Military Academy of the Republic of Belarus ( be, Ваенная акадэмія Рэспублікі Беларусь, ) is higher military educational institution in the national education system of the Republic of Belarus and the leading institution in the education system of training, retraining and advanced training of
military personnel
Military personnel are members of the state's armed forces. Their roles, pay, and obligations differ according to their military branch (army, navy, marines, air force, space force, and coast guard), rank (officer, non-commissioned officer, or ...
. It is located on
Independence Avenue (Prospekt Nezavisimosti) in the Belarusuan capital of
Minsk
Minsk ( be, Мінск ; russian: Минск) is the capital and the largest city of Belarus, located on the Svislach and the now subterranean Niamiha rivers. As the capital, Minsk has a special administrative status in Belarus and is the admi ...
. It has 10 departments that train officers of 38 specialties for all arms of service.
Brief history and description
![Military akademia RB](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/Military_akademia_RB.jpg)
Military Academy of the Republic of Belarus was established in accordance with the
Presidential Decree
A decree is a legal proclamation, usually issued by a head of state (such as the president of a republic or a monarch), according to certain procedures (usually established in a constitution). It has the force of law. The particular term used for ...
№192 on 17 May 1995 on the basis of two schools: the Minsk Higher Military Engineering School and the Minsk Higher Military Command School. The latter is the successor of the
Minsk Higher Military-Political School
The Minsk Higher Military-Political Combined Arms School (MVVPOU) () was a specialized military higher educational institution of the Soviet Army based in the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. Located on Kalinovsky Street in Minsk, it served ...
, which was established on 10 May 1980, carrying out the training of more than 1,900 officers during its existence. From 1980 to 1991, the school gave military training to 900 people from 21 foreign countries. In May 1953, Gomel Higher Military Technical School was established, being the precursor to the Minsk engineering school. After Belarus gained its independence following the
Dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the political school was transformed into the command school which later be merged. On 8 September 1992, they were the first to take the military oath of allegiance, with their ceremony being held on
Independence Square in the presence of defense minister
Pavel Kozlovskii. In 1995, it was also given the status of a government institution of secondary military education.
The academy has
lecture hall
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s,
classrooms, specialized classrooms,
laboratories
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equipped with computers and automation. The teaching staff includes about 700
teacher
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''Informally'' the role of teacher may be taken on by anyone (e.g. whe ...
s, including 20 doctors and 250
candidates of science, 25
professor
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s and 200
associate professors. A lot of its cadets come from the
Minsk Suvorov Military School
The Minsk Suvorov Military School (MnSVU) ( be, Мінск Сувораўскае ваеннае вучылішча; russian: Минское суворовское военное училище) is one of the Suvorov Military Schools in Belarus a ...
, which is a
boarding school that trains students from the age of twelve for future civil/military service. Since the Military Academy was established in 1995, it has trained over 1,500 people, mostly coming from
Venezuela
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,
Kazakhstan
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,
Vietnam
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, and
China.
Areas of study and faculties
The following are areas of study at the academy:
*Sensors and Signal Processing
*Information and Communications (
Signals
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)
*Medicine
*Air Pollution and
Environmental Control
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*Monitoring and Instrumentation
*Fluid Mechanics and Gas Dynamics
*Optics
*Physics
*
Avionics
Avionics (a blend of ''aviation'' and ''electronics'') are the electronic systems used on aircraft. Avionic systems include communications, navigation, the display and management of multiple systems, and the hundreds of systems that are fit ...
*Leadership skills
![Belarus Military Academy--Internal Troops Department patch (II)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f6/Belarus_Military_Academy--Internal_Troops_Department_patch_%28II%29.png)
The academy also operates the following faculties (departments):
*Aviation College
*General Faculty
*College of Internal Troops
*Faculty of
Military Intelligence
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*College of Air Defense
*Faculty of Missile Forces, Artillery and Missile-Artillery Armament
*Faculty of Communications and Automated Control Systems
Chiefs
*Major General Viktor Lisovsky (-15 July 2021)
*Major General Gennady Lepeshko (15 July 2021-present)
Notable alumni
*
Andrei Ravkov – Class of 1999,
Minister of Defence of Belarus
The Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Belarus (russian: Министерство обороны Республики Беларусь; be, Мiнiстэрства абароны Рэспублікі Беларусь) is the government organi ...
*
Oleg Belokonev – Class of 1999,
Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Belarus
*
Murat Maikeyev
Murat Jaleluly Maikeyev ( kk, Мұрат Жәлелұлы Майкеев, ''Mūrat Jälelūly Maikeev''; born 9 November 1959) is a Kazakh military figure who served as the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakh ...
– Class of 2014,
Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan (2016-2019)
*Alexander Fetisov – Class of 1988, Head of the City Orkrug of
Samara
*
Begench Gundogdyev – Class of 2012,
Minister of Defense of Turkmenistan (since 2018)
References
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1995 establishments in Belarus
Educational institutions established in 1995
Education in Minsk
Military academies of Belarus