© пресс-служба Томского госуниверситета TOMSK, Jul 19 –
RIA Tomsk. The team of students of Institute of military
education of Tomsk State University (TSU) took the fifth place at a selection
stage of the All-Russian championship "Race of Heroes" where civil
universities participated on an equal basis with the military educational
organizations for the first time, the press service of TSU reported on Friday.
It is specified that the
selection stage "Cadet rush" of the competitions "Race of
Heroes" was organized for the purpose of increase in prestige of military
education and military service under the decree of the Minister of Defence of
the Russian Federation on seven grounds of the military districts of Russia.
The TSU team competed in Novosibirsk with cadets of profile military
universities and took the fifth place among 13 teams.
"Cadets passed an
obstacle course seven kilometers long. About 50 obstacles are located along it:
water barriers, walls, cableways, grids, ditches, there was a transfer of boxes
with ammunition, running uphill and other tests. Success of the team depended
on time of passing of the course", – the teacher of the TSU educational
military center Artem Ignatov is quoted in the message.
It is added that four
radiophysics – future signal officers and one student of faculty of physical
culture entered the TSU team. All of them were pre-selected at the university.
The military education at TSU is more than 90 years
old – in 1926 there was an order of the rector Witt Savvin on the organization
of military preparation at the university. During this time TSU has trained
about 30 thousand servicemen of various specialties, it is a whole army of
military physicians, chemists, gunners, motor-shooters, operators and
rocketeers, military lawyers, psychologists.
© пресс-служба Томского госуниверситетаQualifying stage "Cadet rush" competition "Race of Heroes"