MOSCOW. Aug 26 (Interfax-AVN) - Over 3,500 servicemen underwent retraining for civil qualifications at the St. Petersburg-based Perspektiva international retraining institute.
"For the years of the institute's work, 3,683 servicemen and 1,117 their family members have undergone retraining here. It is possible to retrain up to 1,500 people at the institute annually," a spokesman for Perspektiva's personnel department told Interfax-Military News Agency Thursday.
He added that the free of charge professional retraining of servicemen is the institute's priority.
"The institute boasts a wealth of expertise in implementing the international programs for servicemen retraining. For instance, Russian-German, Russian-British, Russian-Swedish and Russian-Finnish programs were run here," he said.
"We cooperate with our German colleagues to organize retraining of construction workers in Germany at the expenses of a German firm. In addition, we are retraining servicemen in a variety of specialties for the Finnish and Russian-Finnish enterprises quartered in Russia," he added.
According to him, personnel manager, office administrator and some other qualifications will be introduced in 2005. "The spectrum of qualifications we provide here is determined with the account of the demand in the labor market," he said.