Polytechnic University in accordance with the Decree of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine signed on March 23, 2011. Until that date the Military Institute, formerly the Ground Forces Institute of Odesa created in the fall of 1992, carried the traditions of the academy. Specialties Training is conducted in 12 military accounting specialties: Mechanized formations Airborne, mountain infantry and marine units Special intelligence Military intelligence Special purpose units (except naval) Special purpose units of the Ukrainian Navy Communication units Material and technical means Food supply Material support Repair of small arms and melee weapons Psychology Cadet activities and traditions On 14 July 2014, a contingent from the academy took part in the Bastille Day military parade dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War in Paris. A group of cadets and military musicians led by Lieutenant Colonel Mykola Konovalyuk took part in parade training for a week prior on the Champs Elysees, with another Ukrainian delegation of seven representatives of the school who speak French and English marching in a color guard procession and participating in other theatrical actions. Cadets of the academy in 2016 took part in the Chișinău Independence Day Parade on Great National Assembly Square. Awards Medal "For the Defence of Odesa" Academy band The Band of the Odesa Military Academy () was established in December 2012 and has its origin from the 9th Military Band of the Soviet Army (established in 1964) and the local Song and Dance Ensemble (established in 1939). In 1988, the former won first place at a Moscow competition of small military bands of the Soviet Armed Forces. The choir group of the ensemble showed their art in 1993 at the Leontovich Choir Competition, where it won the 1st place, and in 1995 the dance group became the Laureate of the International Folk Dance Competition in Samsun, Turkey. Today, the small ensembles that are part of the band include a parade band, a jazz band, a ballet group, brass and chamber quintets as well as a concert band. The band represents the academy at all military occasions and the country at international military festivals. Notable alumni of the academy and its predecessors Mohamed Kahin Ahmed Rovshan Akbarov Oleksiy Arestovych Murat Bektanov Kyrylo Budanov Leonid Maltsev Ivan Panfilov Serhiy Popko External links Official Website References 1865 establishments in the Russian Empire Odesa Military Academy Educational institutions established in