In 1899, an anniversary commission was formed in the City Duma, where various projects were developed to celebrate the 200th anniversary of St. Petersburg. Many projects were proposed, including the construction of the White Sea Canal or the construction of the City Duma building on Petrovskaya Embankment. But another idea, owned by the Education Commission, won - to build a School House named after Peter the Great. In those days, schools were built everywhere in Russia, boarding houses were opened, the idea of enlightenment, new School houses was extremely popular at the beginning of the 20th century.
The site for construction was soon identified - a site on the territory of the Hemp Buyan, near the house of Peter I. The new building was supposed to face it. On March 19, the issue was resolved, 1800 square meters were allocated for construction. fathoms. It was planned to build a whole complex of educational houses here. Since there was very little time left before the city’s anniversary, before the holiday they only had time to confine themselves to the ceremonial laying of the first building.
On April 16, 1903, the City Duma suddenly denied the commission the allotted place. The reason is simple - the high cost of the site. In the place where Penkovy Buyan kv. was located. A fathom cost 220 rubles, which was a large sum for that time. By April 29, it was proposed to allocate a place on the corner of Penkova Street and Malaya Dvoryanskaya, where land cost only 120 rubles per sq. m. fathom. On May 12, the City Duma nevertheless agreed to provide this site for construction, and not unanimously (38 for and 21 against). “On the days of anniversary celebrations, this place should be illuminated,” the Duma decided. There were only three days left before the holiday.
The construction of the new building of the Nakhimov School on Penkovaya Street, 1 has been completed. For the sake of the project, two kindergartens and a historical water tank were demolished.
Plans to expand the Nakhimov School became known in 2016. The military educational institution needed to build an educational and residential building, a canteen and a gym. In the spring of 2017, the city transferred land on Penkovaya Street to the school. Closer to winter, both buildings that stood there were demolished, namely Stalin's kindergartens (houses 3 and 5).
The design of the new building was developed by Yurinveststroy LLC (subcontracted by JSC Main Directorate for Troop Arrangement). It turned out to be monumental, five-story in the classicism style. The central part was highlighted with a four-column portico and a dome. The color scheme of the facades resembles the main building of the school.
In May 2018, the pre-revolutionary water intake unit at 9 Penkovaya Street was almost completely demolished. It was built in the 1910s and featured a reinforced concrete water tank and two granite pavilions facing the street. The building was in disrepair. As follows from Vodokanal’s letter, in order to avoid destruction it was partially filled with water, “constructive measures were required.” As a “constructive measure,” they decided to demolish the emergency reservoir, preserving the pavilions, it was explained to Kanoner at JSC “Main Directorate for Troop Arrangement.” KGIOP authorized the work and reported this to the publication.
The company promised to build a garden on the site of the lost property. And this was really done: trees were planted there, paths were laid, a rotunda was erected with the inscription “A sailor has no difficult or easy path. There is one path - a glorious one! (these are the words of Admiral Nakhimov).
According to Rosreestr, the new building was recently put into operation. He was assigned the address: Penkovaya Street, 1.
By the way, simultaneously with the construction of a new building and the creation of a garden, the main building of the Nakhimov School was also renovated. It now has a copper roof color.
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On the south-eastern spit of the Petrograd side, where the Bolshaya Nevka begins from the Neva, the former College House named after Peter the Great (now the Nakhimov Naval School) is located. The large building, facing the Petrogradskaya and Petrovskaya embankments, forms a strong accent in the panorama of the Neva banks.
The picturesque silhouette with a light spire-mast, plastic snow-white details on the blue and gray background of the walls evoke clear associations with the St. Petersburg architecture of the Baroque era. This impression is completed by the bronze bust of Peter the Great and the sculptural decoration of the facades. The image of the building, which occupies such a prominent place in the oldest part of the city, clearly recalls the early days of St. Petersburg.
At the same time, the composition of the School House completely belongs to its time - the beginning of the last century. Created according to the design of the architect A. I. Dmitriev with the participation of the artist and art critic A. N. Benois, as well as a group of masters close to the creative association “World of Art,” it was a programmatic work. It embodies the ideas of retrospectivism, which revived the traditions of St. Petersburg antiquity. The features of a deliberately chosen historical style determined both the architectural character of the building and its entire artistic ensemble, which included sculpture and painting, forging and carving, tiles and furnishings.
The idea of creating a public school house arose in 1902, when preparations were being made for the celebration of the capital’s bicentenary anniversary. The Education Commission of the City Duma conceived this building as a monument to the sovereign founder of St. Petersburg, “who cared about the education of the Russian people,” and believed that the building would serve “not only as a decoration for the city,” but also for its essential benefit. The educational building was planned to be erected near the House of Peter the Great. The consecration of the building site took place on the anniversary days in May 1903.
Further events developed slowly. A design competition (limited and small in number) was held only in the spring of 1905. The project of young Alexander Dmitriev was recognized as the best. More than half a century later, the architect recalled: “The name of the person in whose honor I was to design the city school building, and the entire shore on which the city was born, and the site allocated for the construction of No....E determined the character of the future building. I came to the conclusion that it somehow had to echo the architecture of Peter the Great’s time. No…Yo I carefully studied the monuments of Peter the Great’s architecture that have survived to us. Of course, the conditions set by the customer complicated my work. In Peter’s times they did not build very tall buildings.”
Already in the competition project, Dmitriev found the volumetric-spatial solution for the School House, which was subsequently implemented with some adjustments. But the interpretation of Baroque motifs was still rather dry and somewhat constrained. A certain critic, hiding under the pseudonym “a St. Petersburg resident of the era of Peter the Great,” even called the project an example of “factory architecture” and “an evil caricature of the style of the era of Peter the Great.”
In the future, it was planned to “give a richer and more complete facade in the style of Peter the Great, which, of course, will take time, while only 1.5 months were given to draw up preliminary designs.” Finalization of the project lasted for several years, since the start of construction was delayed for various reasons, the main one of which the newspapers called “the negligence of our city fathers.” The construction site was moved closer to Bolshaya Nevka, which increased the urban planning role of the building.
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It didn’t take much time to build the School House and decorate its interiors - about two and a half years. The ceremonial laying took place on June 26, 1909, timed to coincide with another anniversary of the Peter the Great era - the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Poltava. The building was erected in the fall of 1910, and classes began in November. school classes main building. It took another year for finishing work. On May 30, 1912, on the 240th anniversary of the birth of Peter the Great, the School House was consecrated.
Dmitriev tried to implement the idea synthetically whole work. In collaboration with painters, sculptors, craftsmen decorative arts he played the leading role. But it is possible that the ideological leader of the World of Arts students, Alexander Benois, was involved in the development of the program. As a result of their collaboration, the plastic characteristics of the facades became more integral and expressive. Benoit could also suggest to the architect a plan for the retrospective-themed design of the ceremonial interiors. B. M. Kustodiev, M. V. Dobuzhinsky, D. N. Kardovsky, as well as S. V. Chekhonin were involved in its implementation - masters who had experience in solving decorative problems and had previously come into contact with Peter the Great's themes. The sculptural decoration of the facades was entrusted to V.V. Kuznetsov and A.A. Kudinov.
Decoration of the entrance to the School House from the park on Petrovskaya Embankment. Photo by Yuri Molodkovets
The complex multifaceted structure of the structure is read from each side in a new way. One gets the impression of rare visual diversity and unpredictable development of the architectural plot. The asymmetry of the overall composition, due to the different purposes of parts of the building, expresses the rationalistic principles of modernity.
Only the southern facade of the vocational school has a strictly symmetrical two-dimensional composition. On the main longitudinal façade, facing the Bolshaya Nevka, flatness is replaced by relief, symmetry by contrapposto. Three-quarter columns enhance the plasticity of the facade. From this side, the planning module is read more clearly - the classroom room, which usually has three windows. However, the repetition of the rhythm is sharply interrupted by an enlarged shock section, shifted to the right edge and completed with a high roof with fractures, a lantern and a light spire. Here is the culmination of the entire composition of the School House.
The building is perceived completely differently from the north side. Here, on the quiet Penkovaya Street, there is a small service courtyard, which is surrounded by a high staircase tower, a servant's wing and the volume of the assembly hall with huge openings. In the free grouping of volumes, different scales of parts, and the changing spasmodic rhythm of windows, the innovative principle of shape-making “from the inside to the outside” is clearly manifested.
If the volumetric and planning solution of the School House is indicative of the Art Nouveau period, then the features of the St. Petersburg Baroque are consistently recreated in the design of the facades and interiors. Dmitriev focused primarily on the architecture of the Peter the Great era. However, he also addressed a later stage of this style. Typical elements of mature Elizabethan Baroque are, for example, three-quarter columns on high rusticated pylons. The architect created generalized image historical style.
School house named after Peter the Great. The clock on the facade overlooking Petrogradskaya Embankment. Photo by Yuri Molodkovets
Thanks to the synthesis of arts, the educational building was transformed into a unique monument. The semantic center of the main facade is a bronze bust of Peter the Great. Above it is a huge high relief: a cartouche with the monogram of Peter the Great and figures of young athletes holding a heavy lion skin with a clock dial. The artist A. N. Benois and the sculptor V. V. Kuznetsov completed these compositions based on Baroque motifs.
The assembly hall formed the central core, the focus of the entire ensemble. The theatrical image of the ceremonial interior combined the features of the early Baroque with a unique historical exhibition dedicated to the era of Peter the Great, the glorification of Peter the Great - the commander, creator of the Russian fleet and founder of the city on the Neva. In the public’s perception, these were the memorial “Peter’s Halls,” which “are one of a kind and represent a whole museum.”
A large portrait of Peter the Great on the field of the Battle of Poltava by B. M. Kustodiev formed an optical focus. The artist relied on the iconographic tradition early XVIII century, but translated traditional type representative portrait-painting in the language of new pictorial and plastic forms. On the sides of the Kustodiev painting there were two large canvases - “Peter I in Holland” and “The Battle of Poltava”. Bronze chandeliers and wooden models of ancient sailing ships were suspended from the ceiling. From this artistic complex, only the original tiled decoration remains on site, made at the enterprise of P. K. Vaulin and O. O. Geldwein.
The school house is one of the key monuments of St. Petersburg architecture and monumental and decorative art Silver Age. In the work of Dmitriev himself, he remained the brightest and most significant chapter. The dreams of the World of Art students about the inclusion of painting and plastic arts in the real architectural environment found fertile soil here.
After the revolution, the building housed the 176th Unified Labor School, as well as an orphanage (later the schools changed their names and numbers). During that period, paintings, ship models, and furnishings were transferred to museum collections or disappeared without a trace. In 1944, the building was transferred to the Nakhimov Naval School. According to oral information, Dmitriev himself invited the People's Commissar of the USSR Navy N.G. Kuznetsov to choose his “favorite brainchild” for the new educational institution. The architect was completely satisfied with the new role of the building, which was consonant with its original function and architectural and artistic image. “And the needle of the spire, directed towards the sky, and the proximity to the Neva, and the bust of Peter, the Tsar-Seafarer, the founder of the Russian fleet, many other details coincide so well that even to me, the architect, it seems as if I designed this house specifically for the Nakhimovites.” , - said Dmitriev. And we can completely agree with these words.
Publication cover: General view of the Peter the Great School House from Petrogradskaya Embankment.
Boris Kirikov.
Photo by Yuri Molodkovets
Nakhimovsky town in St. Petersburg was occupied by construction workers
The expansion of the St. Petersburg Nakhimov Naval School (NVMU) is being completed. The existing ancient building is undergoing reconstruction, and a new building has already been erected behind it. Unfortunately, the demolition of pre-revolutionary buildings did not happen.
PHOTO by Alexander DROZDOV
This school was founded in June 1944. It was created to prepare young men for study at higher naval educational institutions and subsequent service as naval officers. Around the same time as Leningrad, the Riga and Tbilisi Nakhimov schools were formed, but they did not last long. And since the mid-1950s, there has been only one educational institution of this kind left in the country - in our city. This situation remained until 2016, when the Vladivostok and Sevastopol presidential cadet schools were added to the NVMU as branches.
The legendary cruiser Aurora was considered the training base for Nakhimovites for many years, until the ship became a museum in the mid-1960s.
Nakhimovskoye has several buildings on the Petrograd side, the main one of which is the pre-revolutionary Peter the Great school building (an architectural monument). The drawings of this asymmetrical building with a spire were prepared by the architect Alexander Dmitriev. The architect decorated the elegant façade using Baroque motifs. They wanted to coincide with the construction to coincide with the 200th anniversary of St. Petersburg - by this date several new school buildings were going to be built in the city at once. But the project, as has been our custom for a long time, was postponed. And in 1909, the building was laid in honor of another historical event- 200th anniversary of the Battle of Poltava. Construction continued until 1913. After which the classes were located inside primary school, as well as a vocational school. They trained personnel for the commercial fleet. The revolution did not change the purpose of the building: the building continued to be used as a school until it was transferred to the Nakhimovites in 1944.
During its existence - and next year NVMU will celebrate its 75th anniversary - the school has graduated thousands of young sailors. Among its graduates are famous naval commanders-admirals, Heroes Soviet Union and Russia, famous scientists, designers, engineers... And they all remember their alma mater.
IN last years The school complained about the lack of space. In 2015, the management of the educational institution turned to Smolny with a request to provide land for expansion. The city government agreed and allocated plots nearby - on the side of Penkova Street, on which there were two kindergartens built in the mid-20th century, and garages.
A symbolic start to the project was given at the beginning of last year, when a tower clock made by the Friedrich Winter company was launched at the school building for the first time after a long break (they stood because they needed repairs, and there was still no money). The contractor, the Main Directorate for the Arrangement of Troops, arrived at the site in the fall. Hemp Street was closed, not only for motorists, but also for pedestrians. The area allocated for development was cleared of buildings.
The construction of a pompous six-story building in a historical style (close to classicism architecture), decorated with columns and a dome, began on the site. The construction area is about 34 thousand square meters. meters, and in size it is not inferior in size to the main historical building. The new building is adjacent to one of the walls of the school building. Urban defender Dmitry Litvinov, in a commentary to St. Petersburg Vedomosti, noted that the new building is pretentious and majestic, it claims to have a leading role and can suppress real architectural monuments. “In my opinion, this is a kind of caricature of the architectural monuments of St. Petersburg, and above all of the Academy of Arts,” says Litvinov.
According to the observations of our newspaper correspondents, today the new building has already been erected in construction. In addition, work on its external decoration has been largely completed. Now that the students of the school (they have called themselves “pythons” since its founding) are on vacation, the pace of work at the site is very high. At the same time, the reconstruction of the ancient school building continues. This building stands in the woods, its dome has been partially dismantled.
According to the Ministry of Defense, we're talking about about “deep reconstruction”. Walls are being replaced, including load-bearing structures, as well as floors. The premises are undergoing redevelopment. Specialists also install new engineering systems.
The military department noted that the school never had a single territory, and now this shortcoming will be corrected. After completion of the work, NVMU will receive an architectural ensemble in the form of a classic square with a parade ground for construction in the courtyard. “This will create conditions for high-quality education for pupils, in accordance with the standards of full boarding institutions,” the ministry told our newspaper.
It should be noted that several buildings had to be dismantled to implement the project. Firstly, this is an old hot water boiler house. A new one will be built to replace it, and this utilitarian building will be located almost on the red line of Penkova Street. Secondly, the old water intake (underground reservoir) with a roof garden, located between the old and the school building under construction, was dismantled. Apparently, he interfered with the construction of the passage between the buildings.
Only the granite pavilions belonging to this water intake were preserved. They go out onto Penkova. The military promises that the pavilions will be restored with the restoration of historical decor. For this purpose, restorers with experience working on other valuable buildings in St. Petersburg were brought in, the military says. According to them, the garden will also be recreated.
Judging by the information board, work on the reconstruction of the Nakhimov town should be completed by autumn.
We would like to add that at the same time, a new dormitory building is being completed for the NVMU branch in Murmansk, created in 2017. They also hope to get things done by the beginning of the school year.
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During the Great Patriotic Wars s, when Soviet troops almost completely liberated the territory of the USSR from the fascist occupiers, based on past experience in organizing personnel training for the army and navy, Suvorov military and Nakhimov naval schools were created according to the type cadet corps. The creation of such schools was the call of the times and became a significant page in the history of the Soviet army and navy.
Initially, as a rule, “children of warriors” were taken to schools Soviet army and the Navy, partisans, Soviet and party workers, workers and collective farmers who died at the hands of the Nazi invaders during the Great Patriotic War." They accepted boys aged 10 to 14 years with general educational preparation corresponding to their age in the amount of 2-6 grades of primary school. The students of the schools were fully supported by the state; they were given naval uniforms.
The country, in the conditions of a brutal struggle against fascism, found an opportunity and surrounded the children of war with care and attention. For this purpose, experienced teachers and educators were recalled from active fleets and fronts, comfortable premises for living and studying were found, and the appropriate material base was created.
Nakhimov naval schools, as secondary schools educational establishments closed type, were formed in accordance with the resolution of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR and the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Belarus dated August 21, 1943 and were intended to prepare young men for study at higher naval educational institutions and subsequent service in the Navy as officers. They received the name “Nakhimovsky” in honor of the great Russian naval commander Admiral Pavel Stepanovich Nakhimov, hero of the Crimean War of 1853-1856. He is especially dear to our people because he devoted the maximum of his intellectual and moral strength to serving Russia during the most difficult period of time, from the bloody suppression of the Decembrist uprising to the Crimean War. P.S. Nakhimov was a progressive military leader, a recognized authority in various fields of naval affairs, and a talented educator of sailors.
“Out of three ways,” said P.S. Nakhimov, “to influence subordinates: with rewards, fear and example - the latter is the most faithful.”
Schools were created in 1943 in Tbilisi, in 1944 in Leningrad and in 1945 in Riga.
First, by order of the People's Commissar of the Navy N.G. Kuznetsov on October 16, 1943, the Tbilisi Nakhimov Naval School was created. Among the first educators and teachers we can name Evgeniy Vasilievich Brusnikin, Nikolai Filippovich Chenchik, Mishin, Panin, Boris Vladimirovich Shaikhetov, Leonid Nikolaevich Potapov, Tatyana Valentinovna Delyukina, Olga Fedorovna Gritsak, Kels and many, many others, whose names are in every heart of their students . And the first whom they had to educate and teach were young front-line soldiers, sons of regiments and fleet cabin boys who had military awards. This is a participant in the heroic defense of Sevastopol, Boris Kuleshin and partisan Vasily Chertenko, on whose chests the Order of the Red Star and many medals shone, Vasily Osadchy had three combat medals, Boris Krivtsov was awarded the Admiral Nakhimov medal, Konstantin Gavrishin was awarded the Admiral Ushakov medal. , Pyotr Parov was awarded the Order of the Red Star, Glory, 3rd degree and the medal “For Courage”; a cabin boy from a torpedo boat, Valery Lyalin, was awarded the Order of the Red Star for his courage. They were twelve to fifteen years old at that time.
Living conditions, everyday life, the process of training and education were constantly improved, and the material and technical base of the school was improved. The routine was military, which included getting up, physical exercise, classes, lunch, rest, dinner, self-preparation, free time, evening walk and lights out. Cultural leisure was enriched with concerts prepared in-house and by invited artists, cultural trips to theatres, museums and cinemas. The school's entrance into one theater or another was always an event. In a solemn formation, accompanied by an orchestra, Nakhimovites walked through the city singing.
Knowledge was gained first in poorly equipped premises, and then in new classrooms and offices in naval training, physics, chemistry, biology, history and geography, drawing and drafting, literature and mathematics. Nakhimov residents gained labor knowledge and experience in carpentry, radio engineering and other workshops. There was also work practice. Nakhimovites repaired roads, did all sorts of household work, unloaded barges with firewood, wagons with coal, etc. Every year the lessons became livelier, more interesting and more visual. Modern equipment, various teaching aids, film projectors, tape recorders and other modern equipment gradually began to appear in classrooms and offices. They taught ballroom and classical dancing.
In the schools, an environment for classes was created that made it possible, while studying theory, to develop naval qualities in Nakhimovites, to instill a love for the romance of naval service, and to provide deep and comprehensive general educational knowledge. Much attention was paid to drill training, which contributed to high coherence and military bearing, fostered a sense of naval camaraderie, collectivism, and other qualities and skills necessary for future officers. A special role, of course, was assigned to educational practice, which included naval, combined arms and physical training.
Pupils of all schools acquired practical experience and physical training in summer camps on the Black Sea in the village of False Gelendzhik, on the Baltic, and in one of the picturesque corners on the Karelian Isthmus. During sea voyages on boats and ships, the moral and physical qualities of each Nakhimov resident were tested.
Then, on the basis of the Resolution of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR dated June 21, 1944 No. 745, by order of the People's Commissar of the USSR Navy dated June 23, 1944 No. 280, the Leningrad, and in 1945 the Riga Nakhimov Naval School was created.
As the first head of the Leningrad Nakhimov Naval School, then captain 1st rank, and later Rear Admiral N.G. Izachik, recalled, he received an order from the command to coordinate all organizational issues with the leadership of Leningrad, select a convenient building and the necessary personnel. The city authorities supported the proposal of the military sailors and approached the government with a proposal to open an independent school, although at first there was talk of opening only a branch of the already existing Tbilisi Nakhimov Naval School. It was not easy to find a building to house the school. From several options, Nikolai Georgievich Izachik chose a building on the banks of the Neva and Bolshaya Nevka. It was built in memory of the founder Russian Empire and the Russian Navy as a school house named after Peter the Great. Its spire was decorated with the figure of a galley ship. All naval attributes were present. This choice turned out to be successful and in all subsequent years the Nakhimov residents are deeply grateful to the first boss for such a successful choice of the building to house the school.
On September 18, 1944, the first enrollment in the Leningrad Nakhimov School took place. Candidates moved to the rank of pupils. The first thing they did was shave their heads, dress them in sailor uniforms, and send them to camp. The organization was army: a class was called a platoon, two platoons (later three, and then four) made up a company; the companies were numbered from the oldest - first, which included seventh graders, to the youngest - fifth, corresponding to the third grade. Classes (or platoons) were numbered with a double digit. The first is the company number, the second is the platoon number in the company (instead of a letter in civilian numbering). It turned out to be unusual and complicated, for example: “pupil of the 13th grade” meant that he studied in the 7th grade, and “pupil of the 51st grade” - respectively, in the 3rd. In Tbilisi, by the way, the numbering was three-digit: the company number, then the platoon number, and the third digit designated the class in the generally accepted sense (the tenth was designated zero). Children were assigned to grades (from the third to the seventh) or, in military parlance, “by company,” not taking into account age, but taking into account the training they had previously received and their level of knowledge, so classmates, as a rule, differed in age, and the difference reached four years. These were just the years taken away by the war...
Pupil is the first official military rank, although people immediately began to call the guys Nakhimovites. From among the most experienced and active, junior commanders were appointed, and they were given the next rank of “vice-sergeant major.”
These guys had special distinctions on their uniforms, but they did not have disciplinary power, but rather played the role of leaders and class leaders, as in ordinary schools. Since the Nakhimovites did not take the military oath due to their youth, the power of adults was not the same as in the active fleet.
The composition of the students was very diverse. Among them there were unwritten laws of the children's community. At first they stayed in groups - they were afraid that someone would offend them; and united in their own way - first, front-line soldiers, fellow soldiers, fellow countrymen, comrades, then - platoons and companies. They also had their own authorities, that is, those who actually determined the course and course of school life. Nicknames and nicknames quickly appeared. And, in the end, a kind of “totemic” self-name for the Nakhimovites was formed. They began to call themselves "pythons". The combination of words “pupils - pupils - pythons” was first recorded in a poem by A. Genkin (2nd company), written in 1947. But, according to his friend V. Soluyanov, this nickname appeared much earlier. In consonance with his last name, it was given to Valentin Vostrovanny, who was enrolled in the senior (1st) company in 1944. The title “python” is very honorable. Later, the Nakhimov School, in parallel to the “system” (as the highest naval schools were called in naval jargon), received an unofficial, almost geographical, name that evokes respect - “Pythonia”. It, despite all the prohibitions, has survived decades.
In the first school year, 408 students aged 10 to 14 years sat at their desks. Many of them, such as Nikolai Senchugov, Pyotr Parov and many others, came to the school directly from the front and had military awards. Of course, sitting down at a desk again was not an easy task for them, but most overcame the difficulties of studying and successfully graduated from college.
In 1948, the first graduation took place, which was held solemnly on board the cruiser Aurora. This historical ship, a participant in the Russian-Japanese, Russian-German and Great Patriotic Wars, was at the suggestion of Admiral I.S. Isakov was installed next to the school for eternal parking as a living reminder to Nakhimov residents of the traditions and heroic exploits of sailors of the Russian and Soviet fleets, as well as as a training base for studying naval affairs.
The heads, teachers, educators of those long ago years - their contribution to the formation of the Nakhimov School is enormous. And of course, the main result of their work is graduates.
Over the past decades, more than 14,000 graduates have received a start in life. The majority chose difficult naval service, many commanded ships and formations, and even now graduates of the school serve on almost every warship of the Russian Navy.
Hero Stars Russian Federation Five graduates of the Leningrad Nakhimov Naval School were awarded:
Admiral's shoulder straps are worn by Nakhimov's first cohort Radiy Zubkov, Yuri Efimov, Anatoly Shlemov, Vladlen Naumov and Alexander Bogatyrev, Vladlen Lobodenko, their younger classmates Vladimir Vysotsky, Nikolai Maksimov, Oleg Burtsev, Vladimir Zakharov, Andrey Volozhinsky, Mikhail Ilinykh, Alexander Shuvanov and many others . In total, about 60 graduates of the Nakhimov Naval Schools rose to the rank of admiral and 14 became generals.
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1949 graduate Boris Kuznetsov was on a submarine off the coast of America (awarded the Order of the Red Star). There were Nakhimovites at the test sites where powerful nuclear bombs were tested, in Chernobyl, in Afghanistan, and in other hot spots on the planet.
He served on the first Soviet nuclear submarine K-3, which reached the North Pole in June 1962. dramatic story before the accident in 1967, navigator Oleg Pevtsov, a 1952 graduate, awarded the Order of Lenin. The eighth commander of this boat, which already bore the name “Leninsky Komsomol”, in 1984-1986. was Oleg Burtsev, a graduate of 1970. Since the appearance of the first nuclear submarines, perhaps on the same K-3, Eric Kovalev began his service in 1956, and in 1969 he commanded a boat, for the first time in the history of our fleet submerged to a depth of 400 meters.
The trips to sea took place in an environment of intense confrontation with the American submarine fleet. July 21, 1970 nuclear Submarine K-108 under the command of Captain 2nd Rank Boris Bagdasaryan, whose head of the school, Captain 1st Rank N.G. Izachik was almost expelled from the school; during combat service she encountered a US submarine carrying out surveillance. The hull of the Soviet submarine turned out to be stronger than the American one, and the commander kept a piece of the “American’s” hull as a “souvenir” as a souvenir. And the commander of the strategic nuclear-powered icebreaker K-219 during the 1986 accident that occurred in the Sargasso Sea, off the coast of America, was also a Nakhimov graduate of 1968, Captain 2nd Rank Igor Britanov. On his boat there was an explosion in a missile silo and a fire. The boat sank, but thanks to the courage and competent actions of the crew, an environmental disaster was averted.
From the simple and honest actions of the Nakhimovites, their high fighting and moral qualities, grows an invariable readiness for heroism, to sacrifice themselves in the name of civil, military duty and the Fatherland.
So, on August 10, 1956, in the village where Nakhimov soldier of the 2nd company S. Denisov spent his summer vacation, a house caught fire. Stanislav showed courage in fighting the fire, and the head of the school received thank you letter from the chairman of the village council.
August 13, 1966 1st year cadet of VVMURE named after. A. S. Popov Konstantin Nesmiyan died while apprehending a criminal, for which he was awarded a state award - the medal “For Courage” (posthumously).
In October 1981, while fulfilling his international duty in the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, a graduate of the school (1966), Captain 3rd Rank Fyodor Gladkov, who was awarded the Order of the Red Star and the Red Banner (posthumously), died.
In September 1992, Dmitry Petrovsky stood up for the honor of the fleet, was stabbed in the heart and miraculously survived, saved by military doctors. Six months later, Admiral I.V. Kasatonov awarded him the Order “For Personal Courage.”
During the accident on the nuclear submarine Komsomolets on April 7, 1989, navigator Lieutenant Commander Mikhail Smirnov died. Officers Andrei Mahota and Konstantin Fedotko (class of 1982) showed courage during the accident and were awarded the Order of the Red Banner.
Navy veteran and deep-sea diving specialist Leonid Ley, a 1951 graduate of the school, took part in the inspection of the boat accident site.
On the Kursk submarine, the death of which on August 12, 2000 shocked the whole world, there were seven Nakhimov men. These are officers Vadim Bubniv, Sergei Loginov, Andrei Milyutin, Dmitry Repnikov, Maxim Safonov, Alexey Stankevich, Ilya Shchavinsky.
On July 17, 2001, during a demonstration flight, after performing all aerobatics and trying to save an out-of-control plane, Hero of the Russian Federation, Major General Timur Apakidze (graduated in 1971) died.
Since 1955, there has been one Nakhimov Naval School in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg).
Over the past decades, the system of recruiting students has undergone a number of transformations and currently young men from grades 5 to 11 study at the school.
Today, the Nakhimov Military Medical School is a closed secondary specialized educational institution, with a naval focus of education, which provides general secondary education and prepares students for admission to higher military, naval, and educational institutions of the country.
The school has an excellent educational and material base, highly qualified personnel, teachers, educators and is located in the historical center of St. Petersburg, near the legendary cruiser Aurora, where students not only learn the “basics” of naval life, but also become familiar with the glorious history and traditions domestic fleet.
Over the years of existence of the Nakhimov schools, more than one generation of young men has gone through the school of naval friendship and true brotherhood. All of them were brought up in the spirit of loyalty to military duty, the fatherland, and the glorious military traditions of the Russian Navy. And there is confidence that no matter how the life of Nakhimov graduates develops in the future, they will remain faithful to the naval, Nakhimov brotherhood until the end of their days.
Since 1991, Nakhimovites have participated in long-distance sea and overseas voyages. Over the years they visited Finland and Holland, England and France, Belgium and Denmark, Greece and Bulgaria and other countries. Nakhimovites under the leadership of experienced officers of the school of captain 1st rank A.A. Popkov, captains 2nd rank V.G. Demkina, V.I. Strogova made voyages to the Atlantic and around Europe, visiting the seas where Russian sailors fought gloriously and fulfilled their duty to their Motherland. On the chests of many Nakhimovites, the badges “For the Long March” shone, and this inspired them in their studies and further service.
For many years the school represented the Navy at military parades in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The command’s constant assessment of their participation in parades is “excellent.” In 1996, the school’s parade regiment received personal gratitude from the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, the President of Russia, for its exemplary march across Red Square. High drill training and military bearing are the distinctive qualities of the students of the Nakhimov Naval School. They showed the same qualities at the Main Naval Parade in honor of the 300th anniversary of the Russian Fleet in St. Petersburg in July 1996.
The tradition of Nakhimov residents participating in military parades on Red Square dedicated to the Great Victory was revived in 2013. Each participant in the parade is awarded a medal of the Russian Ministry of Defense “For Participation in the Parade,” which is a reason for pride for Nakhimov residents.
Graduates of the school serve at the forefront of defending the Fatherland. They sacredly honor the behest of Admiral Pavel Stepanovich Nakhimov.