The Peter the Great Military Academy of the Strategic Missile Forces (Russian: Военная академия Ракетных войск стратегического назначения имени Петра Великого) is a military academy that serves personnel of the Strategic Missile Forces of the Russian Armed Forces. Since 2015, it has been located in the municipality of Balashikha in the Moscow Oblast. The academy is subordinate to the Commander of the Strategic Missile Forces. The history of the Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN) is linked with the history of the academy, being one of the oldest military educational institutions in Russia. The educational institution traces its history back to the Artillery School of the Imperial Russian Army, which was opened in St. Petersburg at the initiative of Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich in 1820. In 1845 the school was given the honorific of Mikhailovsky after the Grand Duke. In 1925, it became the Red Army's Military-Technical Academy. In 1934, it became the Felix Dzerzhinsky Artillery Academy and four years later, it was transferred to Moscow. During the Second World War, jt was stationed in the city of Samarkand in the Uzbek SSR. In August 1944, the Department of Rocket Weapons was created with a training laboratory for the training of missilemen. It was later transformed into the Faculty of Rocket Weapons of the artillery academy, which laid the foundation for the domestic education of rocket engineers. In 1958, it return to its Moscow facilities from before the war. In March 1960, the academy became part of the Strategic Missile Forces of the Soviet Army. In was renamed an additional two times under Soviet rule, (named the Dzerzhinsky Military Engineering Academy in 1963 and the Dzerzhinsky Military Academy in 1972). More information...
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