Military Academy of Communications named after Marshal Soviet Union S. M. Budyonny is one of the oldest military educational institutions in the country, training specialists in the field of telecommunications and automation for the Armed Forces Russian Federation, other ministries and departments. Over the years of its existence, the university has trained more than 35 thousand officers for the Armed Forces of our country, over 4.5 thousand officers for the armies of foreign countries, more than 2 thousand candidates and more than 100 doctors of science. 8 thousand officers were trained in the additional system vocational education.

The day the academy was founded is November 8, 1919, when the electrical engineering department of the Higher Soviet Military Engineering School, by order of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic, was transformed into the Higher Military Electrical Engineering School of the command staff of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army. In 1921, it was reorganized into the Military Electrotechnical Academy of the Red Army and Navy with a 4-5 year training period. On August 28, 1923, the Military Electrical Engineering Academy of the Red Army and the Navy was merged with the Military Engineering Academy and the Military Engineering and Electrical Engineering Academy was created.

In the period from 1925 to 1946, the academy was reorganized several times in order to find the most optimal form of training for signal officers.

In 1946, the academy became known as the Red Banner Military Academy of Communications named after S. M. Budyonny.

In 1952, on the basis of the Communications Academy, two academies were created: the Military Academy of Communications (command) and the Military Engineering Academy of Communications named after S.M. Budyonny. In 1957, they were again united into one - the Military Academy of Communications named after SM. Budyonny.

In 1998, the academy was transformed into the Military University of Communications with branches in the cities of Ryazan, Kemerovo, and Ulyanovsk.

In 2004, the Military University of Communications was transformed into the Military Academy of Communications named after S. M. Budyonny.

In 2008, the academy became known as the Military Academy of Communications named after Marshal of the Soviet Union S. M. Budyonny.

For its services in training officer personnel, the academy was awarded the Order of the Red Banner, the Order of Lenin, as well as awards from foreign countries.

The Academy provides full-time (for 2 years) training of officers with the highest military operational-tactical training.

During their military service, signal officers undergo retraining at the academy at the faculty of retraining and advanced training.

The academy operates doctoral studies and postgraduate studies. Officers with higher education are accepted into the academy's full-time postgraduate program on a competitive basis. Officers who have an academic degree of Candidate of Sciences are admitted to doctoral studies at the Academy on a competitive basis.

The high scientific potential of the academy contributes to the high-quality training of masters and specialists. The academy operates 10 scientific schools . 73% of the teaching staff have an academic degree and academic title.

Training of cadets according to programs higher education with full military special training is carried out in the following specialties:

Infocommunication technologies and special communication systems

Specialization: special purpose radio communication systems;

Specialization: special systems satellite communications;

Specialization: multi-channel telecommunication systems; Specialization: optical communication systems;

Specialization: switching systems and special-purpose communication networks;

Application and operation of automated systems for special purposes

Specialization: operation of computers, complexes, systems and networks for special purposes;

Specialization: automated information processing and management systems;

Specialization: mathematical, software and information support for computer technology and automated systems. Form of study - full-time, 5 years.

Graduates are awarded a military rank LIEUTENANT and qualifications "engineer", a state diploma is issued.

Training of cadets in secondary vocational education programs with secondary military special training is carried out in the following specialties:

multi-channel telecommunication systems;

radio communications, radio broadcasting and television;

communication networks and switching systems.

Duration of training is 2 years 10 months. The form of training is full-time. Graduates are awarded a military rank ENSIGN and qualifications "technician", a state diploma is issued. Graduates serve in units, formations, communications institutions of all branches of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in primary positions: technician, head of the equipment room and other positions corresponding to their qualifications.

Cadets are fully supported by the state: free training, accommodation, food, provision of all established types of allowances.

To train highly qualified specialists, in demand both in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and in other law enforcement agencies, all the necessary conditions have been created: modern classrooms equipped with the latest technical means, interactive training and knowledge control systems, electronic simulators; library information and resource center with access to library collections and Internet resources. Improving field training and practical skills of students is carried out on the basis of providing educational process, located 25 km from St. Petersburg.

Cadets take an active part in competitions held in various academic disciplines at the all-army, regional and all-Russian levels.

In addition to a high-quality, serious education, academy cadets have opportunities for recreation and sports. The educational and sports facilities are equipped with modern training complexes and sports equipment, there is a swimming pool and a stadium with a football field. The academy's sports complex is one of the best among universities of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. Academy cadets participate in competitions in many sports, performing at Russian, European, and World championships. Among the cadets there are candidates and masters of sports, European and World champions.

The cadets live in new comfortable dormitories. Meals are provided in the academy's canteen with 2,500 seats. There is a buffet and tea room.

The cadet's salary is calculated depending on the military rank of the contract serviceman, length of service, academic performance, academic and sporting achievements and ranges from 15,000 to 22,000 rubles per month, starting from the second year (after concluding the contract). First-year cadets receive 2,000 rubles per month as conscripts.

The academic year for first-year cadets begins on August 1 with combined arms training.

Summer vacation leave lasting 30 days and winter vacation leave lasting 15 days are provided annually.

Possibility of visiting concert halls, museums, exhibitions of the city of St. Petersburg on preferential terms.

Contacts

Address Russia, 194064, St. Petersburg, Tikhoretsky prospect, 3 Telephone

Over the years of its existence, the Higher School of Military Signals has become a truly unique military educational institution of the Armed Forces of our Fatherland. Her name is widely known not only in Russia, but also far beyond its borders. Graduates of the academy performed and today fulfill their military duty in all law enforcement agencies of the Russian Federation with honor and dignity. Many students of the university became prominent military leaders, famous statesmen, and prominent scientists. More than 4,500 envoys from more than 20 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America returned home from Russia with a diploma from the Military Academy of Communications.

Currently, the Military Academy of Communications trains military specialists with two levels of military education: higher military-special and higher military and civilian specialists (with payment of training costs). The license for the right to conduct educational activities in the field of higher, postgraduate, additional, and professional education was issued by the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation on December 29, 2003. Ser. A No. 001457.

Historical background

The Military Academy of Communications is one of the oldest military educational institutions in the country, training specialists in the field of telecommunications and automation for the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, other ministries and departments. It traces its history back to 1919. Over the years, the university has trained more than 32 thousand officers for the Armed Forces of our state, over 4.5 thousand officers for the armies of foreign countries, about 2000 candidates of science and more than 100 doctors of science. More than 7.5 thousand officers were trained in the retraining and advanced training system.

November 8, 1919 electrical engineering department of the Higher Soviet Military Engineering School by order of the Revolutionary Military Council (RVS) of the Republic
No. 1872 is being transformed into an independent military educational institution - the Higher Military Electrotechnical School of the command staff of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army (RKKA). This date is the day of the creation of the Military Order of Lenin Red Banner Academy of Communications.

June 10, 1921 The Higher Military Electrical Engineering School of the Red Army command staff is being reorganized into the Military Electrical Engineering Academy of the Red Army and Fleet (VETA) with a 4-5 year training period.

August 28, 1923 The Military Electrical Engineering Academy of the Red Army and the Navy was merged with the Military Engineering Academy and the Military Engineering and Electrical Engineering Academy was created.

June 9, 1925 The electrical engineering faculty from the Military Engineering and Electrical Engineering Academy was transferred to the Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute named after. Ulyanov-Lenin, forming the Military Electrical Engineering Department there.

August 27, 1929 The military department at the Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute was reorganized into the electrical engineering department of the Military Technical Academy (VTA) named after. F.E. Dzerzhinsky.

August 28, 1932 by order of the Revolutionary Military Council of the USSR and by the directive of the Main Directorate of Military Educational Institutions (HEI) of the Red Army on the basis of a resolution of the Defense Commission under the Council of People's Commissars (SNK) of the USSR on the basis of the VTA named after. F.E. Dzerzhinsky formed the Military Electrotechnical Academy of the Red Army, consisting of six faculties.

January 21, 1941 By order of the People's Commissar of Defense (NKO) of the USSR, the academy became known as the Military Electrotechnical Academy of Communications.

November 21, 1944 Based on the decision of the State Defense Committee (GKO), the resolution of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR, the academy was evacuated to Tomsk.

April 18, 1944 Based on the resolution of the State Defense Committee of the USSR and the directive of the General Staff (GS) of the Red Army, the academy was reevacuated to Leningrad.

July 5, 1946 Based on the directive of the General Staff of the Red Army, the academy became known as the S.M. Budyonny Red Banner Military Academy of Communications.

June 26, 1952 in pursuance of the resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers and the order of the USSR Military Minister on the basis of the Red Banner Military Academy of Communications named after. S.M. Budyonny created two military communications academies:

Military Academy of Communications (command); Military Red Banner Engineering Academy of Communications named after. S.M. Budyonny.

07/25/57 directive of the General Staff of the Ground Forces (SV) of the Armed Forces of the USSR and directive of the Chief of Communications of the SV Military Academy of Communications (command) and the Red Banner Military Engineering Academy
them. S.M. Budyonny are united into one - the Red Banner Military Academy of Communications named after S.M. Budyonny.

August 29, 1998 By Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1009, the Military Academy of Communications was transformed into the Military University of Communications with branches in Ryazan, Kemerovo, Ulyanovsk.

July 9, 2004 By Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 937-the Military University of Communications was transformed into the Military Academy of Communications named after S.M. Budyonny.

Areas of training and specialties

Directions and specialties of training

Currently, the Military Academy of Communications provides training for officers with the highest military operational-tactical and full military-special training, as well as civilian specialists (with payment of training costs). The license for the right to conduct educational activities in the field of higher, postgraduate, additional, and professional education was issued by the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation on September 28, 2005. ser.A No. 169624.

Training of officers with the highest military operational-tactical training

The Academy conducts full-time (for 2 years) and part-time (for 3) years training of officers with higher military operational-tactical training in the following specialties:

management of military units and formations;

management of combat support for troops (forces);

management of the operation of weapons, military equipment and technical support of troops (forces).

Signal Corps officers undergo retraining during 5 years of service at the academy at the faculty of retraining and advanced training.

Officers with higher professional education are admitted to full-time postgraduate training at the academy on a competitive basis. Officers who have an academic degree of Candidate of Sciences are admitted to doctoral studies at the Academy on a competitive basis.

The Academy trains specialists not only for the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, but also for other ministries and departments: the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Federal Security Service, the Federal Security Service, Federal agency special construction.

Training of officers with full military special training

Specialties of cadet training:

210401 Physics and technology of optical communications;

210404 Multichannel telecommunication systems;

210405 Radio communications, radio broadcasting and television;

210406 ​​Communication networks and switching systems;

230101 Computers, complexes, systems and networks;

230102 Automated information processing and control systems;

230105 Computer software and automated systems.

Duration of training is 5 years. The form of training is full-time.

The faculty trains officers with higher military-special education. Graduates of the faculty are awarded the military rank of LIEUTENANT and the qualification "engineer", issued a civilian diploma and awarded a badge of graduation from the academy.

Citizens of the Russian Federation who have graduated from educational institutions of secondary (full) general or secondary vocational education, who are fit for health reasons to study at a university, who have successfully completed the preliminary professional selection, from among: citizens who did not pass military service, aged 16 to 22 years; citizens who have completed military service and military personnel undergoing military service upon conscription - until they reach the age of 24 years; military personnel performing military service under a contract (except for officers) - after half the period of military service specified in the first contract, until they reach the age of 24 years.

The age of applicants to study is determined as of August 1 of the year of admission to the academy.

Military personnel wishing to enter the academy submit a command report addressed to the unit commander before April 1 of the year of admission.

Pre-selected military personnel for entry into the military educational institutions by June 1, they are sent to the academy to undergo professional selection. They undergo twenty-five-day training camps to prepare for entrance exams.

Persons from among the citizens who have and have not undergone military service, who have expressed a desire to enter the academy, submit applications to the military commissariat of the district at their place of residence before April 1 of the year of admission.

Persons from among citizens who have not served in the military, studying at Suvorov military schools (cadet corps), before May 15 of the year preceding the year of admission to study at the academy, submit an application to the head of the Suvorov military school (cadet corps).

Attached to the application (report): a copy of the passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation; a copy of the birth certificate; autobiography; copy of a document (certificate, certificate, certificate, diploma) of secondary education (students submit a certificate of current academic performance); three certified photographs (without headdress) measuring 4.5x6 cm; characteristics from the place of study (work, service); service card (for military personnel); medical examination card; map of professional psychological selection.

A passport of the Russian Federation, a military ID (registration certificate) or a certificate of a citizen subject to conscription for military service, and original documents on secondary education are presented by candidates upon arrival at the academy.

Professional selection of candidates for admission to the academy by cadets is carried out from July 10 to July 30 admissions committee and includes:

a) determining the suitability of candidates for admission to the academy for health reasons;

b) entrance examinations, consisting of: determining the category of professional suitability of candidates (socio-psychological study, psychological and psychophysiological examination); assessing the level of physical fitness of candidates; assessment of the level of general educational preparedness of candidates. Exams are held: in mathematics (written); physics (written); Russian language (presentation).

The results of the Unified State Exam are recognized by the Academy as the results of entrance tests in the relevant general education subjects.

The physical fitness of candidates is determined according to the following standards:

Name of exercise, unit of measurement	Citizen candidates youth			Military candidates
Pull-ups on the bar, number of times
100 m run (high start), sec.
3 km run, min., sec.

Persons liable for military service, civilian youth and Suvorov students are tested for physical fitness in sports uniform, and military personnel - in military uniform.

Outside the competition, candidates who have successfully passed the professional selection are accepted from among:

orphans and children left without parental care, as well as persons under the age of 23 from among orphans and children left without parental care;
citizens under the age of 20 who have only one parent - a disabled person of group I, if the average per capita family income is below living wage, established in the corresponding subject of the Russian Federation;
citizens discharged from military service and entering the academy on the recommendations of commanders of military units;
participants in hostilities;
military personnel who are and have been undergoing military service under a contract (with the exception of officers), whose continuous duration of military service under a contract is at least three years;
citizens who, in accordance with the Law of the RSFSR of May 15, 1991 No. 1244-1 “On the social protection of citizens exposed to radiation as a result of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster,” were granted the right to non-competitive admission to institutions of higher professional education;
other citizens who, in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation, have been granted the right to non-competitive admission to institutions of higher professional education.

When enrolling cadets in the academy, priority rights are given to candidates who have shown equal results during the entrance examinations, from among:

citizens who have a preferential right to enter higher and secondary specialized educational institutions in accordance with the Law of the RSFSR dated May 15, 1991 No. 1244-1 “On the social protection of citizens exposed to radiation as a result of the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant”;
citizens discharged from military service;
children of military personnel performing military service under a contract and having a total duration of military service of 20 years or more;
children of citizens discharged from military service upon reaching the age limit for military service, health reasons or in connection with organizational and staffing events, the total duration of military service of which is 20 years or more;
children of military personnel who died while performing their military service duties or who died as a result of injury (wounds, trauma, concussion) or illness received by them while performing their military service duties;
citizens who, in accordance with the established procedure, have been assigned the sports rank of candidate for master of sports, the first sports rank or sports rank in a military applied sport;
citizens who have been trained in military-patriotic youth and children's associations; other citizens who, in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation, have been granted preferential rights when entering institutions of higher professional education.

Candidates from among the following are exempt from testing knowledge in general education subjects:

military personnel who served in conscription and at the same time performed tasks in an armed conflict of a non-international nature in the Chechen Republic and in the immediately adjacent territories of the North Caucasus, classified as a zone of armed conflict;
graduates of Suvorov military schools or cadet corps awarded a medal (gold or silver) “For special achievements in teaching”;
persons who graduated with medals (gold or silver) “For special achievements in learning” from educational institutions of secondary (full) general or primary vocational education, as well as persons who graduated with honors from educational institutions of secondary vocational education, with positive interview results (in physics, mathematics and Russian language). Candidates who do not pass the interview take entrance exams on a general basis;
graduates of 11 (12) classes of secondary (full) educational institutions general education, the preparation of which was assessed based on the results of the unified state exam;
winners and prize-winners of the final stage of the All-Russian Olympiad for schoolchildren and members of national teams of the Russian Federation who participated in international Olympiads in general education subjects and formed in the manner determined by the Government of the Russian Federation for training in areas of training (specialties) corresponding to the profile of the Olympiad;
other citizens who, in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation, are exempt from testing knowledge in general education subjects upon admission to institutions of higher professional education.
Candidates are given the right of free travel to the place of entrance examinations, and upon arrival at the academy they are provided with free food and accommodation.

Admission to the academy is carried out on a competitive basis. The terms of the competition ensure that the most capable and prepared for mastering educational programs, as well as candidates who meet the requirements for professional suitability, are enrolled in the academy for training as cadets. The categories of citizens who are granted special rights when admitted to study at the academy are determined by the legislation of the Russian Federation.

Professional selection

Professional selection of candidates for enrollment in the academy as cadets in secondary and higher vocational education programs is carried out from July 1 to July 30 by the admissions committee. It includes a medical examination, psychological testing, assessment of the level of general education and physical fitness.

Enrollment procedure

Candidates who have passed the professional selection are included in the competitive lists for enrollment of candidates as cadets at the Military Academy of Communications. Competitive lists are compiled according to levels of military training, military specialties (specializations) in accordance with recruitment calculations.

Admission procedure

Citizens who have expressed a desire to enter the Military Academy of Communications submit an application to the department of the military commissariat at their place of residence (graduates of Suvorov military schools submit an application addressed to the head of the Suvorov military school in which they are studying) until April 1. Military personnel submit a report addressed to the commander of the military unit until March 1 year of admission to the academy with the necessary documents attached.

List of specialties

Minimum number of Unified State Exam points required for admission in 2020

№ p/p	Specialty of training in accordance with the Federal State Educational Standard of Higher Education		Name of the general education subject and the established value of the minimum number of Unified State Examination points
		Name	Russian language	Mathematics profile level	Physics
		Application and operation of automated systems for special purposes
2.		Infocommunication technologies and special communication systems

The decisive role in the architectural complex of the Academy is played by the monument to V. I. Chapaev, installed in the park opposite the main entrance. The history of this monument is interesting because it is not the only one of its kind.

In 1932, sculptor Matvey Genrikhovich Manizer in Leningrad made such a monument for Samara for the fifteenth anniversary of the October Revolution. Before being sent to Samara, it was collected for viewing and presented to S. M. Kirov. The monument made a good impression on him and it was decided to cast a second one for Leningrad. Kirov wanted to install it on the Oil Pond of Elagin Island. Brought to the island in 1933, it did not stay there for long. After Kirov's death, interest in the project disappeared and the monument stood useless to anyone, without a pedestal, in backyards.

It is unknown how his fate would have ended if not for Pyotr Borisov, who taught at the machine gun and rifle courses. After the release of the famous film by the Vasilyev brothers, Chapaev became his idol. Borisov himself encouraged the cadets and they did so on their own! They dragged the monument to their Academy yard, where they were carefully guarded from prying eyes.

So it stood on wooden logs until the 1960s, when management intervened. And only in 1965 a compromise solution was found - the military gave the monument to the city, but with the condition that it should stand at the very entrance to the Academy. And the city financed the installation of a full-fledged granite pedestal.

Leningrad sculptor M. G. Manizer was the first to decide to create a dynamic multi-figure composition. Among the figures are a commissar, a Bashkir fighter, a peasant partisan, a Tatar loader in a torn shirt, a sailor, a woman in a headscarf, and Chapaev on a rearing horse with a saber. The images for the monument are taken from specific participants in the Civil War. Chapaev’s son, who looks like his father, also posed for Manizer. In terms of size, both monuments in Samara and Leningrad were among the largest in the country. The weight of the bronze used for casting is 12 tons, and the figures are one and a half times the height of a person.

The architect of the monument was N. F. Brovkin.

Clarification: The monument to Chapaev was moved from the Petrograd side in the winter of 1942-1943 on the initiative of Colonel P.V. Borisov, head of the rifle and machine gun courses, who received permission for this from the political department of the Leningrad Front. The monument was installed on a temporary pedestal made of sleepers in the park in front of the main entrance to the academy (see photo), and not somewhere in the outskirts. In 1965, a project for its restoration was developed, which included the installation of a sculptural group on a new pedestal made by architect. Brovkin N.F. Funds for the restoration were raised among the personnel of the academy, part of the expenses was borne by the executive committee of the Vyborg district. The monument was inaugurated on November 4, 1968.

This information was collected by the Deputy Head of the Academy for Educational and Scientific Work, Major General Kanonyuk V.I. and is set out in his book “Communication is my destiny”, published by the Academy of Communications in 2001. (Nerd)

Federal State Treasury Military Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education “Military Academy of Communications named after Marshal of the Soviet Union S.M. Budyonny" is intended for training officers with higher military and higher military-special education for all types and branches of the Armed Forces and almost all law enforcement agencies of Russia. It is also a scientific and innovation center on the theory and practice of organizing communications, automated command and control of troops, and the development of communications technology.

Throughout its history, the Academy is known not only for the high organization of the educational process, for many generations of its graduates who formed the basis of the officer corps of the Signal Corps, but also for outstanding scientists and innovators who made a great contribution to technical progress, improving advanced technologies and communications.

Origins of the Academy

The history of the emergence and subsequent development of the Military Academy of Communications dates back to the first half of the 19th century. By this time, through the efforts of scientists of many generations of the world, fundamental views on the nature of electromagnetic phenomena were mainly formulated. These years were marked by large-scale research aimed at the practical use of these phenomena in engineering, including in the interests of the military department. For the first time in Russian army In 1840, a galvanic training team was formed under the Guards Engineer Battalion to train officers and enlisted personnel of the engineering troops in the theory and practical use of galvanic current. Then, in 1857, the Military Electrical Engineering School was organized under the name “Technical Galvanic Institution,” consisting of an officer class and a galvanic training company. In subsequent years, the galvanic institution, by order of the Military Department No. 158 of July 20, 1894, was transformed into the Military Electrical Engineering School, and then (in 1911) into the Officer Electrical Engineering School with a two-year training period for officers. The school included a non-commissioned officer class and an electrical company, where the training of rank-and-file personnel of special units was carried out.

In connection with the outbreak of the First World War, the Officer Electrical Engineering School was closed, and a special electrical engineering battalion was formed from its personnel to carry out combat missions. However, the ever-increasing volume of tasks solved by qualified military electrical specialists has necessitated the need to re-open the Officer Electrical Engineering School for accelerated training of specialists. In August 1917, the school was relocated to Sergiev Posad, Moscow province. After the signing of the Decree of the Soviet Government on the creation of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, by order of the Administration of Military Educational Institutions of the Moscow Military District, the first Soviet electrical courses of the Red Army were created at the electrical engineering school with a four-month training period.

On November 8, 1919, by order of the Revolutionary Military Council, the Higher Military Electrical Engineering School for the command staff of the Red Army and fleets was created with electrical courses attached to it. From this date the modern history of the Military Academy of Communications begins. In 1921, the Higher Military Electrotechnical School was reorganized into the Military Electrotechnical Academy (VETA) of the Red Army and Fleet.

In order to improve the quality of training of military specialists and closer interaction between VETA scientists and electrical and radio engineering enterprises and scientific organizations, mainly concentrated in Leningrad, the academy was transferred to the city on the Neva and located in the building of the former Academy of the General Staff of the Russian Army on Suvorovsky Prospekt, 32.

Between 1923 and 1931, VETA underwent a number of reorganizations. However, the increasingly widespread equipping of troops with technical means of communication, various radio-electronic devices and complexes required a corresponding increase in the number of military specialists for their maintenance and combat use. Therefore, in 1932, the USSR Government decided to build a new campus for an independent electrical engineering academy on the outskirts of the city of Leningrad in the area of ​​the Benois dacha (now Tikhoretsky Ave. 3). Academy students were widely involved in the construction of the new complex.

On April 1, 1933, the academy was reassigned to the chief of communications of the Red Army. In the same year, in connection with the fiftieth anniversary of the legendary Hero civil war CM. Budyonny Academy was named after him. Since 1941, the Military Electrotechnical Academy received the name Military Academy of Communications (VAS). In 1952, by a Decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, a decision was made to divide the EAS into two independent academies: the Military Academy of Communications (command) and the Military Red Banner Engineering Academy of Communications. But in 1957, the command and engineering academies were again merged into one. Since 1998, the academy was transformed into the Military University of Communications, and since 2001 the name was restored - the Military Academy of Communications.

In the pre-war years

At all stages of the history of the Military Academy of Communications, the command paid constant attention to the development of scientific and technical creativity. Already in 1920, “Inventor Circles” were organized in the departments, the main tasks of which were formulated as follows:

• production of laboratory instruments in-house;
• assisting academy staff in refining and promoting existing inventions;
• liberation of the country from dependence on foreign imports of radio equipment.

The efforts of creative teams greatly contributed to the creation in the shortest possible time of laboratory equipment for conducting training sessions and scientific research. During these events, many students, teachers and researchers acquired invaluable experience in technical creativity.

At the same time, the Academy's scientists are creating fundamentally new technical solutions aimed at creating effective means communications. In 1921, the Presidium of the Supreme Economic Council decided to establish “an experimental telephone broadcast at Bologoye station and at two terminal points “Moscow-Kremlin” and “Petrograd-Smolny”. The outstanding Russian scientist and inventor Professor Valentin Ivanovich Kovalenko coped with the task brilliantly. The scientist’s work at the Academy was highly appreciated by the Committee on Inventions: “Taking into account the exceptional significance of this invention for communication technology not only on a Russian but also on a global scale, a major long-term scientific research work, which formed the basis of this invention and the work on the manufacture of laboratory instruments and installations in extremely unfavorable conditions, award Professor V.I. Kovalenkov.” Tireless creative activity and his enormous erudition in matters of communication theory and technology contributed to his obtaining outstanding results and dozens of inventions in the field of telephone broadcasting, high-frequency communication devices, cathode relays, talking cinema, television, etc.

In 1939 V.I. Kovalenkov was elected corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences. His fruitful work was awarded in 1941 with the Stalin Prize and the Order of the Red Star.

Academy scientists played a special role in the pre-war years and during the fighting in Finland. On instructions from the Leningrad Military District headquarters, the academy's innovators created more than 40 inventions that were implemented by industry. The created samples entered service with the troops. On November 30, 1939, the Soviet-Finnish war began. The equipment, weapons and tactics of the Finnish army were well adapted to combat operations in winter conditions. In addition, the Finns actively used mines.

According to some reports, during the first day of fighting near Beloostrov our losses amounted to about 10 thousand people. On the evening of December 1, 1939, the academy received a special task from the city leadership and the command of the Leningrad Military District to construct a device for detecting mines. And after one day (!), i.e. On December 2, the prototype was ready. It was called "IMVETA" (Military Electrotechnical Academy Mine Finder). This real inventive and design feat was accomplished by employees of the Academy’s Department of Radio Receiving Devices, headed by military engineer 1st rank N.M. Izyumov and military engineer II rank V.N. Ivanov. According to the instructions of the commander of the Leningrad Military District, the Kozitsky plant began daily production of 100 mine detectors the very next day. Volunteer academy students went to the troops to instruct specialists, including fifth-year student Captain A.I. Belov is the future marshal of the signal forces, chief of communications of the USSR Armed Forces. For the impact work on creating a mine detector and the great assistance provided to the front, the inventors of “IMVETA” N.M. Izyumov and V.N. Ivanov were awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, and their invention was registered in the GBPRI under the State Planning Committee USSR for No. 3432/344.

During the years of severe trials

With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, a scientific and technical group to assist the front was created from the best creative employees of the academy. The task of the group was to develop technical proposals aimed at increasing the stability of communications, the reliability of communication equipment and speeding up their repair in combat conditions. The group of technical assistance to the front included leading experts in military communications (head brigade engineer N.S. Beschastnov), radio detection (military engineer N.M. Izyumov), special equipment (military engineer N.A. Livshits), signaling (divisional engineer V.A. Kreichman ) and power supply (division engineer N.N. Lutsenko). Military engineers P.N. Kulakov, P.A. Anisimov, A.P. Udalov. Together with signal officers of the Baltic Fleet, we carried out scientific and technical support for the work of laying a telephone cable along the bottom of Lake Ladoga, thereby ensuring a stable connection with the mainland of besieged Leningrad.

From the beginning of the war until November 1941, 92 research projects were completed in the interests of the front. Attachments for letter printing by radio using ST35 telegraph devices have been developed, radio stations RL6 and Prima, radio receiver 5S2, put into mass production, tank radios RSB and automobile radio stations RMSC have been designed and tested together with industry. These and many other developments of the academy largely solved the problems of ensuring stable communications in combat conditions.

A graduate of the Military Academy of Communications, talented designer and scientist Beria Sergo Lavrentievich made a great contribution to strengthening the country's defense capability. After graduating from high school in 1941 as a 17-year-old boy, he voluntarily entered the Central Radio Engineering Laboratory of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs, and after a three-month course with the rank of lieutenant technician, he began serving in the army. As a radio operator as part of a reconnaissance group on instructions from the General Staff, he completed a number of important missions outside the USSR (1941 in Iran and Kurdistan) and in 1942 as part of the North Caucasus Group of Forces. For exemplary performance of these tasks he was awarded the medal “For the Defense of the Caucasus” and the Order of the Red Star. In 1942 he went to study at the Military Academy of Communications named after. CM. Budyonny. During his studies, on the personal instructions of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief and Chief of the General Staff, he was repeatedly sent to carry out special secret missions (1943-1945 Tehran and Yalta Allied Conferences, 4th and 1st Ukrainian Fronts). In 1947, after graduating with a Gold Medal from the Military Academy of Communications, he was sent to the design and development organization PO Box 1323 (later the famous KB1), where he was soon appointed to the position of chief designer of rocket and space systems. He took an active part in testing the first atomic and hydrogen bombs and in the creation of underwater launches of ballistic missiles. In 1948 he defended his candidate's dissertation, and in 1952 - his doctoral dissertation. For the successful completion of government tasks to create the latest weapons for rocket and space systems, he was awarded the Order of Lenin and the USSR State Prize. IN recent years life - scientific director, Chief Designer of the Department of New Physical Problems of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, since 1990 headed the Kiev Research Institute "Kometa".

It is difficult to list the services to the state and the world scientific community of the outstanding scientist and teacher Lev Matveevich Fink, who spent 30 years of his pedagogical and research activities dedicated to the Military Academy of Communications. During the war years L.M. Fink developed a device that makes it possible to tune our powerful transmitters to the frequency of German broadcast stations with phase accuracy. This made it possible to fill the pauses in fascist broadcasts with remarks from our announcers. The effect was shocking. During the pause after the speech of Hitler's propaganda minister Goebbels, where he spoke pathetically about the heroism of fascist soldiers, the air was suddenly filled with the voice of our announcer in the purest German: “Every seven seconds one German soldier dies in Russia. Herr Goebbels spoke for twenty minutes, during which time 170 German soldiers died in Russia. Among them could be your husband, brother, son. Down with Hitler's war! For the invention, development and use of this device L.M. Fink was awarded the Stalin Prize, 1st degree, in 1942. L.M. Fink had a pioneering gift. He wrote the world's first textbook on the "General Theory of Communications", and for the first time delivered and taught a course on radio reconnaissance and radio jamming. He developed methods for optimal incoherent and diversity reception, combining demodulation and decoding procedures, determining optimal codes according to the energy criterion - this is far from a complete list of scientific results of Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor L.M. Finka. All these methods, which seemed purely theoretical in the middle of the last century, are now “built-in” into mobile phones and other digital communication systems.

In 1941-1945. The training and graduation of signal officers for the active army did not stop. During these years, the academy was temporarily located in Tomsk. During this period, the intense educational and scientific work of the academy staff did not stop. Thousands of communications specialists have been trained for the front, including through accelerated training programs. 2 doctoral and 30 candidate dissertations were defended. 21 copyright certificates for inventions were received. It should also be noted that in 1942, i.e. in the midst of the war, the academy switched to a full course of specialist training, which clearly evidenced that vital role, which was devoted to the problem of organizing communications in the troops. Academy graduates held responsible positions in organizing communications at the fronts. Among them, 30 graduates were heads and deputy heads of front communications departments; 40 students became army communications chiefs. The high level of knowledge acquired by the students of the Military Academy of Communications became the basis for their skillful, highly professional performance of duties in positions not directly related to communications.

During the war, Colonel General A.N. Bogolyubov was the chief of staff of several fronts, Colonel General A.A. Gryzlov was the first deputy head of the Main Operations Directorate of the General Staff of the Red Army. Colonel A.V. served as the commander of the rifle division. Shunkov; Colonel G.M. fought as the leader of the partisan movement under the pseudonym “Batya”. Linkov; The commander of the 1st Soviet Partisan Regiment as part of the resistance forces against the Nazis in France was a graduate of the academy, the legendary S.A. Agjyan, who was awarded the highest order of France personally by President Charles De Gaulle. During the war, the academy's students were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union for their courage and heroism. These are Colonel General Bogolyubov Alexander Nikolaevich, Lieutenant General Pilipenko Mikhail Korneevich and Sysolyatin Ivan Matveevich, Colonels Gadelshin Khamid Gabdulovich, Grinenko Maxim Emelyanovich, Drebot Ivan Zakharovich, Linkov Grigory Matveevich, Pchelintsev Vladimir Nikolaevich, Samsonov Vladimir Andreevich, Smirnov Vasily Alekseevich, kov Viktor Fedorovich, Shulyatikov Vasily Aleksandrovich, Lieutenant Colonel Soldatenko Vasily Grigorievich, Major Zakharov Gennady Mikhailovich.

Decades after the victory in the Great Patriotic War For the courage and heroism shown during the Chechen campaign, the academy's students, Lieutenant General Eduard Grigorievich Ostrovsky and Major Dmitry Aleksandrovich Polkovnikov, were awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation. For outstanding creative achievements in the development and implementation of the latest models of communication technology, gold medals of Heroes of Socialist Labor were awarded to students of the academy, Lieutenant General Grigory Vasilyevich Kisunko, Lieutenant General Pleshakov Petr Stepanovich, Colonel General Psurtsev Nikolai Demyanovich.

It would not be an exaggeration to say that of the graduates of all military academies, the largest number of graduates of the Military Academy of Communications grew up in large statesmen. Various ministries of the USSR and the Russian Federation were headed by: Marshal of the Signal Corps I.T. Peresypkin, Admiral A.I. Berg, Colonel General N.D. Psurtsev, Colonel General P.S. Pleshakov, Colonel General A.A. Ivanov. More than 20 people were deputy ministers. Among them is Marshal of the Signal Corps N.N. Alekseev, Army General N.P. Emokhonov, Lieutenant General E.G. Ostrovsky, Major General O.F. Eskin and others. Colonel General E.P. Maslin headed the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, Marshal of the Engineering Troops V.K. Kharchenko led the engineering troops of the USSR Armed Forces. Major General F.T. Sargsyan is the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Armenian SSR, and then the President of the Academy of Sciences of Armenia. Most of the chiefs of communications of the country's armed forces were educated at the academy: marshals of the communications troops I.T. Peresypkin, A.I. Leonov, A.I. Belov, Army General K.I. Kobets, Colonel General O.S. Lisovsky, G.P. Gichkin, Yu.M. Zalogin, N.P. Lyaskalo, E.A. Karpov, Lieutenant General E.R. Meichik, V.A. Malyukov, Major General Kh.A. Arslanov.

For many years, world-famous scientists have been engaged in scientific and pedagogical activities at the Military Academy of Communications: the “grandfather” of nuclear physics, Academician A.I. Ioffe, organizer of the radio-electronic industry of the USSR and founder of domestic cybernetics, Academician A.I. Berg, one of the creators of the country's missile defense, academician G.V. Kisunko, Stalin Prize laureates Academician V.I. Kovalenko, professor L.M. Fink, laureates of the State Prize of Professor A.F. Beletsky, B.Ya. Dudnik, A.O. Butkevich, Honored Workers of Science and Technology of the RSFSR N.M. Izyumov, N.I. Burenin, V.F. Komarovich, A.T. Lebedev et al.

20 “Honored Inventors of the Russian Federation” grew up at the Military Academy of Communications: - Yu.K. Muravyov, L.A. Meerovich, N.E. Tortladze, V.P. Chernoles, A.V. Terentyev, P.L. Smirnov, V.A. Lipatnikov, O.V. Popov, V.P. Postyushkov, E.R. Kane, V.I. Zhikulin, D.L. Burachenko, N.G. Fitenko, A.M. Likhachev, S.N. Agievich, G.V. Sharko, V.F. Komarovich, I.B. Parashchuk, R.V. Maksimov, S.V. Janitors. Many of them continue to work fruitfully at the Academy and, without exaggeration, constitute its unique intellectual capital, the golden fund of Military Science.

Academy in the innovation process

In the post-war years, fundamental scientific research was launched in a number of scientific areas at the academy. Under the leadership of the eminent scientist Professor M.O. Kantorovich, large-scale theoretical and experimental research began to be carried out on the construction of underground antennas for protected radio centers. The result of this work was dozens of new inventions, on the basis of which standard designs were created: multi-section underground antennas (MUAs), phased IUAs, impedance IUAs, which were equipped with almost all military stationary communication centers. An outstanding contribution to the creation of the latest samples of underground antenna-feeder devices was made by scientists and bright inventors of the academy: Yu.K. Muravyov, V.P. Serkov, A.D. Istrashkin, I.N. Samuilov and others.

In the 60s, the Academy developed a number of fundamental inventions for the construction of magnetic pulse generators and digital signal processing devices. The head of this scientific direction was Professor L.A. Meerovich, who was one of the first in the Russian Federation to be awarded the honorary title “Honored Inventor of the RSFSR.” Between 1959 and 1965 Academy scientists led by Professor Orlovsky took part in the development of technologies and devices that made it possible, for the first time in the world, to photograph the far side of the Moon and process data obtained by the Luna-3 and Zond-3 automatic interplanetary stations. In the mid-60s, one One of the directions for improving control and communication systems was the creation of mobile control points (CP) on airborne (VzPU), railway (ZHDPU), ground and sea mobile objects equipped with on-board communication units. The implementation of these plans encountered a number of seemingly insurmountable scientific and technical problems related to ensuring the effective operation of the onboard radio-electronic equipment (RES) complex while simultaneously achieving their electromagnetic compatibility.

Among these problems, the most difficult was the task of building on-board antenna systems that most fully satisfy all technical and operational requirements. A group of Academy scientists led by Professor Yu.K. began solving this problem in the mid-60s. Muravyov and the head of the research laboratory A.O. Butkevich. The intense creative work of scientists and inventors was crowned with brilliant success. Less than a year later, the first-generation onboard communication nodes VzPU and ZhdPU were developed and implemented. Efficient on-board antenna systems have been created to operate in motion radio equipment placed on vehicles and armored vehicles. It is important that almost all technical solutions proposed and then adopted were protected by more than 100 copyright certificates for inventions. Active participants in these works and authors of inventions for the VzPU, ZhDPU RES complexes and ground mobile objects were the innovating scientists of the Academy V.A. Zhukov, V.N. Krasovsky, B.V. Sosunov, V.P. Chernoles, I.N. Yanno, V.I. Yashin and others.

The government highly appreciated the creative work of inventors. Work manager A.O. Butkevich was awarded the USSR State Prize and the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, the other participants in the work were also awarded orders and medals. Issues of ensuring stable operation of radio communication systems under conditions of exposure to both intentional and natural interference during simultaneous work A large number of radio electronic networks were devoted to comprehensive research by Academy scientists on the problems of assessing the statistical properties of interference in various frequency ranges. As part of these studies, over thirty inventions were developed, which formed the basis for the frequency control service equipment adopted by the communications troops.

A group of scientists at the Academy (E.R. Kane, E.V. Lebedinsky, M.V. Kovalerov) developed methods for organizing the operation of radio links based on the use of broadband signals and devices that provide a significant increase in the noise immunity of radio links and the required secrecy of transmitted information. More than twenty inventions have been developed by the Academy's innovators on the automation of communication establishment, its maintenance and restoration in case of loss. Most of these inventions were implemented in industry during the creation and serial production of radio stations in the decameter range. In the 80s, effective inventions of innovators were implemented in remote control systems for high-power transmitters. During these same years, a number of developments were created for the construction of digital modems of broadband signals with software tuning of the operating frequency, which were also used by industry in the construction of the latest types of communication equipment. A great creative contribution to the creation of these advanced technologies at that time was made by the bright inventors of the Academy A.A. Melnikov, E.V. Lebedinsky, E.R. Kane and others. It is especially necessary to note the creative contribution of the remarkable female inventor Eleanor Rodionovna Kane, the first among women in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation to be awarded the honorary title “Honored Inventor of the Russian Federation.”

The use of satellite communications in the interests of the Ministry of Defense, as well as multi-channel radio relay and tropospheric communication systems, required Academy scientists to search for new non-standard solutions to increase the protection of radio lines from intentional interference, increase the speed of information transmission in digital format and improve energy, operational and economic indicators such communication systems. In the 80s, scientists developed hundreds of inventions that largely solved the problems of improving multi-channel communication systems in modern conditions troop control. The developers and authors of these inventions were a team of innovators consisting of professors A.P. Rodimova, V.V. Ignatova, V.M. Terentyev and others. The economic situation in the state that changed in 1991 led to a transition to a fundamentally new organization of innovative activities of military universities. This has caused the need to master new approaches to the issues of creation, legal protection and use of the results of intellectual activity of creative teams. In accordance with the adopted Concept of scientific, scientific-pedagogical and innovation policy in the education system of the Russian Federation, “innovative activity in universities has received the status of the main type of activity along with educational (educational) and scientific.”

In the academy today, innovative activity is based on the principles:

• unity of scientific, educational and innovation processes;
• concentration of resources on priority areas of research;
• carrying out a full cycle of research and development of new means of communication and special equipment;
• support for leading educational, scientific teams and scientific and pedagogical schools capable of providing an advanced level of education and scientific research, the development of scientific and technical creativity of cadets and students.

The main goals of innovation activity are:

• training of military specialists, scientific and scientific-pedagogical personnel that meet modern qualification requirements;
• use of educational, scientific, technical and innovative potential to solve problems to ensure the scientific and technical security of the country;
• promotion scientific level performed R&D and dissertation works.

Achievement of the above goals is ensured at the academy by solving the following tasks:

• the development of research as the basis for the fundamentalization of education, the basis for training a modern military specialist;
• an organic combination of fundamental, exploratory and applied research with competitive developments;
• priority development of scientific research aimed at improving the system of military professional education;
• using new educational technologies educational process;
• creating conditions for training and retraining of personnel in the field of innovation.

The main efforts of participants in the innovation process at the Academy are focused on conducting scientific and applied research, defined by the List of priority areas for the development of science, technology and engineering, approved by the President of the Russian Federation: security and countering terrorism; information and telecommunication systems; advanced weapons, military and special equipment. Each of the priority areas includes a vast area of ​​research and development of both fundamental and search-and-applied nature, based on the so-called critical technologies, which include:

• technologies for ensuring the protection and vital activity of the population and dangerous objects under the threat of terrorist manifestations;
• technologies for processing, storing, transmitting and protecting information;
• software production technologies;
• technologies of distributed computing and systems;
• technologies for creating electronic component base.

The restructuring of the work of creative teams required an increase in the level of knowledge in the field of patent and copyright law, publishing methodological literature on these issues, based on the new regulatory framework. At the same time, the command of the academy, the invention commission, together with the Bureau of Invention and Rationalization, developed a set of organizational, methodological measures, promotional activities and moral stimulation of the innovative activities of creative teams. The Academy has published 8 monographs and a number of teaching aids on the organization of innovative activities and legal protection of the results of intellectual activity. The All-Army Contest is held annually scientific-practical conference“Innovative activities in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation”, based on the results of which a collection is published scientific works. In the period from 2001-2013. Academy employees defended 31 doctoral and 423 candidate dissertations, including 3 doctoral and 10 candidate dissertations on the problems of integrating educational and innovative activities in the system of military professional education, the formation of an innovative culture and creative thinking.

Purposeful work brought results. Over the last decade alone, the Academy has received more than 490 patents for inventions and implemented more than 2,000 innovation proposals. Academy scientists registered 5 scientific discoveries. Cadets, students, adjuncts, doctoral students, teaching staff and researchers actively participate in inventive creativity. According to statistical data published by Rospatent, the index of innovative activity of the Military Academy of Communications exceeds the indices of most military and civilian universities in Russia. According to monitoring of patenting in a knowledge-intensive area, combining the fields of electronics, computer technology, wireless communication and telecommunications, the Military Academy of Communications ranks 2nd among all subjects of the Russian Federation. The achieved results in innovation activities are due to the work of scientific schools formed over several generations of scientists, performing two interrelated functions: educational (transformation and transfer of knowledge into educational innovations), as well as scientific, technical and technological (transformation of knowledge into new technical solutions and technologies).

The coordination of the activities of scientific schools in the innovation process is carried out by the research laboratory “Legal protection and use of the results of intellectual activity” formed at the academy, together with the Bureau of Invention and Rationalization and the Organization Department scientific work and training of scientific and pedagogical personnel. For the purpose of comparative assessment of innovative developments relative to the world level of well-known analogues, the Academy takes an active part in International exhibitions, fairs and innovation salons. The inventions of the academy's innovators presented at such forums over the past 10 years have been awarded 86 gold, 32 silver, 5 bronze medals and more than 60 diplomas. The best inventions of the academy were awarded 26 Grand Prixes from eight countries and special prizes from the Morphology Foundation “For the best invention in the interests of the Ministry of Defense.” Every year, according to the results of the All-Army Review-Competition for the best organization of innovative activities, the Academy invariably occupies a leading position.

Currently, the academy is carrying out large-scale work on the renovation of existing infrastructure facilities and the construction of new ones. Modern dormitories for cadets, including female military personnel, and an educational building for training foreign military personnel have already been put into operation. The construction of the swimming pool is being completed gyms. By September 1, 2014, the Military Academy of Communications will enter new modern buildings, receive the most modern technical equipment, the latest designs communication and automation technology. All this will contribute to further improving the quality of training of academy graduates, scientific and innovative activities.