Transport and Telecommunication Institute

Transport and Telecommunication Institute
Transporta un Sakaru Institūts
Type Private
Established 1993
Rector Igors Graurs
Location Riga, Latvia Latvia
Website www.tsi.lv

Transport and Telecommunication Institute (TTI) (Latvian: Transporta un Sakaru Institūts, TSI) (Russian: Институт Транспорта и Связи, ТСИ) (previously known as RCAII and Riga Aviation University) is the largest university-type accredited non-state technical higher educational and scientific establishment in Riga, the capital of Latvia. It was established in 1999, although incorporated the core of a technical and aviation school which dated back to 1919.[1] Main directions of academic activities: electronics and telecommunications, information technology and computer science, economics, management and business administration, transport and logistics. According to the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, it is currently controlled by the Shemyakin family of Russian oligarch Vladimir Shemyakin. It was formerly controlled by Valery Kargin, once owner of the defunct Parex Bank.[2]


Study programmes

Faculties

It is divided into several faculties, including:

History

Prehistory

On 24 May 1919, in Kiev a School of Aviation Mechanical Technicians was founded. The aircraft repair shops and pilot school were used as the school base. From Kiev, the school had been evacuated to Moscow and in 1921 it was shifted to Petrograd and renamed as the Advanced Training Courses for Engineering Staff.

In 1938–39, a status of this educational establishment has been changed due to the prevailing number of students and listeners raising the level of their skills. In May 1938 the courses were given a new name as the First Aircraft Maintenance School. The school was renamed yet again in 1939. In 1946 it was reorganized as the First Leningrad Higher Military Aviation Engineering School.

Relocation to Latvia

In June 1945 the school was relocated to Riga. In Riga, also the Second Leningrad Higher Military Aviation Engineering School was functioning that had been reorganized from the technical school with similar name. Both schools had two faculties. The first - engineering and special electrical equipment, the second - radio engineering and air armaments. In 1949 both schools were joined in the Riga Higher Military Aviation Engineering School. In June 1960 the School was broken up and on its base the civil higher school was found - the Riga Civil Air Fleet Engineers Institute. In 1967 in connection with the reorganization of the Main Directorate of Civil Air Fleet into the Ministry of Civil Aviation, the higher school was named as the Riga Civil Aviation Engineers Institute (RIIGA). On 25 February 1992, the RIIGA passed under the jurisdiction of the Latvian Republic and changed its name to the Riga Aviation Institute. By its 80th anniversary the RAU was the largest higher school in Latvia holding a third place in the rating of the educational establishments in the country.

Founding of the current institute

At the end of the 1990s the higher school faced a number of internal and external problems, and in August 1999 the Cabinet of Latvia made a decision about the liquidation of the RAU as the governmental higher school. Such wording encouraged its employees to reorganize this educational establishment by now into the non-governmental institution. On 6 September 1999, the joint stock company "Riga Aviation University" had been registered and from October of the same year it was renamed into the Transport and Telecommunication Institute. TTI has been included into the Training Directory of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).

References

  1. ↑ "Transport and Telecommunication Institute General Facts". Retrieved 23 August 2013.
  2. ↑ "Who has a second base in Latvia?". Re:Baltica. 22 February 2015.
  3. ↑ Logistics Programmes

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