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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.
Russian institutions designated as an "academy" are post-graduate professional military schools for experienced commissioned officers who graduated from higher military school or military training center within civilian university and have some years of active duty service after graduation.
On 9 December 1992, Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar signed a government decree establishing the academy in the basis of the Central Command and Control Center and the Civil Defense Courses of the RSFSR. In May 1994, the university received the name Academy of Civil Defence of the EMERCOM of Russia. Since January 2016, it has been a Federal State ...
The Russian military education system, inherited from the Soviet Union, trains officer-specialists in narrowly-defined military occupational specialties. [1] Modern Russian military educational institutions conducting commissioning programmes may have different names (academy, institute, higher school), it stems from tradition and has no effect on the content of aforementioned programmes.
The academy trained large numbers of senior commanders and staff officers prior to, and during, the Second World War. From 1941 it became the K. E. Voroshilov Military Academy of the General Staff of the Red Army, and in April 1942 it was named the K. Е. Voroshilov Higher Military Academy, and in 1958 the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR. [2]
Reserve Officer Training in the Soviet Union was established in 1927. [1] According to the Soviet Union Law about compulsory military service of 13 August 1930 No.42/253б, this training was known as higher non-inside-military-unit training, and a list of civilian universities conducting this training was approved by People's Commissariat for Military and Naval Affairs. [2]
The modern university was established on July 20, 1994 on the basis of the unification of the Military-Political Academy and Military Institute. For the first time in one school, the economic, humanitarian, legal and philological areas of officer training were taught at the university level. [3]
The Marshal Semyon Timoshenko Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Defense Military Academy (Военная академия РХБ защиты имени Маршала Советского Союза С. К. Тимошенко) is a military university in Kostroma training officers for service in the Russian NBC Defense Troops of the Russian Ground Forces.