Nakhimov Black Sea Higher Naval School

The Nakhimov Black Sea Higher Naval School, formally the Black Sea Higher Naval Orders of Nakhimov and the Red Star School named after P. S. Nakhimov (Russian: Черноморское высшее военно-морское орденов Нахимова и Красной Звезды училище имени П. С. Нахимова, romanized: Chernomorskoye vyssheye voyenno-morskoye ordena Nakhimova i Krasnoy Zvezdy uchilishche imeni P. S. Nakhimova), abbreviated as ChVVMU (Russian: ЧВВМУ) is a higher naval education institution in Sevastopol which prepares prospective officers for commissions in the Russian Navy.

The school has existed since 1937, when it was formed as the Second Naval School, to supplement the M. V. Frunze Naval School in training officers for the Soviet Navy. In 1939 it was renamed the Black Sea Naval School, and then the Black Sea Higher Naval School in 1940. With the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, in August and September that year the school was at first evacuated from Sevastopol to Rostov-on-Don, and then disbanded in November 1941. The school was re-established in 1946, and in 1952 was renamed the P. S. Nakhimov Black Sea Higher Naval School.

With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the school became part of the newly-independent state of Ukraine. In 1992, the school was merged with the Sevastopol Higher Naval Engineering School to form the Sevastopol Naval Institute. In 1999, it was renamed the Nakhimov Sevastopol Naval Institute, and then reorganised once more in 2009 as the P.S. Nakhimov Academy of the Naval Forces of Ukraine. Following the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014, the school came under the control of the Russian Armed Forces. Ukrainian cadets and teachers who chose not to remain were evacuated to Odesa, joining the Odesa Maritime Academy as its Naval Faculty. The school was reopened as a Russian educational facility in 2014 as the Nakhimov Black Sea Higher Naval School.