Training specialists for industrial production, agriculture and transport is a responsible and complex matter. Educational institutions should have the material and technical base for training. Boris Levin headed the Moscow Institute of Transport Engineers for many years.
Starting conditions
When a person gets on a train, he does not think about the technical features that were used in the production of cars. He just feels the convenience or inconvenience of certain nodes and elements. And only after such an acquaintance, he may be interested in the name of the engineer who created the specific device. Boris Alekseevich Levin for over twenty years served as rector of the Moscow Institute of Transport Engineers (MIIT). Over the past years, the educational institution has trained a huge number of specialists who worked and continue to work on the railway.
The future rector of the country's leading university was born on August 11, 1949 in a working class family. Parents lived in the town of Zheleznodorozhny, near Moscow. My father worked as a train engine driver on the railway. Mother was engaged in housework and raising children. Boris grew up as the eldest child in the house, and this circumstance imposed certain responsibilities on him. He studied well at school. But after the eighth grade he entered the Moscow Electrotechnical College. In 1968 he received a diploma with honors, and continued his studies at the famous MIIT.
Teaching activities
In his student years, Levin was the commissioner of the linear construction team. For two years, he served as secretary of the Komsomol Institute Committee. In 1973, having received a higher specialized education, he enters graduate school at the Department of Automated Control Systems. In 1977 he defended his thesis and took the post of head of graduate school. Using the accumulated experience of organizational work, Boris Alekseevich created the Branch Center of Scientific and Pedagogical Personnel on the basis of graduate school. In 1995, this center was successfully transformed into the Russian Academy of Railways.
Levin’s administrative career was quite successful. Creativity and organizational skills of Boris Alekseevich noticed in the government of the Russian Federation. In the spring of 1997, he was appointed rector of his native MIIT. Levin was the eighteenth head of the university. By that time, many large and small problems had accumulated in the system of Russian higher education. An experienced teacher and manager got, figuratively speaking, a semi-living control object. It is important to note that Boris Alekseevich did not fill up for this position, but he considered it unethical to refuse.
