On November 14, 1956, according to a decision of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union, the Military Air Defense Academy was established in Kalinin, the educational process of which began in March 1957.
The first head of the academy was Colonel General Pyotr Grigorievich Shaparnov. In 1974 it was named after G.K. Zhukov. Since 1992, the Air Defense Command Military Academy.
Until recently - the Military University of Air Defense (Tver), and now the Military Academy of Air Defense and Space named after Marshal of the Soviet Union G.K. Zhukov.