Nizhny Novgorod Higher Military Command School. The Nizhny Novgorod Higher Military Engineering Command School in Kstovo canceled the enrollment of cadets this summer

For the second year in a row, it is impossible to enroll in this prestigious military institution, which remained the only one in the region after the closure of the Higher Anti-Aircraft Missile Command School of Air Defense and the Higher Military School of Logistics.

And despite the fact that the final decision of the Minister of Defense has not yet come to NVVIKU, the only talk at the school is about closure, scheduled for approximately the end of 2011.

We don’t know the specific reason for the closure, but we can guess that this is due to the general reduction of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the lack of need for military engineers,” suggested Colonel Vasily Savchuk, acting head of the Nizhny Novgorod VVIKU.

What consequences can the Nizhny Novgorod region expect from the closure of its last military school?

First of all, the fate of the officer-teaching staff, its technical personnel and the cadets themselves is not clear.

The officers will most likely retire to the reserve along with civilian personnel, of whom there are more than 1,000 people at the school, Vasily Savchuk told NN.

We hope that the fifth-year students will finish their studies in Kstovo, but where the rest are is unknown.

And here's why. At NVVIKU, cadets receive education in four specialties: “industrial and civil engineering”, “electrical supply”, “radio engineering”, “multi-purpose tracked and wheeled vehicles”. But if the latter can be purchased at the Tyumen School, then the first three for the engineering troops of the Russian Federation are not taught anywhere else in our country!

Even taking into account the fact that for the second year now there has been no enrollment of cadets at the school (except for foreign military personnel), at the moment we have about 700 Russian cadets and 150 foreign students from 6 near and 18 foreign countries studying with us,” the colonel calculated.

Meanwhile, the engineering granite of science and army training in Nizhny Novgorod annually bring considerable income to the treasury of the Ministry of Defense - 30 million rubles (202 thousand rubles per foreign helmet). Moreover, according to Vasily Savchuk, the Kstovo school itself does not receive a penny from the countries that ordered the team’s Russian-made goods.

The only benefit for the Nizhny Novgorod region from the closure of the Kstov school is the property remaining from it, which will most likely be transferred to its ownership.

There are only 2 possible solutions to this problem: transfer of cadets from NVVIKU to the Tyumen School or vice versa, predicts the Kstovo School. - But, since in Tyumen there is a material and technical base and teaching staff only for training future officers in one specialty, then in order to move Nizhny Novgorod residents there, Tyumen residents need to build an additional dormitory, an educational building and a laboratory, as well as field training and training facilities. And besides, TVVIKU has no experience teaching foreign students.

And in the second case, finances will only be needed to move only the cadets and the educational and methodological base for training in airborne specialization to Kstovo from Tyumen.

“NN” sent a request to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, which they promised to answer. And although the deadline for answers to the editorial questions provided for by Russian legislation has expired, we have not yet received an official letter.

School address: 607654, Nizhny Novgorod region. Kstovo-4, Nizhny Novgorod VVIKU

Phone number for inquiries: 3-05-54 (12-38). Opening hours: from 15.00 to 17.00 (except Saturday and Sunday).

How to get there: Directions from the Moskovsky railway station (Nizhny Novgorod) to the stop "Sennaya Bus Station", from the bus station to the city of Kstovo.

General information

Currently, the school trains officers for all branches of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation with higher military-special education in the following specialties:

Multi-purpose tracked and wheeled vehicles;
- industrial and civil construction;
- radio engineering;
- power supply.

Graduates of the school are awarded the military rank of LIEUTENANT and the qualification ENGINEER in the relevant specialty, and are also issued a diploma of higher education of the standard established for higher educational institutions of the Russian Federation.

Entering and studying at school opens up many prospects for every young person:

Obtaining a military and civilian profession and fundamental knowledge in the chosen specialty;
- the opportunity to go through a real school of courage, camaraderie, mutual assistance;
- physical self-improvement.

Over five years of study, cadets receive higher education in accordance with the State Educational Standard of Higher Education in a complex of humanitarian, general scientific and general engineering disciplines: higher mathematics and physics, theoretical mechanics, strength of materials, electrical and radio engineering, computers, pedagogy, economics, psychology, as well as special and military disciplines.

In addition, the school provides training for civilians (male and female) on an extra-budgetary basis in all of the above specialties at the Faculty of Additional Professional Education. Graduates are issued a state diploma and are awarded the qualification “ENGINEER”.

The standard period of study is 5 years. Young men are given a deferment from service in the RF Armed Forces for the period of training.

Historical background

Founded in 1701 by Decree of Peter I in Moscow and was called a military engineering school. Over the centuries-old history, the name of the educational institution has changed several times: engineering school, cadet corps, Main (then Nikolaev) military school, First Soviet courses, Military engineering college, branch of the Military engineering university, military school (institute).

The military school changed its location several times: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kostroma, Kaliningrad and now, since May 1995, the city of Kstovo, Nizhny Novgorod region.

In 1921, the Military Engineering College was awarded the Red Banner of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, in 1943 the school was awarded the Order of Lenin for military merits, and in 1972 - the Jubilee honorary badge “50 years of the USSR”.

The oldest military engineering educational institution in the country is world famous. Its graduates over the years included the great Russian commander M. I. Kutuzov, the writer F. M. Dostoevsky, the famous scientist P. N. Yablochkov, the composer Ts. A. Cui, the Russian physiologist, resident of Nizhny Novgorod I. M. Sechenov, the founder of the Nizhny Novgorod Radio Laboratory M. A. Bonch-Bruevich, Russian historian and statesman V. N. Tatishchev, Hero of the Soviet Union D. M. Karbyshev...

The names of 88 Knights of St. George are engraved on marble slabs in the St. George Hall of the Kremlin. During the Soviet period, 76 graduates were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, and today, for valor and heroism, 3 graduates of the school have been awarded the title of Hero of Russia: Captain Alexey Zhuravlev, Captain Yuri Dmitriev and Senior Lieutenant Vitaly Marienko.

The school consists of 19 departments, 3 faculties (including those for training military personnel of other states) and a school for warrant officers.

Key dates from the history of the Nizhny Novgorod Higher Military Engineering Command School: January 27 (10), 1701- Decree of Peter I on the construction of an engineering school in the Cannon Yard, March 17, 1719- Decree of Peter I on the creation of an engineering school in St. Petersburg, July 8, 1723- Decree of the Military Collegium on the merger of the Moscow Engineering School with the St. Petersburg School, November 1723- Moscow Engineering School moved to St. Petersburg, 1758- Transfer of the artillery school to the Engineering Yard and its merger with the engineering school, 1762- transformation of the school into the Artillery and Engineering Gentry Corps, March 3, 1810- Transformation of the engineering school into the Engineering School, December 6, 1819- Transformation of the Engineering School into the Main Engineering School, 1855- Education on the basis of officer classes of the Nikolaev Engineering Academy, February-March 1918- Formation of the 1st and 2nd Soviet engineering courses in Petrograd, July 29, 1918- Conversion of engineering courses into technical school, July 17, 1920- Order of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic on the transformation of the technical school into the Petrograd Military Engineering School, November 14, 1921- Order of the RVSR on awarding the school with the Honorary Revolutionary Red Banner of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee for the suppression of the Kronstadt rebellion, August 21, 1941- Start of classes in a new location in the city of Kostroma, March 31, 1943- In commemoration of the 25th anniversary, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR awarded the school with the Order of Lenin for military merits and success in training command personnel of the engineering troops, August 1944- Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on presenting the Red Banner of Battle to the school as a symbol of military honor, valor and glory, June 1945- Return of the school from Kostroma to Leningrad, August - September 1957- the school in its entirety was relocated to the city of Kaliningrad, January 4, 1964- By order of the USSR Ministry of Defense, the Leningrad Military Engineering Order of Lenin Red Banner School named after. A. A. Zhdanov was renamed the Kaliningrad Military Engineering Order of Lenin Red Banner School. A. A. Zhdanova, April 7, 1970- For high performance in combat and political training, achieved in honor of the centenary of the birth of V.I. Lenin, by Resolution of the Central Committee of the CPSU, the Presidium of the Supreme Council and the Council of Ministers of the USSR No. 238-84 dated April 7, 1970, the school was awarded the Lenin Anniversary Certificate of Honor, December 13, 1972 For high performance in combat and political training achieved in socialist competition to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the formation of the USSR. By Decree of the Central Committee of the CPSU, the Presidium of the Supreme Council and the Council of Ministers of the USSR No. 845-285 of December 13, 1972, the school was awarded the Anniversary Badge of Honor, May - August 1995- Relocation of the school to the city of Kstovo. Since 1996, the school has been called the Nizhny Novgorod Higher Military Engineering Command Order of Lenin Red Banner School, November 1998- The school becomes a branch of the Military Engineering University, March 2004- The school has passed certification and received a license, January 2005- The VIU branch was transformed into the Nizhny Novgorod Higher Military Engineering Command School (military institute).

Preparatory courses

The preparatory courses accept young men who have completed secondary (complete) education, as well as students in final classes (courses) of educational institutions of secondary (complete) general or secondary vocational education, who are fit for health reasons to study in military educational institutions and who have expressed a desire to study in NVVIKU.

Training is carried out full-time or part-time without interruption from studies (production). In full-time preparatory courses, classes are held in mathematics, physics and Russian on Mondays and Thursdays weekly from 15.30 to 19.15. Students of correspondence courses are given (sent by mail) test assignments and methodological recommendations for them. During the training, the student is required to complete six tests in physics and mathematics, submitting them to the school for testing.

The tuition fee for full-time preparatory courses (for three subjects) is 5,000 rubles, for correspondence courses (for two subjects) - 3,500 rubles.

Tuition fees can be paid in two terms: - for full-time courses - 2500 rubles. by 01.11.07, - for correspondence courses - 2500 rubles. by 01.11.07. By 01.02.2007 - the remaining amount.

Students of preparatory courses who do not have parents (orphans) study for free; Students from large (three or more children) and low-income families pay 50% of the fee by presenting the relevant documents.

Those wishing to study at preparatory courses must provide the following documents to NVVIKU: an application addressed to the head of the school (indicating the last name, first name, patronymic; month and year of birth; education and exact home address); characteristics from the place of study (work); an extract of grades for the previous year of study or a copy of the document on secondary education; one photograph (size 3 x 4 cm, without headdress) - for students of full-time courses;

Head of NVVIKU, Major General Nikolai Ivanovich Bondarenko (February 2010 - 2010). Then he was taken to the governor to command the fish stocks of the Nizhny Novgorod region.

• "Colonel" Pavelko began to command the "soldiers" in Karpovka?
  14.07.2012
  “Since June, an interspecific regional training center for the engineering troops of the Russian Defense Ministry has been located on the basis of the former engineering school.
  The head of the center, Colonel Igor Ivanovich Pavelko, was born in Slutsk, Minsk region. Graduated from Tyumen VVIKU and Moscow Academy. He served in the Volzhsky Training Center for Engineering Troops. He was a platoon, company, battalion commander, and head of a training center. He served in the Far East for 6 years.
  Pavelko reported:
  - The training center was relocated to Kstovo from the Khabarovsk Territory. In total, there are 2 such centers in Russia today (another one is in the city of Volzhsky, Volgograd region).
  Junior specialists of engineering troops will be trained here in 17 specialties, including squad commanders. Conscripts - young soldiers - about a thousand people also undergo training at Karpovka for three months. And contract workers are still studying.
  Many officers came from the Far East."
  To the question of editor-in-chief Zoya Bykova: “Will soldiers serve or work in dachas?” Pavelko replied: “They will be engaged in combat training. Our common task with the local administration is to make the soldiers’ service as easy as possible, because they serve for free.”
  According to the newspaper "Our Countrymen" dated July 14, 2012.

  Our political scientist Georgich commented on this message:
  - I served for several years at the KDVO training center in the Far East. And I don’t remember that anyone in the district newspaper “Suvorov Onslaught” or in the newspapers of the region called the defenders of the Motherland “soldiers”. What if the soldiers respond by calling the unit commander “colonel”? There is a worthy name for students in training - “cadet”.
  And second. Why should not the Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Eduardovich Serdyukov, but the local administration provide normal service?
  Another question for Defense Minister Serdyukov and President Putin: why do some serve for free, while others do not serve at all? Isn’t it time to make it so that conscripts in Russia receive financial compensation at the expense of their peers who did not serve?



• On June 9, 2012 at 10-00 NVIIV holds the last graduation of officers.
  "By order of Dimochka or Vova
  The officers are leaving Kstovo.
  Don't Russia need commanders?
  Or is her budget exhausted?
  Or maybe the budget has been stolen?
  Let Dima and Vova answer us...
  Apushkin
  9.05.2012
  At the traditional Soviet and then Russian Victory Day in Kstovo on Peace Square near the Eternal Flame on May 9, 2012, there was no military orchestra playing, and there was no military equipment from the military school NVVIKU - NVIIV located on Karpovka.
  As senior officers of the NVIV (Nizhny Novgorod Military Institute of Engineering Troops) said, “the equipment is broken, but the orchestra is on Red Square in Moscow.” The orchestra was disbanded after May 9, 2012. After the end of the holiday, the officers celebrated May 9 together for the last time on Mira Kstova Boulevard with a shot of vodka.
  At the Higher Military School - Institute of the Nizhny Novgorod Military Institute of Engineering Troops on June 9, 2012 at 10-00 the last graduation of officers. The command invites to the last graduation - and practically to the closure of the Kstovo Higher Military School - veterans of the engineering and construction troops, school graduates of different years and everyone who holds dear one of the oldest military engineering educational institutions in Russia.
  
  On the Peace Square in Kstov, ladies - close to the military - during their last passage through the square shouted “Well done” and practically “threw their caps into the air.”
  School officers - some for demobilization, some for other units.
  Here, on Karpovka, since July 2012, simple training has been organized with its own staff. They will train soldiers - driver mechanics. But this will be a different army.
• Colonel Vladimir Grigorievich Marmiy is the head of the Nizhny Novgorod Military Institute of Engineering Troops - NVIIV.
  24.01.2011
  The Nizhny Novgorod Military Institute of Engineering Troops - NVIIV received a new head. Colonel Vladimir Grigorievich Marmiy became the head of the NVIIV.

  PRESS SERVICE OF THE GOVERNOR OF THE NIZHNY NOVGOROD REGION Shantseva Valeria P. (located at 603082, Nizhny Novgorod, Kremlin, building 1, telephone 439-12-40) on September 21, 2010 reported:
  Marmiy Vladimir Grigorievich - Head of the Federal State Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education "Military Academy of Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defense Troops and Engineering Troops"

• NVVIKU became known as the Nizhny Novgorod Military Institute of Engineering Troops - NVIIV
  25.10.2010
  The Nizhny Novgorod Higher Military Engineering Order of Lenin Red Banner Command School NVVIKU was renamed the Nizhny Novgorod Military Institute of Engineering Troops - NVIIV.
  Whether this improved the quality of officer training in Kstov in Karpovka on the banks of the Volga, or whether it was simply a change of sign to suit Western fashion, is unknown.
• NVVIKU
  20.02.2010
  Nizhny Novgorod Higher Military Engineering Order of Lenin Red Banner Command School.
  Organized in 1701 by Peter the Great.

As promised, I prepared a report and photos from the press tour to Kstovo, to the Nizhny Novgorod Higher Military Engineering Command School (NVVIKU). Thanks to the press club of the Ministry of Defense for the invitation!

The Ministry of Defense bus picked us up from the Moskovsky station at 7:20. I sit in the salon and wake up ( behind the scenes :))).

We drove for about an hour, Nizhny Novgorod was full of traffic jams in the morning :(

It was cold, I took everything from my communicator, the photos didn’t turn out to be of very high quality, but the essence seems to be visible :)

This is a huge museum of the school and there is an eternal flame next to it. We will return here at the end, but this is the first thing I saw.

The fire is from a different angle, and are the soldiers supposed to stand there all night?

In the distance, the orchestra is preparing to welcome honored guests from the German Ministry of Defense

The symbol of the engineering troops, we were later shown the same thing in action, during mine clearance.

The Germans have arrived, the orchestra is playing, everyone is happy))

The Germans in red berets look very exotic, there are five of them, and until everyone gets well with everyone, you can’t go any further

After the greeting was completed, the whole mighty crowd of them went to the institute, and I followed them. While they were discussing their plans, I went out and decided to look around a little.

I found this poster with the most famous military engineering troops of the school:

And this is the history of the school. It turns out that it was created by Peter the Great in Kaliningrad, then it was moved a lot to different cities and is finally stationed here in Kstovo, although at the same time it is considered a branch of the Kostroma School.

Everywhere we were accompanied by one of the majors, who met us at the station. While I had a moment, I, of course, did not forget to ask him, so that I could find out first-hand, not from hearsay, how the form was new, cold or not?
To which the major responded something like this: it’s not cold in the new uniform, I’ve never frozen.
Me: why do they say something about diseases?
He: they only catch a cold if they run out undressed to smoke, or, even worse, they sweat after some exercise, and then run outside to smoke, just like that, I don’t know any other way to catch a cold.

This is how it sounds from first-hand accounts. In Mulino they also told us that everything was ok, so I don’t know where the rumors came from.

And this is me and my colleagues from the media sitting at one of the lessons, now a delegation will come here, the lesson is not interrupted, everything goes on as usual, now one of the cadets will tell the ticket (they are currently in session)

Class. GET UP! Frankly, I almost stood up from fright)))))) Our colonels, majors and the German delegation enter the classroom (they don’t have shoulder straps, I can’t even imagine how to determine ranks).

An interpreter went everywhere with the Germans, but not everything was able to be translated; both the cadet and his teacher spoke too much and in a complicated manner, although I think this made an impression on the Germans.

After this class, we ran to the reading room of the school. Although it couldn’t even be compared with my university, somewhere in their reading room there are 10+ computers on which foreign students study.

By the way, I asked the major and it turned out that in total there are more than 110 foreign students from the neighboring CIS countries and even African and Asian countries studying at the school

All TV channels immediately ran to interview one of the students, I modestly stood behind them and listened.

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It was too difficult to remember the student’s name, but he said that he was studying in the 3rd year, at first it was difficult, but now he likes studying, and upon graduation he will be an officer in the engineering forces. By the way, if we graduate so many officers from engineering troops of other nationalities, we can then use this very profitably by sending them back to their countries to exchange experience (although, according to many, our engineering troops are already the best, that’s why the Germans we came to spy on something).

The Germans came, they were told about books, about wisdom and foreign students (it turned out that since the 80s, 62 students from Germany had also studied at the school).

And here we are in another computer class (bull of course, I only had one computer class at UNN, and the computers there were older and there was no electronic board that works at the touch of a pointer, like my HTC).

The Germans curiously look and listen to the student, who tells what they went through in this lesson (although I think the Germans, like me, did not understand anything, everything was too complicated there)

Since May 1995, the Nizhny Novgorod Higher Military Engineering Command School has been located on the territory of the unique forest park area "Karpovka", which preserves the memory of the family of the heiress of a famous millionaire in Russia, the owner of a mechanical ship repair plant in Nizhny Novgorod, a large steamship operator U.S. Kurbatov - O. P. Karpova.
After the revolution, in 1919, the estate was transferred to the disposal of the People's Commissariat for Education. In the 1930s, the sanatorium of the Nizhny Novgorod regional party committee was located in Karpovka. From April 1942 to February 1945, there was a political school for junior political instructors here, and from May 1945, a subsidiary farm for the Suvorov School. In 1950, a military sanatorium of the Ministry of Defense was opened here.
Since 1960, a school for sergeants and military unit No. 58116 were located on the territory of Karpovka, and in 1968 courses for junior lieutenants were also organized, then a school for sergeants and a school for warrant officers.
In 1979, the Gorky Higher Military Command Construction School was formed on the territory of Karpovka. From 1983 to 1995, 13 graduates were trained and 2,360 officers were trained. The school was led over the years by Major Generals S.P. Petukhov, B.F. Zobov, V.A. Chmyrev, G.A. Synkov. Colonels V. P. Serdyukov, V. I. Voynalovich, V. I. Parshin, V. I. Samus, G. A. Motin, V. D. Melnikov, A. L. Naydenov, V. Y. Bakhmet, Yu. A. Kemmer, A. N. Gapanovich, V. D. Kukuev and others.
The school command established close ties with the city leadership and local residents. Through the efforts of officers and cadets, the educational and material base was gradually created and improved. Lecture auditoriums, classrooms, specialized classes, and laboratories were equipped with technical means, which made it possible to conduct educational classes at a high level. There was a university of culture and an elective in the humanities and aesthetics here. In November 1987, a museum named after was opened on the territory of the school. Lenin. Design bureaus and military-scientific work circles were created, and cadets actively participated in rationalization and inventive work.
Repeatedly, the school's athletes took prizes at the Moscow Military District championship in officer all-around, sambo wrestling, and boxing. The Department of Physical Training was headed by Colonel A.G. Burdikov, the world champion in sambo among veterans. College graduate S. Lopovok became the world champion, cadets N. Vorobyov and V. Belov became champions of the Moscow Military District.
Amateur artistic activities were greatly developed at the school, there was a television center and creative clubs. Under the guidance of experienced mentors, the cadets studied in photo-radio-technical and art sections, went on hikes to memorable places in the Nizhny Novgorod and Ulyanovsk regions, on boats along the Volga, and on car and horseback rides around the cities of the Golden Ring of Russia.
The command under the leadership of Major General B.F. Zobov, Colonel A.L. Naidenov and others managed to create a friendly and creative atmosphere in the school that contributed to the educational process. The school staff has been repeatedly noted as one of the best among educational institutions of this profile. Its graduates honestly perform their duties in military construction units in many parts of the Fatherland. Many of them have won awards.

The Nizhny Novgorod Higher Military Engineering Command School is the successor to the first national school of military engineers, created by order of Peter the Great in 1701 at the Cannon Yard in Moscow. It is noteworthy that one of its first leaders was an associate of Peter I, the great-grandfather of A.S. Pushkin, A.P. Hannibal. The creation of engineering units in the regular Russian army is associated with Peter’s military reform, the implementation of which was prepared by the entire previous development of military affairs and provided for the training of representatives of all branches of the military in “engineering”. An engineering school was created to solve this problem. The day of signing the document on its establishment - January 21, 1701 - was declared Engineering Troops Day by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 1370 of September 8, 1996. In connection with the 20th anniversary of the engineering school, Peter the Great, noting its merits, prescribed in his Decree of February 21, 1721: “It is essential that officers know engineering, for the sake of chief and non-commissioned officers to teach it, and sometimes even not knows, then the producer will not be higher in rank.”
Over the many years of its existence, the oldest military engineering educational institution in Russia has undergone a number of significant organizational changes, reflecting the complex history of the engineering troops, but at the same time has preserved and enhanced the best traditions of the Russian military engineering school. Outstanding scientific and technical discoveries, the highest dedication and courage shown by school graduates in the fight against foreign invaders, still remain a shining example of patriotic service to the Fatherland. Among the graduates of this military educational institution were the great Russian commander M.I. Kutuzov, the writer F.M. Dostoevsky, the famous scientist P.N. Yablochkov, the composer Ts.A. Cui, the defender of Sevastopol General E.I. Totleben, the head of the defense of the Port -Arthur General R.I. Kondratenko, founder of the Nizhny Novgorod Radio Laboratory M.A. Bonch-Bruevich.
In what types of military activities, branches of science, technology and art have not talented graduates of the school demonstrated their knowledge and organizational abilities! Russian historian and statesman V. N. Tatishchev graduated from engineering school in 1707, famous Russian military theorist and historian, our fellow countryman G. A. Leer - in 1850, Army General D. S. Sukhorukoe, former commander of the airborne troops , - in 1941. It is a well-known fact that A. M. Kovanko, a graduate of the Nikolaev Engineering School in 1878, commanded the 1st Siberian Aeronautical Battalion during the Russo-Japanese War, and from 1910 he directed the officer aeronautical school. Scientist, Minister of Railways of Russia (1888-1889) G. E. Pauker, a graduate of the Main Engineering School in 1842, in 1872 developed a design for a helicopter with a coaxial main rotor, which was successfully implemented by the Soviet school of helicopter construction in machines from the Kamov company " The list of famous graduates of the school and the list of their deeds goes on and on.
The names of the 88 Knights of St. George are engraved on marble
slabs in the St. George Hall of the Engineering Castle - the cradle of the engineering school. During the Soviet period, 76 graduates were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Among them are Doctor of Military Sciences, Professor, Lieutenant General of the Engineering Troops D.M. Karbyshev, Marshal of the Engineering Troops A.I. Proshlyakov, five Heroes of the Soviet Union - natives of the Nizhny Novgorod (Gorky) region -I. I. Sergunin, A. Ya. Smirnov, A. A. Solomonov, I. A. Usilov, L. P. Khomyakov. Many graduates participated in combat missions in Afghanistan and the Chechen Republic, Abkhazia, Transnistria, contributed to the liquidation of the consequences of the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the earthquake in Armenia, rescued people during natural disasters, catastrophes, cleared the area from explosive objects. 17 of them died performing their military duty. Three graduates - Captain Yu. A. Dmitriev, Captain A. Yu. Zhuravlev and Senior Lieutenant V. L. Marienko - were awarded the title of Hero of Russia (posthumously) for their courage and heroism in the performance of military duty in the counter-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus.
During different years of its existence, the school was located in different cities. Founded in 1701 in Moscow, the engineering school moved to St. Petersburg in 1719, where it was located in the Engineering Castle until 1960. In the summer of 1960, the school was relocated to Kaliningrad, and since 1995 it has been “registered” in the city, in accordance with Decree of the President of Russia No. 336 of February 7, 1995 and Order of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation No. 169 of May 17, 1995. Here to the team There was a lot of work ahead to equip the empty buildings with the equipment necessary for the normal functioning of the military engineering school. It was necessary to build storage facilities in the park and field training center, inhabit the barracks, etc.
These works were supervised by the deputy head of the school, and from May 1996 - by the head of the school, Major General M. A. Loginov. He arrived at the school from the “hot spot” of the former USSR - Transnistria. Combat experience and experience in command of engineering units and units, acquired during service in a limited contingent of troops in Afghanistan and Transnistria, strong-willed qualities and organizational abilities allowed him to skillfully carry out the relocation and arrangement of the school in Kstovo and in a short time establish the educational process.
The organizational and staffing structure of the educational institution also changed: at first it was an engineering school, then a college, the 2nd Cadet Corps, in Soviet times - courses, a technical school, a branch of the Moscow Military Engineering University, the Higher Military Engineering Command School.
From the first days of their stay on Kstovo land, the school staff felt the hospitality and care of the local population. The district administration helps the school in solving many problems and personal issues of the staff. In turn, the school staff is always ready to come to the aid of the district, which has been repeatedly proven by deeds.
The command of the school, together with the city’s education department, is doing a lot of work on the military-patriotic education of schoolchildren in the region. “Lessons in courage” have become traditional in city schools. The school museum, its grounds and classrooms are open to school excursion groups. Every year, the school club hosts a festival of soldiers’ songs, training camps for the Kstovo Oil College, and high school students of the Secondary Educational Institution.
The school personnel took part in the construction and opening ceremonies of memorial complexes in the villages of Sheloksha and Zhdanovsky, dedicated to the memory of participants in the Great Patriotic War. Every year, cadets of the school participate in parades on Peace Square in Kstovo and on Minin Square in Nizhny Novgorod.
Today, the school has a highly professional and experienced command and teaching staff, which includes eight doctors of science, 50 candidates of science, 10 professors, 35 associate professors. Since September 2003, the school staff has been headed by Major General N.I. Bondarenko, holder of the Order of Military Merit.
Under his leadership, the school staff completed a huge amount of work to improve the educational and material base, equip departments and structural divisions. Cadets have the opportunity to study in a computer center, specialized classes and laboratories equipped with new technology and instruments. Modern science has a huge influence on all branches of military affairs, on the forms and methods of armed struggle. Therefore, the educational process at the school is based on advanced active learning methods, which provide for greater independent work by cadets.
The military educational institution is very popular among young people. 10 graduations have already taken place in Nizhny Novgorod, 40 graduates have been awarded medals. Many young men strive to enter the Nizhny Novgorod Higher Military Engineering Command School and connect their lives with army service.