Early decades at
Lenin Mausoleum in 1924. The school was formed in December 15, 1917 (O.S., December 28 N.S.), by order of
Vladimir Lenin as the
1st Moscow revolutionary machine gun officers school. It later became the ''1st Moscow Machine Gunners' Officers Course
and "WPRA 1st Soviet Higher Military School All-Russian Central Executive Committee''". In January 1919 after a year of operations, the
Red Army took over the school administration. The headquarters and campus were then at the
Moscow Kremlin. During that period, in 1922
Vladimir Lenin was awarded as the young institution's first honorary cadet; he was later made its only honorary commandant. The Kremlin was its campus until 1935, when the school was moved to Moscow's
Lefortovo District. At the Kremlin, the space was used by the
Kremlin Regiment, now the President of Russia's escort and historical regiment.
Mikhail Frunze told the cadets during a 1918 visit that the 1st SMHS and its Corps of Cadets "serves as the fighting vanguard and unfading hope of the proletariat revolution in the Russian Republic". In 1938 it received the first of its three order medals, the Order of the Red Banner, as a result of its Corps of Cadets and some alumni of the school who fought the
Battle of Khalkhin Gol. During the
Second World War, on the
Eastern Front, cadets and faculty at the school contributed to the defense of the
Moscow Region and the city itself. Many of its cadets and alumni later received state medals and decorations (several were awarded posthumously). In October 1941, the school was granted the honorary title "
Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR".
Post-war In October 1945, five months after the
Allied victory in Europe and the command school's participation in the
Moscow Victory Parade of 1945, it was moved to
Kuzminki District in Moscow. This is its current location. In June 1958 the school was transformed into the Moscow Higher Combined Arms Command School. The school had a training period of four years. On May 7, 1965, the school was awarded the
Order of Lenin. On February 21, 1978, the school was awarded the
Order of the October Revolution.
Russian Federation In 1995, the 4-year training period was lengthened to one of 5 years. In August 2004, the university was renamed as the Higher Professional Education Institution of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (and was retitled the
Moscow Military Command Training School). In 2010, the school was integrated into the Combined Arms Academy of the Russian Armed Forces. In 2017, the Military Institute was removed from the
Combined Arms Academy and was renamed again as the Moscow Higher Military Command School (Combined Arms). To mark its centennial year in 2017, the MHMCACS was awarded the
Order of Zhukov. On 6 October 2024, The Moscow Higher Combined Arms Command School was set on fire by a drone attack. Local residents reported gunfire and explosions. ==Traditions==