Admiral Makarov State Maritime Academy (Russian: Государственная морская академия имени адмирала С. О. Макарова) is a federal institution of higher professional education (ФБОУ ВПО) which trains professionals for civil and merchant fleet. The institution was established by the merger of two much older institutions on 11 September 2012, by order of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation.[1] [2] It is located in St. Petersburg, Russia.[3]