“Izvestija of the Saratov Military Institute of the National Guard Troops of the Russian Federation” is a peer-reviewed periodical online publication specializing in the publication of results from fundamental and applied scientific research in the humanities and social sciences, with a pronounced military-professional and institutional orientation.
The journal is intended for a broad spectrum of specialists interested in the exchange of scientific experience and current information in the fields of education and law:
– the academic community: professors, associate professors, and research staff of universities and research institutes;
– graduate students and degree applicants: doctoral candidates, postgraduates, and applicants for academic degrees seeking a platform for publishing the results of their dissertation research;
– practitioners and young specialists: officers and personnel of the National Guard Troops, instructors at military departments and institutions of higher education, as well as young scholars engaged in issues of military service and law enforcement activities.
The online edition publishes original scholarly articles that meet high academic standards. A key feature of its content is the examination of classical disciplines through the prism of the activities of law enforcement agencies and the military organization of society:
- Pedagogical Sciences: emphasis is placed on military pedagogy and psychology, methodologies for professional training of military personnel, physical education within the troops, as well as issues of patriotic upbringing and the formation of professional identity among future officers.
- Sociological Sciences: the journal publishes research dedicated to social processes within military units, the sociology of management in law enforcement agencies, problems of military personnel adaptation, alongside analyses of public opinion and the social well-being of personnel of internal affairs bodies and the National Guard Troops.
- Juridical Sciences: current issues of constitutional, administrative, criminal, and criminal procedural law are examined in the context of ensuring national security, legal regulation of the National Guard Troops’ activities, as well as problems of legality and public order when performing service-combat missions.
Scientific specialties:
5.1.1. Theoretical and historical legal sciences;
5.1.2. Public Law (State Law) Sciences;
5.1.4. Criminal Law Sciences;
5.4.2. Economic sociology;
5.4.6. Sociology of culture;
5.4.7. Sociology of management;
5.8.1. General pedagogy, history of pedagogy and education;
5.8.2. Theory and methodology of training and education (by areas and levels of education);
5.8.4. Physical education and professional physical training;
5.8.7. Methodology and technology of vocational education.
Unlike specialized civilian publications in pedagogy, sociology, or law, this journal possesses a number of distinctive characteristics:
– institutional specificity: it is one of the few platforms where scholarly discourse is directly focused on the operational and developmental issues of the National Guard Troops (Rosgvardia), thereby ensuring high relevance of its materials for narrowly focused specialists;
– interdisciplinary synthesis: the publication fosters the integration of knowledge, allowing complex problems—such as delinquency prevention or the quality of personnel training—to be examined concurrently from legal, sociological, and pedagogical perspectives;
– applied orientation: scholarly contributions are frequently applied in nature, offering concrete recommendations for improving the regulatory-legal framework and educational methodologies that are applicable in the real-world conditions of military service and law enforcement activities.
The online journal serves as an important instrument for advancing military science and the methodology of personnel training for security forces, bridging theoretical inquiry with practical experience.
