A.F. Mozhaysky's Military-Space Academy () is a Military Academy of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. It is located in Saint Petersburg. It is associated with the Russian Aerospace Defence Forces.

History

The Academy was established on 16 January 1712 in Moscow as a military engineering school. During the first years the facilities in the Academy were in bad position. During the reign of Catherine the Great the school was renamed to Artillery and Engineering Gentry Corps. In 1773, it acquired its own printing house. Two years later the Museum of History of housing, Library for Foreign Literature was created. In 1880, the school got the name Second Cadet Corps. Since 1955 the academy has been named after the famous Russian engineer and mechanic Alexander Mozhaysky, rear admiral, the inventor of the world's first aircraft. The Academy has been used to train the space troops (ex. GUKOS, now VKS) and GRU officers, including some of the Fancy Bear hackers.

A.F. Mozhaysky Military-Space Academy

Sport

Hockey team

Structure

Faculty of design of spacecraft

Faculty of rocket and space systems management

Department of radio-electronic systems of space systems

Faculty of space infrastructure

Faculty of collecting and processing information. Faculty of information security and computer technology Faculty survey support and cartography Faculty funds missile and space defense Department of automated command and control systems

A.F. Mozhaysky Military-Space Academy

Leadership

Lieutenant General Prof. Maxim Mikhailovich Penkov

References

External links

Military academies of Russia

1712 establishments in Russia

Educational institutions established in 1712

Universities and colleges in Saint Petersburg

A.F. Mozhaysky Military-Space Academy