Kazan Suvorov Military School
Site identity
The placemarked site is best matched to the Kazan Suvorov Military School of the Russian Ministry of Defence, legally identified in open registry-derived records as the federal state казенное general-education institution "Kazan Suvorov Military School of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation" at ul. Tolstogo 14, Kazan, in the city’s Vakhitovsky district. ([companies.rbc.ru](https://companies.rbc.ru/id/1021602862313-federalnoe-gosudarstvennoe-kazennoe-obscheobrazovatelnoe-uchrezhdenie-kazanskoe-suvorovskoe-voennoe-uchilische-ministerstva-oboronyi-rossijskoj-federatsii/?utm_source=openai))
Role
Open reporting characterizes the school as a fixed pre-university military boarding school rather than an operational combat unit. A June 2025 graduation report described a seven-year course in which cadets complete the standard school curriculum alongside military-oriented training before seeking entry to higher military or civilian institutions. ([companies.rbc.ru](https://companies.rbc.ru/id/1021602862313-federalnoe-gosudarstvennoe-kazennoe-obscheobrazovatelnoe-uchrezhdenie-kazanskoe-suvorovskoe-voennoe-uchilische-ministerstva-oboronyi-rossijskoj-federatsii/?utm_source=openai))
Campus
The main campus occupies the historic building at Tolstogo 14 that Tatarstan’s cultural-heritage authority identifies as the former Institute for Noble Maidens, dating to 1838-1841. Open-source reporting also indicates a school museum/open-air military display function on the grounds; in early 2026 a restored 1944 ZIS-5 truck was transferred to the school museum. ([okn.tatarstan.ru](https://okn.tatarstan.ru/arhitektura-3053257.htm))
Institutional status
The school marked its 80th anniversary in September 2024 and received the Order of Honour, a sign of continued federal-level prestige within Russia’s military-education system. Regional reporting around the anniversary said the school had produced more than 12,000 graduates; a prominent alumnus is Valery Gerasimov, who graduated from the school in 1973. ([tass.ru](https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/21795005?utm_source=openai))
Outlying training areas
The additional placemarks southwest of central Kazan are consistent with public mapping layers that label a "training ground" and "training camp" for the school in that area. However, I found no authoritative Ministry of Defence or regional-government source publicly confirming the exact boundaries, ownership, or permanent infrastructure of those auxiliary sites, so they should be treated as probable but not fully verified training areas. ([kazan.wikimapia.org](https://kazan.wikimapia.org/tag/516/?utm_source=openai))