General-purpose Military Academies S. M. Kirov Military Medical Academy The
S. M. Kirov Military Medical Academy () in Saint Petersburg was established in 1798. Senior medical staff are trained for the Armed Forces and conduct research in military medical services. The institution also provides advanced training for mid-career military medical doctors and trains graduate students to Ph.D. level.
Krasnodar Higher Military School named for Army General S.M. Shtemenko The academy was founded in 1929. Since 1954, it is located in
Krasnodar.
Military University of Radioelectronics The academy was founded in 1957 in
Cherepovets.
Military Academies of the Ground Forces Budyonny Military Academy of the Signal Corps The
Budyonny Military Academy of the Signal Corps () was created in 1932 in
Leningrad. It is named after
Semyon Budyonny. It trains the Russian military's future signals and communications experts.
Combined Arms Academy of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation In 1918 the
Frunze Military Academy in
Moscow was established as the academy of the General Staff, which became the
RKKA Military Academy in 1921. It is named after
Mikhail Frunze, the then USSR Minister of Defence in mid-1920s. It is roughly the equivalent of the U.S. Army's
Command and General Staff College at
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas or the British Army's
Staff College, Camberley. Officers in their late twenties up to thirty-two years at the rank of Captain or Major enter if they pass the competitive entry examinations. In the 1930s, higher academic courses were added to the Frunze curriculum as an advanced training program for previous graduates. Later on, this program became the basis for the "Voroshilov General Staff Academy" and the Frunze Academy refocused upon combined arms ground warfare training at the tactical level. In September 1998 the Frunze Academy and the "Malinovsky Academy" were amalgamated into the
Combined Arms Academy of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, on the site of the former Frunze Academy, which since 2010 is known as
Military Educational and Scientific Centre. The
Military Educational and Scientific Centre has been the site of a number of Russian-Western joint military activities, including an
IISS conference in February 2001, and U.S.-Russian exercises. After graduation from
Military Educational and Scientific Center, every graduate officer receives a diploma and a silver diamond-shaped badge which has to be worn on the right side of his uniform or civilian clothes above all other military or civilian decorations or ribbon bars.
Mikhailovskaya Military Artillery Academy The Mikhailovskaya Artillery Military Academy () in
Saint Petersburg dates back to 1698. In 1849 it was named
Mikhailovskaya after
Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich of Russia. In 1925 it merged into the Red Army Military Technical Academy, was restored in 1953 as
Kalinin Artillery Military Academy () as a spin-off of the Dzerzhinsky Academy, and in 1995 went back to the Grand Duke's name.
Military Academy of Field Anti-Aircraft Defense Military Academy of Field Anti-Aircraft Defense () was founded in 1970 in
Smolensk.
Military Logistics Academy on parade in 2018. The
Military Logistics Academy () was created in 1918 in Leningrad. It trains officers and NCO's for the various Armed Forces
rear services and the Army Transportation Force, a part of the rear services. One of its graduates is
Igor Levitin, a former Russian
Minister of Transport.
NBC Protection Military Academy Timoshenko NBC Protection Military Academy () was established in 1932 in Moscow. It is named after
Semyon Timoshenko. Its duties are for the training of officers and NCOs in chemical warfare and defence. It is located in
Kostroma in Kostroma Oblast and has now opened its doors to engineering cadets as well.
Military Academies of the Navy Kuznetsov Naval Academy Formerly known as Marshal
Andrey Grechko Naval Academy, the
Kuznetsov Naval Academy is located in St. Petersburg and is the Russian Navy's only senior service school. The students are lieutenants commander, commanders, and some captains, with ages from 30–35 years. All naval officers (including naval aviation) holding positions of Executive Officers, Commanding Officers, formation, fleet, or naval staff command positions are graduates of this academy. First established in 1827 as the Advance Officers' Class of the
Imperial Russian Navy and later the Nikolayev Naval Academy and reorganized as the Petrograd Maritime Academy in 1917, and at various times renamed as the WPRF Naval Academy, the Marshal of the Soviet Union Kliment Voroshilov Naval Academy and the Marshal of the Soviet Union Andrey Grechko Naval Academy, it gained its current name and title in 1990.
Military Academies of the Aerospace Forces A.F. Mozhaysky Military-Space Academy This is the academy responsible for the training of officers of the
Russian Aerospace Defence Forces, the armed forces' youngest branch of service. It was most recently renamed the Military Space Engineering Academy in November 2002.
Zhukov Air and Space Defence Academy The academy, formed in 1956, is named after
Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov.
Zhukovsky – Gagarin Air Force Academy The Gagarin Military Air Academy is located at
Monino, northeast of Moscow, in an area closed to foreigners, nearby the Central Air Force Museum. Almost all the senior officers in the Soviet Air Force have attended this academy. It is charged with the preparation of "command cadres of various aviation specialties and is a research center for working out problems of operational art of the Air Force and tactics of branches and types of aviation."
Military Academies of the Strategic Rocket Forces Peter the Great Military Academy of the Strategic Missile Forces The Academy descended from Mikhailovskaya Artillery Academy of
Imperial Russia created in 1820 in St. Petersburg. The Dzerzhinsky Military Academy () was created in 1932 as
F.E. Dzerzhinsky Artillery Academy (Артиллерийская академия имени Ф. Э. Дзержинского) of the "Red Army from the "Artillery Department and the Powder and Explosives" section of the Military Technical Academy's chemistry department that was disbanded at the time. Dzerzhinsky Academy was moved from Leningrad to Moscow in 1958, the year before the
Strategic Rocket Forces were formed. Now named the Dzerzhinsky Missile Force Academy, its main facility was 'located at Kitayskiy Proyezd 9/5, within a block' of the
Rossiya Hotel off
Red Square. Other sources report that it was in the historical building of the
Moscow Orphanage. Officers in command positions in the Strategic Missile Troops would seek admission to this academy. Information about this academy was highly classified. Its two major faculties were "command" and "engineering." The Academy was renamed after Peter the Great in 1997, and its Commandant is now Colonel General (three star) Yuriy F. Kirillov. ==Academies of other militarized agencies==