Military training centers of civilian universities (Russia)

The military training center (Russian: военный учебный центр) is a division within civilian university or other higher education institution, intended for training commissioned officers from among students, currently widespread in Russian Federation.

The abbreviation of military training center is MTC (Russian: ВУЦ).

Military training centers appeared with enactment of the Federal Law of 3 August 2018 No.309-FZ[1] which entered into force on 1 January 2019.

Previously existing organizational structures which conducted military training of students of civilian universities were abolished.

[2] On 13 March 2019, the list of 93 civilian institutions of higher education with military training centers was approved by Government of Russia.