Kronstadt Sea Cadet Corps | |
Native Name: | Кронштадтский морской кадетский корпус |
Native Name Lang: | ru |
Motto: | Knowledge, honor and duty! (Знание, честь и долг!) |
Established: | 1995 (date established) 2015 (reorganized) |
Type: | boarding school |
Officer In Charge: | Reserve Captain 1st Rank Nikolai Dovbeshko[1] |
Academic Staff: | 63 |
Administrative Staff: | 67 |
Students: | 560 |
City: | Kronstadt, Kronshtadtsky District St. Petersburg |
Country: | Russia |
Coordinates: | 59.9941°N 29.7555°W |
Language: | Russian |
The Kronstadt Sea Cadet Corps is a military boarding school of the Russian Navy.
The corps follows the traditions maintained by the original Russian cadet corps in the Imperial Russian Navy.[2] The process of its creation began on 25 April 1995 by order of the Mayor of St. Petersburg Anatoly Sobchak.[3] [2] The corps was created at the insistence of President Boris Yeltsin and a joint decision Minister of Defense Pavel Grachev and Mayor Sobchak. On 1 October, the first 75 pupils were enrolled in the corps at Komarovo.[4] On 22 November, First Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, Admiral Igor Kasatonov presented to the cadet corps its first regimental colours. This day became an official holiday in the school.[5] In early 1996, it was transformed into a naval educational institution. The decree on 19 February of that year established a seven-year training period for the cadet corps. By August of that year, the maximum capacity was determined at 700 pupils. In 2000, the first graduation ceremony took place. On 1 December 2012, Admiral Viktor Chirkov presented new colours to the corps in a presentation ceremony.[6]
Only boys of 10–11 years old who are admitted into the corps.[7] The building has 28 classrooms, 24 classrooms, with the science rooms being featuring with laboratories equipped with modern equipment. From the seventh grade, cadets learn two foreign languages: the English language and the German language.[8] The building has an assembly hall for 200 people, and a reading room for 50 seats. Cadets train on training ships in the city.[9] Upon graduation from the corps, cadets receive a secondary education certificate and a breastplate, having the right to enter higher military academies of the Ministry of Defense of Russia without exams.