The Dzerzhinsky Artillery Academy named after Soviet statesman Felix Dzerzhinsky, who headed a number of early Soviet ministries [People's Commissariats] and who founded the Special Commission to Combat Counter-Revolution and Espionage [VCHK], the forerunner of the Soviet secret police.30.10.1939#491217
Military personnel lining up at the Dzerzhinsky Artillery Academy named after Soviet statesman Felix Dzerzhinsky, who headed a number of early Soviet ministries [People's Commissariats] and who founded the Special Commission to Combat Counter-Revolution and Espionage [VCHK], the forerunner of the Soviet secret police.30.10.1939#491216
The Dzerzhinsky Artillery Academy named after Soviet statesman Felix Dzerzhinsky, who headed a number of early Soviet ministries [People's Commissariats] and who founded the Special Commission to Combat Counter-Revolution and Espionage [VCHK], the forerunner of the Soviet secret police.30.10.1939#491215
First Lieutenant of the Red Army of Workers and Peasants Alexander Chapayev, the son of Russian Civil War hero Vasily Chapayev (1887-1919), lectures cadets at the Podolsk Artillery School in 1939.06.03.1939#5804650
Kremlin cadets of the First Joint Soviet Red Army Military School of the Russian Central Executive Committee. In 1918-1935, the school was located in the Moscow Kremlin.18.04.1925#5479834
First Moscow machine-gun courses for command staff of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. Vladimir Lenin during the parade of the graduates ща the 11th class of graduates of the Moscow machine-gun courses.12.05.1920#3027882
Vladimir Ilich Lenin and Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin with cadets of the First Moscow Soviet Heavy Artillery Commander Courses of the Red Army. April 15, 1919.16.04.1919#5705475
Vladimir Lenin (2 left, first row) and Mikhail Kalinin (3 left, first row) with cadets of the Moscow heavy artillery commander courses.15.04.1919#47815
Red Army commanders - graduates of the 1st Moscow revolutionary machine gun school (later the Moscow Higher Combined-Arms Command School). From September 1918 the school was based in the Kremlin. The State Archive of Film and Photographic Documents.04.09.1918#3064723
Cadets guard members of Provisional Government at Winter Palace on the eve of October 1917 Revolution. 25.10.1917#20518
