Military training centers of civilian universities (Russia)

The military training center (военный учебный центр) is a division within civilian university or other higher education institution, intended for training commissioned officers from among students, currently widespread in Russian Federation. The abbreviation of military training center is MTC (ВУЦ).

History
Military training centers appeared with enactment of the Federal Law of 3 August 2018 No.309-FZ which entered into force on 1 January 2019. Previously existing organizational structures which conducted military training of students of civilian universities were abolished. On 13 March 2019, the list of 93 civilian institutions of higher education with military training centers was approved by Government of Russia. The Regulations on the military training centers was approved on 3 July 2019.

Mission
Military training centers have 2 main functions:
 * Training commissioned officers for active duty
 * Graduates are commissioned as a lieutenant (after graduation from their civilian university), are exempted from military draft, but under the conditions of the signed contracts, they are obliged to serve in Russian Armed Forces with a mininum service time of three years.


 * Training reserve commissioned officers
 * Graduates are commissioned as a lieutenant (after graduation from their civilian university), are exempted from military draft, are not to obliged to serve, and are enrolled in the mobilization human resource immediately after a graduation. They can join active duty military service or mobilization human reserve (part-time military service) on a voluntary basis.

Furthermore, some military training centers pursue programmes of training reserve non-commissioned officers and reserve enlisted personnel, which are reduced curriculums compared to officer's programme. These programmes' alumni enter service as a sergeant/1st class petty officer (non-commissioned officer programme) or private/seaman (enlisted personnel programme), are exempted from the military draft, are not to obliged to serve, and are enrolled in the mobilization human resource pool.

Organizational structure
Typical military training center has following structure:
 * Head of military training center
 * Deputy head of military training center
 * Head of department (each military training center has several departments)
 * Chief of educational unit – deputy head of department
 * Chief of training cycle – principal teacher (educational unit has 2 cycles minimum)
 * leading teachers
 * senior teachers
 * teachers
 * junior teachers
 * Head of educational-methodical division
 * personnel of educational-methodical division
 * Head of logistic and engineering division
 * personnel of logistic and engineering division
 * Head of transport and production division
 * personnel of transport and production division
 * secretary-clerk

List of Russian civilian institutions of higher education having military training centers
There are the following civilian institutions of higher education having military training centers in Russia:

Barnaul

 * Altai State Technical University

Chelyabinsk

 * South Ural State University

Irkutsk

 * Irkutsk National Research Technical University
 * Irkutsk State University

Kazan

 * Kazan National Research Technical University named after A.N. Tupolev
 * Kazan National Research Technological University

Krasnoyarsk

 * Siberian Federal University
 * Siberian State Aerospace University

Kyzyl

 * Tuvan State University

Novosibirsk

 * Siberian State University of Telecommunications and Informatics

Omsk

 * Omsk State Technical University
 * Siberian State Automobile and Highway University

Penza

 * Penza State University

Samara

 * Samara National Research University
 * Samara State Technical University

Tolyatti

 * Togliatti State University

Saratov

 * Yuri Gagarin State Technical University of Saratov

Tomsk

 * Tomsk Polytechnic University
 * Tomsk State University

Ufa

 * Ufa State Aviation Technical University

Ulyanovsk

 * Ulyanovsk Institute of Civil Aviation

Yekaterinburg

 * Ural Federal University

Chita

 * Transbaikal State University

Khabarovsk

 * Far Eastern State Transport University

Komsomolsk-on-Amur

 * Komsomolsk-on-Amur State University

Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky

 * Kamchatka State Technical University

Ulan-Ude

 * East Siberia State University of Technology and Management

Vladivostok

 * Far Eastern Federal University
 * Maritime State University
 * Vladivostok State Medical University

Murmansk

 * Murmansk State Technical University

Krasnodar

 * Kuban State Agrarian University

Novorossiysk

 * State Maritime University

Novocherkassk

 * South Russian State Polytechnic University

Rostov-on-Don

 * Don State Technical University
 * Rostov State Medical University
 * Rostov State Transport University
 * Southern Federal University

Stavropol

 * North-Caucasus Federal University

Vladikavkaz

 * North Ossetian State University

Volgograd

 * Volgograd State Agrarian University

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Sevastopol

 * Sevastopol National Technical University

Simferopol

 * Crimean Federal University

Belgorod

 * Belgorod Technological University

Ivanovo

 * Ivanovo State Power Engineering University

Kostroma

 * Kostroma State University

Kursk

 * South-West State University

Lyubertsy

 * Russian Customs Academy

Moscow

 * All-Russian State University of Justitia
 * Bauman Moscow State Technical University
 * Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation
 * First Moscow State Medical University
 * Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas
 * Higher School of Economics
 * Kutafin Moscow State Law University
 * Moscow Academy of the Investigative Committee of Russia
 * Moscow Automobile and Road Construction State Technical University
 * Moscow Aviation Institute
 * Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
 * Moscow Power Engineering Institute
 * Moscow State Institute of International Relations
 * Moscow State Linguistic University
 * Moscow State University
 * Moscow State University of Civil Engineering
 * Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography
 * Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry
 * Moscow Technological University (MIREA)
 * National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute)
 * National Research University of Electronic Technology
 * Russian State Agrarian University - Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy
 * Russian State University of Justice
 * Russian University of Transport
 * State University of Land Use Planning

Nizhny Novgorod

 * N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod

Petrozavodsk

 * Petrozavodsk State University

Ryazan

 * Ryazan State Radio Engineering University

Saint Petersburg

 * Baltic State Technical University
 * ITMO University
 * Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University
 * Russian State Hydrometeorological University
 * Saint Petersburg Academy of the Investigative Committee of Russia
 * Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University
 * Saint Petersburg State Marine Technical University
 * Saint Petersburg Mining University
 * Saint Petersburg State University
 * Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation
 * St. Petersburg State University of Telecommunications
 * State University of Maritime and Inland Shipping

Tambov

 * Tambov State University

Tula

 * Tula State University

Kovrov

 * Kovrov State Technological Academy

Voronezh

 * Voronezh State Technical University
 * Voronezh State University