In Russia, military education has been and remains a fairly popular choice among many young people. They are driven not only by patriotism and a thirst for adventure and an active life, but also the relative prestige of the military profession. Russian military universities provide the widest choice of areas, among which you can find something to your liking.
In addition, after admission, the student receives free travel to the educational institution, free food, accommodation, medical care, and provision of things. After graduation, newly made lieutenants must be provided with a separate office space or a dormitory room, an interest-free loan for 3 years, as well as the right to a good pension after twenty years of service and a rather wide list of benefits and guarantees.
To date, less than a hundred have remained from Soviet one hundred and sixty universities, since, due to active reform of the armed forces, the number of military educational institutions is reduced. Russian military universities accept citizens with a secondary general or vocational education, and this can be both people who have served and have not yet served. And the competition is pretty high.
Often children of hereditary servants enter military schools, continuing family traditions. Graduates receive not only the rank of lieutenant, but also higher specialized education - both military and civilian, which is certified by a diploma.
The rating of military universities in Russia includes universities where, in particular, there are prosecutor-investigative and law faculties, faculties of foreign languages, journalism, culture, and even foreign information relating to the military industries. In addition to universities, there are also academies in which for six years they have mastered various engineering specialties. There are, in particular, the Academy of Chemical Defense, the Academy of Air Defense, and the Space Engineering Academy. There is also a whole network of military schools, including chemical protection and rear services. Quite apart, a separate row are the naval military universities of Russia.
Of course, there are several specific specialties that are vital in the troops. Professionals for them are trained at the Military Medical Academy. S. M. Kirov, at the military medical institutes in Samara, Tomsk and Saratov, at the military conducting faculty (he works at the Moscow Conservatory), at the military institute of physical culture. Tactics are trained at the Novosibirsk Higher Combined Arms Command School, and financiers at the Yaroslavl Higher Financial School. Military universities of Russia are also a veterinary institute, a logistics and transport academy , an automobile institute in Chelyabinsk, artillery engineering educational institutions in Tula and Penza.
In general, the list of professions that are available for training is very wide. The most popular military universities in Russia are institutions in capitals and major cities. This is the Academy of Logistics and Transport in St. Petersburg, the University of Engineering and Technology in the same northern capital, the University of Biological, Chemical and Radiation Protection in Moscow and the Military Engineering University there.