Suvorov Military Schools Soviet Union

The Suvorov military schools were created during the Great Patriotic War in accordance with the Resolution of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR No. 901 of August 21, 1943 "On urgent measures to restore the economy in areas liberated from German occupation." At the same time, they were named in honor of the Russian commander, Generalissimo Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov [4] [5]. The initiator of their creation was Lieutenant General Alexei Ignatiev, who addressed a letter to I. V. Stalin on April 17, 1943: he proposed, as an experiment, to create one cadet corps in Moscow. Stalin made 2 amendments: the schools were called Suvorov; and 9 schools were created at once.

In 1943, 11 schools were opened: Krasnodar (in Maykop), Novocherkassk, Stalingrad (in Astrakhan), Voronezh, Kharkov (in Chuguev), Kursk, Kalinin, Oryol (in Yelets), Stavropol, Tashkent, Kutaisi (the last two were NKVD schools, later MVD, for children of border guards); in 1944 - 6 schools: Kazan, Kuibyshev, Gorky, Saratov, Tambov, Tula, in 1953 - Minsk, in 1955 - Leningrad [6].

In the 1950s, the idea was put forward of combining the Suvorov School and the combined arms officer school in one educational institution. The idea, which aimed to more closely combine general education and military training, was tested in a number of military educational institutions, including the Leningrad Infantry School [7]. Later it was again divided into 2 schools.

In 1975, there were 8 schools in the USSR: Kazan, Kalinin, Kiev (former Kharkov), Leningrad, Minsk, Moscow (former Gorky), Sverdlovsk and Ussuri (former Kursk).