Nakhimov Naval School

The Nakhimov Naval School, named after Admiral Pavel Nakhimov, is a military education institution for teenage boys in Russia. Established during the Soviet era, the first school opened in Tbilisi in 1943 for sons of deceased military personnel and closed in 1955. Other schools were later established in Leningrad (1944) and Riga (1945–1953). Currently, only the St. Petersburg Nakhimov School remains, offering naval officer training, secondary education, and military-style training in national naval traditions. As of 2017, the school has branches in Vladivostok, Murmansk, and Sevastopol, with plans for a branch in Dagestan connected to the Caspian Flotilla announced in 2018. A new branch in Kaliningrad was started in 2019.

The schools have a rich cultural tradition, participating in Victory Day parades with their corps of drums, except St. Petersburg since the 1990s. In 2015, Major General Timur Apakidze was added to the school's honor roll. The general service march is the March of Nakhimovtsev, composed in 1949 by Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi. Students and graduates are known as "Nakhimovites."

Notable alumni include Afro-Russian actor James Lloydovich Patterson from the Riga school and Yuri Pivnev, a long-time head of the Leningrad DOSAAF.