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Military departments of civilian universities (Soviet Union and post-Soviet area)
Soviet military educational units within civilian universities / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The military department (Russian: военная кафедра) is a division within civilian university or other higher education institution, intended for training commissioned officers from among students, widespread in Soviet Union and Post-Soviet states.
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The similar phenomenon known as military faculty (Russian: военный факультет) or faculty of military training (Russian: факультет военного обучения) exists in some post-Soviet states. A faculty of military training is a division within civilian university composed of two or more military departments conducting training in different fields of military science.