The V. I. Lenin Military-Political Academy (Russian: Военно-политическая академия имени В. И. Ленина, romanized: Voyenno-politicheskaya akademiya imeni V. I. Lenina), abbreviated as VPA, was a higher military educational institution of the Soviet Armed Forces from 1919 to 1991 that provided advanced training to political workers.

[1] The institute was combined with the 16th Army Red Army University (formed by the Western Front on 5 July 1920), which had absorbed the party schools of the 8th and 17th Rifle Divisions in August 1920, on 3 March 1922.

The course was soon renamed to the Military-Political Institute of the Red Army and Fleet on 14 February 1923 and made equivalent to a military academy.

It became the N. G. Tolmachev Military-Political Academy on 14 May 1925 and was subordinated to the chief of higher educational institutions under the PUR.

The VPA was tasked with providing higher education to political workers.