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Training process is carried out by 5 Training /Research Complexes and 24 chairs. There is a very good modern library and Internet and Intranet resources provision.

Нistory of Academy

The EMERCOM Academy of fire fighting service was established in Leningrad in 1933 and started its

development into the leading research and educational institution of fire safety.

Engineers of fire fighting service started to be trained at the sanitary and engineering department of Leningrad institute of engineers of municipal construction on September 1, 1933. In 1936 the department of engineers of fire fighting service of NKVD (People’s Commissariat for Internal

Affairs) was opened based on the fire department of Leningrad institute of engineers of municipal construction.

At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War students of the department of engineers of fire fighting service defended Blockaded Leningrad. The department sustained casualties during the fierce fighting and lost one third of its military community. In December 1941 the State Defense Committee passed a decree to countermand their participation in the fight and call them back to study. The department of engineers of fire fighting service was ordered to proceed with the academic activity with regard to the war time. Apart from studied students performed exhaustive and very important raids aimed at checking fire safety conditions of houses. On March 26, 1942, the military community of the department, namely 110 students and 24 instructors were evacuated to Essentuki. After the Germans invaded Mineralnye Vody, and Essentuki was in danger, the classes terminated, and the community was evacuated to Baku.

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According to decree 305 of the All-Union committee for the affairs of high school under the

Council of people’s commissars of the USSR as of December 15, 1942, the department of engineers of fire fighting service proceeded with the studies under Azerbaidzhan industrial institute. The studies lasted from 1936 to 1948. The department had 10 graduations and graduated 286 students with fire safety engineer degree, among them 65 women. Many instructors were transferred to Moscow to train fire fighting specialists at the High fire technical school.

In 1957 the department of engineers of fire fighting safety and equipment was established under the High school of the Ministry of internal affairs based on the High fire technical school. The department offered on-site and off-site training, further and advanced education of officers. Non-permanent personnel strength was fixed as 200 students of on-site and 250 students of off-site training courses.

The training time was 4 and 5 years respectively. Graduates were conferred a degree of fire equipment and safety engineer. Senior officers of military fire fighting units who left fire technical schools and had work experience of three or more years were hired as instructors. Those experienced professors adopted

the new branch of learning and developed it. Along with involving the best professors, the department management set the task of training the in-house academic teaching personnel for

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specialized subdepartments. On September 21, 1973, the government decree reorganized the Department of fire equipment and safety engineers into the High engineering fire school of the Ministry of internal affairs. By the 90-s the system of fire fighting specialists training moved to a brand new level.

In 1992 the school began training students at the department of further and advanced education of managerial personnel of the state fire fighting service. Graduates got the second college degree in Management of social and economic systems.

In 1993 the High engineering fire technical school started training students who had left fire technical schools – fire technicians got the opportunity to get a college degree.

In 1996 the High engineering fire technical school was renamed into Moscow institute of fire safety.

The Ministry of internal affairs promoted the concept of the Academy of state fire fighting service based on Moscow institute of fire safety. This concept was put into practice in 1999 by the decree of the Government of the Russian Federation.

In 2002 following the inclusion of the State fire fighting service in the EMERCOM, the Academy was renamed into the EMERCOM Academy of state fire fighting service.

Since September 1, 1998, the Academy has been training students in the State and municipal management.

Nowadays the Academy consists of two institutes: Institute of further and advanced training, and Institute of correspondence and off-campus studies, has twenty-four subdepartments and a number of departments. There is one education and research and three academic and research units, the departments

of managerial personnel, of training educational and research personnel, of interaction with foreign citizens, of fire safety (based on the secondary professional education), and of fire safety (for undergraduates). There are also two offices – in Kazan, and in Stavropol.

The support of the Ministry and its management, the efforts of the Academy’s management and the scientific potential of the faculty, open new prospects of further educational and research development to the Academy, training quality remaining excellent.