The Saint-Petersburg University of the State Fire Service of the EMERCOM of Russia (Russian: Санкт-Петербургский университет государственной противопожарной службы МЧС России) is a state institution for the training of specialists in the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations. It is currently led by Internal Service Major General Bogdan Gavkalyuk. The university was created on 5 October 1906 [O.S. 18 October] in the distant 1906, when on October 5 with the opening of the first courses of fire technicians in the Russian Empire. Fyodor von Landesen, was appointed head of the courses. A year after the October Revolution, the courses were reformed into the Fire-Technical School. In 1941, it was renamed into the second fire-technical school of the Fire Defence Troops of the NKVD. On 20 September of that year, the school was disbanded in connection with the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, with half of the employees and cadets serving in the Red Army to fight the German invaders from the front while the rest remained to put out the fires and keep public order. In 1946, the school reopens its doors, acquiring the name of Leningrad Fire-Technical School. Since 1953, the school has trained firefighters from a number of foreign countries, including Warsaw Pact nations like such as Hungary, and Bulgaria, as well as allied countries such as Mongolia, North Korea, Cuba, Afghanistan, Guinea-Bissau, and Vietnam. In total, the school trained over 1,000 specialists from foreign countries. In 1986, the school was transformed into the Leningrad Higher Fire-Fighting School of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Eleven years later, the Institute of Fire Safety of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia was created on the basis of the school. It became part of the Moscow University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in 1998. By government resolution, the St. Petersburg Institute of the State Fire Service was established on 13 August 2002. On its centennial in 2006, it was given the status of a university. More information...
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