LEGISLATIVE CONSTRUCTION OF HIGHER MILITARY EDUCATION OF UKRAINE IN THE 1990s

Abstract

Article outlines the history of the formation and development of higher military education of Ukraine in the 1990s. The main normative legal acts (laws, orders, regulations), which were adopted during this period, are analyzed. Attention is focused on the main tendencies, which determined the development of the national officer training system for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other military formations. Thus, in the 1990s, military education, firstly, was integrated with public education system; secondly, its new regulatory and methodological bases were developed. The conceptual features of the development of military education of this period include the establishment of interspecific (various types of units of the power bloc) training of specialists with higher military education. At the end of the first decade of independence, the higher military education system included: the Academy of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Military Medical Academy, the Kharkiv Military University, 9 military institutes, 4 military institutes in civilian higher educational institutions, 2 faculties and 30 military training departments. The system fulfilled tasks with the training of military specialists for the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other military formations of Ukraine.