[1] The Military University started as the Teaching Institute of the Red Army which opened on November 5, 1919 by the order of N.G.

[2] In 1940, the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR adopted a resolution to organize the Military Faculty of Foreign Languages at the 2nd Moscow State Pedagogical Institute for Foreign Languages (2nd MGPIFL) as a higher military educational institution.

Its main task was to train military instructors in English, German, and French languages for schools and academies of the Red Army.

On August 1, 1974, the Military Institute of the Ministry of Defense (Soviet Union) was formed as an affiliated school of the Vladimir Lenin Military-Political Academy.

The modern university was established on July 20, 1994 on the basis of the unification of the Military-Political Academy and Military Institute.

For the first time in one school, the economic, humanitarian, legal and philological areas of officer training were taught at the university level.

By order of the Government of the Russian Federation on September 24, 2021, the honorary title “named after Prince Alexander Nevsky” was conferred upon it.

In November 1946, the university was renamed to the Higher School of Military Conductors of the Soviet Army.

The band has repeatedly performed at international competitions and festivals, in various television and radio broadcasts.