St.Petersburg Nakhimov Naval School.The Nakhimov Naval School or simply Nakhimov School is a form of military education for teenagers introduced in the Soviet Union and continued in modern Russia. The school is named after Imperial Russian admiral Pavel Nakhimov. It is a specialised boarding secondary school mostly (but not only) for boys and girls who became orphans; for children of military men who died in action and for children of active military men of russian Army and Navy. Pictured: a boy cadet is helping a girl cadet to plait her hair ( portrait of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is on the back wall).