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209:. Insofar as the Maritime School of 1881 was not only the start of the Naval Academy, but also a prototype of the modern Engineering Faculty and most departments in it. The Temporary Officer Course of 1893 was a prototype of the modern Navigation Faculty, as well as departments in it such as Naval Tactics Department, Navigation and Fleet And Ports Operation. In fact, the organization of the "Temporary Course" marks the beginning of the historical development of the educational structures training navigational specialists in this country.
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partly in the
Maritime School in Varna and graduated from the Military School in Sofia. The college in Sofia, which later became a tertiary institution in 1923, issued their diplomas insofar as an officer needs to have college education and under the terms of the Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine Bulgaria was allowed to have only one military college.
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In 1942, with a royal decree, the
Maritime School received the status of specialized higher maritime school and the name His Majesty's Naval School. In 1943, a Maritime unit was opened in the Reserve Officer School – Varna, created to His Majesty's Naval School for training of officers of the reserve
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The course trained officers, graduates of the
Military School in Sofia, to acquire naval qualifications, as well as Bulgarian graduates of foreign naval schools who for some reason did not manage to graduate abroad. The participants in the Temporary Officer Course passed and exam and were awarded the
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The
Maritime School was entrusted with the task to train machinists and stokers for the Navy of the principality. After 1883, official documents refer to the school as "Machine School", "Technical School", "Machine Class", but it did not change its status and continued to successfully train technical
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is the training of foreign cadets, an objective criteria for the increased international prestige of the educational institution. The beginning was in 1953 when some Czech students and
Albanian cadets were admitted. By 1994, a total of 141 foreigners from eleven countries on four continents received
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Under the terms of the peace treaty of
Neuilly-sur-Seine, in the spring of 1921, His Majesty's navy was disbanded. But a year earlier, the Engineering School was no longer subordinate to the War Ministry and was renamed Marine Engineering School. Practical parts of the training were conducted in the
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Maritime Special Schools were reorganized and three new units were created: Electrical Engineering, Mechanical and Motor. Their programs (i.e. curricula) were supplemented and improved. The Engineering School and Miner and Stoker School, later renamed Maritime Special Schools, were the
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In the period 1919–1920, the officer training course was not only successfully conducted but also the first graduates, pursuant to Decree of the
Council of Ministers No. 6/ June 1, 1920, were issued a certificate for completed higher specialized naval education "following the full curriculum of the
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December 13, 1916. They had the honour of mastering the new naval equipment: seaplanes and the first Bulgarian submarine. This was the period when French, and then German language studies were introduced and as a result, some of the graduates of the Engineering School to His Majesty's Fleet were
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In 1929, the status of the Marine
Engineering School was set out in a special law and it was renamed Maritime School. Two years later a Seagoing Department was created, which was tasked with training watch officers for the merchant marine. The officers of the Maritime Police Service were trained
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since 2004. The academy takes active role in the development of the organization and supports the development of strategies in maritime education and training (MET). It also serves for two mandates as regional representative for Europe. In addition to that, the academy has hosted some of the
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78/95. In 2001, with a decision of the National Agency for Assessment and Accreditation to the Council of Ministers, it received full accreditation as a university, in accordance with the new Law on Higher Education. In 2000, it received an ISO 9002.4 quality certificate for the discipline
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In 1968, an additional floor was added to the main building on campus. Since 1991, the school's name has been Nikola Vaptsarov Naval Academy. In 2000, the Naval Academy was entered in IMO's White List as an approved provider of maritime education and training, conforming to the
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269:(later renamed Maritime Training Unit). The schools were established in 1912. In 1913 they admitted the first class of 34 cadets. Originally, the Maritime Special Schools consisted of three units: mining and electrical engineering, stoker and steersman. During
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and the duration of training was extended to six years. In 1906 the school issued the first matriculation certificates. In 1910, the first building specially designed and erected for the needs of the Engineering School to His Majesty's Fleet was built in
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first educational institutions in the country which not only trained hundreds of qualified specialists for the needs of the navy and the emerging Bulgarian industry. They became the backbone of the middle technical level personnel in the country.
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and many other places. For a time the school was subordinate to the Ministry of Industry and Labour, and later – to the Ministry of Railways, Communications and Ports. Graduates could continue their studies in all tertiary technical institutions.
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Street. With a Decree of the Presidium of the National Assembly of 1956, it received the status of higher engineering maritime school and was renamed N. Y. Vaptsarov People's Higher Naval School. In 1960, it was entered in the registers of the
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By 1912, the Training Unit included not only the Special Schools, but also the Engineering School to His Majesty's Fleet. In the wars for national unification (1912–1918), graduates of the Training Unit participated in the mine laying and
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arsenals, on board ships, in electrical engineering classrooms, in telephone exchanges, in radio transmitter rooms, in power plants, in railway depots and workshops, on board the destroyers, in Bozhurishte, in the mines in
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At the turn of the 20th century, the Sub-officer Maritime School made a new step forward. In 1900 it was headed by lieutenant Todor Solarov. It was during his time in office that the institution was moved to the city of
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Practically, immediately after the end of the First World War, the Steersman School (unit), part of the Maritime Special Schools, was separated and transformed into Fisherman School, which existed until April 1, 1934.
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Kozhukharov, Asen N. (2011). "Za bylgarite-vyzpitanitsi na italianskoto voennomorsko uchilishte v Livorno" [About the Bulgarians, Graduates of Regia Accademia Navalle (The Italian Naval Academy) in Livorno].
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Kozhukharov, Asen N. (2008). "Za kakvo svidetelstva lichniiat arhiv na edin zabraven vyzpitanik na Morsko uchilishte?" [What Can We Learn From The Personal Archive of a Long-forgotten Naval Academy Cadet?].
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Award for achievements in the framework of the Movement for "Technical and Scientific Creativity of the Navy Youth" (TNTFM, in Bulgarian ТНТФМ), IXth session, 1977, to graduate engineer Atanas Totchkov.
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History has retained the name of the founder of the institution, lieutenant commander Alexander Egorovich Konkevich, "Superintendent" of the Fleet and the Maritime Unit (the official name of the
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In the period 1945–1946, the school was called "Naval People's School to the Maritime Forces", and in 1946–1949 – "People's Naval School". In 1949, the Naval School adopted as its patron
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Kozhukharov, Asen N. (2009). "Za nachaloto na vissheto voennomorsko obrazovanie v Bylgarija" [About the First Steps of the Higher Naval Education in Bulgaria].
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in the large imposing building on Stefan Karadzha Street. That same year, its graduates participated in the assault operation in Balchik during the return of Southern
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ships. Graduating officers for the merchant fleet find their professional career as captains and ship power-plant engineers in foreign countries such as the US,
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Kozhukharov, Asen N. (2012). "Portretyt na kapitan-lejtenant Aleksandyr Konkevich" [The Portrait of Lieutenant Commander Alexander Konkevich].
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committee meetings of IAMU. Students of the academy have attended international student meetings related to popularization of the maritime profession.
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In 1934, the Marine Engineering School was moved into the buildings of the already closed Fisherman School on the island of St. Cyril near the town of
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for all disciplines. In September 2007, at the request of the Defence Minister and with an order of the Minister for Education and Science of
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which trained boatswains, ratings, artillerymen, miners and machinist mates. That same year the first diploma of the naval
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specialists for the Fleet and the Navy. In 1885, graduates of the school fought in the
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to UN, which recognized its diplomas before all ship owners in the world.
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their college diplomas from N. Y. Vaptsarov Naval Academy.
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General Jonas Žemaitis Military Academy of Lithuania
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48:We are children of the sea
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