One of the most terrible natural phenomena - fires, hurricanes, typhoons. Their spontaneity and power frighten and cause great harm to the national economy of any country. The fight against natural disasters is carried out by professionally trained people with special equipment. Skills of "taming" emergency situations are taught in higher and secondary special educational institutions. One of these is the Ministry of Emergencies Institute in Minsk on Mashinostroiteley Street, 25.
The history of the university
In 1933, the Fire and Technical School was established in the capital of Belarus. The term of study in it was one year. The first graduation was only 30 people.
In 1945, the Fire-technical school was given the name "School of sergeant personnel of the militarized fire department of the NKVD of the BSSR." The term of study was six months, and the number of students was 70 people.
Over the years, the need for skilled workers has increased. The material and technical base was constantly modernized, training materials were updated.
In 1998, the paramilitary fire service was annexed to the Ministry of Emergencies. In 2000, the university was transformed into the Command and Engineering Institute of the Ministry of Emergencies of Belarus. In 2015, a doctorate was created in the educational institution by the decision of the Higher Attestation Commission to create a university in the future.
In 2016, the University of Civil Protection was established by transforming the KII of the Ministry of Emergencies of Belarus and adding to it the Gomel Engineering Institute, as well as the Institute for Retraining and Further Training. Today, the educational institution is training highly qualified personnel to deal with natural disasters not only in their own country, but also in other countries around the world.
Branches of an educational institution
The Institute of the Ministry of Emergencies in Minsk includes the Lyceum of the Ministry of Emergencies and a branch in the city of Gomel, located in the south-east of the Republic of Belarus.
The lyceum is located in the Gomel region, Gomel district, the village of Ilyich. After the end of the sixth grade, they accept guys who must constantly live and study in the territory of the lyceum. During the training period, they are fully supported by the government: full five meals a day, uniforms, and medical care. With successful training and the availability of marks not less than 7 points in the last year of study, there is the possibility of admission to the power universities of Belarus without entrance exams.
Young people who enter the Gomel branch are trained in the specialty "prevention and response to emergencies." The method of admission is similar to admission to the Institute of the Ministry of Emergencies in Minsk, includes: successful passage of centralized testing and timely submission of documents to the admission committee of the institution.
School Faculties
Training in an educational institution is carried out in several popular areas of full-time or part-time education.
Full-time training is carried out at 6 main faculties:
- emergency prevention and response;
- leadership training;
- life safety;
- training of scientific personnel;
- technosphere security;
- Faculty of Engineering, Gomel.
The most enrolled in the faculty for the prevention and liquidation of emergencies. Employees of the Republic of Belarus, Azerbaijan and other countries with whom contracts for training have been entered into at the correspondence department of the Institute of the Ministry of Emergencies in Minsk.
Custom Selection Documents
Until April 1 of the year of admission, the applicant must apply to the district department at the place of residence, the regional or Minsk department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations and undergo a rigorous professional selection.
The training services, which include:
- application of the candidate in the name of the head of the completing body to conduct in relation to his professional selection;
- materials of the candidate’s preliminary study, which include: a questionnaire, an autobiography, a description from the last place of work or study, a report of the unit employee who previously studied the candidate;
- Documents on special verification of the candidate;
- certificates of medical examination and special psychophysiological selection;
- recommendations of a specialist psychologist with a conclusion on the suitability / unfitness for service;
- documents on the level of physical fitness of the candidate for admission;
- photos: two photographs 9 × 12 cm, one 3 × 4 cm, certified by the person receiving the documents.
Applicant Documents
To participate in the competitive selection, young men and women must successfully pass centralized testing in any state language (Russian or Belarusian), physics and mathematics and provide certificates with the results to the selection committee. Be sure to bring a certificate of education and all the annexes to it, you must present an identity document.
If there are benefits, the candidate must submit documents that confirm them. All certificates, conclusions are submitted personally by the applicant.
Application deadlines
Timing may vary slightly annually. But the admission of documents to educational institutions of the power structures of the Republic of Belarus takes place in early July, before the start of admission campaigns in other higher educational institutions of Belarus.
Passing points
The sum of points for admission consists of the average mark of the certificate of education on a ten-point scale, the results of centralized testing.
The competition for the Faculty of Emergency Prevention and Response in 2018 amounted to 1.6 people per budget full-time place. The passing score at the Ministry of Emergencies Institute in Minsk in this specialty was 161.
To enter the Faculty of Technosphere Security in 2018, you had to score 261 points for boys and 185 for girls. The competition was equal to 4.4 people per budget place.
Study period
The term of study at the full-time department is 4 years, and at the correspondence course it is 5 years.
The University of Civil Protection, better known as the Institute of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Republic of Belarus, operates in the city of Minsk. Young people undergo complex psychological and physiological selection. The most popular are the departments for the prevention and liquidation of emergencies and technosphere safety.