Riga Nakhimov Naval School

The Riga Nakhimov Naval School (Latvian: Rīgas Nahimova Skola; Russian: Рижское Нахимовское военно-морское училище, romanized: Rizhskoye Nakhimovskoye voyenno-morskoye uchilishche) is one of the former Nakhimov Naval Schools in the Soviet Union.

It was created on 21 July 1945, and became the third Nakhimov school in the USSR (after Tbilisi and Leningrad).

The Nakhimov School was a secondary naval training institution, with boys from 10 to 14 years old being accepted, mainly orphans and military children who died in the Great Patriotic War.

Many of its graduates continued their studies at the Higher Naval Diving School, which was soon founded in Riga.

[4][3] A notable alumni of the school is Afro-Russian actor and poet James Lloydovich Patterson.