Nakhimov Naval School

[1] The first Nakhimov School was introduced in Tbilisi in 1943 during the Great Patriotic War, for sons of military personnel who died in action.

The school today offers teenage boys preparation for service as officers in the Russian Navy, secondary education, and military-style training in national naval traditions.

[4] On 13 August 2019 Defence Minister Sergey Shoygu laid the foundation stone for a new branch of the school in Kaliningrad, due to open in September 2020.

[5] Today, all Nakhimov schools have the traditional honor of opening all Victory Day Parades in their local city with their corps of drums (sans Saint Petersburg since the 1990s).

[11][12] The Tbilisi Nakhimov Naval School[13] was created by order of the People's Commissar of the Navy Nikolai Kuznetsov on 16 October 1943.

The Russian cruiser Aurora was the first campus and training ship of the Nahkimov Naval School.
Cadets of the Vladivostok Presidential Cadet School during the Vladivostok Victory Day Parade in 2019.
Cadets of the Murmansk Nakhimov Naval School in 2018.