Preparation for opening Moscow school of mathematics and navigation sciences and the beginning of its activity at the beginning of the XVIII century

The article deals with one of the first military special educational institutions - the Moscow school of mathematical and navigational Sciences, which laid the Foundation of targeted training for the newly created Navy of the Russian state in the early XVIII century. Attention is drawn to the problems faced by state and military figures in the process of organizing the beginning of the school and providing it with all necessary supplies. Special attention is paid to the role of prominent statesman Alexey Kurbatov and famous Russian scientist-mathematician Leontius Filippovich Magnitsky in the formation and development of the article. The author points out that the role of the mathematics and navigation school along with the Moscow artillery and engineering school, created almost simultaneously with the first one, in the formation and development of the Russian system of military special education is very significant and important. Previously unpublished sources are introduced into scientific circulation.