The center is designed to meet the spiritual, educational and cultural needs of servicemen and civilian personnel of the armed forces.

[1] In 1758, in the territory of what is today Suvorov Square, the country estate of Count Vladimir Semyonovich Saltykov was built.

In 1802, the building which now houses the cultural center was home to the newly established Moscow School of the Order of St Catherine.

[3] During the Great Patriotic War, the CDKA worked as a propaganda center for the Soviet Armed Forces, providing materials were made for political workers and other propagandists.

In 1818-1827, the architects Domenico Gilardi and Afanasy Grigoriev enlarged the former mansion by adding new volumes to the end planes of the house.