Combined Arms Academy of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation

The Combined Arms Academy of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation is a military academy in Moscow which prepares commissioned officers for the Russian Armed Forces. The full name reads: "The Combined Academies Order of Lenin Order of the October Revolution Red Bannered Order of Suvorov of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation-Military Educational and Scientific Center of the Russian Ground Forces" (). There are 30 departments within the academy which are stationed in two main buildings in Khamovniki and Lefortovo Districts of Moscow. It has a source of historical origin and functionally duplicates the General Staff Academy. It is the equivalent of the United States Army's Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth or the British Army's Staff College in Camberley. Since 2019, the current Commandant of the Combined Military Academy is Lieutenant General Aleksander Romanchuk.
History.
The predecessors of the Academy were the Frunze Military Academy and the Malinovsky Military Armored Forces Academy and the Shaposhnikov Higher Officer Courses “Shot”. The CAA was formed in 1998 on the base of both the Frunze Military Academy and the Armored Forces Academy. Since 2006, on the basis of decree No. 473 of the Government of Russia, the Military Institute of the Engineering Troops was included as a structural unit in the reorganization of the V. V. Kuybyshev Military Engineering Academy. In December 2008, its name was expanded to reflect its status as an institution. The reorganization was carried out by joining the academy with state educational institutions of higher professional education:
On 5 June 2007, in accordance with the a decree of the President Vladimir Putin, a combat banner was awarded. The Academy is subordinate to the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Ground Forces.
Activities.
The Combined Arms Academy carries out the following activities: training for commanding officers and military engineers with higher professional education and conducting fundamental and applied scientific research aimed at solving the problems of strengthening the country's defense capability and improving the professional education of military personnel. Organizationally, academy consists of a command with a management apparatus, a military institute for the engineering troops, 1 branch, faculties, departments, research groups and laboratories, academic courses, doctoral studies, postgraduate studies, units and educational process support services. In all full-time faculties, officers have been trained for 2 years to fill positions in the brigade level.
The academy generally leads the Combined Regiment of the Russian Ground Forces during the Moscow Victory Day Parade on Red Square.
Foreign cadets.
Officers and cadets of foreign armies are trained at special faculties. The term of their training is the same as that of Russian students and cadets, but preliminary. During the year, some of them study the Russian language in a preparatory course. The training of foreign military personnel is carried out in Russian practically according to the same plans and programs as Russian military personnel with restrictions in accordance with the specific bilateral and multilateral agreements that are concluded.
Band.
Band of the Combined Arms Academy was formed in 1998 from Frunze Military Academy Band and the Malinovsky Military Armored Forces Academy Band. This gives the band an over 85-year history. By order of the Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council on 19 December 1931, a military band at the Frunze Military Academy was created. The first artistic director of the band was Colonel V. Gurfinkel. During the Great Patriotic War, many musicians of the band as part of the front-line brigades went to the front with concerts for fighters and commanders of the Red Army. It has performed at the largest concert venues in the capital: including the Kremlin Palace of Congresses, the House of the Unions, and the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall. On the All-Union Radio, the academy band recorded seven discs and over one hundred and twenty works of Soviet and foreign composers. In 1972, the team traveled to Belgium to participate in the celebration of the Independence Day and in 1990 gave a concert on the Champs Elysees in Paris.