The Zhukovsky Air Force Academy in Voronezh is one of the most famous and authoritative universities in the Russian Federation, training highly qualified personnel for the Russian army. Although this prestigious university was founded only 5 years ago, it is the successor to the glorious traditions of several famous educational institutions. This article is devoted to their history and significant achievements.
Origins
The ancestor of the Air Force Academy in Voronezh is considered to be the Military Airfield Technical School. It was founded in Stalingrad by decision of the General Staff of the USSR Armed Forces at the end of 1948. However, its activities began in 1950.
In 1954, VATU was relocated to the city of Michurinsk, Tambov region. In 1963, it was decided to rename this educational institution. However, a few months later the university was relocated again.
History of the Voronezh Higher Military Aviation Engineering School
At the end of 1963, Michurinsky VATU moved to its current location. In 1975, it was decided to improve its status and the school was transformed into the Voronezh Higher Military Aviation Engineering School (VVAIU). In this regard, the duration of training was increased to 4 years. In order to ensure that as a result of these transformations there was no interruption in providing the Air Force with the necessary specialists, as an exception, in 1975 a simultaneous recruitment of applicants with both secondary technical and higher education was carried out. The first group of cadets was supposed to join the ranks of career officers after 3 years, and the second - after 4.
The first graduation of officers with diplomas of higher specialized education in Voronezh took place in 1979. To improve the level of training of graduates in the future, the training programs were extended to 5 years.
In the period from 1979 to 1989, a lot of work was done at VVAIU in the field of development of scientific activities, which made it possible to open an adjunct course.
In the 90s, the Voronezh School had a branch located in Borisoglebsk. It was created on the basis of the local “flight” military school named after Valery Chkalov.
History of VUNTS Air Force
The Voronezh Air Force Academy emerged as a result of the merger of several educational institutions.
In 1998, VVAIU was transformed into the Military Aviation Engineering Institute. After 8 years, the Voronezh Military Institute of Radio Electronics was added to it.
In 2007, the university received state accreditation. At the same time, it was decided to concentrate in the Voronezh VAIU the training of military experts of all types of ground support for air flights: airfield engineering, aviation engineering, airfield technical, radio engineering, meteorological and aviation communications.
As a result of large-scale transformations, VVAIU operating in Irkutsk, Stavropol and Tambov were annexed. After the corresponding order was issued, all of their personnel were redeployed to Voronezh.
In 2010, the GGNIITsRB was added to the Voronezh VVAIU. In addition, by order of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, he was transferred to the functions of training officers at the operational-tactical level of the Air Force Academy named after. Professor N. Zhukovsky and Yu. Gagarin, operating in Monino.
Completion of the formation of the university
As you can see, it is very difficult to say when the Voronezh Air Force Academy (VUNC) was formed, since over the past 25 years other universities have constantly joined it, training personnel for the Russian Air Force. However, it is possible to accurately indicate the year when its name appeared on the list of military universities in our country. This happened in 2012, after an order was issued to merge the Voronezh VVAIU and the Air Force Academy. Professors N. Zhukovsky and Yu. Gagarin.
Achievements
The Voronezh Air Force Academy carefully preserves the memory of the universities that are its predecessors. The pride of students, teachers and a huge army of graduates of the VUNTS Air Force is their achievements. After all, more than 280 employees of these military educational institutions in different years became laureates of the Lenin and State Prizes of the Soviet Union, and were also awarded the title of Hero of Labor. More than 1,500 graduates were awarded the highest military award of the USSR. 90 of them became and Air Marshal I.N. Kozhedub was awarded this title three times. Among the graduates of the Voronezh Air Force Academy are the legends of world astronautics Yu. Gagarin, V. Tereshkova, A. Leonov, famous designers S. Ilyushin, A. Mikoyan, A. Yakovlev and more than 10 Russian cosmonauts.
Composition and structure
The Voronezh Air Force Academy (VUNC VVS) trains personnel in 26 military and 18 civilian specialties. Currently, the university employs 445 candidates of science and 59 doctors, about six dozen professors and 215 associate professors.
The structure of the Voronezh Air Force Academy includes:
- university administration;
- general academic departments;
- CNI and ICU;
- CPNPK;
- NIIREBN;
- support units;
- scientific company.
The latter unit was the first of its kind in the modern Russian army and was formed by order of the Russian Minister of Defense in 2013. Its appearance marked the beginning of movement towards the creation of a new type of aircraft based on the latest technological advances.
As already mentioned, since 1989, the Voronezh Academy has had an adjunct course, and also has 4 doctoral dissertation councils in 8 specialties.
In addition, since 2015, the university has been training gifted children. A cadet corps with an engineering focus was established for them, where they can enter after 9th grade.
Faculties
The structure of the Air Force VUNTS includes 14 faculties. Among them:
- Aerodrome technical flight support facilities, created in 1975;
- Hydrometeorological, where they train officers in a specialty related to the study of the planet’s natural resources by aerospace means, and meteorologists.
- Engineering and airfield support.
- Aviation weapons.
- Aviation equipment.
- Management of the activities of units involved in the training of officers in specialties related to pedagogy, psychology, management and personnel management.
- Information security.
- Aircraft.
- Radio technical support.
- Aviation communications, training officers in the specialty “Radio Engineering”.
- Retraining and advanced training.
- Aviation radio-electronic equipment.
- A special faculty that trains military personnel and technical personnel for the armies of foreign countries.
Branches of the Air Force Academy in Voronezh
VUNTS Air Force has 2 branches. These are located in Syzran and Chelyabinsk. The first of them currently has 10 departments, where, along with Russian cadets, military experts from Armenia, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Guinea, Mali, Kyrgyzstan, China, the Republic of Chad, Vietnam, Sudan, Burundi, Angola, Mongolia, Djibouti, Sri - Lanka, Laos, Libya and Nicaragua. The Syzran Military Institute was founded shortly before the start of the Second World War, and was initially based in Saratov. In the most difficult years, he carried out accelerated training of glider pilots for the front. In the period 1979-1989, 12 graduates of the university became Heroes of the Soviet Union for feats accomplished in the skies of Afghanistan, and 19 pilots who graduated from the Syzran Military Institute received gold stars while participating in the operations of the Chechen War.
Personnel training
The duration of training in any of the specialties of vocational education is 22 months, and of higher education - 5 years.
Those who graduate from the academy through programs of the first type are awarded the rank of “warrant officer” and are given a diploma of secondary vocational education.
The remaining graduates receive the military rank of lieutenant.
Along with university cadets, they master a civilian specialty and are guaranteed employment in their military specialty. Judging by the reviews, young people are attracted by the opportunity for career growth, as well as the benefits and benefits established by the Constitution and the Federal Law of the Russian Federation for military personnel.
To enter a university, an applicant must have a document confirming that he or she has an unspecified level of knowledge in subjects such as:
- Russian language;
- mathematics;
- physics;
- geography;
- Informatics.
Air Force Academy named after Professor N. E. Zhukovsky and Yu. A. Gagarin (Voronezh)
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Federal State Treasury Military Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education "Military Educational and Scientific Center of the Air Force" Air Force Academy named after Prof. N. E. Zhukovsky and Yu. A. Gagarin" (Voronezh)" - a higher military educational institution of the Air Force (Air Force). The university trains officers in command and engineering, engineering and military-humanitarian profiles for aviation of all types, branches of the military and electronic warfare units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
History of the university
The ancestor of the university is considered to be the Military Airfield Technical School of the Air Force in Stalingrad, the decision to open which was made at the end of 1948 by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR, and the opening took place on January 1, 1950.
University structure
The Military Aviation Engineering University trains specialists in 18 civilian and 26 military specialties. Among the university staff there are 58 doctors and 445 candidates of science, 59 professors and 215 associate professors, most of whom were invited from other military universities with the promise of providing housing, and teachers without an academic title (degree) were deliberately not invited, so as not to reduce their accreditation indicators. The university has 14 faculties.
- Hydrometeorological Faculty
Trains officers in the specialties “Meteorology” and “Research of natural resources by aerospace means”. The training of military meteorological specialists in 1950-1956 was carried out at the Serpukhov Aviation Technical School of Special Services, in 1956-1960 at the Kirsanov Military Aviation Technical School. Since 1962, the training of meteorological service specialists was resumed at the meteorological cycle of the Michurinsk Military Aviation Technical School, subsequently at the Voronezh Military Aviation Engineering School, then an institute, and now a university. The faculty was created in 1975.
- Faculty of Aerodrome Technical Flight Support Facilities
Trains officers in the specialties “Refrigeration, cryogenic equipment and air conditioning”, “Aerodrome technical support for aviation flights” and “Metrology and metrological support”. The first intake of cadets for basic logistics specialties was carried out in 1949, and already in the fall of 1951, the Air Force rear received its first specialists - technicians in the construction and operation of airfields, in the operation and repair of airfield vehicles, in the operation and repair of special vehicles. The faculty was created in 1975.
- Faculty of Engineering and Aerodrome Support
Trains officers in the specialties “Highways and Airfields” and “Energy Supply of Enterprises”. The faculty was created in 1975.
- Faculty of Management of Day-to-Day Activities of Units
Trains officers in the specialties “Human Resource Management”, “Pedagogy and Psychology” and “Organization Management”. The faculty was created in 2003.
- Faculty of Electronic Warfare (use and operation of electronic warfare equipment with enemy command and control systems and weapons)
Trains officers in the specialty "Electronic warfare". The faculty was created in 1981 as part of the Voronezh Higher Military Engineering School of Radio Electronics.
- Faculty of Electronic Warfare (and Information Security)
Trains officers in the specialty “Comprehensive provision of information security of automated systems.” The faculty was created in 1981 as part of the Voronezh Higher Military Engineering School of Radio Electronics.
- Faculty of Aircraft
Trains officers in the specialty “Technical operation of aircraft and engines.” The faculty was created in 1975 as part of the Irkutsk VVAIU. In July-August 2009, the staff of the faculty was replenished with cadets from a similar faculty of the Stavropol VVAIU.
- Faculty of Aviation Weapons
Trains officers in the specialty “Robotic systems of aviation weapons”. The faculty was created in 1992 as part of the Irkutsk VVAIU. In July-August 2009, the staff of the faculty was replenished with cadets from a similar faculty of the Stavropol VVAIU.
- Faculty of Aviation Equipment
Trains officers in the specialty “Technical operation of aviation electrical systems and flight navigation systems.” The faculty was created in 1975 as part of the Irkutsk VVAIU. In July-August 2009, the staff of the faculty was replenished with cadets from a similar faculty of the Stavropol VVAIU.
- Faculty of Aviation Radioelectronic Equipment
Trains officers in the specialties “Technical operation of transport radio equipment” and “Operation of radio-electronic equipment of airplanes and helicopters.” The faculty was created in 1987 as part of the Irkutsk VVAIU. In July-August 2009, the staff of the faculty was replenished with cadets from a similar faculty of the Stavropol VVAIU.
- Faculty of Radio Engineering Support
Trains officers in the specialty “Radio-electronic systems”. The faculty was created in 1994 on the basis of the Faculty of Radioelectronics of the Tambov VVAIU RE.
- Faculty of Aviation Communications
Trains officers in the specialty “Radio Engineering”. The faculty was created in 1993 as part of the Tambov VVAIU RE as the Faculty of Radio Communications.
- Faculty of retraining and advanced training
- Special Faculty
Engaged in training military personnel and technical personnel of foreign countries. The training of foreign military specialists began at the university in October 1993.
The structure of the university includes:
- University Administration
- University departments
- Information Technology Department
- Research Department
- Electronic Warfare Research and Testing Center
- Support units
Since 1989, VAIU has had an adjunct course and four doctoral dissertation councils in eight specialties.
Notes
Literature
- Military Aviation Engineering University (Voronezh) Stages of the glorious path (1950-2010) / Ed. G. V. Zibrova. - Tula: Lev Tolstoy, 2009. - 336 p. - ISBN 978-5-89609-140-0
Links
- unofficial website of the Military Aviation Engineering University (Voronezh)
- Official website of the Faculty of Aviation Radioelectronic Equipment of VAIU (Voronezh)
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Future applicants to the Voronezh Air Force Academy are invited to an Open Day. They will be told about the history, traditions of the university and admission rules. However, the already influx of people wishing to become cadets is guaranteed. The competition is always high, including due to foreigners who seek to receive military education in Russia.
Swimming in uniform is a regular endurance training at the Voronezh military university. No one will say that it is difficult, although the wet uniform and the full-scale dummy of a Kalashnikov assault rifle on his back are dragging him down.
“You must have strong enough physical fitness and general endurance,” says academy cadet Kirill Kravtsov.
While the Su-25 attack aircraft is being equipped with ammunition, future engineers are diagnosing the operation of the engine on the Su-27 fighter. Ruslan Shukurov came to study this from Kazakhstan.
“My father is a military man, he is my role model in life, so I wanted to follow in his footsteps, following his example. Besides, I like the specialty, it’s interesting, servicing equipment and aircraft,” he says.
Russian education is valuable to foreign cadets and students. Many people prefer our military school. The Air Force Academy named after Zhukovsky and Gagarin accepts students from almost forty states, including countries of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
“Today, more than 300 officers who arrived from the military under master’s programs and from the CSTO countries are studying; later it will be easier for them to interact when solving problems within the framework of the Collective Security Treaty,” notes the head of the VUNTS Air Force VVA named after. NOT. Zhukovsky and Yu.A. Gagarin Gennady Zibrov.
Combat pilot Arman Samilev is an experienced pilot, 1200 hours of flight time, graduated from the Krasnodar Flight School. But again at the helm of the simulator, already in Voronezh. It is important for an officer to constantly improve his skills.
“The simulator is designed to distribute attention so that the pilot watches the instruments, controls them, so that he doesn’t lose sight of anything, especially speed,” says the pilot.
The acquired skills are honed in practice at active military airfields. Cadets of the Air Force Academy are trained on equipment used in real combat operations: the Su-34 bomber aircraft has proven itself to be excellent in hitting ground targets. And this is an Il-76M transport aircraft, it carries out the transfer of humanitarian cargo. There is also a unit for unmanned aerial vehicles - the Voronezh university was the first and so far the only one in Russia where the Ministry of Defense created such a unit. The scientific company is studying in the next classroom. The military is just testing its new unique landing system for unmanned aerial vehicles.
“We are developing an algorithm for capturing ground infrared landmarks and determining the coordinates of the aircraft relative to the runway,” explains Stanislav Karmanov, operator of the scientific company of the VUNTS Air Force VVA named after. NOT. Zhukovsky and Yu.A. Gagarin.
An infrared camera on board the drone helps it locate the runway in any weather, even if equipment on the ground fails.
“The system, compared to foreign analogues, is quite modern and, most importantly, it is easy to implement,” says the head of the research department of the VUNTS VVV VVA named after. NOT. Zhukovsky and Yu.A. Gagarin Andrey Ageev.
For the second year in a row, the Voronezh Air Force Academy named after Zhukovsky and Gagarin has become the best in the military education system of the Russian Ministry of Defense. And every year there are more and more foreign cadets and students. The geography is extensive: Europe, Asia, Africa, South America. The competition this academic year for some specialties is ten people per place.
On December 16, Free Press published an exclusive interview with the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Air Force, Colonel General Alexander Zelin, under the headline “Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force: Only I can tell the truth.” Among other things, we asked the commander in chief about the fate of the Air Force Academy named after Professor N.E. Zhukovsky and Yu.A. Gagarin, which by September 1 was relocated from Moscow and the Moscow region to Voronezh.
This decision caused a big scandal in society and the Armed Forces. Many suspected and continue to suspect that the order was not based on the interests of improving our military aviation. Rather, it is a commercial thirst to quickly sell off huge tracts of expensive land near Moscow and many capital buildings in which generations of Soviet and Russian combat pilots, aviation engineers, designers, and cosmonauts studied.
Moreover. Many are sure that in fact the famous Air Force Academy no longer exists, only one name remains. The reason is that in a short time it is simply impossible to recreate a unique educational and scientific base in a new place. In addition, the majority of military scientists and teaching staff, as one would expect, refused to move from Moscow and Monino to Voronezh. How this will affect the training of command and engineering personnel of the Russian Air Force in the near future is not worth guessing.
Nevertheless, as follows from the mentioned interview, Colonel General Zelin is full of optimism and does not share our anxiety. In the aforementioned interview, he stated, in particular: “The whole world does not have as many military educational institutions as we have in Russia. There are three higher military educational institutions in the United States. By type of military: Air Force Academy, Army Academy, Naval Academy. If we talk about the Air Force, both flight personnel and ground personnel will be trained at a single academy. And it is right. This will allow, firstly, to save costs. But even this is not the main thing: this approach will allow us to create the most modern educational and material base. We teach officers differently than we have done so far: on our fingers, with chalk in our hands at the blackboard...
I have been to the USA, Greece, Japan, South Korea, China, Singapore, Finland. We saw with our own eyes that we were lagging behind in many issues of organizing training and in equipping the educational and material base. We are still explaining everything in our fingers. And advanced systems have long been created in the world. They have been implemented at the Military Aviation University in Voronezh.
There already exist modern computer programs that allow training, testing, and control. Not only does learning take place visually, but a person also visually assimilates everything, i.e. it turns out to be a complex process.
Yes, of course, I feel sorry for both the Zhukovsky Academy and the Gagarin Academy. But when we all unite... Who says it will be easy? The process of unification that has begun is an objective reality, and not some subjective desires.”
Colonel-General Zelin's answer caused a strong reaction from our readers, among whom there are many Air Force veterans and current military aviators. The essence of most of the claims was expressed by the chairman of the doctoral dissertation council of the Military Educational and Scientific Center of the Air Force “Air Force Academy named after. NOT. Zhukovsky and Yu.A. Gagarin" (VUNTS VVS "VVA"), Lieutenant General of the Reserve Ivan Naydenov.
Lieutenant General Naydenov in 1997-2005. was Deputy Head of the Air Force Academy named after Yu.A. Gagarin for educational and scientific work. He knows firsthand what is happening with the academy and with the training of personnel for our Air Force.
His opinion in a nutshell: With the participation of the Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force, Colonel General Zelin, the system of education for Air Force command personnel is being catastrophically destroyed. In fact, it has already been destroyed.
- Why is this happening?
First. When a civilian was appointed Minister of Defense, God bless him - he would perform his political functions, and the General Staff would deal with military issues... A similar practice exists in the world. But the process went further. For the first time in the history of domestic military education Tamara Fraltsova was appointed head of the relevant department of the Ministry of Defense. Moreover, I had never done anything like this in my life.
This raised big questions among the military. But Fraltsova surprisingly tried to understand the personnel training system. She called upon the “elders” in this area to help her, and we helped her. Gradually I began to understand. When I got into it, I began to slow down the process, realizing that lawlessness was happening. Apparently, that's why it was quickly removed.
Then a new head of this department appeared on the horizon Ekaterina Priezzheva. Who is she in military education? No one knows. She worked in the “cage” of the Minister of Defense in the tax sphere on tobacco and alcohol products. Why was she appointed? You start talking to Priezzheva and immediately get the impression that she is a complete amateur. The answers that she gives to pressing questions of military personnel training, and the documents that the Minister of Defense signs at her suggestion, “set up” not only him, but also the highest government bodies.
Let me give you an example. In one of the prepared Priezzheva reports of the Minister of Defense to Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev it is said: “...the teaching staff of the Academy named after Professor N.E. Zhukovsky and Yu.A. Gagarin are at pre-retirement and retirement age, which negatively affects the educational and scientific process...” Does Priezzheva really not know what the retirement age is in our Armed Forces: 45 years for a lieutenant colonel, 50 for a colonel, 55 for a general. Where did the conclusion come from that the retirement age of a teacher “negatively affects the educational and scientific process”? Then she should recommend to the President of Russia to disperse the Russian Academy of Sciences. Many of the employees there are generally closer to 80 years of age.
— According to Mrs. Priezzheva, teachers at the military academy should be twenty-five years old?
Apparently, the current senior officials in the field of military education are simply deceiving the Minister of Defense.
“It’s not difficult to deceive someone who is happy to be deceived himself.” But why does the country's leadership allow this??
Judge for yourself. On March 18, 2011, the President of Russia gives instructions to Secretary of the Security Council Nikolai Patrushev to hear the Minister of Defense on the reform of military education. In the process of preparing for the meeting, in particular, an agreement was reached with Patrushev’s deputy, Army General Yuri Baluevsky, and Serdyukov’s deputy, Army General Nikolai Pankov, on how to minimize losses from the transfer of the academy to Voronezh.
We decided that a transition period until 2015 was necessary. During this period, the academy's teaching staff would ensure a smooth transfer of the educational process to a new location. It was also decided not to discuss this issue at the Security Council.
However, further developments showed that this was a direct deception. On July 12, 2011, Order No. 1136 of the Minister of Defense appeared on the transfer of the educational process from September 1 from the academy to the Voronezh Military Aviation University. In just two months! Without any transition period! In addition, I believe that the order itself is illegal, because the decision to liquidate the academy can only be made by the government of the Russian Federation, and not by the Minister of Defense. There are still no government orders in this regard.
- Let's move on to the academy itself. What's happening to her now??
First, I must clarify that what is happening is directly related to the reform of military education in general, which is being carried out today. The reform itself began without any concept or program at all. What goals were you going to achieve at the end of it, what do you need to do to achieve this? There was no understanding, no. It has only been decided that the Ministry of Defense needs to have three military educational and scientific centers in each branch of the Armed Forces and only ten systemically important universities.
In accordance with this decision, two academies were merged in 2008: the Air Force Engineering Academy named after N.E. Zhukovsky and the Air Force Academy named after Yu.A. Gagarin. Academy named after N.E. Zhukovsky for the Academy named after Yu.A. Gagarin - alma mater. It was created in the 20s of the last century, when the country was hungry and cold. But the country’s leadership, even in those conditions, understood that aviation would play a dominant role in future wars.
In 1940, on the eve of the Great Patriotic War, a command faculty was separated from Zhukovka and transferred to Monino. Subsequently, to strengthen the level of training of Air Force command personnel, the Air Force Academy named after Yu.A. was created on its base. Gagarin.
It can be unequivocally stated that there is actually no talk of any merger of these academies today. In reality, there was a liquidation of both the Academy named after N.E. Zhukovsky, and later the Academy named after Yu.A. Gagarin.
Judge for yourself: the created Air Force Military Training and Research Center “Air Force Academy named after N.E. Zhukovsky and Yu.A. Gagarin" in Monino, by order No. 1136 of the Minister of Defense of July 12, 2011, was excluded from the educational process, which really means its liquidation. In accordance with the same order, highly qualified professors, teachers, and employees of the academy were immediately fired.
Despite appeals to the President of the country, the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, the Supreme Court, the Investigative Committee, the Prosecutor General's Office, the Security Council of the Russian Federation, the Minister of Defense, and the Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force about the illegality of what was happening, no one gave an intelligible answer about the appropriateness of these actions of the Ministry of Defense. Instead, on September 27, government decree No. 1639 appears, which states that VUNTs must present its new charter as a state-owned educational institution.
Absolutely right. It turns out that the government is not aware of such a transfer. We are no longer there, but they tell us to present the charter. And this order contains clear words: “With the preservation of all main types of functions (and for us the main function is educational), the maximum staffing level and place of work.” And the functions have already been transferred, the reductions have already taken place, but Priezzheva gives the command to the head of the VUNTS to prepare the charter, as if nothing had happened.
- That is, they give you an order to hide from the government that the academy no longer exists.?
Exactly. Then we will put this issue to a vote at the conference of the teaching staff of the VUNTS Air Force "VVA". And with a result of 179 for, 1 against, 10 abstaining, we decide that we will not vote for such a charter. Let us be given an explanation why such things happen without government orders?
Then, having learned about our decision, individual leaders of the VUNC secretly reported to the top that we had held a conference on the adoption of the charter. We made a fuss. At a meeting with the Deputy Minister of Defense, Army General Pankov, I was told that a criminal offense had been committed. Pankov assured that everything was being done without his knowledge. Then Priezzheva gives the command to accept the charter by any means.
And so the administration of the academy begins to do everything to ensure that “unpleasant people” do not come to the conference, but only “pleasing” ones, etc. Ultimately, the charter is adopted, albeit with a large number of votes against. We have no doubt that the Minister of Defense will approve it immediately.
- What is this all for? What is the purpose of merging the Air Force academies and transferring what is left of them to Voronezh? What's the interest?
To answer this question unambiguously, the Accounts Chamber and the Prosecutor's Office need to work. But the 1,600 hectares occupied by the Air Force Academy named after. Yu.A. Gagarin, 400 hectares, which were occupied by the Academy. Zhukovsky, is a tasty morsel. No one yet knows what their fate will be. The fact is that a law signed by President Medvedev recently appeared that prohibits the Ministry of Defense from selling land and other property.
But by order of the Minister of Defense, some of the facilities on the territory of the Academy Yu.A. Gagarina has already been sold. The question arises: why is the Minister of Defense, in the absence of legal documents on the liquidation of the academies, selling its facilities?
— Why did they decide to make Voronezh the aviation capital of Russia? Not only academies were transferred there. At the Baltimore airfield, right under the citizens' windows, for some time now there has been the largest airbase in the European part of the country. Recently, a squadron of new Su-34 front-line bombers was also transferred there. What is this - the result of highbrow calculations of the General Staff?
There is nothing highbrow here. It’s just that the sum of the interests of individual people, including, I suspect, commercial interests, developed in such a way that it turned out to be beneficial for them to create the main base of our Air Force and the main training center in this city.
The story of how our employees left for Voronezh deserves a separate story. Colonel Akentyev from the Department of Military Education of the Ministry of Defense arrived, gathered the entire teaching staff - more than 400 people - and said: “Comrades, for such and such reasons the academy is being relocated to Voronezh. Those who agree to continue working there, please stay in the audience - we will continue the conversation. The rest can be free."
Almost everyone left the hall - only two adjuncts remained. Then Akentyev began calling specific people and saying: “Nothing will happen here anyway. In Voronezh you will defend your dissertation and continue your service. Otherwise, you won’t get anything and you will be transferred to the reserve without housing.”
Later, the Air Force Commander-in-Chief made a “pump-up” at a meeting with department heads: “I’ll send you to serve on a submarine, you’re not going anywhere. I’ll fire you without an apartment.” This is how they scraped together 29 people out of 400. Most are either adjuncts or those who have one or two years left to serve.
For example, a good officer was appointed head of the department of combat training and flight safety, but he did not spend a single hour of training. He himself needs to become a teacher. Under normal conditions, to rise to the position of head of a department, you need to teach for at least 10 years.
Do you know what the result of all this disgrace is? Since the first lectures with students were ordered to be held in Voronezh on September 1, and nothing was ready, the topic of the first lesson with future commanders was devoted to how to dig trenches in sandy and clayey terrain. And the future senior command of our Air Force listened to this!
- Why such a strange topic??
Yes, because such a lecture was previously given there to cadets of the Voronezh Military Aviation University. There was simply no one to give lectures on other topics to the student officers. Now they are restoring plans and training programs. But restore - don’t restore, while there is still no one to teach flight disciplines for senior command personnel.
— Many foreigners always studied at the academies of both Zhukovsky and Gagarin, you even had faculties for training foreign pilots. Will they go to Voronezh now?
Yes, we have trained flight personnel from more than 25 countries. Now foreign listeners are also forced to go to Voronezh. According to the information I have, they are already refusing to attend classes because they do not meet the needs of specialists of this level of training.
It is said that ambassadors of individual countries contacted Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov and stated that they were sending their pilots to a world-class academy, and not to a little-known training center in Voronezh. They said: “We need a diploma from the Zhukovsky and Gagarin Academy.” And then it was decided to name the Voronezh center after the Academy of Zhukovsky and Gagarin, so that the world brand would be on the diploma.
- But in reality they will be taught to dig trenches in sandy soil?
Yes, and they will continue to teach for a long time. Our academy is like a praying temple. To create a university like ours in Voronezh will take at least 12-15 years.
— And in these 15 years, the major-captains who entered the academy today will become major generals, occupy senior command posts, but will only be able to dig trenches in sandy soil?
That's right, there can be no other way.
— That is, we can purchase modern aircraft even in the thousands, but if the command does not have the appropriate training, it will still be of no use?
Of course, and Zelin, in my opinion, is a vivid example of this: his unsuccessful appointment as commander-in-chief has already led to the fact that he practically destroyed the Air Force as a branch of the Armed Forces. Do you know how people feel in Monino? The last elections showed this.
