MOSCOW. May 24 (Interfax-AVN) - The Military Institute of Physical Education (VIFK, based in St. Petersburg) is resuming its admission campaign in 2011.
"One-hundred-twenty first-year cadets, including 20 young women, will sit down at the desks in VIFK classrooms. They [women] will be trained under a five-year higher professional education program," the Western Military District Troops Commander's spokesman Lt. Col. Andrei Bobrun told Interfax-AVN on Monday.
Very soon "military commissariats" (recruitment offices) will start accepting documents from candidates for admission to the VIFK, he said.
One prerequisite for applicants is to have at least a ranking or category II in a sport. Cadets who have successfully completed a training program will be assigned a lieutenant rank and issued a state-accredited diploma of higher professional education, qualifying them as a "specialist in physical education and sports," Bobrun said.
Also, the VIFK continues accepting applications from candidates for training as professional sergeants. "In 2011, 180 people will be admitted for training under a secondary professional education program. Their training will be finished in two years and ten months, following which graduates will be appointed as physical education instructors to military bases of all types of troops and branches of the Russian Armed Forces," he said.