Russian Holidays - Day of Higher Special Officer Classes of the Russian Navy

The training of officers for the fleet is carried out by a specially created military educational institution, called in 1827 the Naval Cadet Corps Today, commanders of ships, combat units and submarines, their deputies for educational matters, and heads of air defense formations emerge from the walls of the institution The Naval Academy is engaged in scientific research and problem solving in the field of tactics, training of naval forces, and the use of technical means and weapons On January 28, VUNC teachers and graduates celebrate the Day of Higher Special Officer Classes of the Russian Navy The date of the holiday is associated with the publication by Nicholas I in 1827 of a decree on the establishment of an officer class in the corps under the Maritime Department of St Petersburg Already in April, 7 midshipmen were sent back to training In the classroom, according to the emperor's plan, officers were supposed to improve the knowledge necessary for naval service The initiator of the organization of a special class in the Naval Cadet Corps was its director, Rear Admiral IF Krusenstern The number of officers being trained was constantly increasing, and in 1862 the class was transformed into an academic course, and in 1877 it became the Nikolaev Maritime Academy Officer training was conducted in Krandshtat in 3 detachments: mine, mechanical engineering and artillery Since 1897, a diving class has appeared Each of the detachments had its own territory and structure The training lasted 6 months and was carried out in hull offices, laboratories and on ships assigned to each class Thus, mine mechanics studied the technology of electric lighting, Whitehead mines and devices for them In 1906, the underwater officer class appeared, in 1909, the navigator class, and in 1913, the electrical engineering class After the October Revolution, naval officer classes were closed for a short period - from January to October 1918 However, the need for qualified Navy commanders in the young state of workers and peasants existed Therefore, in 1923, on the basis of classes, Higher Special Courses for Navy Commanders were formed During the Great Patriotic War, the VSKSF were redeployed to the rear - to Astrakhan, and later to Samarkand In August 1942, the courses returned to Leningrad From 1918 to the present, the list of graduates of the Higher Officer Classes includes 19 thousand ship commanders and 20 thousand flagship specialists Among them, 69 people have honorary titles of Heroes - both of the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation The teachers are naval officers with an academic education who have experience serving on ships and at headquarters at various levels Training in 40 naval specialties consists of theoretical training, which takes about 40% of the time, and 60% of practice Since 2012, the classes began to be called the Military Institute of Additional Professional Education, which is part of the Military Educational Center of the Navy at the Academy named after NK Kuznetsova The main task of the institution is the retraining of officer personnel The teaching staff of the institute has been coping with this and other responsibilities perfectly for almost 200 years The famous Higher Special Classes for officers, awarded the Order of Lenin in 1945, are well known in Russia and abroad The institute trains both domestic and foreign specialists for the navy of Syria, Vietnam, Algeria and Kazakhstan Therefore, its graduates and teachers are congratulated on January 28 in different parts of the world on the Day of Foundation of the Higher Special Officer Classes of the Navy