TULA STATE UNIVERSITY

The University provides personnel training for russia's military-industrial complex. The University has concluded a number of cooperation agreements with enterprises of russia's military-industrial complex, including OJSC Research and Production Association Bazalt, OJSC Joint-Stock Company Tulamashzavod, JSC A. N. Ganichev Research and Production Association Splav, OJSC Central Design Bureau of Apparatus Engineering, OJSC Academician A. G. Shipunov Instrument Design Bureau, and JSC A. Ya. Bereznyak State Machine-Building Design Bureau Raduga, among others.
Since 2023, the University has hosted training courses for UAV operators from units of the russian ministry of defense and other security agencies participating in the so-called "special military operation" (SMO). The training is conducted by instructors with combat experience, faculty members of Tula State University, and personnel from security agencies.
In addition, faculty members of the University are directly involved in russia's armed aggression against Ukraine, serving in the russian army, including as volunteers.
Representatives of Tula State University (TulSU) regularly participate in the Army international military-technical forums. In 2022, TulSU participated in the Army-2022 forum, during which the University signed a scientific and technical cooperation agreement with JSC A. N. Ganichev Research and Production Association Splav, which manufactures ammunition for multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS).
On October 7, 2022, the Institute of Law and Management of TulSU hosted a propaganda film lecture titled "For Novorossiya!".
On March 4, 2022, the russian Union of Rectors, which also includes Oleg Aleksandrovich Kravchenko, Rector of TulSU, signed an appeal in support of the so-called "special military operation" (SMO).