On January 6, 1712, Peter I issued a decree establishing the Military Engineering School in Moscow. Now it is the A.F. Mozhaisky, which trains officers for the Space Forces of the Aerospace Forces of the Russian Ministry of Defense. For the birthday of the Academy, the Word and Deed portal has prepared historically

On January 16, 1712, Peter I issued a decree establishing the Military Engineering School in Moscow. Seven years later, the school was transferred to the new capital - St. Petersburg. For more than three centuries of history, this institution has changed its name and direction of activity several times. Now it is the A.F. Mozhaisky, which trains officers for the Space Forces of the Aerospace Forces of the Russian Ministry of Defense. For the birthday of the Academy, the Word and Deed portal prepared a historical essay.

Interestingly, the father of the Russian aircraft industry, Alexander Fedorovich Mozhaisky (1825-1890), has nothing to do with the academy. He graduated from the Naval Cadet Corps and served in the Navy all his life, rising to the rank of Rear Admiral. Mozhaisky was a talented marine engineer - several ships were built according to his drawings. He will build the plane, being already retired.

Under Empress Elizabeth Petrovna, the Engineering School was merged with the Artillery School, and the combined educational institution was named the Artillery and Engineering Nobility School. Under Catherine II, it was transformed into the Artillery and Engineering Cadet Corps of the nobility.

Distinguished Alumni

Among the graduates of the school there are outstanding historical figures

Mikhail Illarionovich Golenishchev-Kutuzov (1747-1813)

Perhaps the most outstanding graduate of this educational institution is commander Mikhail Illarionovich Golenishchev-Kutuzov. His father, Illarion Matveyevich, taught artillery science at this school. Natural talent allowed Mikhail Illarionovich to complete the course in a year and a half instead of the prescribed three. After graduation, he stays at the school where he teaches mathematics. The military merits of Kutuzov are well known, and their detailed presentation would take several volumes.

Fyodor Fyodorovich Buksgevden (1750-1811)

Fedor Fedorovich Buksgevden, while still a cadet, participated in the Russian-Turkish war of 1768-1774, where he distinguished himself in the battle near Bendery. Then he went through the Russian-Swedish war of 1788-1790. Participated in the Polish campaign of 1793-1794 as commander of an infantry division. In the battle of Austerlitz, he was able to withdraw his units from the encirclement. In 1808-1809, during the last Russian-Swedish war in history, Fedor Fedorovich was already in command of the entire active army and annexed Finland to Russia.

Pyotr Petrovich Konovnitsyn (1764-1822)

A participant in the Patriotic War of 1812, Count Pyotr Petrovich Konovnitsyn rose to the rank of Minister of War. During the Patriotic War, Kutuzov appointed Konovnitsyn as the duty general of the headquarters of the Russian army. All military correspondence between Kutuzov and his subordinate commanders passed through Pyotr Petrovich. This is how two graduates of the famous military school ended up in the war side by side.

Alexey Andreevich Arakcheev (1769-1834)

The son of a poor landowner, Alexei Andreevich Arakcheev (1769-1834), thanks to his natural talents and excellent education in the future Mozhaika, made a brilliant military career from a cadet to the Minister of War, in whose position he held from 1808 to 1810. Arakcheev perfectly organized the supply of the army, without which victories in the Russian-Swedish war of 1808-1809 and in the Patriotic War of 1812 would have been impossible. Aleksey Andreevich mercilessly fought bribes in his department, immediately dismissing the guilty. It is clear that by doing this he made many enemies who coined the term "Arakcheevshchina". In fact, Arakcheev was the most talented organizer and one of the most effective administrators in Russian history.

Alexander Dmitrievich Zasyadko (1774-1837)

But not only feats of arms and organizational work glorified their alma mater graduates of the Artillery and Engineering Cadet Corps. They also have important inventions to their credit. One of the graduates, Alexander Dmitrievich Zasyadko, will lay the foundation for the national rocket business. Missiles designed by Zasyadko flew 6 km, and the British ones only 2700 meters. He also invented the prototype of the famous Katyusha - an installation that could fire six rockets in one salvo. Rocket weapons played a decisive role in 1828 during the siege of the Turkish fortress of Brailov. This was the first combat use of missiles, showing the enormous potential of this weapon.

teachers

The scientific achievements of the graduates of the Corps would not have been possible without their brilliant teachers. Over the years, outstanding minds of Russia gave lectures to cadets. Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov lectured on physics in 1758. And in 1861, the Cadets learned the basics of chemistry from Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev himself, the discoverer of the periodic law. In 1850-1855, Russian literature within the walls of the then 2nd Cadet Corps was taught by the Russian utopian philosopher, revolutionary democrat, scientist, literary critic, publicist and writer Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the corps taught the Law of God, the Russian language with Church Slavonic and Russian literature, French and German, mathematics, basic information on natural history, physics, cosmography, geography, history, the basics of jurisprudence, calligraphy and drawing. In addition, there were extra-curricular subjects: drill, gymnastics, fencing, swimming, music, singing and dancing.

In Soviet times, this educational institution, which often changed its name, continued the traditions of the pre-revolutionary cadet corps, but changed direction. Now it was not an artillery school, but a higher military educational institution that trained officers for the air force.

On March 19, 1955, the Leningrad Red Banner Air Force Engineering Academy, as the successor to the Military Engineering School was then called, received the name of A.F. Mozhaisky. By this time, the academy had completed 736 research papers, produced 21 doctors of science and 413 candidates.

During the existence of the academy as a forge of personnel for the Soviet air force, it produced many outstanding pilots. Let's recall some of them.

Anatoly Vasilyevich Lyapidevsky (1908-1983)

Anatoly Vasilyevich Lyapidevsky graduated from the Leningrad Military Theoretical School of the Air Force in 1927, and then from the Sevastopol School of Naval Pilots. In 1934, he participated in an operation to rescue passengers and crew of the Chelyuskin steamer, crushed by Arctic ice. Lyapidevsky made 29 sorties. Together with other pilots, he saved all 102 people who had been drifting on an ice floe for two months. For his courage, Anatoly Vasilyevich was the first to be awarded the recently introduced title of "Hero of the Soviet Union" with the award of the Gold Star No. 1 medal.

Vladimir Konstantinovich Kokkinaki (1904-1985)

Vladimir Konstantinovich also graduated from the Leningrad Military Theoretical School of the Air Force and became a test pilot. He has 22 different altitude and distance records. Among them are a non-stop flight from Moscow to the Far East with a length of 7580 kilometers and a non-stop flight from Moscow to North America with a length of 8000 kilometers. Vladimir Konstantinovich rose to the rank of Major General of Aviation and was twice awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

Vladimir Alexandrovich Sudets (1904-1981)

In 1927 he graduated from the military-technical school of the Air Force. Member of the Soviet-Finnish war of 1939-1940. and the Great Patriotic War, where he commanded various air armies with the rank of Colonel General of Aviation. At the very end of the war, Sudets received the title of "Hero of the Soviet Union". In 1955, he became an air marshal and took the position of commander of long-range aviation, and later commanded the country's air defense and served as deputy minister of defense of the USSR. All his three sons also devoted their lives to military aviation.

space age

In the late 1950s, the teaching of space sciences and space technology began at the Mozhaisky Academy. In 1960, the academy was transferred from the subordination of the Air Force to the control of the Strategic Missile Forces. A year later, the first graduation of specialists for the Strategic Missile Forces took place. Since then, the activities of the academy have been inextricably linked with the rocket and space industry.

Within the walls of the academy, by the joint work of cadets and teachers, several spacecraft were designed under the general name "Mozhaets". The first of them was assembled in 1995, but did not fly into space, but was used for educational work. Mozhaets-2 was launched into space in 1997. The third and fourth satellites of this series were launched in 2002 and 2003. The launch of these devices allowed the cadets not only to acquire the skills to control spacecraft from the academic control center, but also to conduct scientific experiments in orbit.

Not only satellites are launched into space by students and graduates of the Academy. Some even fly.

Yuri Georgievich Shargin (born 1960)

Yuri Georgievich Shargin, Colonel of the Space Forces, in 2004, as a flight engineer of the Soyuz TMA-5 spacecraft, flew as part of the seventh visiting expedition to the International Space Station. In 2005 he was awarded the title of "Hero of Russia".

On September 22, 1994, by decree of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation No. 311, the succession of the Military Space Engineering Academy. A.F. Mozhaisky (then name) and the Military Engineering School, which was established by Peter I. This decree decided to consider January 16 as the day the academy was founded. By popularity Military Space Academy. A.F. Mozhaisky takes 44th place in the whole country, 5th in St. Petersburg and 2nd among military educational institutions.

The A.F. Mozhaisky Military Space Academy is one of the oldest military universities in the country. It traces its history back to the first Military Engineering School, established by decree of Peter the Great on January 16, 1712. It was the first military educational institution in Russia that provided polytechnic education. In 1800, the Military Engineering School was transformed into the Second Cadet Corps. Other military educational institutions of Russia were formed in his likeness.

At the beginning of the 19th century, the cadet corps turned into the largest center in the empire for training artillery and engineering officers for the Russian army, which entered into a long period of wars with Napoleonic France. The level of training of officers in the corps allowed them to successfully carry out the most complex combat missions. This is evidenced by the resounding victories of the Russian army.

According to official data, of all the officers of the guards, field and horse artillery who took part in the hostilities against the French, about 70% were graduates of the Second Cadet Corps, including the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Army, Field Marshal General, His Serene Highness Prince M.I. Golenishchev-Kutuzov; generals K.F. Levenshtern, V.G. Kostenetsky, L.M. Yashvil, who at various times commanded the artillery of the entire Russian army, and others.

The cadet corps entered the new 20th century with a structure that differed little from that which existed at the time of its creation. The cadets were divided into companies, which were placed in separate locations and subdivided into squads. The corps taught: the Law of God, the Russian language with Church Slavonic and Russian literature, French and German, mathematics, basic information on natural history, physics, cosmography, geography, history, the basics of jurisprudence, calligraphy and drawing. In addition, there were extra-curricular subjects: drill, gymnastics, fencing, swimming, music, singing and dancing. Upon successful completion of the full course of study, the cadet had the right to enter a military school free of charge.

On January 31, 1910, an event of historical significance for the cadet corps took place. In the Highest Command of Emperor Nicholas II, it was announced: “Due to the succession established by historical data of the Second Cadet Corps from the Engineering School established by Emperor Peter I on January 16, 1712 in Moscow, the Sovereign Emperor, on January 31 of this year, deigned to give the highest command to the Second Cadet Corps seniority from the date of the establishment of the named school, that is, from January 16, 1712. In accordance with the emperor's order, since 1912 the corps became known as the Second Cadet Corps named after Peter the Great.

The revolution of 1917 put an end to the existence of the Second Cadet Corps. The provisional government made an unsuccessful attempt to reform the cadet corps in Russia, and in the plans for the military development of the Soviet government there was no place at all for the old system of military education, of which the Second Cadet Corps had been an integral part for two centuries. By order of the People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs No. 11 of November 14, 1917, admission to all military educational institutions was stopped.

After the October Revolution of 1917, two Air Force military educational institutions were located in the buildings of the former Second Cadet Corps - the Military Technical School of the Red Air Fleet and the Military Theoretical School of the Red Air Fleet. In educational institutions, officers were trained for the Air Force of the Red Army. In different years, the famous aviators and Heroes of the Soviet Union A.V. Lyapidevsky, N.P. Kamanin, G.F. Baidukov, V.A. Kokkinaki, M.T. Slepnev.

By order of the People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR No. 0812 dated March 27, 1941, the Leningrad Air Force Academy of the Red Army was established on the basis of the schools of the Red Air Fleet. With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, only in 1941, the academy managed to complete three graduations and provide the front with 246 qualified engineers, and during the war years the academy trained about 2,000 military aviation specialists. Nine graduates of the academy during the Great Patriotic War became Heroes of the Soviet Union.

On March 19, 1955, by order of the Minister of Defense of the USSR, the Leningrad Air Force Academy of the Red Army was named after Alexander Fedorovich Mozhaisky.

In 1960, the academy began training officers-specialists in the operation of rocket and space technology.

By order of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation of September 22, 1994 No. 311, the succession of the academy and the Engineering School established by Peter I was established and determined.

In the light of the ongoing reform of the military education system of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, large-scale structural changes have been carried out at the academy.

The academy is currently:

• full military-special training of officers at nine faculties in 39 military specialties and 1 specialization
• secondary military special training of sergeants (foremen) of contract service - 1 military specialty out of 6 available in the license;
• professional retraining and advanced training of military specialists in 94 specialties (including 10 specialties of higher military operational-tactical training), as well as retraining of military personnel transferred to the reserve, on the basis of higher professional education - in 30 specialties and on the basis of secondary vocational education - in 4 specialties.

Faculty of Aircraft Design

On March 27, 1941, on the basis of the Institute of Engineers of the Civil Air Fleet, as part of the Leningrad Air Force Academy of the Red Army, a mechanical faculty was formed - Faculty No. 1.

From the first days of its formation, it was awarded the title "engineering". It is this faculty throughout its history that has been and remains decisive in the affiliation and direction of the academy.

The faculty prepares cadets in 5 specialties, which fully cover the system of space vehicles operation. It consists of 6 departments:

• Department of quality control and testing of weapons, military and special equipment;
• Department of spacecraft and means of interorbital transportation;
• Department of Design of Launch Vehicles;
• department of starting and technical complexes;
• department of refueling equipment;
• Department of navigation and ballistic support for the use of CS and the theory of flight of aircraft.

Today, the scientific potential of the faculty is 11 doctors of technical sciences, 9 professors, 47 candidates of technical sciences, 25 associate professors, 3 honorary workers of higher professional education of the Russian Federation, one honored worker of science of the Russian Federation.

The faculty is rightly proud of its graduates. Among them are the head of the Federal Space Agency, General of the Army Vladimir Alexandrovich Popovkin, the first cosmonaut of the Space Forces, Hero of Russia, Colonel Yuri Georgievich Shargin, chiefs and deputy chiefs of cosmodromes, leading researchers of the Research Institute of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

Today, the faculty solves complex problems. Third generation programs are being formed. New training standards are being developed. The educational material base is being modernized.

Faculty of Control Systems for Rocket and Space Complexes

Since the formation of the Space Forces, the faculty has been training specialists for the launch and control of orbital constellations.

At present, the Faculty of Control Systems for Rocket and Space Complexes has five departments:

• Department of Autonomous Control Systems;
• Department of on-board electrical equipment and power systems of aircraft;
• Department of Management of Organizational and Technical Systems of Space Purpose;
• Department of onboard information and measuring systems;
• Department of Automated Systems for the Preparation and Launch of Space Rockets.

The faculty provides training for VKO in four specialties:

1. Aircraft control systems.
2. Application of launch units.
3. Operation of automated systems for the preparation and launch of rockets and spacecraft.
4. Operation of optical and optoelectronic means of space vehicles.

The scientific and pedagogical team includes 6 Doctors of Science and 50 Candidates of Science. The academic title of professor is 6, associate professor - 27 teachers. This ensures a high level of educational, methodological and research work.

Honorary professors of the academy work at the faculty: Ponomarev Valentin Mikhailovich - Doctor of Technical Sciences, professor, colonel, head of the department; Smirnov Valentin Vladimirovich - Honored Worker of Science of the Russian Federation, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Colonel, Head of the Department; Luchko Sergey Viktorovich - Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Colonel, Head of the Department.

Faculty of radio-electronic systems of space complexes

The faculty was established on January 17, 1946 on the basis of the faculty of electrical special equipment, which by that time had already trained officers - specialists in aviation radio equipment.

Currently, the faculty has 6 departments:

• transmitting, antenna-feeder devices and means of SEV,
• space radio engineering systems,
• space radar and radio navigation,
• telemetric systems and complex information processing,
• Department of Networks and Communication Systems of Space Complexes,
• receiving devices and radio automatics.

In the field of creation and use of small spacecraft, the faculty has a priority in the creation of educational and experimental spacecraft of the "Mozhaets" series and the development of programs for conducting space experiments with them to develop and test elements of advanced space systems.

The faculty is equipped with all airborne and ground information and telemetry facilities that are in service with the Aerospace Defense

Faculty members are permanent members of the working group on the development of new navigation signals for the upgraded GNSS GLONASS.

The scientific schools of the faculty cover the fundamental and most science-intensive areas of space radio electronics. Over the years of the faculty's existence, 35 Doctors of Science and more than 180 Candidates of Science have been trained in these scientific schools. The scientific potential of the faculty is 57 candidates and 4 doctors of science.

Faculty of Ground Space Infrastructure

On March 27, 1941, the Leningrad Air Force Engineering Academy of the Red Army was established, as part of which the faculty of airfield construction was organized.

Currently, in the context of the reform of the army and the transition to training according to new educational standards, the faculty is faced with new tasks in training personnel for the updated Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and retraining military personnel transferred to the reserve. Military engineers are trained in the following specialties:

1. Operation and design of buildings and structures.
2. Operation of technical systems and life support systems of ground and underground facilities of the RSC.
3. Heat and gas supply and ventilation.
4. Operation of power supply facilities for special purposes.

The departments of the faculty have carried out a large number of research projects aimed at improving the methods of designing and using buildings, structures and their engineering equipment.

The educational and material base includes an educational and laboratory base at the faculty and a field training base at the BOUP.

On the basis of providing the educational process, there is an educational engineering town with fragments of fortification structures, engineering barriers and camouflage of combat positions, and an energy test site.

One of the outstanding graduates of the faculty is Krylov Nikolai Alekseevich, the founder of the Russian scientific school of non-destructive testing in construction.

The scientific and pedagogical team includes 4 doctors of sciences and 56 candidates of sciences. The academic title of professor has - 6 teachers, associate professor - 22 teachers.

Faculty of Information Collection and Processing

It was formed in 1977 on the basis of the Faculty of Applied Space Physics and Meteorology of the Military Engineering Red Banner Institute named after A.F. Mozhaisky as part of 5 military-special departments and a training military geophysical observatory.

Currently, the faculty trains cadets in 5 specialties:

1. Optoelectronic controls
2. Technologies and means of geophysical support for troops
3. Engineering analysis
4. Space electronic control
5. Integrated electronic control.

4 scientific schools have been formed and are actively functioning: the scientific school of military applied geophysics, the scientific school on the theory of the effectiveness of targeted processes, the scientific school on optical-electronic means of control and image processing, the scientific school on radio engineering systems for monitoring and analyzing information. Within the framework of these scientific schools, 44 doctors of science and more than 200 candidates of military, technical, physical, mathematical and geographical sciences have been trained.

During the existence of the faculty, 74 people graduated from it with a gold medal. From year to year, cadets of the faculty win prizes at regional and all-Russian competitions for the best student scientific work.

The faculty currently employs two Honored Workers of Science and Technology, one Honored Inventor, 3 Doctors and 35 Candidates of Military, Technical, Physical, Mathematical and Geographical Sciences.

Graduates of the faculty at one time were: Hero of Russia, laureate of the State Prize Chairman of the State Technical Commission under the President of the Russian Federation Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Colonel General S. I. Grigorov, as well as the head of the A.F. Ph.D., Professor, Major General S.S. Suvorov.

Faculty of Information Support and Computer Engineering

The faculty is designed to train officers in specialties covering the field of information and technical support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

The faculty includes:

• Department "Systems for collecting and processing information";
• Department of Information and Computing Systems and Networks;
• Department of "Mathematical and software";
• Department of "Complexes and means of information security";
• Department of Information and Analytical Work.
• subject-methodical commission "Psychological actions".

The main directions of scientific and educational activities of the faculty are:

1. Information support for the use of the RF Armed Forces;
2. Technologies for the use of computer systems and networks of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation;
3. Information and analytical work;
4. Substantiation of tactical and technical requirements for computer systems and networks of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation;
5. Development of software and algorithmic support for computing systems and networks of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation;
6. Technologies of computer and information security;
7. Computer simulation of combat operations.

The scientific and pedagogical potential of the faculty is 10 doctors of science, 63 candidates of science. Of these, 3 Honored Workers of Science, 8 professors, 31 associate professors.

Honored professors of the academy work at the faculty: Yury Grigoryevich Rostovtsev - Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Doctor of Technical Sciences, author of more than 200 scientific and educational works; Ryzhikov Yuri Ivanovich - Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Doctor of Technical Sciences, author of 260 scientific and educational works.

Faculty of topographic and geodetic support and cartography

In 2006 the Military Space Academy named after A.F. Mozhaisky included the Military Institute (topographic), transformed from the Military Topographic Institute named after A.I. Antonov.
In 2011, the Military Institute as part of the VKA named after A.F. Mozhaisky was reorganized into the 7th faculty of Topographic and Geodetic Support and Cartography.

The faculty trains cadets in the following specialties: Secondary vocational education - Applied geodesy (Operation of geodetic equipment). Higher professional education:

• Astronomical geodesy (Application of geodetic units and operation of geodetic equipment).
• Aerial photography (Application of topographic units and operation of topographic equipment).
• Cartography (Application of cartographic units and operation of cartographic equipment).

The faculty also provides advanced training for specialists of the Topographic Service of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and retrains discharged military personnel for a new type of activity in the field of cadastral relations and the operation of geodetic equipment.

Graduates Kudryavtsev M.K., Byzov B.E., Nikolaev L.S., Losev A.I., Khvostov V.V., Filatov V.N. in different years they went from a cadet to the head of the Topographic Service of the Armed Forces.
Among the graduates are the Chief of Staff of the Logistics of the Leningrad Military District, Major General Santalov V.D., Head of the Main Directorate of Geodesy and Cartography under the Council of Ministers of the USSR, Major General Zhdanov G.D.

Faculty of Rocket and Space Defense

The faculty was established by the Order of the Minister of Defense of Russia dated July 12, 2011 on the basis of two former structural units of the A.F. Mozhaisky Military Space Academy: the military institute of systems and means of providing troops in the city of Pushkin and the branch of the academy in the urban-type settlement of Kubinka. Both structural divisions of the academy have long been important elements of the personnel training system for the country's Air Defense Forces, the Strategic Missile Forces and the Space Forces.

Currently, the faculty organizes the training of officers for the Aerospace Defense Forces of Russia and other departments in the direction of training "Radio Engineering" in the specialty "Special Radio Engineering Systems". The main military training specialties are: "Application and operation of missile attack warning systems", "Application and operation of anti-missile defense systems" and "Application and operation of anti-space defense and control of outer space". The main customer of the specialists is the troops of the Russian Aerospace Defense.

The faculty employs four doctors and 28 candidates of sciences, three of which have the academic title of professor, 13 have the academic title of associate professor, and two are senior research fellows. Two teachers are honorary workers of higher professional education of the Russian Federation.

Among the graduates of the faculty there are many military leaders and prominent scientists: Colonel General E.S. Yurasov, lieutenant general G.V. Kisunko, N.S. Zaitsev, V.V. Artemiev, A.K. Efremov, M.M. Kucheryavy, A.I. Ilyin and others.

The glorious past of the faculty, its traditions, the accumulated experience in organizing the educational process, modern educational and laboratory facilities, high qualification of teachers - all this is the main prerequisites and conditions for the successful solution of the tasks of modern military reform, the main content of which is the creation of a mechanism for ensuring the country's security and effective military construction.

Faculty of automated command and control systems

• Department of System Analysis and Mathematical Support of ACS (troops),
• Department of Technologies and Means of Technical Support and Operation of ACS (troops)
• Department of technology and means of complex processing and transmission of information to automated control systems (by troops),
• Department of ACS of space complexes,
• Department of ACS PRO.

The faculty trains cadets in 10 specialties:

• Mathematical support of automated control systems for space vehicles
• Application and operation of automated systems for special purposes;
• Mathematical support of automated control systems for space vehicles;
• Informatics and Computer Engineering;
• Automated information processing and control systems;
• Computers, complexes, systems and networks;
• Software for computer technology and automated systems;
• Maintenance of computer equipment, computer networks;
• Application and operation of automated systems for special purposes.

A scientific school of automation of management of complex organizational systems has been created at the faculty. In total, over the years of the existence of this scientific school, 8 doctors and 66 candidates of sciences have been trained.

Faculty of retraining and advanced training

On June 29, 1941, on the basis of the directive of the General Staff of the Red Army, a 3-month training course for engineers was created. Over the many years of its existence, this unit has undergone many changes and reorganizations, as a result of which, on September 1, 2009, a faculty for retraining and advanced training was created with a new staff structure.

Currently, the faculty is engaged in the retraining of officers with higher military operational-tactical training in 11 specialties. Raising the qualifications of specialists from the troops in 85 specialties.

Professional retraining of retired servicemen:

• with higher education in 30 specialties;
• with secondary education in 9 specialties and in three working specialties.

The faculty trains specialists for the East Kazakhstan region, the Topographic Service of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and other central military command and control bodies. Classes are conducted by the teaching staff of all faculties of the academy and general academic departments.

During the existence of the faculty (academic courses), more than 20,000 specialists have been retrained and improved their skills. In 2009-2011, 802 officers underwent advanced training for military specialists of the types and branches of the armed forces. 969 people underwent professional retraining of retired servicemen.

Military Institute (research)

In accordance with the requirements of the time and the tasks facing the academy, all the previously scattered scientific divisions of the academy since July 15, 2009 have been merged into a newly formed division - the Military Institute (research).

At present, the structure of the scientific component of the academy meets the needs of the time as much as possible. The personnel of the institute's subdivisions is engaged in the production of scientific and technical products in current and promising areas of scientific research.

The basis of the scientific potential of VINI is 115 candidates and 31 doctors of science. The title of professor has 18 people, associate professor -19.

To conduct research, the institute has unique samples of laboratory, experimental and modeling facilities, such as:

• experimental ballistic stand
• radar measuring complex "Tsunami-3";
• integrated aircraft laboratory "PHOTON";
• stands for studying the impact of outer space factors on RKT objects;
• background-target environment models.

The main tasks of the Institute are:

• military-scientific support of research and development work;
• carrying out flight and experimental work in the interests of the types and branches of the troops;
• release of a system of initial data to support work on the creation of space weapons for the period up to 2015;
• participation in the working group on the GLONASS system;
• fulfillment of operational tasks of military command and control bodies.

Thanks to the scientific potential of the institute, the capabilities of the laboratory and experimental base, and also taking into account the prospects for the construction of the Armed Forces and the improvement of the means of armed struggle, a significant expansion of the spectrum of the use of forces and means of VINI has been achieved.

Base for the educational process

The main task of the base is to ensure the educational process and scientific research at the field training and material base of the academy. The educational process support base (Lekhtusi village) provides practical training for cadets and students in operational-tactical, tactical-special, military-technical, military-special and general military disciplines in all training specialties established for the academy in the scope of existing curricula and programs, as well as conducting related scientific research. It is located in the village of Lekhtusi, Vsevolozhsk district. The total area of ​​the base is more than 900 hectares.

The base is used when carrying out:

• practical and group classes on the operation of space assets, life safety, military topography, fire training, management of the daily activities of units and other disciplines;
• tactical and special classes and exercises;
• operational practice and military training;
• applied scientific research;
• field exits;
• recruitment of applicants;
• basic military training.

The base is equipped with:

• workplaces for training combat crews for the preparation and launch of ILV and spacecraft control;
• test site;
• tactical training field;
• military shooting range;
• chemistry campus;
• combined-arms and assault firing obstacle courses;
• structures and landfills according to the rules and security measures, engineering facilities;
• a sports town with a football field and running tracks.

The field base facilities are equipped in accordance with the requirements of the Order of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation of 2010 No. 150, provided with the required samples of weapons and military equipment, simulators; equipped with management, communication and control tools for the implementation of curricula and programs. The available weapons and military equipment, simulators, classrooms are maintained in working condition and provide the required throughput for high-quality practice of the tasks of practical training of students and cadets in the time allotted by the curriculum.

Educational and methodical work

Educational and methodological work is the most important part of the educational process in the academy. It includes the organization and conduct of all types of training sessions, current monitoring of progress, intermediate and final certification of students, improving the methodology and improving the quality of training sessions, raising the professional level of the management and scientific and pedagogical staff of the academy.

The main tasks of educational and methodological work are:

• training of officers with higher professional education, sergeants with secondary professional education, scientific, pedagogical and scientific personnel of the highest qualification for the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and other federal executive bodies;
• professional retraining and advanced training of military and civilian personnel;
• meeting the needs of students in intellectual, cultural and moral development through higher, secondary and (or) postgraduate professional education.

The Academy has a license for the right to conduct educational activities and a certificate of state accreditation for training specialties, determined by order of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation.

State requirements for the minimum content and level of training of graduates in all training specialties are established by state educational standards and qualification requirements for military professional training of graduates, on the basis of which curricula and curricula have been developed.

The most important events in educational and methodological work in 2011:

• the 83rd graduation of officers was held: 907 graduates successfully passed the final certification, of which 838 cadets, 40 students, 29 foreign military personnel. At the same time, 86 graduates received diplomas with honors, and 13 of them were awarded gold medals;
• 553 military specialists were trained at the faculty of retraining and advanced training;
• approved by the Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation 7 Federal State Educational Standards (FSES) of the new generation out of 28 entrusted to the development of military universities. On September 1, the academy began teaching the 1st courses according to the new Federal State Educational Standards.

Educational work

An integral part of the educational activities of the academy and one of the main activities of all officials of the university is educational work. Educational tasks are successfully solved in the course of the educational process, everyday military service, joint educational, scientific work and other activities of the permanent and variable composition of the university.

The academy annually holds a set of organizational, technical, informational, propaganda, cultural and leisure activities for the patriotic education of military personnel.

Since 2010, it has become traditional for personnel to take part in the Victory parades on Palace Square in St. Petersburg and Red Square in the capital of our Motherland, the Hero City of Moscow.

In order to improve the quality of outreach work with personnel, in 2010 the weekly radio newspaper "Altair" and the monthly all-academic printed newspaper "Vestnik Akademii" were published. This made it possible to cover events in the life of the academy, divisions, departments more widely and more quickly, to bring information about the work of the academic council of the academy, the tasks solved by the academy, and the prospects for its development.

Cadets and officers take an active part in the cultural and social life of the city of St. Petersburg and the Petrogradsky district. The participation of cadets in the festival of patriotic song "Songs of Victory", held by the city administration, has become traditional. The staff of the academy takes an active part in events held by municipal councils, the city government and the administration of the Petrogradsky district as part of the celebration of Victory Day, youth festivals and holidays.

Close cooperation has been established with the State Chapel, the Russian Museum, the Big and Small Philharmonic Halls, and the Mariinsky Theatre. For the first time since 2010, groups of our cadets began to visit the expositions of the A.V. Suvorov, museum-palace A.D. Menshikov, the Hermitage Theater and the Opera of St. Petersburg, the historical complex of the Peter and Paul Fortress and St. Isaac's Cathedral.

A great deal of work on the patriotic education of personnel is carried out by the staff of the historical and memorial hall of the academy. The museum, founded in 1966, still remains the place where meetings of alumni of the Academy of different years often take place.

sports work

The main role in the organization of physical training and sports at the Academy is played by the Department of Physical Training. Established in March 1941, the department has always set itself the task of ensuring the high physical readiness of the military personnel of the Academy in the performance of their duty to defend the Motherland.

The team of the Department of Physical Training and Sports has won a well-deserved authority. This is evidenced by the high rates of physical training and mass sports work in the unit.

The academy has trained tens of thousands of highly qualified, physically hardened officers for the Armed Forces.

In the army, academy graduates continue to pass on to their subordinates the knowledge and skills acquired at the academy in physical training classes.

Over the past years, physical training and sports at the academy have achieved significant development. Sport has become widespread and has firmly entered the study, life and life of cadets. Spartakiads are held among faculties, courses and permanent staff. The Academy participates in all competitions of the city, district, Space Forces, Armed Forces, Europe and the World.

For success in sports, the academy was awarded many challenge prizes, 86 of which were left to it for permanent storage. Over the years of the academy's existence, more than 250 masters of sports of the USSR have grown up in it.

The teachers of the department are the authors of many printed works on the theory and practice of physical culture and sports. These works were of great importance for the development of physical training and sports at the academy and were highly appreciated in other universities and military units of the RF Ministry of Defense.

The staff of the department includes five candidates of pedagogical sciences, one professor, three associate professors, two honored masters of sports, one international class master of sports, 12 masters of sports, two honored coaches of Russia, eight excellent students of physical culture and sports.

At present, the staff of the Department of Physical Training and Sports continues to maintain glorious traditions and successfully solves the problems of further improving physical training and sports at the Academy.

Military Space Academy

named after A. F. Mozhaisky

(VKA)

International name:

Mozhaisky Military Space Academy

Year of foundation :

Head of the Academy:

Major General Penkov Maxim Mikhailovich

Description:

The A.F. Mozhaisky Military Space Academy is a military educational institution that trains specialists for the Aerospace Forces, other types and branches of the Armed Forces, as well as law enforcement agencies of the Russian Federation.

Currently, the A.F. Mozhaisky Military Space Academy is a backbone polytechnic university of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, a leading educational, scientific and methodological center in the field of military space activities, information and telecommunication technologies, as well as technologies for collecting and processing special information.

The academy has:

794 PhDs;

105 professors;

407 associate professors;

2 Honored Workers of Science of the Russian Federation;

2 Honored Workers of the Higher School of the Russian Federation;

1 Honored Inventor of the Russian Federation;

113 Honorary Workers of Science and Technology of the Russian Federation;

13 honored workers of science and technology of the Russian Federation;

104 Honorary Workers of Higher Professional Education of the Russian Federation.

Training specialties:

1 faculty (aircraft design)

Faculty 2 (control systems of rocket and space complexes and information and technical support)

Faculty 3 (radio-electronic systems of space complexes)

Faculty 4 (engineering and electromechanical support)

5 faculty (collection and processing of information)

6 faculty (information technologies)

Faculty 7 (topographic and geodetic support and cartography)

Faculty 8 (rocket and space defense)

Faculty 9 (automated command and control systems)

faculty of secondary vocational education

Academy graduates:

Among the graduates of the academy are Colonel General Vladimir Popovkin, who served as Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation - Chief of Armaments of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General Stanislav Suvorov - Chairman of the Military Scientific Committee of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation - Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The first representative of the Space Forces to fly to the International Space Station, Hero of the Russian Federation, Pilot-Cosmonaut Colonel Yuri Shargin is also a graduate of the Academy.

Team coach:

Fedulov Valery Borisovich

Training locations:

St. Petersburg, sports hall VKA them. A.F. Mozhaisky, st. Red cadet 18

St. Petersburg, rowing base MTU, st. Olgina 8

The Military Space Academy is a leading military educational institution that trains specialists for the Space Forces, other types and branches of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, as well as law enforcement agencies of the Russian Federation.

Today the academy has a significant scientific potential. As of January 1, 2009, the Academy employs: 117 Doctors of Science; 633 PhDs; 89 professors; 264 associate professors; 27 honored scientists of the Russian Federation; 6 Honored Workers of the Higher School of the Russian Federation; 6 Honored Inventors of the Russian Federation; 36 members of international academies and academies of the Russian Federation; 16 laureates of the Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation.

The academy has 6 councils for the defense of doctoral and master's theses, in which more than 150 doctoral and master's theses have been successfully defended over the past five years.

The education that graduates receive at the Military Space Academy fully complies with the requirements that are placed on officers during military service. The academy trains officers in 40 military specialties, many of which have no analogues in our country.

The main task of the academy is to train highly qualified officers with deep engineering knowledge for units and divisions of the Russian Space Forces, to conduct scientific research in the interests of the Space Forces, which have the most advanced rocket and space systems that incorporate the latest achievements of modern science of the early 21st century. They require a professional officer with broad technical erudition, a patriotic officer.

The whole system of educational, scientific and educational work of the command of the academy and the teaching staff is subordinated to the fact that a graduate of the A.F. ideals, which would allow him to conscientiously and successfully fulfill his military duty.

The graduates of the academy are specialists in rocket and space complexes, solve state-level defense tasks, numerous applied and fundamental scientific problems, ensure the operation of spacecraft and launch vehicles.
Among the graduates of the academy is Colonel-General Vladimir Popovkin, Chief of Armaments of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation - Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation. The first representative of the Space Forces to fly to the International Space Station, Hero of the Russian Federation, Pilot-Cosmonaut Colonel Yuri Shargin is also a graduate of the Academy.

The A.F. Mozhaisky Military Space Academy is one of the most popular universities of the Ministry of Defense of Russia among thousands of applicants every year. Basically, personnel for the VKS (Military Space Forces) of the Russian Federation are trained here. However, other departments of the Russian Defense Ministry are also acquiring qualified personnel, graduates of the Mozhaisky Academy.

Story

The A.F. Mozhaisky Military Space Academy is rightfully one of the oldest military educational institutions in Russia. The starting point of history was January 16, 1712, when, by decree of Peter the Great, the School of Engineering was formed, which became the first military educational institution in the history of the country with a polytechnic training program.

Since 1758, the school became known as the Artillery and Engineering Noble School, and since 1762, the Artillery Engineering Noble Corps. In 1800, after the reorganization, the corps became the Second Cadet Corps. This structure continued until the beginning of the 20th century.

Emblem of the Military Space Academy. Mozhaisky

On January 31, 1910, a key event in the history of the educational institution took place. Emperor Nicholas II, in his Highest command, gave the corps the name of Tsar Peter. Since 1912, the corps began to be called the Second Cadet named after Peter the Great. However, the history of the building with this name did not last long. The revolution of 1917 became a new milestone in history.

The new government of the Soviet Republic tried to reform all the cadet corps, and plans for the future considered the option of completely abandoning the current system of training military personnel. On November 14, 1917, by order of the military commissar for military and naval affairs, the admission of recruits to the corps was stopped.

In the 1930s, the Military Theoretical and Military Technical School of the Red Air Fleet was placed in the empty buildings of the corps. These two schools began to train officers for the USSR Air Force. In those days, the Military Technical School became the best aviation technical educational institution in the country. Since 1934, the school began to be called the Courses for the Improvement of the Technical Staff of the Red Army named after K. E. Voroshilov. After the reorganization in 1938, the Courses were renamed the First Leningrad Military Aviation Technical School named after K. E. Voroshilov.

The Military Theoretical School, which was also located in the same buildings as the Military Technical School, became the Fifth Military School of Armament Technicians of the Red Army Air Force in 1933. Since 1938, the school has been reorganized into the Second Leningrad Military Aviation School.

At the Military Space Academy. A.F. Mozhaysky, female cadets are successfully trained

On March 27, 1941, the Leningrad Air Force Academy of the Red Army was established. During the Great Patriotic War, the academy was relocated from Leningrad to Yoshkar-Ola. During the war, the educational institution trained more than two thousand military aviation engineers. For services to the country, the Air Force Academy was awarded the Order of the Red Banner in 1945, at the same time the academy returned to Leningrad, destroyed after the war. The Academy was housed in buildings previously occupied by aviation schools. During the hostilities, a hospital and warehouses were located here.

In 1945, the Air Force Academy was awarded the Order of the Red Banner.

Since 1955, the Academy has been named after A.F. Mozhaisky, the man who created the first domestic aircraft. After the formation of the Strategic Rocket Forces (Strategic Missile Forces), the academy became part of them and was engaged in the training of qualified personnel for the missile and first space units.

In the period from the beginning of the 60s to the mid-90s, the educational institution changed its name several times, but the specialization in the training of engineers of various specialties remained unchanged. Today, the A.F. Mozhaisky Military Space Academy continues to train military engineers for the Russian Aerospace Forces and other military departments.

Solemn march of cadets at the Military Space Academy

Institute structure

The Military Academy trains personnel at 12 main faculties:

1. Aircraft design.
2. RKK control system and information and technical support.
3. Radio-electronic systems of space complexes.
4. Engineering and electromechanical support.
5. Collection and processing of information.
6. Special information technologies.
7. Topogeodetic support and cartography.
8. Means of rocket and space defense.
9. Automated command and control systems.
10. Special Faculty.
11. Retraining and advanced training.
12. Secondary vocational education.

In addition, there are 16 general academic departments, a research institute and a master's program.

Educational and material base

The Institute has a sufficient material and educational base for the training of qualified specialists, taking into account the requirements of military service and established training programs.

The oath of cadets of the Military Space Academy. Mozhaisky

A field training base is provided for obtaining practical skills in combined arms, tactical and special disciplines. Combined arms and physical training is carried out on a special base, which includes the following facilities:

• parade ground;
• training guard camp;
• obstacle course;
• shooting range;
• gym;
• stadium.

Plans for the near future include the construction of a private swimming pool.

The university constantly introduces the latest technologies into the educational process based on various forms of education:

• question and answer systems;
• laboratory work with practical application of network technologies;
• electronic textbooks;
• computer simulators;
• teaching aids;
• various communication and support systems.

Serious work is underway at the Academy to modernize regular weapons with the help of the latest computing tools. Each cadet can count on the provision of basic educational and methodological literature, manuals and other means of implementing a full-fledged educational process for any training programs operating at the military academy. The library stock of the institute is more than 700 thousand copies of various educational literature, of which more than 300 thousand are teaching aids.

A great contribution to the training and education of cadets is made by teachers from among the officers

Admission conditions
Persons with a secondary general education and meeting the following criteria can apply to study at the institute under the full program of military special training:

1. Didn't do military service.
2. Age from 16 to 20 years.
3. Passing military service or military personnel undergoing military service on conscription under the age of 24 years.
4. Military personnel undergoing contract service (with the exception of officers) up to 27 years of age.

According to the program of secondary military special training, candidates who have received a general secondary education at the age of 30 are considered.

• passport;
• military ID;
• USE results;

Cadets at the faculty "Design and operation of rockets and rocket-space complexes"

The selection committee evaluates each candidate for admission according to the following criteria:

• health status;
• professional suitability based on psychological, psychophysical and psychoemotional research;
• level of physical fitness;
• results of the Unified State Examination.

To be able to participate in the competitive selection, applicants must provide:

• passport;
• military ID;
• certificate of complete secondary education;
• diploma of secondary vocational education (if any);
• USE results;
• information about academic achievement.

Soldiers submit a report addressed to the commander. Attached to the application or report:

• copy of birth certificate and passport;
• autobiography;
• characteristics (from the place of study, service, work);
• a copy of the documents on the existing education;
• service card of a soldier;
• a copy of the document on the assignment of a sports category or title;
• photographs of the established sample.

After passing the preliminary selection, the necessary documents are sent to the institute, including data from a medical examination, psychological selection and personal files (for contracted military personnel). On the basis of the documents received, the selection committee of the university selects candidates for professional selection. Citizens admitted to professional selection must come to the institute with all documents.

Upon completion of training, the graduate is awarded a military rank with the qualification "technician"

Professional selection is carried out by the selection committee and includes the following activities:

• determination of eligibility for admission for health reasons;
• determination of the category of professional suitability on the basis of psychological and physical research;
• assessment of the level of training in general education disciplines;
• assessment of professional training based on additional tests;
• assessment of physical fitness.

According to the results of professional selection, candidates are divided into 4 categories:

1. Recommended first.
2. Recommended.
3. Conditionally recommended.
4. Not recommended.

Candidates who receive the "not recommended" category are considered not selected. All candidates pass a general physical test consisting of a 100m run, a 3000m run and a 100m swim. For girls, pull-ups on the bar are replaced by body lifts from a prone position in one minute, and the running distance is reduced to 100 meters and 1000 meters, respectively. For more detailed information about the procedure for conducting preparatory and professional selection, additional tests and conditions for enrolling in the institute, it is recommended to visit the official website of the educational institution.

Living conditions

At the time of training, cadets live in the barracks. For the life of cadets, everything is quite acceptable. The barracks are regularly cleaned and repaired. There is a dining room on the territory of the academy, where, judging by the reviews, it’s not bad, they are fed three times a day.

The Academy is located in the cultural capital of Russia, St. Petersburg, therefore, it cooperates with many museums, theaters, and cadets are frequent guests at such events. This is especially true for those who came to study from the outback. When else will there be an opportunity to spend cultural leisure time in St. Petersburg.