The Border Troops Academy () or Tajik Frontier Institute, officially known as the Higher Border Institute of the State Committee for National Security (), is a higher education college for training of officers for the

Tajik Border Troops The Border Troops (), also called the Border Service, is the border security force of Tajikistan. Functioning under the State Committee for National Security as part of the Armed Forces, the border guards are trained by the Organization for Se ...

, located in

Dushanbe Dushanbe ( tg, Душанбе, ; ; russian: Душанбе) is the capital and largest city of Tajikistan. , Dushanbe had a population of 863,400 and that population was largely Tajik. Until 1929, the city was known in Russian as Dyushambe (r ...

, the capital of

Tajikistan Tajikistan (, ; tg, Тоҷикистон, Tojikiston; russian: Таджикистан, Tadzhikistan), officially the Republic of Tajikistan ( tg, Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, Jumhurii Tojikiston), is a landlocked country in Centr ...

. It is a state institution.

History

The Border Troops Academy was established in , with the first 28 border officers graduating from it in 2004.

Academics

Graduates are commissioned as

lieutenants A lieutenant ( , ; abbreviated Lt., Lt, LT, Lieut and similar) is a commissioned officer rank in the armed forces of many nations. The meaning of lieutenant differs in different militaries (see comparative military ranks), but it is often sub ...

in the border troops. As of 2016, it has trained more than 700 officers. Special courses are held here, overseen by the

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* Abdurahmon Azimov (-August 2015) * Shohiyoni Abdusattor (?) *Badriddin Mirzoev (?-10 July 2020)

References

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