The Riga Higher Military Political School named after Marshal of the Soviet Union Sergey Biryuzov (; ) was a military academy in the Soviet Union located in the capital of the Latvian SSR, the city of Riga. In the years it existed, it trained military personnel in a number of specializations from its headquarters on Ezermalas Street. History The school was the successor to the School of Coastal Defense of the Soviet Navy (named after the Komsomol of Ukraine). It was created on 18 April 1932 by order of the Revolutionary Military Council. The school was originally multi-disciplinary and only began training for communications commanders in 1941. Cadets of a school had participated in a defense of Sevastopol against the german-fascist aggressors, broke off by the rifle and artillery fire their precipitant progression in Crimea since October 1941 till February 14 1942. College warriors joined the 34-th separate marine rifle crew, under a command of the general-major and Hero of the Soviet Union Antonov V. S., and were directed on protection of city Ordjonikidze, where had held a defense in the region of villages Ardon, Dzuerikau along the river Fiagdon with a fight interdiction to enemy armoured forces access to city Ordjonikidze, then to pass through the Saurskoie gorge and by the military-georgian way reach for cities of Baku and Tbilisi since at the turn of the October 1942. The cadets of our school participated in the 34-th marine rifle crew structure and 301-st rifle division in redemption of cities and settlements of Northern Caucasus, Kuban, Donbass, south of Ukraine, had fought in rout of Jassy–Kishinev group of the opponent, finished of the aggressors in terrain of Poland and approaches to Berlin after 1942. It was awarded the Order of the Red Banner by order of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on 22 January 1944. By 1960, the school consisted of personnel of the Strategic Missile Forces. On 6 March 1965, the school was named after Marshal of the Soviet Union Sergey Biryuzov. In 1977, the school became a military-political school. Standard educational buildings, barracks, staff buildings, a canteen, a sports hall and warehouses were located there. In 1986, integrated week long field trips began to be organized as part of the school. In 1991, courses of the political faculties, and the entire command-engineering faculty, except men of graduate course, were transferred to missile schools in