Saint-Petersburg University of the State Fire Service of the EMERCOM of Russia

The Saint-Petersburg University of the State Fire Service of the EMERCOM of Russia (Russian: Санкт-Петербургский университет государственной противопожарной службы МЧС России) is a state institution for the training of specialists in the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations. It is currently led by Internal Service Major General Bogdan Gavkalyuk.[1][2]

The institute logo.

History
The view of the university from Moskovsky prospect.

The university was created on 5 October 1906 [O.S. 18 October] in the distant 1906, when on October 5 with the opening of thefirst courses of fire technicians in the Russian Empire. Fyodor von Landesen, was appointed head of the courses. A year after the October Revolution, the courses were reformed into the Fire-Technical School. In 1941, it was renamed into the second fire-technical school of the Fire Defence Troops of the NKVD. On 20 September of that year, the school was disbanded in connection with the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, with half of the employees and cadets serving in the Red Army to fight the German invaders from the front while the rest remained to put out the fires and keep public order. In 1946, the school reopens its doors, acquiring the name of Leningrad Fire-Technical School. Since 1953, the school has trained firefighters from a number of foreign countries, including Warsaw Pact nations like such as Hungary, and Bulgaria, as well as allied countries such as Mongolia, North Korea, Cuba, Afghanistan, Guinea-Bissau, and Vietnam. In total, the school trained over 1,000 specialists from foreign countries. Since 1986, the school was transformed into the Leningrad Higher Fire-Fighting School of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Eleven years later, the Institute of Fire Safety of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia was created on the basis of the school. It became part of the Moscow University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in 1998. By government resolution, the St. Petersburg Institute of the State Fire Service was established on 13 August 2002. On its centennial in 2006, it was given the status of a university.[3]

Structure

Representative offices

The university has representative offices in the following cities:

Institutions
  • Development Institute
  • Institute of Correspondence
  • Institute for Life Safety
  • Research Institute for Advanced Research and Innovative Technologies
  • Institute of Patriotic Education

Faculties
  • Faculty of Engineering
  • Faculty of Economics and Law
  • Faculty of Training

Departments
  • Department of Higher Mathematics and System Modeling
  • Department of Mine Rescue and Explosion Safety
  • Department of Civil Law
  • Department of Protection
  • Department of Foreign Languages and Speech Culture
  • Department of Forensics and Engineering Expertise
  • Department of Mechanics and Engineering Graphics
  • Department of Supervisory Activities
  • Department of Fire Fighting and Rescue Operations
  • Department of Pedagogy and Psychology
  • Department of Advanced Training
  • Department of Fire Safety and Automated Fire Extinguishing
  • Department of Fire Safety of Technological Production
  • Department of Fire/Rescue Equipment
  • Department of Practical Training
  • Department of Applied Mathematics and Information Technology
  • Department of Security
  • Department of Systems Analysis and Crisis Management
  • Department of Theory and History of State and Law
  • Department of Labor Law
  • Department of Management and Economics
  • Department of Fire Safety Fundamentals
  • Department of Physico-Chemical fundamentals of Combustion and Extinguishing Processes
  • Department of Physical Fitness
  • Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences
  • Department of Economics and Law (IBI)

Siberian Fire and Rescue Academy

On 1 September 2008, the Siberian branch of the university was established in the city of Zheleznogorsk, Krasnoyarsk Territory. It is the only higher educational institution of EMERCOM beyond the Ural Mountains, serving the regions of Siberia and the Russian Far East. Since 2011, it was renamed to the Siberian Institute of Fire Safety. On 1 March 2013, the institute became the Siberian Fire and Rescue Academy. Presently, the academy is not part of the university and functions as an independent institution. In 2014, the first graduation took place.[4][5]

Activities

The university's goals are to support the development of a security system in the field of preventing and eliminating the consequences of natural and man-made disasters. One of the major projects in which the university took part was the creation of a research complex called the Vytegra Training and Rescue Center in the Vytegorsky District of the Vologda Region. University cadets undergo additional training outside of curriculum under the "Initial Rescue Training" program, which includes practical training at the rescue center and the university's training complex in the Leningrad Oblast. Since 2008, employees of the fire and rescue services of Jordan, Bahrain, Azerbaijan, Mongolia and Moldova have been trained in the International Civil Defense Organization at the university under advanced training programs. On 16 October 2014, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Liberation of Belgrade, representative office of the university was opened on the basis of the Russian-Serbian Humanitarian Center in the city of Niš. Since 2014, the university has been providing advanced training for specialists from Serbia through the center. On 1 March 2013, a new branch of the university was opened on Russky Island in Vladivostok. The university maintains close ties with fire and rescue schools of Belarus, Germany, Kazakhstan, Canada, United States, France, Finland and other countries. On 1 December 2016, the university was declared a laureate in the nomination "The best educational organization of higher education of the EMERCOM of Russia".[6]

Criticism

According to a study by Dissernet,[7] there a number of thesis statements and texts which were written by cadets with violations of academic ethics. It also found more than 15 teachers of the university with similar violations in relation to dissertations.[8][9][10]

Student life
University cadets participating in a 2014 parade.

Cadets are annual participants in Victory Day Parades on Palace Square.

Participation in emergency response situations

As part of an innovation initiative in 2010, the university began training specialists in high-risk rescue operations, and in 2012 began training cadets with in emergency humanitarian response. On 4 October 2013, an emergency rescue unit of the university arrived in Komsomolsk-on-Amur to respond to effects related to the flood in the Far Eastern Federal District.

Band

The school military band participates in events and supports university functions such graduation and sports games.

Honour guard

The guard of honor platoon is participant in all the university's ceremonial events. At the invitation of various city organizations, it participates in demonstrations and civil/military parades. It is a participants in numerous events in the city of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Oblast. It is an annual participant in the events for the year in St. Petersburg and Veliky Novgorod. They have also performed at the opening of the hockey championship in the Ice Palace.[11] In 2018, an honour guard was formed at the Siberian academy.[12]

Other

Ony 13 May 2016, the university hosted a constituent meeting a school based organization called the "Club of Graduates". The youth press center publishes the corporate publication the FIRST information magazine, the city student press center, the joint editorial staff of the ministry and other departmental universities.

Sports

The university regularly holds championships in:

Since 2014, the sports club was become a member of the Association of Student Sports Clubs of Russia. The university is a participant in the championships in the framework of the University Cup, where employees and students of the university are involved in various sports. In the 2014/2015 season, the university's basketball team took 1st place among the universities of St. Petersburg in the 3rd division.

Events

Among the traditional events at the university is the awarding of "Miss and Mr. St. Petersburg University of the State Fire Service of the Ministry of Emergencies of Russia", in which young men and women representing the educational departments of the university take part.[13]

Graduates

See also

References
  1. https://www.igps.ru/publication/Nachalnik_universitet
  2. "Начальнику ГУ МЧС по Новгородской области Богдану Гавкалюку присвоено звание генерал-майора". 53 Новости. December 12, 2017.
  3. "Краткая история СПб университета ГПС МЧС России". igpsufa.
  4. https://www.igps.ru/news/Novyj_status_Sibirskoj_pozharno-spasatelnoj_akademii
  5. "Сведения об Академии". sibpsa.ru.
  6. https://www.igps.ru/news/Glavnye_sobytiya_2016_goda
  7. "СПб университет Государственной противопожарной службы МЧС России". rosvuz.dissernet.org.
  8. "Юнцова Ольга Семеновна". rosvuz.dissernet.org.
  9. "Минкин Денис Юрьевич". rosvuz.dissernet.org.
  10. "Султыгов Мочха Магометович". rosvuz.dissernet.org.
  11. https://www.igps.ru/publication/Vzvod_pochetnogo_karaula
  12. "В Академии создан взвод почетного караула". sibpsa.ru.
  13. https://igps.ru/news/Konkurs_Miss_i_Mister_Sankt-Peterburgskij_universitet_GPS_MCHS_Rossii_2016
  14. "Чернышёв Евгений Николаевич". www.ruor.org.
  15. "Постевой Сергей Игнатьевич на samospas.ru" (in Russian). Retrieved 2009-12-09.
  16. "Харитонов Фёдор Алексеевич". www.warheroes.ru.
  17. "Баженов, Олег Валерьевич". ТАСС. Retrieved 2020-12-13.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.