The Sagadat Nurmagambetov Military Institute of the Kazakh Ground Forces (Kazakh: Qurlyq äskerlerınıñ äskeri instituty / Құрлық әскерлерінің әскери институты), formerly known as the Alma-Ata Higher Combined Arms Command School (Russian: Алма-Атинское высшее общевойсковое командное училище) – is one of the leading educational institutions in the military education system of the Kazakh Ground Forces.

[1] The Military Institute of Land Forces history began from the Alma-Ata Higher Combined Arms Command School, which had been established on 1 September 1970 on the grounds of the Resolution of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.

[2] By order of the Minister of Defense Andrei Grechko on 1 July 1973, the school was named after the Marshal of the Soviet Union Ivan Konev.

On 11 February 1997, by the decree of President Nursultan Nazarbayev, the school was reorganized into the Military Institute of the Land Forces.

The center’s main objective is to train the relevant military personnel designated to participate in peacekeeping operations, and its curriculum includes courses on English military terminology in multinational operations, NATO administrative procedures, and military-civilian interaction.