The essay tells about one of the oldest schools in the country, which trains officer engineering personnel for the Navy. The book tells about the graduates of the school - talented scientists, shipbuilding engineers, mechanical engineers and electrical engineers, their role in the creation and development of the domestic fleet in the pre-revolutionary years and after the victory of the Great October Revolution, as well as the participation of Dzerzhintsev in the defense of the Motherland during the Great Patriotic War, their role in the creation of the post-war years of the modern Navy and ocean fleet.