Military training centers of civilian universities (Russia)
The military training center (Russian: военный учебный центр) is a division within civilian university or other higher education institution, intended for training commissioned officers from among students, currently widespread in Russian Federation. The abbreviation of military training center is MTC (Russian: ВУЦ).
History
[edit]Military training centers appeared with enactment of the Federal Law of 3 August 2018 No.309-FZ[1] which entered into force on 1 January 2019. Previously existing organizational structures which conducted military training of students of civilian universities were abolished.[2] On 13 March 2019, the list of 93 civilian institutions of higher education with military training centers was approved by Government of Russia.[3][4] The Regulations on the military training centers was approved on 3 July 2019.[5]
Mission
[edit]Military training centers have 2 main functions:[6]
- Training commissioned officers for active duty
- Graduates are commissioned as a lieutenant (after graduation from their civilian university), are exempted from military draft, but under the conditions of the signed contracts, they are obliged to serve in Russian Armed Forces with a mininum service time of three years.
- Training reserve commissioned officers
- Graduates are commissioned as a lieutenant (after graduation from their civilian university), are exempted from military draft, are not to obliged to serve, and are enrolled in the mobilization human resource immediately after a graduation. They can join active duty military service or mobilization human reserve (part-time military service) on a voluntary basis.
Furthermore, some military training centers pursue programmes of training reserve non-commissioned officers and reserve enlisted personnel, which are reduced curriculums compared to officer's programme. These programmes' alumni enter service as a sergeant/1st class petty officer (non-commissioned officer programme) or private/seaman (enlisted personnel programme), are exempted from the military draft, are not to obliged to serve, and are enrolled in the mobilization human resource pool.
Organizational structure
[edit]Typical military training center has following structure:[5]
- Head of military training center
- Deputy head of military training center
- Head of department (each military training center has several departments)
- Chief of educational unit – deputy head of department
- Chief of training cycle – principal teacher (educational unit has 2 cycles minimum)
- leading teachers
- senior teachers
- teachers
- junior teachers
- Chief of training cycle – principal teacher (educational unit has 2 cycles minimum)
- Chief of educational unit – deputy head of department
- Head of educational-methodical division
- personnel of educational-methodical division
- Head of logistic and engineering division
- personnel of logistic and engineering division
- Head of transport and production division
- personnel of transport and production division
- Head of department (each military training center has several departments)
- secretary-clerk
List of Russian civilian institutions of higher education having military training centers
[edit]There are the following civilian institutions of higher education having military training centers in Russia:[3]
Central Military District
[edit]Barnaul
[edit]Chelyabinsk
[edit]Irkutsk
[edit]Kazan
[edit]- Kazan National Research Technical University named after A.N. Tupolev
- Kazan National Research Technological University
Krasnoyarsk
[edit]Kyzyl
[edit]Novosibirsk
[edit]Omsk
[edit]Penza
[edit]Samara Oblast
[edit]Samara
[edit]Tolyatti
[edit]Saratov
[edit]Tomsk
[edit]Ufa
[edit]Ulyanovsk
[edit]Yekaterinburg
[edit]Eastern Military District
[edit]Chita
[edit]Khabarovsk Krai
[edit]Khabarovsk
[edit]Komsomolsk-on-Amur
[edit]Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
[edit]Ulan-Ude
[edit]Vladivostok
[edit]Northern Military District
[edit]Murmansk
[edit]Southern Military District
[edit]Krasnodar Krai
[edit]Krasnodar
[edit]Novorossiysk
[edit]Rostov Oblast
[edit]Novocherkassk
[edit]Rostov-on-Don
[edit]- Don State Technical University
- Rostov State Medical University
- Rostov State Transport University
- Southern Federal University
Stavropol
[edit]Vladikavkaz
[edit]Volgograd
[edit]Sevastopol
[edit]Simferopol
[edit]Western Military District
[edit]Belgorod
[edit]Ivanovo
[edit]Kostroma
[edit]Kursk
[edit]Moscow and Moscow Oblast
[edit]Lyubertsy
[edit]Moscow
[edit]- All-Russian State University of Justitia
- Bauman Moscow State Technical University
- Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation
- First Moscow State Medical University
- Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas
- Higher School of Economics
- Kutafin Moscow State Law University
- Moscow Academy of the Investigative Committee of Russia
- Moscow Automobile and Road Construction State Technical University
- Moscow Aviation Institute
- Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
- Moscow Power Engineering Institute
- Moscow State Institute of International Relations
- Moscow State Linguistic University
- Moscow State University
- Moscow State University of Civil Engineering
- Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography
- Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry
- Moscow Technological University (MIREA)
- National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute)
- National Research University of Electronic Technology
- Russian State Agrarian University - Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy
- Russian State University of Justice
- Russian University of Transport
- State University of Land Use Planning
Nizhny Novgorod
[edit]Petrozavodsk
[edit]Ryazan
[edit]Saint Petersburg
[edit]- Baltic State Technical University
- ITMO University
- Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University
- Russian State Hydrometeorological University
- Saint Petersburg Academy of the Investigative Committee of Russia
- Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University
- Saint Petersburg State Marine Technical University
- Saint Petersburg Mining University
- Saint Petersburg State University
- Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation
- St. Petersburg State University of Telecommunications
- State University of Maritime and Inland Shipping
Tambov
[edit]Tula
[edit]Vladimir Oblast
[edit]Kovrov
[edit]Voronezh
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ О внесении изменений в отдельные законодательные акты Российской Федерации в части совершенствования военной подготовки студентов федеральных государственных образовательных организаций высшего образования (Federal Law 309-FZ) (in Russian). State Duma. 3 August 2018.
- ^ Dolgosheva, Anastasiya (22 February 2019). "Прощай, военная кафедра. Где студента научат Родину защищать". Sankt-Peterburgskie Vedomosti (in Russian).
- ^ a b Order 427-R (in Russian). Government of Russia. 13 March 2019.
- ^ Gavrilov, Yuriy (15 March 2019). "Лейтенант из института. Определены вузы для военной подготовки студентов". Rossiyskaya Gazeta (in Russian).
- ^ a b Об утверждении Положения о военных учебных центрах при федеральных государственных образовательных организациях высшего образования и о признании утратившими силу некоторых актов Правительства Российской Федерации (Decree 848) (in Russian). Government of Russia. 3 July 2019.
- ^ Об определении Порядка приёма и обучения граждан Российской Федерации в военных учебных центрах при федеральных государственных образовательных организациях высшего образования (Order 400) (in Russian). Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation. 26 August 2020.
- ^ The territory of Crimea peninsula is annexed by Russia. Ukraine and the majority of the international community continue to regard this territory as the part of Ukraine but de facto it is under Russian control.