Yulia Sergeyevna Shoygu is a Russian psychologist, Candidate of Psychological Sciences, and specialist in the psychology of extreme situations. Since 2002 she has headed the Federal State Budgetary Institution "Emergency Psychological Assistance Center of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations" (FGBU TsEPP MChS Rossii), the lead organization of the ministry's psychological service.[1] Her Nizhny Novgorod connection is due to the fact that one of the Center's eight regional branches is located in Nizhny Novgorod.[1]
Education and early career
Yulia Shoygu graduated from the Faculty of Psychology of Lomonosov Moscow State University. In 1999 she joined the Emergency Psychological Assistance Center of the Ministry of Emergency Situations as a rank-and-file psychologist, two years later was appointed deputy director, and in 2002 became the director of the institution.[2][3] In 2003 she defended her Candidate dissertation, "Professional Psychological Selection of Cadets at Universities of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations — Future Rescuers."[2] Since 2016 she has headed the Department of Extreme Psychology at the Faculty of Psychology of Moscow State University and holds the academic title of docent (associate professor).[4][2]
Activities
Under Shoygu's leadership, the Center provides organizational and methodological guidance for the psychological service of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations, coordinates the provision of emergency psychological assistance to victims of emergencies, and implements programs to preserve the mental health of the ministry's personnel. The Center and its eight branches — in Khabarovsk, Krasnoyarsk, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Rostov-on-Don, Pyatigorsk, Sevastopol, and Saint Petersburg — employ more than 320 specialists.[1]
Shoygu has personally taken part in providing psychological assistance to victims and relatives of the dead following terrorist attacks, hostage-takings, man-made disasters, earthquakes on Sakhalin and in China, the loss of the submarine Kursk and the motor ship Bulgaria, as well as the Irkutsk, Perm, Karelia, Yaroslavl, and Tyumen plane crashes and a number of other emergencies in Russia and abroad.[2][4]
In the professional community she serves as Vice President of the Russian Psychological Society (RPS), member of the RPS Presidium, and Deputy Chair of the RPS Ethics Committee, as well as head of the RPS section on the psychology of disasters and emergencies and chair of the Public Council of Psychologists of the Security Agencies.[2][3] She sits on the editorial boards of the National Psychological Journal and the Bulletin of Moscow University, Series 14: Psychology.[2]
Awards and recognition
She was awarded the medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland," 2nd class, and the commemorative medal "70 Years of the Forensic Service" of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. In 2018, she became a laureate of the Second National Public Prize "Garmoniya" in the category "For Contribution to the Prevention of Mental Disorders." In 2025, she received a letter of commendation from the Rector of Lomonosov Moscow State University in connection with the university's 270th anniversary.[2]
Nizhny Novgorod Connection
The Nizhny Novgorod branch of the Federal State Budgetary Institution "Center for Emergency Psychological Assistance" of the Russian Emergency Ministry (EMERCOM) is one of the Center's eight regional divisions, which Shoigu has headed since 2002. Through the Nizhny Novgorod branch, the Center carries out psychological support for the personnel of the EMERCOM regional directorate and provides emergency psychological assistance to the population during emergencies in the territory of Nizhny Novgorod Region.[1]
Links
- Wikidata (Q17287328 — entry in the free knowledge base)
Sources
- mchs.gov.ru — Federal State Budgetary Institution "Center for Emergency Psychological Assistance of the Russian Emergency Ministry" — Federal State Budgetary Institutions
- psy.su — Shoigu Yulia Sergeyevna — Psychological Newspaper
- psyrus.ru — Shoigu Yulia Sergeyevna. Presidium of the Russian Psychological Society.
- psy-msu.ru — Shoigu Yulia Sergeyevna. Psychologist, Faculty of Psychology, Moscow State University
- checko.ru — FGBU TsEPP of the Russian Emergency Ministry — Moscow — INN 7709524864 — Director Shoigu Yu. S.