Description:
On October 18, 1937, based on the Decree of the Council of People's Commissars on expanding the network of naval educational institutions, a Directive was issued on the formation of the 3rd Naval School of the Red Army. By the end of January 1938, three floors of the southern part of the school building were prepared for the reception of cadets, a canteen, a medical unit, a printing house, a telephone switchboard were put into operation, and a personnel team was formed. The command and teaching staff was recruited from the most trained Pacific Fleet commanders.
The history of the school is inextricably linked with the era of the formation of naval education in Russia. The basis of the first enrollment of the school in 1937-1938 was made up of cadets of VMU im. Frunze. On January 30, 1938, after the end of the 1st semester, 329 first-year cadets of the Frunze School from Leningrad arrived in Vladivostok by special train.
The first years of TOVVMU history are closely connected with the personality of Nikolai Gerasimovich Kuznetsov – Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union, Hero of the Soviet Union, who was one of the initiators of the creation of the naval school in Vladivostok.
On May 5, 1939, the 3rd VMU was renamed the Pacific Naval School.