The Naval Academy (Albanian: Akademia e Marinës) was an educational institution based in Vlorë, Albania.
It was established on 4 September 1961 as the first naval school in the nation, which was then the People's Republic of Albania.
[1][2] It was originally called the School of Navy Officers (Albanian: Shkolla e Lartë e Marinës).
[3] It was formed from the first 70 Albanian naval students who returned from the Soviet Union studying at institutions of the Soviet Navy in cities like Baku, Sevastopol, Riga and Leningrad.
[1] In 2019, the Albanian government decided to change the ownership of the facility's remnants from the Ministry of Defense to the Municipality of Vlora, in accordance with a decision of February 2017.