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24-638: In 1827 Admiral Ivan Kruzenshtern initiated an Officers' Class at the Naval Cadet Corps . In 1862 the Class was reorganized into an Academic Course of Maritime Science. In 1877, to mark its fiftieth anniversary, the Class was renamed the Nikolaev Naval Academy (Nikolayevskaya Morskaya Akademiya) and in 1910 was completely detached from the Naval Cadet Corps. The Academy's last pre-revolutionary class

48-573: A naval academy in 1759. However, only 68 years later, in 1826, did the famous admiral and seafarer Ivan Fedorovich Kruzenshtern propose the establishment of the earliest organizational precursor to today's Naval Academy - the "Advanced Officers' Class" (Вышие офицерский класс) of the Russian Navy which were opened on 25 April 1827 under the Naval Corps. The mission of the Advanced Officers' Class

72-575: A proposal for a full-fledged Academy. On 28 January 1877, the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Officers' Class, by the imperial directive of Aleksandr II the Officers' Class was renamed the Nikolayev Naval Academy. At this time both the Naval Cadet Corps and the Naval Academy were headed by the same naval officer. After October 1917 the various Officers' Classes were combined into

96-591: A single institution - the Navy Combined Special Officers' Classes. Initially there were five specialties: artillery, mines, submarine, navigation, and electrical equipment. In 1920 two new classes, mechanical and shipbuilding, were added. On 28 September 1920 the classes were classified as a higher special naval educational institution. In the Fall 1925 the institution was renamed Special Courses for Improving Fleet Commanders and later as Special Courses for

120-825: Is the 1964-built Russian icebreaker Ivan Kruzenstern that was renamed after him in 1966. An Aeroflot Airbus A320 is named after him. Mount Kruzenshtern , the highest mountain in Novaya Zemlya , as well as crater Krusenstern on the Moon are named after him. There is Krusenstern Island in the Bering Strait , as well as a small group of islands in the Kara Sea , southwest of the Nordenskiöld Archipelago , called Krusenstern Islands. Cape Krusenstern in Northwest Alaska

144-412: Is the site of Cape Krusenstern National Monument (1978), one of the most important archaeological sites in the state. In Russia (as well as in other Russophone places), a fictional steamship Admiral Ivan Fyodorovich Kruzenshtern from the popular Prostokvashino animated film series is well-known, often as part of a catchphrase "Admiral I. F. Kruzenshtern, a man and a steamship", "pirated" from

168-574: The Cape of Good Hope at the tip of South Africa, he was appointed by Tsar Alexander I to make a voyage to the Far East coast of Asia to endeavour to carry out the project. Under the patronage of Alexander, Count Nikolay Petrovich Rumyantsev and the Russian-American Company , Krusenstern led the first Russian circumnavigation of the world. The chief object of this undertaking was the development of

192-535: The fur trade with Russian America ( Alaska ). Other goals of the two-ship expedition were to establish trade with China and Japan, facilitate trade in South America, and examine the coast of California in western North America for a possible colony. The two ships, Nadezhda ('Hope', formerly the British merchant Leander ) under the command of Krusenstern, and Neva (formerly the British merchant Thames ) under

216-457: The "Classes" are the only institution of their type for retraining and advancing qualifications. 40 different specialties are covered encompassing officers of the entire tactical level of the navy. The basic aspect of training is that it covers what is directly and practically required now and in the immediate future by the fleet. Since 1918, the academy has prepared more than 19,000 commanding officers and 20,000 flag specialists. On 28 January 2007

240-500: The Classes marked their 180th anniversary. [REDACTED] Media related to Kuznetsov Naval Academy at Wikimedia Commons 59°59′04″N 30°18′13″E  /  59.98444°N 30.30361°E  / 59.98444; 30.30361 Ivan Kruzenshtern Adam Johann von Krusenstern (Russian: Ива́н Фёдорович Крузенште́рн , romanized:  Ivan Fyodorovich Kruzenshtern ; 10 October 1770 – 12 August 1846)

264-500: The Courses transitioned to a peacetime work regime and received the name they carry today - Navy Advanced Special Officers' Classes (Вышие спецальные офицерские классы ВМФ). The Advanced Officers' Classes are separate from the N.G. Kuznetsov Naval Academy and provide more focused and specialized study to prepare naval officers for assignment as Commanding Officers or for the advancement of technical qualifications for Flag Specialists. Today

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288-622: The Navy Command Staff . In 1938 the Courses received their own building (Bldg 80 Malookhtenskiy Prospekt, St. Petersburg) and they remain there today. In 1939 they were again renamed - Advanced Special Courses for the Command Staff of the Workers' & Peasants Navy . During the 900-day siege of Leningrad the Courses were moved and continued to function in Astrakhan and Samarkand . In 1946

312-464: The Officers' Class was transformed into the newly established Academic Course of Maritime Sciences having a two-year period of study and divided into three departments: hydrographic , shipbuilding , and mechanical . The graduates of the course provided the navy with scientific officers for the fleets and instructors for the Naval Cadet Corps . In 1872 the council of the Academic Course developed

336-702: The Pacific, was published in 1827 in Saint Petersburg . The geographical discoveries of Krusenstern made his voyage important for the progress of geographical science. His work won him an honorary membership in the Russian Academy of Sciences . He was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 1816 and to the American Philosophical Society in 1824. As director of

360-594: The Russian naval school Krusenstern did much useful work. He was also a member of the scientific committee of the marine department, and his contrivance for counteracting the influence of the iron in vessels on the compass was adopted in the navy. Krusenstern became an admiral of Russian Navy in 1841 and he was awarded the Pour le Mérite (civil class) in 1842. He died in 1846 in Kiltsi manor , an Estonian manor he had purchased in 1816, and

384-721: The World in the Years 1803, 1804, 1805, and 1806 at the Command of his Imperial Majesty Alexander I in the Ships Nadezhda and Neva" ) published in Saint Petersburg in 1810. It was published in 1811–1812 in Berlin ; this was followed by an English translation, published in London in 1813 and subsequently by French, Dutch , Danish, Swedish , and Italian translations. His scientific work, which includes an atlas of

408-635: The command of Captain-Lieutenant Yuri F. Lisianski , set sail from Kronstadt in August 1803, rounded Cape Horn of South America, reached the northern Pacific Ocean, and returned via the Cape of Good Hope at South Africa. Krusenstern arrived back at Kronstadt in August 1806. Both seafarers made maps and detailed recordings of their voyages. Upon his return, Krusenstern wrote a detailed report, "Reise um die Welt in den Jahren 1803, 1804, 1805 und 1806 auf Befehl Seiner Kaiserlichen Majestät Alexanders des Ersten auf den Schiffen Nadeschda und Newa" ( "Journey around

432-604: The country to the Russian Empire in 1721. In 1787, Krusenstern joined the Russian Imperial Navy , and served in the war against Sweden. Subsequently, he served in the British Royal Navy between 1793 and 1799, visiting America, India and China. After publishing a paper pointing out the advantages of direct communication by sea between Russia and China by passing Cape Horn at the southern tip of South America and

456-522: The name of those which comprised the Southern Group and it was subsequently applied to all 15 islands when the New Zealand Parliament passed "The Cook Islands and other Islands Government Act" in 1901. He recorded the new name in his Atlas de l'Océan Pacifique published at St. Petersburg between 1824 and 1835. List of Russian admirals This list of Russian admirals includes

480-705: The title of a requiem poem by Vladimir Mayakovsky , To Comrade Nette, a Steamsip and a Man . As a third-level linguistic derivation, there is a Russophone Israel klezmer -rock band, Kruzenshtern & Parohod ("Krusenstern and Steamship"). Another legacy is that the Cook Islands in the South Pacific bear that name thanks to von Krusenstern. Previously known as the Hervey (or Harvey) Islands (or Group), he changed their name in 1835 to honour Captain Cook. More accurately, he changed

504-692: Was a Russian admiral and explorer of Baltic German descent, who led the first Russian circumnavigation of the Earth in 1803–1806. Krusenstern was born in Hagudi (Haggud), Harrien County , Estonia (then part of the Russian Empire ) to a Baltic German noble family . His patrilineal ancestors descended from the Swedish noble family von Krusenstierna  [ sv ] , and had remained in Estonia after Sweden ceded

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528-555: Was buried in Tallinn Cathedral . A son was born to Krusenstern in 1809: Paul Theodor, who lived until 1881. He explored the Arctic Ocean and Kara Sea , most notably in 1862, when he was shipwrecked. The Russian training tall ship Kruzenshtern is named after him. To commemorate the 200th anniversary of Krusenstern's circumnavigation, the ship retraced his route around the globe in 2005–2006. Another ship named after him

552-513: Was in 1913. Toward the end of the Soviet era the Academy was named the A. A. Grechko Naval Academy and finally was renamed the N. G. Kuznetsov Naval Academy. It is a postgraduate institution somewhat comparable to the U.S. Naval War College and should not be confused with officer commissioning schools such as the U.S. Naval Academy . Russian scholar Mikhail Lomonosov envisioned the establishment of

576-559: Was to improve the theoretical training of the most promising naval officers in exact and applied sciences. As a result of the revolution in naval affairs brought about by the Crimean War (1853–56) and the clear end of the age of sail the future of naval education in Russia and its transformation was reviewed by a special commission in 1862. By the 7 August 1862 order of the Naval Minister ,

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