MOSCOW. Aug 31 (Interfax-AVN) - Over 1,200 first-year cadets will start studies at military educational establishments of the Russian Space Forces on Wednesday, the press service of the Space Forces told Interfax-Military News Agency.
"Over 800 people got enrolled in the Mozhaisky Military Space Academy in St. Petersburg in 2004. Our Military Radio- Electronics Institutes in Pushkin and Kubinka enrolled 200 cadets each," a press service official said.
The Mozhaisky Academy, which is the Defense Ministry's largest higher educational establishment, trains specialists in 31 professions at six departments. The specialists are later employed by both the Space Forces and other uniformed agencies.
"St. Petersburg will start training specialists for personnel support sections of the Space Forces units for the first time this year. A group of 25 cadets has been selected for it," the official said.
The Space Forces Cadet Corps enrolled 80 people this year, he went on. "Over 170 people took entrance examinations," he said.
According to the official, the number of people who applied for enrollment in higher educational establishments of the Space Forces in 2004 was more than two times higher than the number of vacancies.
The Space Forces' military education system consists of the Mozhaisky Military Space Academy in St. Petersburg, Savitsky Military Radio-Electronics Institute in Pushkin, Military Radio- Electronics Institute in Kubinka outside Moscow, the Space Forces and assets department of the Peter the Great Academy of the Strategic Armed Forces in Moscow, the missile and Space defense department of the Marshal Zhukov Air Defense University in Tver, and the Space Forces Cadet Corps in St. Petersburg. Over 900 officers graduated from these educational establishments in 2004.