Nakhimov Naval School
Identification
The record matches a distributed Russian Ministry of Defence school system rather than a single campus: the head Nakhimov Naval School in St. Petersburg at Petrogradskaya Embankment 2-4, plus branches in Murmansk at Ulitsa Shevchenko 30 and Kaliningrad at Ulitsa Artilleriyskaya 21. Ministry of Defence educational listings and the Navy education-site map list the Murmansk and Kaliningrad branches within the Nakhimov school network under the Navy command structure. ([patriot40.ru](https://patriot40.ru/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Spravochnik_obrazovatelnykh_organizatsii_774_MO_RF.pdf))
Head campus
The St. Petersburg site is the parent institution. TASS states the school was founded in Leningrad in 1944, and the MoD admissions directory lists the current head campus at Petrogradskaya Embankment 2-4. A Kremlin report from December 2018 said a new multifunctional building of about 52,000 square meters had been commissioned there with modern training and laboratory equipment, indicating continued investment in the flagship campus. ([tass.ru](https://tass.ru/obschestvo/21866159))
Murmansk branch
The Murmansk branch at Shevchenko 30 was planned in 2017 as a 560-seat campus built in two phases. TASS reported first-phase facilities as an academic-administrative building, dining facility with additional-education space, a 240-bed dormitory, indoor sports complex and medical point; second-phase facilities were to add a 320-bed dormitory, pool, ice rink, mini-football facility and firing range. By September 2025, Murmansk regional authorities described the branch as a modern campus with academic-administrative and dormitory buildings, medical point and sports complexes; a June 2025 regional report also cited a pool, indoor ice rink, media studios and a robotics classroom. ([tass.ru](https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/4164472))
Kaliningrad branch
The Kaliningrad branch at Artilleriyskaya 21 took its first intake on 1 September 2020. TASS reported in September 2022 that the campus, built on a former military-town site, included an academic-administrative building, medical point, two dormitories, dining hall and covered sports complex, all linked by enclosed passages, with capacity for 560 pupils. During the 2022 presidential visit, reported training spaces included a physics lab with individual experiment kits, a navigation classroom and simulator-equipped practical rooms for ship-handling instruction. ([tass.ru](https://tass.ru/obschestvo/15625625))
Military relevance
Open sources classify the St. Petersburg, Murmansk and Kaliningrad sites as MoD-run secondary general education institutions, not higher naval academies. At the school’s 80th-anniversary events in 2024, the Chief of the Navy Main Staff described its main role as supplying well-prepared candidates to higher naval military education. Taken together, the verified sites support a personnel-development and naval socialization function in the St. Petersburg, Northern Fleet-region and Baltic Fleet-region context, rather than an independently confirmed operational combat role. ([patriot40.ru](https://patriot40.ru/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Spravochnik_obrazovatelnykh_organizatsii_774_MO_RF.pdf))