Cadet Corps (Russia)

Female cadets of the Moscow National Pensions School Cadet Corps during the 2015 Moscow Victory Day Parade.

A Cadet corps (Russian: Кадетский корпус, romanizedKadetskiy korpus), historically an admissions-based all-boys military cadets school, prepared boys to become commissioned officers in Imperial Russia. Boys entered a cadet corps between the ages of 8 and 15.