[2] The process of its creation began on 25 April 1995 by order of the Mayor of St. Petersburg Anatoly Sobchak.

[3][2] The corps was created at the insistence of President Boris Yeltsin and a joint decision Minister of Defense Pavel Grachev and Mayor Sobchak.

[4] On 22 November, First Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, Admiral Igor Kasatonov presented to the cadet corps its first regimental colours.

The decree on 19 February of that year established a seven-year training period for the cadet corps.

[9] Upon graduation from the corps, cadets receive a secondary education certificate and a breastplate, having the right to enter higher military academies of the Ministry of Defense of Russia without exams.