In 2015 Major General Timur Apakidze, a Soviet naval aviation pioneer who had died in a flying accident in 2001, was added to the rolls of the Nakhimov Naval School in perpetuity.[6] The general service march of the schools is the March of Nakhimovtsev (Марш Нахимовцев), written by Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi in 1949.[7] Students at the Nakhimov Naval School and its graduates are known as "Nakhimovites".[8]