As you remember, recently I got hooked on the topic of revelations in the capital's education. True, before that, my posts related to corruption in the Moscow Department of Education. However, not indifferent readers decided to plant materials not always about the Department and not always about corruption. In general, they began to send me topics for posts regarding ANY problems in the capital's education. I will publish the most interesting materials.
So, the topic of today's post is how to get sick leave and serve it in Cyprus?

This blooming tanned man against the backdrop of a white ship is not at all Ostap Bender in Rio. Meet Miknis Vitaly Jonovich, or in the Russian way Vitaly Ivanovich,.

At the end of April of this year, the vice-rector suddenly realized that he was terribly tired of all these stupid students. So tired that staying in Moscow became unbearable. And somewhere in the Mediterranean latitudes, the beach temperature was already caressing the body, palm trees were waving their leaves invitingly, and the sand burned the heels of sunbathers. This sand burned the heels and soul not only of tourists relaxing on the beaches, but also of Vice-Rector Miknis, who is in Moscow.
Vitaly Ivanovich from the obsessive thought that he and the beach are in completely different regions, got so upset that he fell ill. Yes, so hard that I had to go on sick leave. Surgeon Kuchenkov A.V. decided that Vitaly Ivanovich did not look well, and signed him a sick leave from April 29 to May 8 inclusive.

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It was possible, of course, to do without sick leave, since the time exactly coincided with the May holidays. But the working days between holidays spoiled the whole picture and made it difficult to go away from Moscow. Away - that means to Cyprus, where, with the support of a surgeon and a fake sick leave, Miknis flew on flight HH 8751 of the VIM-Avia airline to treat his shattered nerves. Here you have warming up the organs with stones, and washing the nose with salt water right in the waves, and cleansing the vessels with a glass of wine. And such therapy for a whole week. It is good that this hospitable republic has given us back such a valuable cadre for our education. In good health and good spirits, Vitaly Ivanovich arrived on flight GL-604 of Globus Airlines to Moscow on May 7th. The disease was swept away as if by hand, and the sick leave could be closed ...

Judging by the profile photos of Miknis in social networks, Vitaly Ivanovich generally loves to travel. In general, I do not see anything vicious in this predilection. However, I hope that he made all the rest of his trips during a legal vacation, and not a fictitious sick leave.

Taking this opportunity, I want to draw the attention of the new Minister of Education, Olga Yuryevna Vasilyeva, to the material posted by me and stop the occurrence of such incidents that disgrace the capital's universities, which all others are equal to educational establishments Russia.

On September 29, a change of power took place at the Moscow Aviation Institute, known throughout the country as the MAI. The institute received an order from the Ministry of Education and Science to appoint a new acting rector of the university. Instead of the hastily dismissed Anatoly Gerashchenko, Alexander Rozhdestvensky, the former rector of the disbanded Moscow Aviation Technological Institute (MATI), became them. The idea of ​​merging two universities - the authoritative and well-known throughout the country MAI and recognized as inefficient MATI - was announced by the ministry back in March. It was decided to merge the two institutes into one. It was assumed that students from this merger will only benefit and be able to get a wider range of professions. But no one expected that the format change would be so tough.

MAI stormed seriously, because in fact, the head of the largest aviation university country, a person was appointed overnight, firstly, who did not have a hint of professional knowledge of the subject (that is, aerospace) in his track record, and secondly, who somehow failed to save the university he ruled from collapse.

Everyone with whom we managed to talk on this topic, and whose opinions were heard on the sidelines of the Moscow Aviation Institute, was not even struck by the very fact of a change of power at the institute. The term “optimization” has long been strongly associated with the camouflaged destruction of any industry, and people do not expect anything good from reforms. The “manners” of the new government were astounding. The manners demonstrated by this government do not leave any illusions about the methods by which the MAI will be strengthened and, apparently, “grow with glory” among the employees and students of the university.

And such manners. The notice of dismissal was handed to Gerashchenko without any preliminary negotiations, without ritual procedures, which, although they do not change the situation, still soften the blow. The name of the rector was hastily removed from the main page of the institute's website, and the name of Rozhdestvensky was added in its place. The tablet with the name of Gerashchenko over the rector's office was knocked down the very next day after his forced resignation.

The procedure for the merger of two universities, and, in fact, the change of leadership in one, apparently, was being prepared for a long time, but as a special operation. According to the labor contract, the powers of the rector Gerashchenko, and he was not going to renew the rectorship ( age limit 65 years in this position) ended on December 2. And even if the decisions at the top have already been made, it is impossible to understand why it was impossible to wait two months and change the leadership of the university in a more or less decent manner. But quite recently, at the beginning of August, a letter from the ministry came to the MAI, which announced the start of the procedure for choosing a new rector. Anyone interested can apply to the committee. That is, the institute was calmly going to choose a new leader from well-known candidates. However, on August 20, a new letter came from the “educational” department, in which the upcoming elections were canceled without explanation.
The reason in the face of Mr. Rozhdestvensky appeared at the university on 29 September.

In the first two days of his work at the MAI, Rozhdestvensky, according to the testimony of the university staff, terminated the contracts of almost all vice-rectors, withdrew the seal of the institute and suspended all banking operations of the MAI.

Almost on the same days, a petition appeared on the Change.org website, collecting signatures against the appointment of Rozhdestvensky as rector of the Moscow Aviation Institute. As of October 6, more than seven thousand signatures were collected.

Here are some of the most common signer arguments:

Orkhan Yashin: “I believe that the choice of the rector of the institute should take place not for the intended purpose, but through honest and fair elections. I also think that the rector of the aviation institute should not and cannot be a person who does not have any education related to the aerospace industry.

Yuri Cheryomushkin: “I believe that at least until the information about plagiarism in the dissertation is refuted on the Dissernet resource, it is extremely unethical and insulting to students and teaching staff to consider Rozhdestvensky for the position of rector of the Moscow Aviation Institute”.

Olga Aleshina: “The rector should be elected on a competitive basis - according to his merits, and not according to the lawlessness of officials who are diligently ruining the best system in the world higher education».

Speaking of Dissernet. On the site of this resource you can find a link to the work of Alexander Rozhdestvensky, protected by him in 2009. The dissertation is called "Formation of the investment system social sphere region: theory, methodology and practice”. According to experts, borrowings from the works of four authors were actively used in the work - only 40 pages out of 309 did not contain plagiarism.

In fact, by sending a specialist without specialized education and at reputational costs to the post of rector of the most famous university in the country, Minister of Education Livanov closed the possibility of a dialogue between officials and scientists, equating the latter not with the intellectual elite, but with the service personnel.

The former rector of the MAI, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Yuri Ryzhov, who has worked at the institute for more than thirty years, assesses what happened as follows: “This is not an extraordinary situation, this is a continuation of what was done with the Russian Academy of Sciences. It all started with the appointment of Academician Vladimir Fortov to the post of President of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is very honest and clever man. However, the reformation of the Academy that took place after his appointment did not lead to anything good. FANO was appointed over the RAS ( federal agency scientific organizations. — LF.), which manages the finances of the academy. But now they have begun to actively intervene in deciding which scientific direction to give money, and which not to give.

At MAI, the situation is even more vile, because the rector Gerashchenko was not only dismissed from his post, but they did it with the utmost shamelessness. There was an ordinary academic council, vice-rectors read routine reports, and at the end of the action, officials entered the hall and read out an order that Gerashchenko had been fired from the Moscow Aviation Institute with the issuance of a work book to him without the right to visit the MAI. After they moved to inspect the offices. This all looks very much like a raider takeover, because the appointment of the rector should take place according to the procedure, and not as a planned operation.

As a professional, I have questions for the Ministry of Education regarding the candidacy of a new rector. When he headed the Russian State University of Technology them. K.E. Tsiolkovsky (MATI), the university was recognized as ineffective. It turns out that the rector ineffective institution appointed Rector of the MAI. He only has a pedagogical and economic education. It is nonsense that the head of the MAI will be a person who is incompetent in this branch of education. This has never happened in the history of the institute.”.

The first public appearance of Alexander Rozhdestvensky at the emergency Academic Council, dedicated to the change of the rector, passed with a full house. The hall was packed to capacity, and students were quietly lining up at the door. Alexander Rozhdestvensky was confident. In his opening remarks, he said that “the situation is complicated and has developed as it has developed, for me this appointment is a challenge, and I accepted it, I recommend that you do the same.” He promised that the dormitory fees for students would not increase and that MAI property would not be sold either. And in response to a question from the audience whether he intends to stand as a candidate for the upcoming elections of the rector in accordance with the charter of the university in December, he announced the news that no one in the hall suspected: “In June, a model charter developed by the Ministry of Education was sent to all universities. According to the new charter, the rector will be appointed.”

Actually this phrase and.about. Rector Rozhdestvensky informed the staff of the institute that the staff had no choice (and elections).

“If a person studied normally at MAI, then the average salary of our graduates is 55-60 thousand rubles,” Mikhail Pogosyan, rector of the MAI, in the recent past, general director of the United Aircraft Corporation, told the newspaper VIEW. He talked about how Russian education, and the MAI in particular, will provide the very "technological breakthrough" that Putin demanded.

On Thursday, as part of a direct line, Vladimir Putin announced the need for a breakthrough for Russia. “We must not only jump into the last car of the outgoing train of the new technological order, but be at the head of this train,” the head of state said.

According to Putin, if we fall behind in our technological development, if we do not pay due attention to "such important issues as healthcare and education, we can fall behind irrevocably, and this will call into question our sovereignty."

In our field of education, one of the best institutions that trains personnel for a technological breakthrough is the Moscow aviation institute(MAI), which received nine years ago the status of a national research university. Perhaps this is the only university that trains specialists in the entire "life cycle" of aviation and rocket and space technology.

According to the report of the international rating agency Round University Ranking (RUR), MAI showed a record result in 2017, rising from 95th to 54th place due to a sharp increase in the quality of education and research, international activity and financial stability. MAI was among a dozen Russian universities in the world's top 100.

According to the portal Career.Ru, over the past year, Mayev students who graduated from the Faculty of Control Systems, Informatics and Power Engineering entered the top 10 IT graduates most in demand by employers.

On the other hand, in February, the Social Navigator of the Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency and the Typical Applicant project presented a study on universities, based, however, on Internet leaks. It followed from the publication that MAI was among the three universities with the largest share of negative reviews.

About how true such reviews are, in an interview with the VZGLYAD newspaper, the rector of the university, in the recent past the general director of the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) Mikhail Pogosyan, spoke.

VIEW: Mikhail Aslanovich, training of future personnel - important task. But there were reports that you have a shortage of students and, thus, our defense enterprises in five years are threatened with a shortage of personnel.

Mikhail Pogosyan: These are wrong messages. We don't have any issues with recruitment today. On the budget places we accept annually more than three and a half thousand students. Approximately one thousand students are accepted for paid training.

Actually, in terms of the scale of training of specialists, MAI, as well as Bauman Moscow State Technical University, are, from my point of view, the most comprehensive universities that train specialists for high-tech industries.

VZGLYAD: On Internet forums, students and applicants (or people who appear to be such) write that your university is considered weaker than the same Baumanka. To what extent are you willing to accept this? Maybe MSTU has more funding?

M.P.: There are differences in funding. Perhaps, in terms of some indicators, the MAI is somewhat behind today, but in terms of the dynamics of changes in indicators, we are clear leaders.

I have respect for the work being done by the Moscow State Technical University. Bauman, but I consider such a direct comparison incorrect. I would not like to go into a discussion, but there are indicators by which MAI is ahead of MSTU. It is impossible to make an unambiguous comparison of two universities, each has its own specifics. We have our own line, we implement it.

VZGLYAD: Is MAI ahead in terms of integration into the global educational space? As far as we can tell, English-speaking teachers are involved and foreign students are admitted to closed departments, which usually require special permission. What else are you doing in this direction?

M.P.: For example, English-taught master's programs jointly with Shanghai University - this, I think, has no analogues in other Russian universities. Over the past year, we have seen very good dynamics: the number of foreign students who enter MAI has increased by one and a half times. In 2017, more than three hundred people were accepted.

In general, the number of students from the PRC who study under the program of "double diplomas" has noticeably increased.

In addition, we have established close coordination with European universities. For example, in such areas as composite structures, aviation equipment service.

VZGLYAD: Yes, in the reviews about the university, on the one hand, it is noted high quality teaching. But, on the other hand, some students complain that among the teachers there are good specialists who, however, cannot convey their knowledge to students. That is, their lectures are boring. How do you plan to deal with this?

M.P.: I think this is a subjective assessment. It is definitely impossible to ensure the same interest in all subjects of training, for all teachers. All have pros and cons. But we note that the competition for a number of areas of training at the MAI suggests that there is a steady authority and interest.

I know other points of view: that the MAI has trained not only engineers, but also people who are able to solve complex non-trivial problems. This cannot be done if teachers do not effectively impart these knowledge and skills.

VZGLYAD: If we are talking about graduates, many of whom really work in important areas, including in the defense industry, do you think their work is fair? There were statements that MAI graduates, for example, working in Komsomolsk-on-Amur or Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, can receive 35 thousand rubles, which is clearly not enough for the Far East ...

M.P.: There is no such salary, 35 thousand, for a specialist. If a person studied normally at MAI, then the average salary of our graduates is 55-60 thousand rubles. There are relevant ratings, you can refer to them. MAI is among the five to seven leading universities in Russia in terms of remuneration of graduates and in terms of the demand for specialists. So the statements you mentioned are just rumors.

VZGLYAD: President at a recent meeting with university rectors posed the question point-blank: what can and should be done Russian universities to achieve a technological breakthrough? How will the MAI participate in this breakthrough?

M.P.: Indeed, the challenge facing universities now is not only to follow the industry, but to set those priorities that will largely determine competitiveness in the future.

Therefore, universities should prepare people not for today's technologies and services, but for tomorrow's. And MAI is working in this direction. It concerns both traditional areas of engineering basic training(such as aircraft construction, spacecraft, engine building), and such areas as information technology.

If we talk about how we specifically solve this problem, then let's take one of the vectors: this is a significant increase in the amount of work in the interests of the industry, promising programs. Last year, we reached the volume of research work worth more than 2 billion rubles, this year we plan to come close to 3 billion rubles. This has just been achieved due to the fact that we are significantly expanding the range of scientific research.

On this topic

In addition, we actively participate in the implementation of the strategy of scientific and technological development. The direction of the strategy related to integrated development territories , we are also actively developing. In this work we take direct participation.

As part of the breakthroughs, we aim to train people who are capable of leading these breakthroughs. To do this, today we are implementing a number of new areas of their training: such as product life cycle management (we train those who are ready to solve problems in a complex way). The second of these important areas is the school of management, the purpose of which is to train the personnel reserve of corporations.

We are also opening up new areas of training - digital manufacturing, software development management in the field of IT, composite structures in the field of aircraft construction, space technology and a number of other areas.

Thus, the areas where the skills of our graduates are applicable are not only the military-industrial complex, aircraft building, space, engine building and other traditional areas. Specialists will be in demand in the field of IT. There are entire companies, the basis of the team of which are graduates of our faculties, associated with the training of specialists in information technology.

If we turn to history, then MAI has always trained to a large extent not just specialists, but successful people. I believe that from the point of view of training the heads of enterprises, MAI occupies a leading position compared to other universities - our specialists show themselves very well in the aerospace industry and metallurgy.

In general, we can say that MAI is not only an engineering school, but also a school for people who achieve success in a variety of areas.

Mikhail Moshkin

License No. 1961 dated February 18, 2016 00:00, valid indefinitely.

Accreditation No. 1912 dated 05/10/2016 00:00, valid until 07/08/2019 00:00.

And about. Rector: Shevtsov Vyacheslav Alekseevich, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor Education
1977 - MAI, Faculty of Aircraft Radio Electronics
1986 - Postgraduate
1987 - Ph.D. thesis defense, Ph.D.
2004 - defense of a doctoral dissertation on the topic: "Signal processing against the background of non-Gaussian interference in telecommunication systems and networks", Doctor of Technical Sciences.
2007 - professor

Career
1978-1980 - service in the SA, senior lieutenant engineer
since 1981 at MAI - engineer, graduate student, head of the educational laboratory, deputy dean for research
1980-1990 - All-Russian Research Institute of the State Patent Examination, freelance expert
2001-2007 - Dean of the Faculty of Aircraft Radio Electronics
2007-2016 - Vice-Rector for Research
2016 - acting Rector of MAI

Publications
Author and co-author of over 50 scientific works, including 15 certificates for inventions, a patent for a new method of cellular communication, 3 monographs: "Signal processing against the background of non-Gaussian interference in telecommunication systems and networks", "Optimal signal processing in large systems", "Location of subscribers in cellular communication systems" , "General system issues of information security".

Awards
Laureate of the Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation in the field of science and technology
Medal "In memory of the 850th anniversary of Moscow"
Badge "Honorary Worker of the Higher Education System"

Other
Academic Secretary International Academy information, process and technology sciences
Deputy Chairman of the editorial board of the journal "Vestnik MAI"
Chairman of the dissertation council
Member expert council HAC
Honorary Doctor of the Higher Technical School Esslingen (Germany)

vice-rector for extracurricular and educational work: Yurov Nikolai Nikolaevich, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor

Vice-Rector for International Relations and Security: Vitaly Ivanovich Miknis

Vice-Rector for Quality and Informatization: Yury Ivanovich Deniskin, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor Yury Ivanovich Deniskin was born on July 30, 1961 in the city of Vladivostok in a family of employees.

After graduating in 1978 high school entered and graduated with honors in 1984 from the Far Eastern Polytechnic Institute (now the Far Eastern State Technical University) with a degree in Ship Power Plants.

Since 1984, he began working at the Moscow Aviation Institute as a trainee teacher at the 905 department.

In 1985 he entered full-time graduate school of the Moscow Aviation Institute, in 1989 he defended his dissertation for the degree of candidate of technical sciences in the specialty 05.01.01 "Applied geometry and engineering graphics". In 2000 he graduated from the MAI doctoral studies and defended his doctoral dissertation in the specialty 05.01.01.

Specialist in the field of geometric modeling of objects and processes, information technologies, quality management and information support of the life cycle of complex science-intensive products.

Since 2001 - Professor of Department 905, since 2007 - Vice-Rector of the MAI for Quality and Informatization.

Supervises graduate and doctoral students.

Organizer and editor-in-chief of the electronic journal "Applied Geometry" MAI. Deputy Chairman of the Doctoral Specialized Council in the specialty 05.01.01, member of the Doctoral Specialized Council at MAI.

Professional teacher in the field of quality, has a diploma of the GOST R Certification System (April 1999). Certified specialist in the principles and methods of total quality management (TQM), certificate of the Institute for Quality Assurance (IQA, England, January 2001).

Since 2001, he has been a part-time professor of department 104.

Vice-Rector for Economics and Finance: Gorelov Boris Alekseevich

Vice-Rector for the Development of the Institute Complex and Social Issues: Gavrilova Inna Semenovna, Vice-Rector for the Development of the Institute Complex and Social Issues

Vice-Rector for Research: Shevtsov Vyacheslav Alekseevich, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor Education
1977 - MAI, Faculty of Aircraft Radio Electronics
1986 - Postgraduate
1987 - Ph.D. thesis defense, Ph.D.
2004 - defense of a doctoral dissertation on the topic: "Signal processing against the background of non-Gaussian interference in telecommunication systems and networks", Doctor of Technical Sciences.
2007 - professor

Career
1978-1980 - service in the SA, senior lieutenant engineer
since 1981 at MAI - engineer, graduate student, head of the educational laboratory, deputy dean for research
1980–1990 - VNII of the State Patent Examination, freelance expert
2001–2007 - Dean of the Faculty of Aircraft Radio Electronics
2007 - Vice-Rector for Research
Prepared 2 candidates of sciences.

Publications
Author and co-author of more than 50 scientific papers, including 15 invention certificates, a patent for a new method of cellular communication, 3 monographs: “Signal processing against the background of non-Gaussian interference in telecommunication systems and networks”, “Optimal signal processing by large systems”, “Location determination of subscribers in cellular communication systems”, “General system issues of information security”.

Awards
Laureate of the Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation in the field of science and technology
Medal "In memory of the 850th anniversary of Moscow"
Badge "Honorary Worker of the Higher Education System"

Other
Academic Secretary of the International Academy of Information Sciences, Processes and Technology
Deputy Chairman of the editorial board of the journal "Vestnik MAI"
Chairman of the dissertation council
Member of the expert council of the Higher Attestation Commission
Honorary Doctor of the Higher Technical School Esslingen (Germany)

Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs: Kuprikov Mikhail Yuryevich, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor Kuprikov M. Yu. – specialist in the field system analysis large and complex technical systems, in terms of automating the formation of the appearance of aviation complexes; author 256 scientific papers, 127 of which were published including a monograph, 49 articles and 9 copyright certificates for inventions.
Main areas of research: applied information support for product life cycle automation, continuous product life cycle support (CALS), automation of design and development work, the impact of infrastructure restrictions on the appearance of an aircraft, automated formation of an aircraft appearance, solid-state, hybrid and parametric modeling of products and processes in mechanical engineering , staffing continuous product life cycle support. M. Yu. Kuprikov owns fundamental results in the theory of mathematical solution of the problems of forming the geometric appearance of large and complex technical systems under "hard" constraints by transforming these problems into "inverse" design problems.

Kuprikov M.Yu. (as part of a team of authors) developed and implemented a system for automated formation of the appearance of vertical take-off and landing aircraft at OKB A.S. Yakovlev, the design results of which were reflected in the appearance of promising aircraft carrier strike groups. New results were obtained by M. Yu. Kuprikov in the field of development of long-haul aircraft with large passenger capacity, systems for the collective rescue of passengers and aircraft crew. With his direct participation, the tasks of identifying the impact of environmental (noise and emissions) and demographic requirements on the appearance of advanced aircraft were solved. He developed applied scientific and methodological support for the training of personnel support for continuous support of the life cycle of products for the aviation industry, implemented in MAI, KhAI, MATI, V.A.T.U. N. E. Zhukovsky, TANTK named after G. M. Beriev, ANTK named after A. N. Tupolev, OKB Kamov, OKB Sukhoi, RAC MiG, NPO PROGRESTEKH.

Kuprikov M. Yu. is the editor-in-chief of the journal “Applied Geometry, Engineering Graphics, Computer Design” (http://jggd.ru), a member of the editorial boards of the journal “Quality of Life”, chairman of the specialized Council D 212.125.13 of the Higher Attestation Commission of the Russian Federation (specialty 05.01. 01 and 05.13.12), member of the Council D 212.125.10 of the Higher Attestation Commission of the Russian Federation (specialty 05.02.02 3), Scientific Secretary of the Council DC 212.005.02 of the Higher Attestation Commission of the Russian Federation (specialty 05.07.02). Under the guidance of Kuprikov M. Yu., 5 candidate and 1 doctoral dissertations were defended.

In 1982, after graduating from high school with a gold medal, he entered the Moscow Aviation Institute through a competition. He graduated with honors from the Moscow Aviation Institute in 1988 with a degree in aircraft engineering (mechanical engineer). In 1989-1992 he completed postgraduate studies at the Moscow Aviation Institute and received the qualification of an engineer-researcher. In 1993 he defended his dissertation on a special topic. Assignment of the degree of candidate of technical sciences in the specialty 05.07.02 "Design and construction of aircraft". In 1995-1998 he studied at the MAI doctoral program, after graduating, in 2000 he defended his thesis for the degree of Doctor of Technical Sciences in the specialty 05.07.02 "Design, construction and production of aircraft" on the topic "Structural-parametric synthesis of the appearance of a vertical aircraft takeoff and landing."

Professional experience:
1985-1987 - art. OSKBES MAI technician (part-time),
1988-1990 - engineer, junior researcher "Problem Laboratory" of the Department 101 of the MAI "Aircraft Design";
1988–1990 Engineer at MMZ “SPEED” im. A. S. Yakovleva (part-time worker);
1994 - leading designer of AOOT OKB im. A. S. Yakovleva;
1995 - present - Deputy Dean of the Aviation Technology Faculty of the Moscow Aviation Institute;
1992 - present - Assistant, Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor, Professor of the Department 101 "Aircraft Design",
2006- present - Leading Specialist (part-time worker) of JSC Sukhoi Design Bureau;
1998 - present - Head of Department 904 "Engineering Graphics" MAI.

In 2000 awarded academic title Professor at the Department of Engineering Graphics.

Awards: medal "In memory of the 850th anniversary of Moscow" in 1997, Breastplate of the Ministry of Education Russian Federation"For the development of research work of students" in 2000 (ten medals of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation following the results of the open All-Russian competition for the best research work in 1992-1993, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 2003, 2004 and 2005), gold medal Salon of Inventions "Archimedes 2003", Air Force Commemorative Medal "100 Years of Air Chief Marshal A. E. Golovanov" 2004, Badge "90 Years of Long-Range Aviation of the Russian Air Force" 2004, Medal of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation "For Labor Valor" 2005 G.

Moscow Aviation Institute, MAI - Trains elite engineering specialists. It is one of the most popular universities in the country in the field of training personnel for the military-industrial complex. Students are trained on the principle of end-to-end design of all systems of aviation, rocket and space technology. The university also trains specialists for the following cosmodromes: Baikonur; "Plesetsk"; "Oriental".
MAI is an analogue of a technopark, in which, along with classrooms, numerous scientific laboratories, scientific, educational and resource centers, design bureaus, including student ones, a pilot plant, an airfield and social infrastructure facilities. Founded in 1930. Education is conducted at 12 faculties, 9 institutes, as faculties, and 5 branches. The number of students is about 22,000 people. MAI Rector - Mikhail Aslanovich Pogosyan.

Faculties and branches

Faculties:

"Aviation Engineering"
"Aircraft Engines"
"Control systems, informatics and electric power industry"
"Radio electronics of aircraft"
"Aerospace"
"Robotic and intelligent systems"
"Information Technology and Applied Mathematics"
"Applied mechanics"
"Social Engineering"
"Foreign languages"
"Radiotuz MAI"
"Faculty of pre-university training"

Institutes:

Institute of Engineering and Economics MAI (ENGEKIN MAI)
Institute of Material Science and Technology of Materials
Institute of Aerospace Structures, Technologies and Control Systems
Institute information systems and technology
Institute of Management, Economics and Social Technologies
Military Institute MAI
Military Training Institute
Institute for Advanced Studies and Retraining MAI
Distance Learning Institute

Branches:

Voskhod (Baikonur Cosmodrome)
"Rise" (Akhtubinsk)
"Arrow" (Zhukovsky)
Stupino branch (Stupino)