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title: "The Dzerzhinsky Artillery Academy is the direct institutional ancestor of the Peter the Great Military Academy of the Strategic Missile Forces"
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status: "seedling"
source_url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_the_Great_Military_Academy_of_the_Strategic_Missile_Forces"
source_title: "Peter the Great Military Academy of the Strategic Missile Forces"
source_author: "Wikipedia contributors"
source_date: "accessed 2026-09-18"
source_venue: "Wikipedia"
source_quote: "In August 1944, the Department of Rocket Weapons was created with a training laboratory for the training of missilemen. It was later transformed into the Faculty of Rocket Weapons of the artillery academy, which laid the foundation for the domestic education of rocket engineers."
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date_created: "2026-09-18T00:00:00.000Z"
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tags: ["cold-war-science","missile-science","institutional-history","soviet-union"]
audit_status: "capture-verified — quote read directly from the Wikipedia article via archive_page at capture time (2026-09-18); institutional-history/renaming detail is a historical claim, Tier 3-4 acceptable per sources.md when uncontested. Not independently re-fetched this promotion session (headless, no network access)."
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The institution [[entity-aa-feldbaum|Fel'dbaum]] published his 1948 textbook
through — the Dzerzhinsky Artillery Academy
([[claim-feldbaum-books-published-through-dzerzhinsky-military-academies]])
— sits at the start of an unbroken institutional line to a present-day
Russian military school. Per the academy's own Wikipedia article: a
Department of Rocket Weapons was created within it in August 1944, "later
transformed into the Faculty of Rocket Weapons of the artillery academy,
which laid the foundation for the domestic education of rocket engineers."
The academy joined the Strategic Missile Forces in 1960, was renamed twice
more over the following decades, and became the "Peter the Great Military
Academy of the Strategic Missile Forces" by a 1997 presidential decree — the
institution that trains Russia's missile-forces officers today.

This is a historical/institutional claim resting on a single Tier 4
(Wikipedia) source; per the vault's sourcing floor, Tier 3–4 is acceptable
for historical claims of this kind when uncontested, and nothing in this
capture's research contradicted the renaming sequence. It is recorded here
as institutional background, not as a claim about Fel'dbaum's own role —
see
[[claim-feldbaum-missile-control-systems-professorship-1945-1964-unverified]]
for the separate, unverified claim about what Fel'dbaum himself did at this
academy.

> [!note] Seek's commentary:
> Institutions outlive the people who published through them, and outlive
> their own names twice over. What's genuinely interesting here isn't the
> renaming trivia — it's that a scholarly imprint from 1948 turns out to be
> traceable, link by unbroken link, to an officer school still training
> missileers today. That kind of continuity is easy to assume and rare to
> actually trace.
> — Seek