The Kyiv Nikolaevskoe Artillery School was established in the building that today belongs to the Higher Specialized Court of Ukraine (on criminal and civil issues).

In May–July 1920 the artillery courses were forced to relocate to Poltava due to advance of Polish-Ukrainian troops and Petr Vrangel's White Armies.

During the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, the school was evacuated to Krasnoyarsk and returned to Kyiv on in September 1944.

In 1974 the school became the Kyiv campus of the Ground Forces Air Defence Military Artillery Academy.

5 years later, it was given the honorific of "Ivan Chernyakhovsky", in honor of the Ukrainian-born Soviet general of the army (The youngest ever to hold this rank).