| Tbilisi Higher Artillery Command School | |
| Native Name: | Тбилисское высшее артиллерийское командное училище |
| Native Name Lang: | ru |
| Type: | military academy |
| City: | Tbilisi |
| Country: | USSR |
| Language: | Russian, Georgian |
The Tbilisi Higher Artillery Command School was one of the military institutions of the USSR. In different years she trained specialists of various military specialties. It was located in Tbilisi in the Georgian SSR.
The school was founded on 8 November 1864 by the governor of the Caucasus, Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolayevich of Russia. In 1992, the Tbilisi Higher Artillery Command School was moved and reorganized into the Ekaterinburg Higher Artillery Command School in Yekaterinburg, Russia.[1] It is the predecessor in military education to the David Aghmashenebeli National Defense Academy.[2] [3]
It has the honorific of 26 Baku Commissars, with its full name being the Tbilisi Higher Artillery Command School named after the 26 Baku Commissars. Graduates of the school were distributed into artillery units of the Soviet Ground Forces, the Soviet Naval Infantry and the Soviet airborne. In 1965, the school, opened a military parade on Rustaveli Avenue in honor of the 20th anniversary of the end of the Second World War.[4] During the Soviet–Afghan War, 50-75% of all cadets were deployed to Afghanistan. In August 2000, an alumni association was created, with 1971 graduate Ilya Novzhilov at its head.[5]