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Former names | Ivan Chernyakhovsky National Defence University of Ukraine (2013–2023) |
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| Type | Military Academy |
| Established | 1914; 111 years ago (1914) |
| Accreditation | Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine |
| Rector | Colonel GeneralMykhailo Koval |
| Location | ,, |
| Website | nuou |
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TheNational Defence University of Ukraine (abbr.NDUU,Ukrainian:Національний університет оборони України,romanized: Natsionalnyi Universytet Oborony Ukrainy) is apublic university of higher military education inUkraine, located in its capital city ofKyiv. Subordinated to theMinistry of Defence of Ukraine, the University trains officers specializing in national defence.
The University was founded in 1992 as the Academy of Ukrainian Armed Forces and later Academy of Defence.
It traces some of its heritage to the Second Kyiv Military Infantry and Nikolaevskoe Artillery schools (Russian:Второе Киевское военное пехотное и Николаевское артиллерийское училища) that were opened in Kyiv duringWorld War I in 1914.
The Kyiv Nikolaevskoe Artillery School was established in the building that today belongs to the Higher Specialized Court of Ukraine (on criminal and civil issues).
With the 1919 Soviet invasion of Ukraine (seeUkrainian–Soviet War), the school was transformed into the Kyiv Artillery courses, while the Infantry School was named after the Workers of RedZamoskvorechye. In May–July 1920 the artillery courses were forced to relocate toPoltava due to advance of Polish-Ukrainian troops andPetr Vrangel's White Armies. In Poltava the courses were merged with the Odesa Artillery courses into the Fourth Kyiv Artillery Courses.
In 1922 the courses were renamed into the Fourth Artillery School and in 1933 were named afterPavel Pavlovich Lebedev, a Russian Hero of theRussian Civil War. In 1935 the school was renamed into the First "Pavel Lebedev" Artillery School and in February 1941 had its honorific changed to the 1st Artillery School "Sergei Kirov" (in honor of the assassinated Chairman of theLeningrad City Party Committee). During theNazi invasion of the Soviet Union, the school was evacuated toKrasnoyarsk and returned to Kyiv on in September 1944. In 1958 it was renamed into the Kyiv Higher Artillery Engineer School and in 1973 into the Kyiv Higher Rocketry Engineer School. In 1974 the school became the Kyiv campus of the Ground Forces Air Defence Military Artillery Academy. In 1977 it was transformed further into the Kyiv Military Academy of Ground Forces Air Defence.[1]
With thefall of the Soviet Union in 1992, the Ground Forces Air Defence Military Academy became the Academy of Ukrainian Armed Forces which in 1999 was renamed into the Ukrainian Academy of Defence. In 2008 the academy was transformed into a university. 5 years later, it was given the honorific of "Ivan Chernyakhovsky", in honor of the Ukrainian-bornSovietgeneral of the army (The youngest ever to hold this rank).[2] This was revoked in June 2023 by PresidentVolodymyr Zelenskyy.[3]
The Department for reserve officers of the National Defence University of Ukraine is recruiting students for training program for reserve officers to military occupational specialties:
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