Military universities in St. Petersburg have a long tradition of educating personnel. One of the oldest institutions is the Khrulev MTO Academy, where officers and mid-level specialists are trained in the field of management and provision of material and technical means of the army and rear.
History
The Khrulev Military Logistics Academy was founded in 1900. The task of the educational institution was to train and educate officers of the quartermaster service. Up to this point, there were no such institutions anywhere in the world. In 1906, the term of study was extended to 3 years, and the institution was equated to a school of higher military education.
The status of the academy was assigned to the university in 1911, and after the revolution, like many military universities in St. Petersburg, the institution came under the control of the Red Army. In the period 1924-1925, an attempt was made on a large-scale reorganization - all faculties were distributed among military universities, which affected the quality of educationalumni.
A new round in the history of development began in 1932, when the Military Transport Academy was established in Moscow, and in 1935 the Military Economic Academy was founded in Kharkov. The merger of the two institutions took place in the post-war period, in 1956. Since 1999, the academy has been training specialists with a complete higher military education, and since 2010, cadets with secondary specialized training have also begun to graduate from the walls of the institution.
General Khrulev
Khrulev Andrey Vasilyevich is an army general, a career military man and an honored statesman. Born into a peasant family in 1892, at the time of the 1917 revolution he was a worker at the Okhta gunpowder factory and took an active part in the storming of the Winter Palace. Since 1918 he served in the regular troops of the Red Army. During the Civil War, he served as the head of the political department of one of the divisions of the First Cavalry Army.
In 1925 Andrey Khrulev was educated at the higher courses of the Red Army, after which he was appointed to work in the central apparatus of the People's Commissariat of Defense of the Soviet Union. Since 1939, he headed the army supply department, and since 1940, he took the post of chief army quartermaster.
With the outbreak of hostilities, Lieutenant-General A. Khrulev became Deputy People's Commissar of Defense of the country and took over the leadership of the Main Directorate of Logistics of the army in the field. During the Great Patriotic War, for about a year, in parallel with other duties, he served as People's Commissar of Railways. In 1943, Andrey Vasilievich was appointed head of the Mainlogistics department, and later - the chief of logistics of the entire Red Army.
In the post-war period, A. V. Khrulev held senior positions in the logistics department of the USSR Armed Forces. Since 1951, he was appointed deputy minister in the national economy and was engaged in the development of the building materials industry. In 1958 he returned to the Ministry of Defense of the Soviet Union as an adviser-inspector. He died in 1962 and was buried in Red Square. The Khrulev Military Academy bears the name of an outstanding military man who managed during the war to organize and debug one of the most important parts of the regular army - logistics.
Description
At the present stage, the Khrulev Academy is the leading educational and methodological center for the material and technical support of the Russian army. The university graduates officers and specialists in the field of organizing the logistics of any kind of troops of the Russian Ministry of Defense and other authorities where military service is expected.
Since August 2016, Lieutenant General Toporov A. V., who has experience in military operations in Syria, has been appointed head of the academy. Head of the Military Police of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
The education system is focused on the education and training of personnel for the following structures:
- Ministries of Defense.
- Border Guard.
- Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.
- For the armies of other countries (training of military personnel fromforeign countries is held at a special faculty).
In addition to training new personnel, the Khrulev Academy provides retraining for existing and retired officers and teachers. The research direction of the university deals with the problems of organizing the provision of the army in combat and peaceful conditions, publishes articles, monographs, military-theoretical publications and much more.
Branches and main divisions
The Khrulev Military Logistics Academy is the main educational institution, which includes branches:
- Engineering and Technical Military Institute.
- Railway troops and military communications.
- Academy branch in the city of Volsk (material and technical support).
- Academy branch in the city of Omsk.
- Academy branch in the city of Penza.
Main training faculties:
- Command or material and technical support.
- Command-engineering or road-road.
- Retraining and advanced training.
- Special training.
- Department of secondary vocational education.
- Junior Specialist Training Battalion.
- Sixteen departments, a separate discipline.
- Research departments and institutes.
- Faculty of Distance Learning.
The Khrulev Academy implements the educational process at the bases,located in the Leningrad region, in the city of Luga, the village of Privetninskoye. Students have access to workshops, communications and information technology materials, library, club, museum, editorial and publishing departments.
Automotive and Road Faculty
The largest faculty of the academy is command engineering, which trains specialists in three areas:
- Construction, use, restoration of roads, as well as their technical cover.
- Construction, use, restoration of bridges and crossings, as well as their technical cover.
- Logistic support (organization of logistics, management).
Cadets master the sciences for 5 years. Classes are conducted by experienced teachers and military personnel, many of whom have scientific degrees. The training contains a theoretical part and a large amount of practical work. Classrooms are equipped with modern interactive stands with working models. Part of the practical training is carried out on two training fields (road commandant training and bridge training), where seventeen training grounds are equipped.
Faculty of Logistics and Railway Troops
The structure of the faculty includes departments:
- Material and technical support organizations.
- Department of Railway Troops.
- Material support.
- Organization of material andNavy technical support.
The Khrulev Academy in this area of study implements master's training for cadets in the following speci alties:
- Management of the supply of troops (specialization - logistics management, management of the provision of rocket fuel and fuel, food supply, clothing supply).
- Management, command of parts of the railway troops.
Training is designed to train army officers in logistics units.
Chairs
At the Academy. Khrulev, there are 17 departments, the basis of their activity is the training of military personnel and scientific work. The structure of the faculties includes the following departments:
- Organization of logistic support for troops and rear.
- Organizations of military-technical support of the Navy.
- Providing the rear of the National Guard troops.
- Army Logistics Department.
- Military messages.
- Road service.
- Technical support.
- Foreign languages.
- Physical fitness.
- Tactics and operational art.
- Russian language.
- Humanitarian, social and economic disciplines.
- Railway Troops.
- Restoration and operation of bridges and crossings.
- General technical and scientific disciplines.
- Use of MTO units (units).
All departments are staffed by military personnel with extensivetheoretical knowledge and rich practice. Employees conduct scientific, research work, generate new methods of providing troops for the smooth functioning of the structures of the armed forces in peacetime and wartime. Many departments have published educational and methodological manuals, conduct analytical activities that contribute to improving the quality of education of cadets, and instill skills in the practical application of the acquired knowledge.
Education Levels
The Khrulev Academy trains specialists at the following levels of vocational education:
- Secondary special.
- Higher (bachelor's, specialist's, master's, higher qualification).
- Additional education.
Destinations of secondary vocational education:
- Equipment and technology of land transport (auto, railway).
- Equipment and technology of construction.
- Control in technical systems.
- Technospheric safety and environmental management.
- Engineering
- Economics and management.
- Communication systems
- Electronics and radio engineering.
Higher education is conducted in the following areas:
- Equipment and technology of construction.
- Military administration.
- Equipment and technology of land transport.
- Power industry, power engineering and electrical engineering.
- Weapons and weapons systems.
Requirements forcandidates
Citizens who meet the following requirements are considered candidates for admission to a university for full military special training:
- Citizens of the Russian Federation.
- Completed full high school education.
- The age of applicants is from 16 years old and not more than 22 years old (who have not completed military service).
- Citizens who have served in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (age restrictions - up to 24 years).
- Military personnel (on conscription in the RF Armed Forces, up to 24 years old).
- Applying to departments for full military special training is allowed for applicants under 27 years old.
- Citizens under the age of 30 are allowed to enter the departments of secondary military special training.
- Women are recruited to only one branch, located in the city of Volsk, for the speci alty "Logistics".
Selection rules
To participate in the competitive selection to the selection committee of the VA MTO, candidates submit the following information:
- Documents (passport or military ID to prove citizenship and be eligible for military conscription), high school diploma or diploma of secondary vocational education.
- Information about the benefits for admission, achievements, information about the results of the exam.
When selecting candidates, the selection committee takes into account:
- State of he alth and fitness for military and combat service.
- Applicability of candidates according to psychological research(psycho-emotional, psychophysiological, psychological).
- Results of entrance examinations and tests (USE).
- Physical preparation of candidates.
Selection is held from 1 to 30 July. According to past admissions, the average competition for open speci alties is three people per place. All candidates go through preliminary and final medical selection. The duration of training in full military special training (speci alty) is 5 years, secondary military special education (qualification level - technician) lasts for 2 years 10 months. During the entire course of study, cadets live in barracks with full property and food allowance at the expense of the state.
Addresses
Military Academy. A. V. Khruleva (main branch) is located in St. Petersburg, at the address: Admiral Makarov embankment, building 8.
St. Petersburg branches:
- Institute of Railway Troops and Military Communications - st. Suvorovskaya (Petrodvorets), building 1.
- Engineering and Technical Military Institute - st. Zakharyevskaya, building 22.
Out-of-town institutes (branches):
- City of Omsk (armored engineering) - Cheryomushki village, 14th military town.
- City of Volsk (institute of software), Saratov region - st. named after Maxim Gorky, building 3.
- The city of Penza is the 5th (artillery and engineering) military town.
