Problems of Social Hygiene, Public Health and History of MedicineProblems of Social Hygiene, Public Health and History of Medicine0869-866X2412-2106Joint-Stock Company Chicot75310.32687/0869-866X-2021-29-s2-1408-1411Научная статьяThe impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on vocational education in Russia and foreign countriesSafonovK. B.-AksenovaE. I.-AnanchenkovaP. I.ananchenkova@yandex.ruTula State Lev Tolstoy Pedagogical UniversityResearch Institute for Healthcare Organization and Medical Management of Moscow Healthcare DepartmentN. A. Semashko National Research Institute of Public Health1512202129S21408141123112021Copyright © 2021,2021The article is devoted to the study of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the sphere of higher education in conditions of limited attendance of educational institutions, the transition to a new format of education and the search for solutions in response to the challenges of the education system in a critical situation. In the context of the outbreak of a new coronavirus infection, the pandemic has had the greatest impact on the field of education (including vocational) on a global scale. However, this area, despite a number of certain problems, has become one one of the few industries that turned out to be prepared to transfer most of their processes online. Currently, national governments, international organizations and research centers are conducting research on the problems of the education system common to most States that arise on the way to the transition to the digital format of education. Study of the impact of the pandemic COVID-19 in the field of higher education was conducted based on the results of a report by the Vladimir Potanin Charitable Foundation, the National Training Foundation and a VTSIOM survey in June 2020.the COVID-19 pandemicthe sphere of higher educationdistance technologieseducational process supportdistance learning infrastructureпандемия COVID-19сфера высшего образованиядистанционные технологииобеспечение образовательного процессаинфраструктура дистанционного обучения1.Аналитический бюллетень НИУ ВШЭ об экономических и социальных последствиях коронавируса в России и в мире. 2020. 100 с. URL: https://www.hse.ru/mirror/pubs/share/381715657.pdf2.Шторм первых недель: как высшее образование шагнуло в реальность пандемии. М.: НИУ ВШЭ, 2020. 112 с.3.Влияние пандемии COVID-19 на сектор высшего образования и магистратуру: международный, национальный и институциональный ответ. Доклад Благотворительного фонда Владимира Потанина и Национального фонда подготовки кадров. М., 2020. 23 с.4.Счетная палата Российской Федерации. Эпидемия коронавируса: воздействие на сферу образования. М., 2020. 14 с.