TRAINING OF OFFICERS IN THE SYSTEM OF HIGHER MILITARY EDUCATION OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE IN THE XIX — FIRST HALF OF THE XX CENTURY

The combat capability of modern armed forces largely depends on the level of professional training and the moral character of the highest command staff, and this becomes especially relevant with the introduction of modern methods of armed struggle. The achievement of military goals and the country’s defense capability is inextricably linked with a high-quality training system for the command staff. Higher military educational institutions of the Russian Empire, formed in the XIX — first half of the XX century, had a developed structure of selection, training and graduation of students. The aim of the work is to carry out historical and pedagogical research of the issues of training senior command personnel in military schools from 1832 to 1917 on the basis of modern approaches to the study of pedagogical work in higher military educational institutions, identifying features of the training of officers in the Russian Empire, with the aim of highlighting the positive and negative sides of the system of higher military education and consider their use in practical training of senior officers in modern Russia. The hypothesis was that determining the characteristic features of officer training in higher military educational institutions will allow us to identify the positive and negative aspects of the training system, to get acquainted with the elements that might be useful in the modern system of military education. In his historical and pedagogical research, the author uses the methods of historiographical, comparative and systematic analysis. The author comes to the conclusion that officer training in higher military educational institutions in the Russian Empire was characterized by a multi-level system, had a developed system of selection, training and graduation of officers. As a result, in Russia of the XIX century, there was a multi-level system of training, characterized by rigor and exactingness to officers, when studying in the system of higher military education. Progressive features in the training of officer trainees in the higher military educational institutions of the Russian Empire, as well as the importance of the elements of the system in the training of an officer can be useful today.

officer training, military educational institutions, training requirements, student training, selection system, knowledge assessment score, higher education, accelerated training, practical orientation in training.

Kozlov V. A. Training of officers in the system of higher military education of the Russian Empire in the XIX — first half of the XX century. Business. Education. Law, 2021, no. 2, pp. 357—362. DOI: 10.25683/VOLBI.2021.55.213.