Second Naval School The school was created by Order No. 035 of 1 April 1937 of the
Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union, which ordered the formation of a school in Sevastopol for "the training of command personnel for ships and parts of the fleet", to be named the Second Naval School. The navy was going through a period of expansion and it was decided to supplement the navy's only commissioning school, the
M. V. Frunze Naval School in
Leningrad, with a new school located at the main base of the
Black Sea Fleet. On 21 September 1938,
Captain 3rd rank Pavel Ipatov was appointed to command the school. Further training cruises were carried out aboard the
Komintern, as well as the motor vessels
Neva and
Dnepr, and in summer 1939 the naval department of the Coastal Defence School was transferred to the Second Naval School. By August the city was directly threatened by Axis ground forces, and orders were given to begin evacuating the school to
Rostov-on-Don. By October Rostov-on-Don was also in imminent danger, and on 9 October the headquarters of the
North Caucasus Military District ordered the school to be reorganized into the 6th Naval Cadet Regiment. The regiment consisted of four battalions in ten companies, comprising 1,059 cadets. The regiment was assigned to the reserve defences of the city, holding a defensive line until 24 October 1941, when they were ordered to
Mineralnye Vody to be reformed. They departed the city by train on 25 October, arriving at Mineralnye Vody on 27 October. The brigade continued to serve with the
56th Army in defensive and offensive operations throughout 1942 and into 1943, until March 1943 when it and the other naval rifle brigades were disbanded and the sailors were returned to the navy. Reconstruction of the city, naval base, and school took place, and on 26 July 1946, Captain 1st Rank was appointed the new head. 225 cadets were enrolled at the start of the academic year on 1 November 1946. His successor in 1950 was Hero of the Soviet Union Rear-Admiral .
Nakhimov Black Sea Higher Naval School In March 1960, Nakhimov Black Sea Higher Naval School was subordinated to the commander of the Black Sea Fleet, and from February 1961, the first deputy commander of the Black Sea Fleet had direct management of the school's activities. Rear-Admiral succeeded Admiral Oktyabrsky on 30 June 1960, going on to spend more than five years in command, until his death on 13 November 1965. By now the school was specialising in preparing officers for the modern ships of the fleet, with departments set up to master new technologies, especially missiles and rockets, and the uses of nuclear power and weapons. In December 1971, Rear-Admiral took charge of the school, being promoted to vice-admiral during his tenure, on 5 November 1973. On 30 April 1975, by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, the school was awarded the
Order of the Red Star. He was succeeded in August 1987 by Rear-Admiral Vladimir Denisenkov, the last head of the school before the
dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. == Since the fall of the USSR ==