The fleet consists of warships, merchant and fishing vessels, and is divided into sea and river. Historically, from the beginning of the 18th century, it turned out that the fleet was initially located in large numbers in three cities: Arkhangelsk, Astrakhan, and later in St. Petersburg. Peter understood: “ Without a navy there is no mighty Russia».
All his followers understood this, so the Russian fleet was built, built, built... But the fleet needs to be managed, so together with it, maritime educational institutions were created and improved, including in Astrakhan. In our city, maritime education has existed for more than two hundred years. During this time, marine navigation classes, nautical classes, courses, schools, technical schools, and nautical colleges were opened.
Maritime education in Astrakhan and the city of Astrakhan are a single whole.
Without this, the city cannot be called the sea capital of Russia on the Caspian Sea and the historical continuity of maritime Astrakhan will be lost. In the city, almost every family is connected with the maritime profession and, naturally, maritime education. Even during the Great Patriotic War, when the naval technical school was disbanded, the cadets were sent to Baku to continue training in maritime professions, and in the premises of the current naval branch (“seafarers”) there was part of the evacuated Odessa Institute of Marine Engineers, maritime education in Astrakhan was not interrupted. On March 5, 1944, by a resolution of the Council of People's Commissars, a reorganization of maritime education took place: maritime technical schools began to be called nautical and higher naval schools. Nautical schools were organized in a number of port cities. After the liberation of Odessa from the Nazis, OIIMF returned to Odessa. However, a number of specialists, on the instructions of the People's Commissariat of Water Resources, were left in Astrakhan to assist the Astrakhan Naval School in organizing the admission of students and the start of classes.
The war and first post-war years were very difficult. Navigation schools primarily accepted children of war, orphans, half-orphans, cabin boys, children of regiments and partisan detachments. All cadets of naval schools were fully supported by the state. The best specialists from both general education disciplines and maritime disciplines were appointed as teachers. The Astrakhan Naval School was created as a base school to train shipbuilding and ship repair specialists for the entire navy, as well as other specialties for the Caspian basin. During the training process, the cadets not only received a naval education, but also a naval one. They served in school and on ships, acquiring the knowledge of Navy specialists, which was given to them by qualified officers. After graduating from the naval school, they were certified and received the rank of naval officers. The material and technical base of the Astrakhan Naval School has been created over the years with the help of the Ministry of the Ministry of Finance, local authorities, employees, cadets and managers of local enterprises.
Currently, on the territory of the “seafarer”, located on an area of about 50 hectares, a unique educational microstructure has been created - an educational building, 2 dormitories, a dining room for 1500 people, a gym, workshops, laboratories, a water sports base and much more. Each cadet has the opportunity to practice on a separate workbench, machine, welding machine, simulators, in modernly equipped laboratories and language laboratories.
The cadets underwent practical training on modern ships, factories and ports. All this is due to the existing form of not only education, but also the thoughtful education of young people. AMU has trained and graduated about 13.5 thousand certified maritime specialists. Among the maritime educational institutions of the country, it occupied a leading position.
Employees, officers, teachers, cadets never separated themselves from city and regional affairs and concerns - they saved the city from flooding, cleared snow drifts on the roads, provided assistance to agriculture, builders, transport workers, took part in all city events, etc.
Graduates of the school work and serve throughout Russia - as captains, commanders, chief (chief) mechanics of sea vessels, plant directors, head shipping companies, manage city ports, regions, etc. Graduates can be found not only in Russia, but also on foreign ships, in foreign ports and shipping companies.
The Astrakhan Naval School has great authority both in our city and in other cities of Russia and abroad. This is evidenced by the high competition for admission to the school, moreover: those who did not enter come for the 2nd, 3rd time, but only to enter the Astrakhan Naval School. “Morehodka” is international: it trains young people of up to 20 nationalities, including those from other countries with which international treaties have been concluded.
There was an assignment about the preliminary study of the merger, not a word about any liquidation of the naval branch and maritime education in Astrakhan. The rector of Novorossiysk University was not in the Astrakhan Maritime Branch. No work was carried out regarding the merger of branches. There was no inventory of objects, property and documents.
The maritime branch of the Novorossiysk University in Astrakhan, as planned, conducted career guidance for the new admission of students, preparatory courses were held, consultations were held, training agreements were concluded, including for foreigners, applicants took exams and Unified State Examination data. An enrollment order was issued. Silence. On September 1, according to the curriculum and teaching load, the new academic year 2012-2013 began. Suddenly, employees, cadets and their parents find out that the naval branch is being liquidated.
Rumors began to spread throughout Astrakhan, exciting not only employees and cadets, but also graduates of the “seafarer” and city residents who were not indifferent to the fate of maritime education in Astrakhan. The rector and administration of Novorossiysk University are silent. Passions begin to heat up.
October 10 this year The rector of “VGAVT” I.K. appears in the maritime branch. Kuzmichev and asks the administration of the maritime branch to gather employees and cadets in the assembly hall of the club, where he reads out the order of the head of Rosmorrechflot dated September 27, 2012 No. 101 “On liquidation Caspian branch of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education " State Maritime University named after. Admiral F.F. Ushakova in Astrakhan" Rector I.K. Kuzmichev, answering questions from those present, did not satisfy many with his answers.
The leadership of Novorossiysk Maritime University is silent. This situation was well covered by the Astrakhan television company “Lotos”. This story was also duplicated by Moscow television. The trade union committee of the maritime branch appoints a parent meeting for October 11, 2012. That same evening at 17:40 on TV “Lotos” the governor of the region A.A. Zhilkin said that there will be no liquidation of maritime education in Astrakhan. This timely and wise statement by the governor immediately relieved the general tension in the current situation. Late in the evening, the head of the Astrakhan maritime branch, V.N. Tkachev. receives an order from Novorossiysk University to liquidate the branch.
10/11/2012 at 15:00 the rector of “VGAVT” I.K. again arrived at the parents’ meeting. Kuzmichev immediately began to answer the parents’ questions, but his answers again did not satisfy many. Moreover, unexpectedly I.K. Kuzmichev left the parent meeting without explaining the reason or saying goodbye. This caused great displeasure among both parents and employees of the maritime branch, and only a reference to the governor’s previous speech on the preservation of maritime education in Astrakhan partially reassured the parents.
What to do?
1. Legislators of the Astrakhan region and the city should support the governor’s proposal to preserve maritime education in Astrakhan on the basis of a maritime branch by turning to the State Duma of the Russian Federation for support.
2. The action of the order dated September 27, 2012 No. 101 is suspended.
3. The naval branch in Astrakhan will continue training cadets according to the curriculum.
4. Rector of Novorossiysk University S.I. Kondratiev to meet with employees of the Astrakhan Maritime Branch, cadets, their parents and explain their plans for further joint work.
5. Rosmorrechflot to consider proposals to preserve an independent educational institution in Astrakhan, for example, a water institute, while maintaining the training of specialists, including shipbuilders, in accordance with standardization.
Taking into account newly discovered circumstances, make a thoughtful and reasonable decision that will satisfy employees, cadets and their parents, as well as residents of the city of Astrakhan and foreign students.
As a last resort.
The regional administration and the regional Duma contact the Ministry of Education and Science and Rosmorrechflot with a request to create a water institute in Astrakhan and include it in the structures of the Ministry of Education and Science as an independent educational institution, justifying the feasibility of this step.
If the Astrakhan maritime educational institution (branch) is liquidated, then maritime education in Astrakhan will be put to rest, and problems will remain unresolved for a long time, incl. about 300 young people will not have the opportunity to study.
V.USOV ,
graduate of the Astrakhan Maritime School.
Head of the Astrakhan Nautical School in 1977-1988.
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Today, the training and education of future sailors at the Astrakhan Maritime College is carried out in three departments: navigation, ship mechanics and ship repair. Economists, managers, accountants and lawyers are also trained.
The college has created an extensive material base, built an educational campus, including a complex of equipped laboratories and classrooms, and a gym. In terms of equipment, training workshops can be compared to a manufacturing enterprise - more than 50 machines. The welding department has 20 welding machines. Cadets have the opportunity to master the working professions of a sailor, mechanic, turner, mechanic, and electric welder. The pride of the college is the water sports base located on the banks of the Volga. In the educational building there is a library with a spacious reading room, there is an assembly hall with 650 seats, where holidays, KVNs, quizzes, and screenings of feature films are held.
On the basis of the college, MUTC (marine training simulator center), BUTC (shore training simulator center), courses for additional training and retraining of specialists have been created. IUTC is one of the best training centers in Russia. With the help of unique equipment, a virtual situation of controlling a ship is recreated on a split screen in conditions as close as possible to real ones: pitching, night sailing, rain, snow are simulated. The center's video library contains information about the most difficult areas of the World Ocean for navigation. ITC conducts training and retraining of navigators in accordance with the International Convention STCW-78/95.
Astrakhan Maritime College is famous for its teaching staff. Honored teachers of Russia, honorary workers of the navy and secondary specialized education work here, almost all teachers have the highest and first qualification categories, six teachers are studying in graduate school.
Its head, Vladimir Vladimirovich Lobanov, plays a special role in the life of the college. Having graduated with honors from the navigation department of the Astrakhan Naval School in 1979, he was assigned to work at the Latvian Shipping Company, then graduated from the Gorky Institute of Water Transport Engineers. He has been teaching since 1981 and headed the college in 1999. Currently, Vladimir Vladimirovich is conducting scientific research on the problems of the international transport corridor “North - South”. Under his leadership, the college's enrollment increased two and a half times, new specialties were opened, and budgetary and extrabudgetary revenues increased several times.
Since 2005, the Federal State Educational Institution AMK has been part of the Novorossiysk State Maritime Academy. The Caspian branch of NGMA is being created on the basis of the college. In the coming years, it is planned to create a Caspian Maritime Institute as part of the NGMA university complex. Astrakhan Maritime College is one of the best maritime educational institutions in Russia with great prospects for further development.
About the university
The Caspian branch of the Federal State Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education "Maritime State Academy named after Admiral F.F. Ushakov" was organized on the basis of the Astrakhan Maritime College (formerly the Astrakhan Naval School). During its existence, more than 12 thousand specialists graduated from the walls of the educational institution: navigators, ship mechanics, ship repairers.
Training in the Caspian branch according to the standard of higher professional education is carried out in the I, II, III courses, continuation and completion of training is carried out at the Federal State Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education "Admiral F.F. Ushakov Maritime State Academy"
in the city of Novorossiysk in the following specialties:
- Navigation (180402)
- Operation of ship power plants (180403)
Graduates who graduated from the academy under the higher professional education program and completed training at the military faculty are awarded the rank of reserve officer
- Organization of transportation and management of transport (maritime) (190701)
According to the standard of secondary vocational education, training is provided in the following specialties:
- Maritime navigation (180406)
- Operation of transport power plants (190502)
- Operation of transport electrical equipment and automation (190501)
- Shipbuilding (180102)
The training system for maritime specialists in the Caspian branch of the MGA meets the requirements of the International Convention on Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers (MK STCW-78/95).
The educational process combines traditional and modern technologies. The educational process at the Caspian branch of the MGA is provided by qualified teachers who have the appropriate maritime education and experience working on naval vessels. An extensive material base has been created, an educational campus has been built, including a complex of equipped laboratories and classrooms.
The water sports base, located on the banks of the Golden Backwater of the Volga River, is the pride of the branch.
A large assembly hall, a library with a collection of more than 20 thousand books, a canteen, a cafe, a medical unit, a gym - this is an incomplete list of the infrastructure of the Caspian branch of the MGA.
The training centers deserve special attention, as their level of equipment meets international standards.
In the Caspian branch of the MCA, as in a closed maritime educational institution, the life and training of cadets is provided with a certain regime, which is regulated by special regulatory documents:
- Charter of the Maritime State Academy named after
Admiral F.F. Ushakova;
- Regulations on the Caspian branch of the MGA;
- Internal regulations;
This makes it possible to bring the training of cadets closer to their future production activities on ships.
In addition to a diploma of education, graduates receive international diplomas and certificates necessary for work in both Russian and foreign shipping companies.
Those who graduate from the Caspian Branch, under the secondary vocational education program, can continue their education at the Maritime State Academy named after Admiral F.F. Ushakova in the city of Novorossiysk under a shortened program (3.5 years)
Professional retraining of water transport specialists is carried out in the Caspian branch of the Southern Regional Center for Continuing Education, where sailors and shore workers receive the necessary knowledge in accordance with the “International Convention on Training, Certification of Seafarers and Watchkeeping” and other international regulatory documents.
Here you can get maritime professions as ordinary sailors, as well as specialties in managing small fleets.
The Caspian branch of the Ushakov University will be liquidated, and workers and students will be invited to the Volga Academy of Water Transport.
Thus, for the first time in history, the ancient Astrakhan nautical school will join the river one. The cadets are afraid that they will not receive diplomas for overseas sailing and will even end up in the army.
Cannot be liquidated
The decision of Rosmorrechflot to liquidate the sailor caused a great resonance among Astrakhan residents. Most of all, the teachers, students and staff of the Caspian branch of the Novorossiysk University themselves were worried.
The fact is that they received the liquidation order only after our publication, on October 10 at 19.30. Although, back on October 9, the vice-rector for work with branches and personnel of the university, Vladimir Myagky, assured our correspondent that he had not seen any order. The incomprehensible position of the leadership unnerved people, and the sailor even thought about going to the city center for a rally. “When there is no transparency in decisions, all sorts of thoughts come into your head,” says Alexander Ageev, dean of the Faculty of Ship Mechanics, indignantly.
The order itself, meanwhile, was signed by the leadership of Rosmorrechflot on September 27. Moreover, it turns out that the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation agreed on the liquidation of the Caspian branch on August 22.
The Astrakhan Long-Range Navigation School traces its history back to 1867, when Alexander II signed a regulation on the creation of a Nautical Class in Astrakhan. In 1992, the school became the Astrakhan Maritime College. In 2005, the educational institution ceased to be independent, turning into the Caspian branch of the Novorossiysk Maritime State Academy named after Fyodor Ushakov. In 2012, the academy became a university.
People, property and money - to the rivermen
The order directly states that the Caspian branch is not just being liquidated - the management of the university and the Nizhny Novgorod Volga State Academy of Water Transport (VGAVT) is charged with “taking measures against the released employees” and “ensuring the continuation of training” for all cadets. And also transfer to the academy all the property of the branch - the school building, the training base. And budget allocations.
“If the decision to close us was made in the summer, why were we allowed to recruit students? What to do now with paid commercial groups? What should I explain to correspondence students – foreign citizens?” - asks the chairman of the trade union committee and teacher Marina Avdeeva. The sailor is still excited to this day - even despite the visit of the rector of VGAVT, who spoke to the team. “River workers have already come to us many times with a proposal to unite - to study together within our walls under their leadership - but were refused,” says the head of the department of humanities, Svetlana Starikova.
Caspian branch of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education "State Maritime University named after. Admiral F.F. Ushakova" trains specialists in maritime navigation, ship mechanics and electricians, shipbuilding specialists - mechanics, electricians, ship assemblers. Children from Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, and Turkmenistan study here. Competition - 2.5 people per place. Besides Astrakhan, there are similar universities only in St. Petersburg, Novorossiysk, Rostov-on-Don, and Vladivostok.
Join the army ahead of time
Teachers are worried: will the Astrakhan branch of VGAVT be able to accept an additional 300 people a year, as the university branch now accepts? Will graduates who have received a student diploma be able to then receive a working diploma from the Federal State Institution “Maritime Administration of the Port of Astrakhan”? This diploma allows you to sail abroad anywhere in the world. “We must take into account that if we are liquidated, it means that the students will be expelled,” complains the dean of higher professional education Valery Ponomarev, “And if they are expelled, then before being enrolled in VGAVT, they will be subject to the spring conscription.” Plus - VAGVT does not have several specialties in which naval cadets study, for example, shipbuilding.
Rosmorrechflot gives its word of honor
VGAVT Kaspiy.info refused to talk about the upcoming reorganization. At a meeting with the staff and parent council of the sailor, the rector of VGAVT Igor Kuzmichev promised that it would end at the beginning of 2013.
But the Federal Agency for Sea and River Transport responded in detail through the press service of the Ministry of Transport. And he listed firm guarantees in the letter:
1. Employment in the Volga State Academy of Water Transport (Astrakhan branch) of all branch employees, with their consent, in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation, under the same working conditions under which they worked in the Caspian branch of the State Maritime University Admiral F.F. Ushakova".
2. Maintaining all conditions for remuneration of all employees provided for by the current “Regulations on remuneration of employees of the Caspian branch of the FSBEI HPE “State Maritime University named after Admiral F.F. Ushakova".
3. Continuation of training for persons studying at the Caspian branch of the FSBEI HPE “State Maritime University named after Admiral F.F. Ushakov", with their consent, in the Astrakhan branch of the Volga State Academy of Water Transport, maintaining the form and conditions of training.
4. The Federal Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education "VGAVT" has all the specialties taught by the Caspian branch of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education "State Maritime University named after Admiral F.F. Ushakov", except for the specialty "Shipbuilding" of secondary vocational education.
Documents for licensing the specialty “Shipbuilding” have been submitted to Rosobrnadzor and, in accordance with the plan, the license will be received by the Federal Budget Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education “VGAVT” in November 2012.
5. Graduates of the Federal Budget Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education "VGAVT", like all graduates of other universities and branches of Rosmorrechflot, after completing training in ship crew specialties, receive working diplomas that allow them to sail on sea vessels.
The Faculty of Secondary Vocational Education of the Caspian Institute is the successor to the good traditions of the oldest secondary vocational educational institutions in Astrakhan - the Astrakhan River School and the Astrakhan Nautical School. In 2008, the Astrakhan River School turned 90 years old.
At the Faculty of Secondary Professional Education of the Caspian Institute, training programs for maritime and river transport are fully implemented in full-time and part-time forms of study. To implement the state program for training qualified personnel in secondary vocational education programs, the Caspian Institute has everything necessary: a highly qualified teaching staff (more than 60% of teachers have the highest qualification category) and a rich material and technical base (3 educational buildings with a total area of over 13,000 sq.m. ., 2 dormitories, 2 canteens, training fleet, sports facilities), and full provision of the educational process with modern literature and electronic publications. More than 55% of budget places are allocated annually.
The Faculty of Secondary Professional Education trains specialists in the following specialties:
Full-time education:
"Navigation"
The duration of training based on 9 classes is 4 years 10 months.
"Navigation"
"Shipbuilding", qualification – technician, specificity “Construction of hulls of sea and river vessels”;
The duration of training on the basis of 9 classes is 3 years 10 months, on the basis of 11 classes - 2 years 10 months.
Extramural studies:
"Navigation"(in-depth training), qualification - senior navigator technician, specialty “Navigation on sea and inland waterways with the right to operate ship power plants”;
The duration of study on the basis of 11 classes is 4 years 10 months.
"Navigation", qualification - navigator technician, specialty "Navigation on sea and inland waterways";
"Operation of ship power plants", qualification - ship mechanic technician;
“Operation of ship electrical equipment and automation equipment”, qualification – electromechanical technician;
The duration of study on the basis of 11 classes is 3 years and 10 months.
Admission to study in the specialties of secondary vocational education is carried out on the basis of secondary general education without entrance examinations through a competition of certification documents (secondary school certificate for grade 11, diploma of education).
BENEFITS and COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES
Benefit 1. During the course of study, the entire package of seafarer’s documents is prepared in strict accordance with international standards and the requirements of International Conventions.
Benefit 2. A diverse and extensive network of extracurricular activities: sports, creative, intellectual clubs.
Benefit 3. Upon completion of secondary education, admission to the faculty of higher education of the same educational institution through an interview.
Benefit 4. Studying at the branch for boys of 15 and 16 years old is not only obtaining a sought-after profession, but also a good school of discipline and real naval order under the guidance of experienced mentors - sailors of the civil and military fleet.
Benefit 5. During the 4-year training, cadets undergo real-life practical training, after which they get the opportunity to gain a foothold in enterprises in the region, as well as outside it. The practice of cadets is regulated by the international Convention.
Benefit 6. Graduates of the Faculty of Secondary Vocational Education of the Caspian Institute of Maritime and River Transport are not only guaranteed to be in demand by profession, but are also provided with decent wages at their place of work.
Benefit 7. The branch's cadets have a unique opportunity in the future to receive two working diplomas at once, which will allow them to work both on the river and at sea.