The Marshal Semyon Timoshenko Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Defense Military Academy (Военная академия РХБ защиты имени Маршала Советского Союза С. К. Тимошенко) is a military university in Kostroma training officers for service in the Russian NBC Defense Troops of the Russian Ground Forces.

It provides training and conducts research related to the protection of military and civilian personnel from the weapons of mass destruction.

Its structure included the military engineering, special and industrial faculties.

[1] By order of the Revolutionary Military Council on 15 May 1934, it was given the honorific name Kliment Voroshilov.

It has performed during the opening of an automobile bridge across the Volga River, a new building of the railway station, a circus, and the first high-speed train from Kostroma-Yaroslavl.