Naval Cadet Corps (Russia)

The Naval Cadet Corps (Russian: Морской кадетский корпус, romanized: Morskoy kadetskiy korpus), occasionally translated as the Marine Cadet Corps or the Sea Cadet Corps, is an educational establishment for educating naval officers for commissioning in the Russian Navy in Saint Petersburg.

The first instructor there was an Englishman who entered Russian service in 1698, and Peter the Great personally took an interest in the running of the academy.

The Moscow Navigation School and the Naval Guard Academy were combined as the Naval Gentry Cadet Corps on 15 December 1752 and it became the key educational establishment commissioning officers for the Imperial Russian Navy.

A new building on the Neva River embankment on Vasilievsky Island was built to house the school.

[1] The College reopened in 1918 to educate officers for the new Red Navy between 1926 and 1998 the school was named the M.V.