| The Ministry of Defense announced the list of selected universities Most of the Russian students said goodbye to guaranteed reservation from the army. The Ministry of Defense published yesterday a list of civilian institutes, academies and universities that will retain military departments after 2008. “The list prepared by our ministry includes only 35 universities of the Ministry of Education and Science, which will train officers for the armed forces,” said Army General Nikolai Pankov, head of the personnel and educational service of the Ministry of Defense. Another 32 universities have the right to train contract officers in so-called military training centers. It will be impossible for graduates of such centers to avoid serving in officer uniform after receiving a diploma - before enrolling, they will sign an obligation to repay their debt to their homeland.
The ground has been being prepared for the reduction of military departments over the past few years. From the lips of Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov and high-ranking generals there were regularly calls to improve the quality of military education and at the same time to eliminate one of the “loopholes for draft dodgers from military service” - otherwise military departments were practically never called by people in uniform. In addition, the Ministry of Defense sought to optimize spending on military education, since the army was wasting resources in civilian universities. The number of storerooms has become excessive. “Today, with an army of one million, we have 3.5 million reserve officers,” said Major General Nikolai Bezborodov, a member of the State Duma Committee on Defense, recently. Inviting his committee colleagues to support the initiative of the Ministry of Defense, he said that the current system of training reserve officers in civilian universities, in force since 1926, is outdated.
In the Soviet years, the creation of military departments corresponded to the then existing views on the future war as a war of mass armies. The military departments of civilian universities trained up to 140 thousand people annually. Today, 170 thousand people are trained at 229 military departments. “Over the years, we have prepared more than one mobilization kit for all military specialties, and for some, from ten to 17 kits,” said Major General Nikolai Bezborodov, a member of the State Duma Committee on Defense.
At the end of June this year, the Ministry of Defense announced a unilateral severance of relations with the Ministry of Education, warning that departments in most universities would be closed. The head of the educational department, Andrei Fursenko, only skeptically noted that if the generals no longer need technically competent specialists, then this is their own business. The minister only emphasized that it is categorically impossible to cancel deferments from the army for students, since interruption of the educational process will negatively affect the quality of education.
Having encountered virtually no resistance from the public, government and legislators, the military went on the offensive. It took the Ministry of Defense two to three months to decide which elite civilian educational institutions should continue with military education. The generals initially intended to offer students the most stringent conditions for studying at military departments, including signing an obligation to serve under a contract upon graduation. However, the final version turned out to be softer: the remaining departments were divided into specializations: some would train reservists who would be called up only in the event of hostilities, others would train contract soldiers for the active army.
Universities where the military department will remain
Altai State Technical University named after. Polzunova (Barnaul)
Baltic State Academy of Fishing Fleet (Kaliningrad)
Volgograd State Agricultural Academy
State University of Land Management (Moscow)
State University - Higher School of Economics (Moscow)
Kazan State Technical University named after. Tupolev
Kazan State Technological University
Kovrov State Technological Academy
Komsomolsk-on-Amur State Technical University
Maritime State University named after Admiral Nevelskoy (Vladivostok)
Moscow State Institute of International Relations
Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov
Moscow Engineering Physics Institute
Moscow State Agricultural Engineering University named after. Goryachkina
Moscow State Institute of Radio Engineering, Electronics and Automation (Technical University)
Moscow State Linguistic University
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (state university)
Maritime State Academy named after. Admiral Ushakov (Novorossiysk)
Novosibirsk State Medical Academy
Russian Academy of Justice (Moscow)
Russian State Medical University (Moscow)
Rostov State Medical University
Samara State Technical University
St. Petersburg State University
St. Petersburg State Electrotechnical University named after. Ulyanova
St. Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics
St. Petersburg State Mining Institute named after. Plekhanov
St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University
Saratov State Technical University
Siberian State University of Telecommunications and Informatics (Novosibirsk)
Tomsk Polytechnic University
Ulyanovsk Higher Aviation School of Civil Aviation
Financial Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation (Moscow)
South Russian State Technical University (Novocherkassk)
South Ural State University (Chelyabinsk)
Universities that will open military training centers for contract soldiers
Baltic State Technical University (St. Petersburg)
Voronezh State University
Far Eastern State Technical University (Vladivostok)
Far Eastern State Transport University (Khabarovsk)
Krasnoyarsk State Technical University
Kuban State Agrarian University (Krasnodar)
Moscow State Medical Academy named after M.I. Sechenov
Moscow State Institute of Electronic Technology (Technical University)
Moscow Automobile and Highway Institute
Moscow State University of Civil Engineering
Moscow State Technical University named after. Bauman
Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography
Nizhny Novgorod State University named after. Lobachevsky
Omsk State Technical University
Penza State University
Russian State Hydrometeorological University (St. Petersburg)
Russian State Technological University named after Tsiolkovsky (Moscow)
Rostov State Transport University
Ryazan State Radio Engineering Academy
Samara State Aerospace University named after. Academician Korolev
Samara State Medical University
St. Petersburg State Marine Technical University
St. Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation
St. Petersburg State University of Telecommunications
Saratov State Medical University
Siberian State Automobile and Highway Academy (Omsk)
Siberian State Medical University (Tomsk)
Taganrog State Technical University
Tolyatti State University
Tomsk State University
Ural State Technical University (Ekaterinburg)
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