ST.PETERSBURG. May 6 (Interfax-AVN) - The Leningrad Military District has begun the selection of commissioned officers for further military training.
"Most candidates are eager to enter the Joint Arms Academy and the Communication Military University," Colonel Yuri Klyonov, chief of the military district's press service, told Interfax- Military News Agency Tuesday.
The competition is always high for the Military Humanitarian University and for the Military University of Economics and Finance, he said.
According to the military education department of the Leningrad Military District, Lieutenant General Vyacheslav Sukharev, deputy commander of the district, is to brief the admission commission into the business on Tuesday. The competition will begin in the 56th district training center May 12.
The commission will consider candidates from the Leningrad Military District, from the Northern and Baltic Fleets, from the Leningrad Naval Base, from the 76th Airborne Division, and from a number of federal units.
Officials with the education department say that the candidates who participated in the preliminary round were highly qualified and experienced.