The Peter the Great Naval Corps - Saint Petersburg Naval Institute (Russian: Морской корпус Петра Великого — Санкт-Петербургский военно-морской институт, romanized: Morskoy korpus Petra Velikogo – Sankt-Peterburgskiy voyenno-morskoy institut), formerly known as the M. V. Frunze Higher Naval School (named after Mikhail Frunze, in Russian: Военно-морское училище имени М. В. Фрунзе, romanized: Voyenno-morskoye uchilishche imeni M. V. Frunze), is the oldest of the Russian Navy's naval officer commissioning schools. It is located in Saint Petersburg.
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History
The school traces its origins to the School of Mathematics and Navigation Sciences, founded in 1701 by Peter the Great, in Moscow's Sukharev Tower. After the city of Saint Petersburg was built, the school was relocated there. The school was later reorganized as the Naval Cadet Corps. After the Russian Revolution of 1917, the school closed in March 1918. On 15 September 1918, a special order established courses for the navy command staff, which opened on 10 October in the former Naval School building. The courses educated officers for the new Red Navy. In 1926 the school was named the M.V. Frunze Higher Naval School. The school was merged with the Higher Naval School of Submarine Navigation in 1998, and renamed the Saint Petersburg Naval Institute. In 2001, it received the name Peter the Great Naval Corps - Saint Petersburg Naval Institute, marking the 300th anniversary of naval education in Russia.
Other Russian Navy officer commissioning schools include the Ushakov Baltic Higher Naval School in Kaliningrad; the Naval Polytechnic Institute in Pushkin (Saint Petersburg area); Pacific Higher Naval School in Vladivostok, and the Nakhimov Black Sea Higher Naval School in Sevastopol.
Historical Name Progression (in translation)
1701-1752 - School of Mathematic and Navigation Sciences, Moscow
1715-1752 - Naval Guards Academy, Saint Petersburg
1752-1802 - Naval Gentry Cadet Corps, Saint Petersburg (1771-1796 - Kronstadt)
1802-1867 - Naval Cadet Corps, Saint Petersburg
1867-1891 - Naval School, Saint Petersburg
1891-1906 - Naval Cadet Corps, Saint Petersburg
1906-1916 - Naval Corps, Petrograd
1916-1918 - Naval School, Petrograd
1918-1919 - Fleet Command Courses, Petrograd
1919-1922 - Fleet Command School, Petrograd
1922-1926 - Naval School, Petrograd, Leningrad
1926-1936 - M.V. Frunze Naval School, Leningrad
1936-1939 - M.V. Frunze Red Banner Naval School, Leningrad
1939-1951 - M.V. Frunze Orders of Lenin and Red Banner Higher Naval School, Leningrad, Astrakhan, Baku, Leningrad
1951-1962 - M.V. Frunze Red Banner Orders of Lenin, Red Banner, and Ushakov Higher Naval School, Leningrad
1962-2002 - M.V. Frunze Orders of Lenin, Red Banner, and Ushakov Higher Naval School, Leningrad, Saint Petersburg
Distinguished graduates
1745 - Chichagov, Vasiliy Yakovlevich
1766 - Ushakov, Fedor Fedorovich
1780 - Senyavin, Dmitriy Nikolayevich
1788 - Lisyansky, Yuriy Fedorovich
1793 - Golovnin, Vasiliy Mikhailovich
1797 - Bellingsgausen, Fadey Fadeyevich
1818 - Nakhimov, Petr Stepanovich
1818 - Vrangel, Ferdinand Petrovich
1823 - Kornilov, Vladimir Alekseyevich
1832 - Gennady Ivanovich Nevelskoy
1894 - Kolchak, Aleksandr Vasilyevich
1926 - Kuznetsov, Nikolay Gerasimovich
1931 - Gadzhiev, Magomet Imadutinovich
1931 - Gorshkov, Sergey Georgiyevich
1931 - Kasatonov, Vladimir Afanasyevich
1956 - Chernavin, Vladimir Nikolayevich