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Military training centers of civilian universities (Russia)

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Military training centers of civilian universities (Russia)
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The military training center (Russian: военный учебный центр) is a division within a civilian university or other higher education institution, intended for training commissioned officers from among students in the Russian Federation. The abbreviation of military training center is MTC (Russian: ВУЦ).

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Column of students of South-West State University marching on the parade ground during military training center's exercises
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History

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]

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Mission

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Military training centers have 2 main functions:[6]

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.
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.

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Organizational structure

Typical military training center has the 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
    • 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
  • secretary-clerk

List of Russian civilian institutions of higher education having military training centers

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There are the following civilian institutions of higher education having military training centers in Russia:[3]

Central Military District

Barnaul

Chelyabinsk

Irkutsk

Kazan

Krasnoyarsk

Kyzyl

Novosibirsk

Omsk

Penza

Samara Oblast

Samara
Tolyatti

Saratov

Tomsk

Ufa

Ulyanovsk

Yekaterinburg

Eastern Military District

Chita

Khabarovsk Krai

Khabarovsk
  • Far Eastern State Transport University
Komsomolsk-on-Amur

Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky

Ulan-Ude

Vladivostok

Northern Military District

Murmansk

Southern Military District

Krasnodar Krai

Krasnodar
Novorossiysk
  • State Maritime University

Rostov Oblast

Novocherkassk
Rostov-on-Don

Stavropol

Vladikavkaz

Volgograd

  • Volgograd State Agrarian University

Territory of Crimea peninsula

Source:[7]

Sevastopol
Simferopol

Western Military District

Belgorod

Ivanovo

Kostroma

Kursk

Moscow and Moscow Oblast

Lyubertsy
  • Russian Customs Academy
Moscow

Nizhny Novgorod

Petrozavodsk

Ryazan

  • Ryazan State Radio Engineering University

Saint Petersburg

Tambov

Tula

Vladimir Oblast

Kovrov
  • Kovrov State Technological Academy

Voronezh

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