Kiev Suvorov Military School
The Kiev Suvorov Military School was a boarding school in Kiev, the capital of the Ukrainian SSR. It was affiliated to Suvorov Military School in the USSR for military cadets. It was succeeded with the Ivan Bohun Military High School following Ukraine's independence in 1991.History
It was founded in 27 September 1943 as the Kharkov Suvorov Military School. It was located on the Donets near Kharkov's Lenin Square. On 1 July 1947, the school was relocated from Kharkov to Kiev, where it was renamed the Kiev Suvorov Officers School. On 20 September 1943, Major General Pyotr Eremin took over the command of the school. According to the Department of Military Educational Institutions of the Red Army, from 18-20 November 1943, 415 pupils from the Kharkov and Voroshilovgrad regions of the Ukrainian SSR, as well as from Voronezh, Kursk, Tula and the Moscow Oblast of the RSFSR. The school was located in the building of the former 2nd Kiev Red Banner College of self-propelled artillery named after Mikhail Frunze. On 1 August 1955, it was renamed to the Suvorov Military School. In 1992, by the decree of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on 19 August 1992, the Ivan Bohun Military High School was established on the basis of the Kiev Suvorov Military School.
Over the years, 44 graduations of cadets have been conducted. In 1953, cadets of the school marched in the October Revolution Parade on Moscow's Red Square. Prior to that, it had also taken part in the International Workers' Day parade on the square since 1951. On 24 January 2019, the monument to Alexander Suvorov, erected in front of the building of the former school in 1974, was demolished.Heads of the school
