Name
Varlamov Sergej Gennadevich
Scholastic degree
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Academic rank
associated professor
Honorary rank
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Organization, job position
Admiral Ushakov Maritime State University
Web site url
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Articles count: 3
Under present-day conditions, coalition of states, including Russian Federation has its warships performing safe navigation objectives and cargo vessel convoy escorting in areas under threat of pirates in accordance with UN resolution. Preparation of Navy ships that perform combat duty missions in areas of high piracy activity in order to protect cargo vessels involves not only solving of manning and logistics problems, but also targeted formation of highly qualified Navy men always ready to successful implementation of such specific tasks. Such organizational and educational activities should be managed with the use of Instructional design of the military-pedagogical process. Instructional Design is an objective necessity for the development of the subject's military-pedagogy, educational activity of the projective imagination, thinking, effective course of action. The author refers to this Instructional design to form Navy men ready to stand against pirates and terrorist at sea as a phenomenon that combines educational theory with innovative practice and targeted at comprehensive training of warship personnel to perform its duties. The article justifies the target programme to form Navy men ready to counter pirates and terrorists at sea. The programme contains six separate and interconnected modules with topics, providing crew members with the necessary knowledge and skills to form a high-level of readiness for upcoming professional military activities at sea
Every year pirates attack hundreds of ships and
thousands of sailors. So, by the end of 2014 violent
actions of the pirates have undergone more than 5,000
sailors. In 2015, the pirates attacked 246 vessels they
had captured 15 ships and 271 of a sailor. While one
sailor was killed and 14 wounded. The economic
damage from pirates was tens of billions of dollars.
For these reasons, the fight against piracy and
Maritime terrorism becomes a major concern of the
world community. In today's complex for a variety of
reasons conditions, convoy of transport ships warships
for the passage of areas endangered by pirates is
considered the most effective and reliable means of
coping with the corsairs of the XXI century,
precluding the capture of the ship and its crew. At the
same time, the training of personnel to solve specific
problems impeding reoperate requires performing the
whole complex of preparatory measures, including
psychological and physical training of sailors for the
upcoming action of a dangerous nature. The article
reveals the content of the methodology of forming and
evaluating the readiness of military seamen to counter
pirates and terrorists at sea represents a set of methods,
forms and means of pedagogical influence with the
purpose of providing soldiers pedagogical assistance in
the development of military-professional activities,
standards of behavior and support in preparation for
military service in the areas endangered by pirates; the
development of military-professional competence; the
full realization of personal potential of specialist fleet
In modern conditions, in accordance with the decision
of the UN, warships of the coalition of states, which
includes the Russian Federation, carry out tasks for the
protection of navigation and for escorting ships in the
areas endangered by pirates of the oceans. Training
ships of the Navy to perform tasks of combat duty in
the areas of increased activity of pirates to ensure the
safety of navigation of civil transport vessels not only
involves the decision of problems of staffing the crew
with necessary staff, logistical support, and targeted
development of the high readiness of the sailors to
successful implementation of such specific combat
missions. This kind of organizing and educational
activities should be organized based on the experience
of pedagogical designing of the military-pedagogical
process. Instructional design is an objective necessity
of development of subjects of military-pedagogical
and educational activities of the projective
imagination, thinking, efficient way of doing it. The
author considers the instructional design of formation
of readiness of military seamen to counter pirates and
terrorists at sea as an innovative phenomenon that
connects pedagogical theory and innovative practice
aimed at comprehensive training of the personnel of
the fighting ships for the upcoming operation. The
article explains target program of development of
readiness of military seamen to counter pirates and
terrorists at sea. The author's target program contains
six separate and interrelated modules, which will allow
crew members to acquire the necessary knowledge and
skills to create a high level of preparedness for the
forthcoming military - professional activity in the sea