Azerbaijan Higher Naval Academy

[1] It was originally founded in 1939, during Soviet times, when it was called the Caspian Higher Naval Red Banner School named after Sergei Kirov (Russian: Каспийское высшее военно-морское Краснознамённое училище имени С. М. Кирова, romanized: Kaspiyskoye vyssheye voyenno-morskoye Krasnoznamyonnoye uchilishche imeni S. M.

During Yusif Akhundzade's service as director of the school band, it participated in the 1971 and 1983 October Revolution Day Parade on Moscow's Red Square.

After the collapse of the USSR, by decree of President Abulfaz Elchibey on 3 July 1992, the school was transferred to the jurisdiction of the newly formed Azerbaijani Republic.

At the same time, most officers and cadets of the navigational faculty continued to serve and study at the Frunze Higher Naval School.

[5] By presidential decree of 24 December 2015, the school was abolished and transferred to the Azerbaijan Higher Military Academy with the establishment of the corresponding faculties there.

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Graduates (on bended knees) of the 1989 class of officers from the Volksmarine during the ceremony to receive the diploma on the central square of the naval school.
Members of the academy during a Day of the Armed Forces parade in 2013.