' is a high military political academy preparing deputy
commanders-political of tactical units (battalion up to '
division). It is located in Leningrad and the course
lasts four years.
Military Transportation Academy imeni Kaganovich. It is
located in Moscow. I have no further information.
Intendance Academy imeni'Molotova. There are two inten-
dance academies of the same type, One is located in
Moscow and the other in, Kalinin. I do not know 'which one
is actually called "imeni Molotova". It prepares high level
,quartermaster and finance officers. The course lasts three
or four years.
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(j) Military Engineering Academy. Located at present in
Kuybyshev where it was transferred during or after the
war. I have no further information.
(k) Tank and Mechanized Forces Academy imeni Stalina. It is
located in Moscow. The course lasts five years.
Aviation Engineering Academy imeni Zhukovskogo. It. is
located in Moscow. The course lasts five years. I have
no additional information.
Signal Corps Academy imeni Budenogo. (Akademiya Sluzhby
Svyaz0.' It is located in Leningrad. The course lasts
four years.
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? (n) Academy for Chemical Defense imeni Voroshilova (Voyenno-
Khimicheskaya Akademiya). It was Organized in the late
thirties in Moscow. The course lasts four years.
Military Political Academy imeni Lenina. Itis in Moscow.
No other information available.
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Army Language School (Voyennyh Institut Inostrannykh
YazykoV). It is located in Moscow. The course lasts
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AAA Academy. It is located in Yevpatoriya. This was a
college level officer school preparing high commanders
of AAA units. Four faculties were organized in this school;
One for battery commanders; one for AAA battalion and
regimental chiefs of staff; one for AAA battalion commanders;
and One for AAA regiment commanders. This was the only
academy of its type in the USSR.
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