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The Naval Academy (Albanian: Akademia e Marinës) was an educational institution based in Vlorë, Albania. It trained officers and non-commissioned officers in the Albanian Navy. Over 1000 cadets graduated from the academy.
It was established on 4 September 1961 as the first naval school in the nation, which was then the People's Republic of Albania.[1][2] It was originally called the School of Navy Officers (Albanian: Shkolla e Lartë e Marinës).[3] It was formed from the first 70 Albanian naval students who returned from the Soviet Union studying at institutions of the Soviet Navy in cities like Baku, Sevastopol, Riga and Leningrad.[1] The building was damaged during the 1997 Albanian civil unrest, only being rebuilt in 1998.[1] It was closed in July 2007 by order of the Ministry of Defense.[1] In 2019, the Albanian government decided to change the ownership of the facility's remnants from the Ministry of Defense to the Municipality of Vlora, in accordance with a decision of February 2017.[4]
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