Saint-Petersburg University of the State Fire Service of the EMERCOM of Russia

Half of the employees and cadets served in the Red Army to fight the German invaders from the front while the rest remained to put out the fires and keep public order.

Eleven years later, the Institute of Fire Safety of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia was established on the basis of the school.

It is the only higher educational institution of EMERCOM beyond the Ural Mountains, serving the regions of Siberia and the Russian Far East.

[4][5] The university's goals are to support the development of a security system in the field of preventing and eliminating the consequences of natural and man-made disasters.

One of the major projects in which the university took part was the creation of a research complex called the Vytegra Training and Rescue Center in the Vytegorsky District of the Vologda Region.

On 16 October 2014, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Liberation of Belgrade, representative office of the university was opened on the basis of the Russian-Serbian Humanitarian Center in the city of Niš.

The university maintains close ties with fire and rescue schools of Belarus, Germany, Kazakhstan, Canada, United States, France, Finland and other countries.

[6] According to a study by Dissernet,[7] there a number of thesis statements and texts which were written by cadets with violations of academic ethics.

[12] Ony 13 May 2016, the university hosted a constituent meeting a school based organization called the "Club of Graduates".