NVVPOU - SVVPTAU: A VIEW FROM THE STANDPOINT OF COMPARATIVE APPROACH
In the article an attempt was made to carry out a comparative analysis of two military-political schools: the Sverdlovsk higher military-political tank-artillery school (SVVPTAU) and the Novosibirsk higher military-political combined arms school (NVVPOU), established in 1967. Author is a graduate SVVPTAU in 1975 and NVVPOU teacher with almost thirty-five years of experience, so he has his own idea about the life of two legendary military schools, based on personal experience of study in one of them and experience teaching in another. Realizing the possibilities of the comparative approach, the author highlights the common features of two military and political schools - SVVPTAU and NVVPOU as elements of a unified system of training military and political personnel for the armed Forces of the USSR, and also identifies their specific features. The author proceeds from the fact that both schools have made such a significant contribution to the training of the officer corps of the Armed Forces of the USSR that their life does not need “varnishing” and “bringing a textbook gloss”. The existence of SVVPTAU and NVVPOU was not without problems and readers’ attention is drawn to the problems and difficulties in their functioning and development in the middle and second half of the eighties of the last century. The article is of undoubted interest to everyone interested in the history of military education in our country.