Greetings on the 80th anniversary of the Nakhimov Naval School

The message reads, in part:
“Your school, which was established in Leningrad in 1944, soon after the Nazi siege of the city was lifted, offered solid professional training and became a home for the young people who had fought on the front lines and in partisan units, the sons of army and navy regiments, and the hundreds of orphans who had become homeless and lost their parents in the Great Patriotic
War. Their teachers and mentors offered sincere affection, care and attention
to their charges, showed them the way to the universe of knowledge, and helped
them realise themselves. The school’s graduates became outstanding naval
leaders, experienced commanders, talented scientists and engineers, politicians
and diplomats, and proved their worth in other spheres.
The branches of your prestigious school, which have been established at all our fleets, comprise a big and close-knit family of school graduates, who
uphold the traditions of patriotism, fellowship and honest service to the Fatherland entrusted to them by their predecessors. I wish you success, health
and all the best.”
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The Nakhimov Naval School was established in Leningrad in 1944. Today, it has branches in Vladivostok, Sevastopol, Murmansk
and Kaliningrad, as well as a branch in Mariupol, which opened in 2024. The school’s cadets take part in the annual Main Naval Parade held in St
Petersburg. Over 100 of its graduates hold the ranks of admiral and general,
and eight of them, the titles of Hero of the Soviet Union and Hero of Russia.