Graduate students from structural units of the Ministry of Emergency Situations will study in the newly opened department of the country's leading military higher education institution.
The event was attended by Deputy Minister of Defense Lieutenant General Sultan Kamaletdinov and First Vice Minister of Emergency Situations Major General Ibrahim Kulshimbayev.
- Civil protection is an element of national security of the country. The armed forces, other troops and military units actively intervene and assist the civil defense agencies in the elimination of emergency situations. I am sure that the new department will supplement the general system of military education and become a place for training highly qualified personnel, - noted the Deputy Minister of Defense, Lieutenant General Sultan Kamaletdinov.
Education is carried out in seven subjects. Among them are "radiational, chemical and medical-biological protection in emergencies", "planning and management of civil protection activities in peacetime and wartime", "warning and prevention of emergencies" and others.
A number of these, including the organization and conduct of civil protection and emergency rescue operations, are being taught to master’s students of the general military faculty, rear and technical support faculties, and the National Guard. Also, the teaching staff of the department is implementing a research grant on the topic of civil defense.
In turn, the Vice Minister of Emergency Situations, Major General Ibrahim Kulshimbaev, thanked the Ministry of Defense and the university management for helping to create the department.
- This will allow to significantly increase the qualification of the officers of the Ministry of Emergencies and to raise the quality of operational-tactical management of the department's forces and equipment to a new level, - he noted.
Since 2011, the Faculty of the National Guard, since 2016, the Faculty of the Border Service of the National Defense University, and since 2017, the Faculty of the State Guard has been operating at the University of National Defense. It should be noted that during this time, the leading military higher educational institution of Kazakhstan trained more than 250 graduate students for other armies and military equipment of the country.