Saint-Petersburg University of the State Fire Service of the EMERCOM of Russia
The Saint-Petersburg University of the State Fire Service of the EMERCOM of Russia () is a state institution for the training of specialists in the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations. It is currently led by Internal Service Major General Bogdan Gavkalyuk. History The university was created on in the distant 1906, when on October 5 with the opening of the first courses of fire technicians in the Russian Empire. Fyodor von Landesen, was appointed head of the courses. A year after the October Revolution, the courses were reformed into the Fire-Technical School. In 1941, it was renamed into the second fire-technical school of the Fire Defence Troops of the NKVD. On 20 September of that year, the school was disbanded in connection with the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, with half of the employees and cadets serving in the Red Army to fight the German invaders from the front while the rest remained to put out the fires and keep public order. In 1946, the school reopens its doors, acquiring the name of Leningrad Fire-Technical School. Since 1953, the school has trained firefighters from a number of foreign countries, including Warsaw Pact nations like such as Hungary, and Bulgaria,