Kazan Suvorov Military School

The Kazan Suvorov Military School (KzSVU) (Russian: Казанское суворовское военное училище) is a Russian military academy based in Tatarstan. It serves as one of the country's many Suvorov Military Schools funded by the Russian Armed Forces. It is currently decorated with the Order of the Red Banner.

Kazan Suvorov Military School

Казанское суворовское военное училище
Emblem of the school
Other name	KxSVU
Motto	"Жизнь Отечеству честь никому!"
Motto in English	"Life to the Fatherland is an honor to anyone!"
Type	military academy
Established	1944 (1944)
Founder	Soviet Government
Affiliation	Armed Forces of Russia
Academic affiliation	Suvorov Military Schools
Officer in charge	Major-General Valery Mironchenko
Address	14 Tolstogo Street , Kazan , Tatarstan , Russia
Language	Russian
Website	http://kzsvu.mil.ru/

Background

After the creation of the first nine Suvorov schools in the early 1940s, the State Defense Committee adopted a resolution of June 4, 1944 to organize an additional six schools, including Kazan. On June 20, 1944, the Commander of the Volga Military District issued a directive on the formation of the Kazan Suvorov Military School. The temporary formation point was in the Admiralty suburb of Kazan, on the territory of the Zhytomyr Military Infantry School. The academic building was completed on September 30, 1944, which would later hold four companies of 100 people each. The first bell rang on October 2, 1944, with the first set of boys representing 14 nationalities from 19 regions and 8 autonomous republics of the center of the country. In 1949, 5 years later, the school's first graduation parade was held, when its first graduating classes were presented diplomas for completing secondary education. In 1973, the school was awarded by the Military Council of the Volga Military District for its success in the military-patriotic education of its students with the prestigious Order of the Red Banner, in celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Suvorov Schools. The school has also repeatedly won the Honor Prize of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation, and has received a certificate of merit by the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Ground Forces.

List of heads

Marshal Dmitry Yazov with cadets of the school in 2014.

The cadet corps of drums.

• Major-General Vasiliy Boloznev (1944–1946)
• Major-General Grigory Miroshnichenko (1946–1951)
• Major-General Nikolai Rudnev (1951–1954)
• Major-General Ilya Panin (1954–1957)
• Major-General Alexander Smirnov (1958–1974)
• Major-General Nikolai Gorbanev (1974–1984)
• Major-General Claudius Shestakov (1984–1989)
• Major-General Mikhail Kotovsky (1989–2003)
• Colonel Valery Nemirovsky (2003–2006)
• Major-General Alexander Borodin (2006–2013)
• Lieutenant-General Vladimir Chainikov (2013–2014)
• Major-General Valery Mironchenko (2014–Present)

Notable alumni

• Valery Gerasimov – Chief of the Russian General Staff
• Vladimir Chirkin – former head of the Russian Ground Forces
• Aleksandr Postnikov – Russian general
• Vadim Yemelyanov – Soviet amateur heavyweight boxer

See also

• Armed Forces of Russia
• Kazan
• Suvorov Military School

External links

• Official Website
• Казанское СВУ на сайте «Кадеты России»
• Казанское СВУ на сайте «Российские Кадеты»
• Казанское СВУ (в разработке) Archived 2019-09-08 at the Wayback Machine