Zhukov Air and Space Defence Academy

The Zhukov Air and Space Defence Academy (Russian: Военная академия воздушно-космической обороны имени Маршала Советского Союза Г. К. Жукова) is a Russian military academy located on the banks of the Volga River in Tver (formerly Kalinin).

The academy, formed in 1956, is named after Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov.

[1] The Academy currently trains personnel for the successor organisation, the Russian Aerospace Forces.

In addition to its educational and training mandate, this academy is a research center for studying problems of operational art and tactics, as well as command, communications, and control (C3) on air defense matters.

On 21 April 2022 a fire destroyed buildings at the Academy with seven reported dead.