The International Industrial Academy has been providing continuing professional education for 57 years. More than 280,000 executives and specialists from most food and processing industries in Russia, the Eurasian Economic Union, and 63 countries worldwide have received professional retraining and advanced training at the Academy. Every year, the Academy trains over 5,000 executives, top managers, and specialists from virtually every category, including chief engineers and power engineers, technologists and heads of production and technological laboratories, economists, accountants, marketers, HR department heads, and others. Over 25% of the Academy's activities are devoted to educational programs in the bakery and confectionery industries, with training durations ranging from 16 to 100 hours for advanced training and 250 to 540 hours for professional retraining.