Career · Service and safety
Rescue worker
Helps people during fires, accidents, floods and other emergencies.
Career overview
What a day looks like
A rescue worker is on duty in shifts, goes out on calls, works with special equipment and trains a lot to act quickly and smoothly as a team.
Try it yourself this week
30 minutes
Make an evacuation plan for your flat or classroom
- Draw a plan of the flat or classroom: doors, windows, corridors, stairs.
- Use arrows to mark two ways out and a meeting point outside.
- Write down five rules for a fire or an earthquake from a reliable source: a textbook, the emergency services website.
- Talk the plan through with someone in your family, or just read it out loud and check: is one minute enough to understand where to go?
What you'll learn about yourself: Whether you like thinking about safety in advance — and enjoy acting by clear rules.
20 minutes
Prepare what to say when calling 112 and practise out loud
- Find out your exact home address (street, building, entrance, floor) and save it in your phone's notes. Don't call anyone — this is practice.
- Put together a short order for what to say: what happened, where, how many people, whether there's danger right now.
- Say three made-up situations out loud: a car crash in your yard, smoke in the stairwell, someone feeling unwell on the street. Time yourself to see if you can keep it within 30 seconds.
- Write down where you stumbled and what helped you speak calmly.
What you'll learn about yourself: Whether you can stay calm and speak clearly when you imagine a dangerous situation.
What you can do next
Next 3 months
Make an evacuation plan
Do the task about an evacuation plan for your flat or classroom.
In six months
Work on your fitness
Choose regular exercise you can manage — running, swimming, the pull-up bar — and keep a training diary.
In a year
Talk to someone who does this job
With your parents or a teacher, find someone who does this job and ask what their working day looks like and what is hardest about it.
What it pays
Pay varies by region, experience and employer. The figures below are approximate ranges from public sources.
Notes on sources are in Russian, as in the original source.
In Kazakhstan
- Beginneragency statement, as reported by the media
160,000–180,000 ₸ per month
data: June 2024 · checked: October 2026
По словам министра по ЧС (июнь 2024) в пересказе Kapital.kz: неаттестованные спасатели без выезда на ЧС получают 160–180 тыс. ₸. Аттестованные пожарные с погонами — по другой шкале. 334 тыс. — зарплата только на время паводков.
Source: kapital.kz (opens in a new tab) - Beginneragency statement, as reported by the media
200,000 ₸ per month
data: April 2023 · checked: October 2026
По словам министра по ЧС (апрель 2023) в пересказе Forbes.kz: средняя зарплата рядового спасателя и пожарного — 200 тыс. ₸. Данные 2023 года, с тех пор повышение уже было.
Source: forbes.kz (opens in a new tab) - Experiencedagency statement, as reported by the media
270,000 ₸ per month
data: 2025 · checked: October 2026
Рядовой пожарный МЧС со стажем 10 лет — около 270 тыс. ₸: «официальные данные прошлого года» по статье Bizmedia.kz (25.06.2026). Первоисточник (МЧС) не открывался.
Source: bizmedia.kz (opens in a new tab)
Where to study
Notes on sources are in Russian, as in the original source.
Universities
You apply after grade 11, based on your UNT results.
- Академия гражданской защиты имени Малика Габдуллина МЧС РК (opens in a new tab)
Kokshetau
Подготовка офицеров МЧС
after grade 11state grant places availableUNT: Mathematics + PhysicsЕдинственный вуз по подготовке офицеров МЧС, места по госзаказу, при поступлении есть физподготовка. Пара ЕНТ «Математика + Физика» — для группы B097, для других программ академии пары не проверены. Возраст 16–25 лет и приём девушек с 2023 года — по Википедии и gov.kz (вторичные источники). Пороги и нормативы — в Правилах приёма №445, их мы не открывали.
The UNT, if you apply to university
Required subjects: History of Kazakhstan, Reading Literacy, Mathematical Literacy. Profile subjects for this career: Mathematics + Physics.
Programme group: B097 Пожарная безопасность. Checked: October 2026.
Source: National Testing Centre list (opens in a new tab)How to get into college
College gets you a profession faster than university. You can apply after grade 9 or after grade 11.
- Colleges accept students both after grade 9 and after grade 11. After grade 9 you study longer — about 3 years 10 months; after grade 11, about 2 years 10 months. The exact length depends on the college and the specialty.
Source: kchk.edu.kz (opens in a new tab) - About 80% of students admitted to colleges in the 2024/25 school year study on a state order, which means in state-funded places (in 2023/24 it was about 70%). But each college and each specialty has its own number of state-funded places.
Source: inbusiness.kz (opens in a new tab) - There are also paid colleges. For example, training as a nurse at ADILMED costs 450,000 ₸ per year. Check the price and conditions on the college's website.
Source: adilmed.kz (opens in a new tab)
UNT: which subjects to take for university
The UNT (Unified National Testing) is Kazakhstan's national university entrance test. You need it to get into university after grade 11.
- The UNT 2026 has three compulsory subjects: History of Kazakhstan, Reading Literacy and Mathematical Literacy. On top of these, you take two profile subjects, chosen to match your specialty.
Source: testcenter.kz (opens in a new tab) - In total, the test has 120 questions (maximum 140 points) and you get 4 hours. The format is the same as in 2025.
Source: testcenter.kz (opens in a new tab) - Profile subjects depend on the group of specialties. For example: information technology — Mathematics and Computer Science; nursing and veterinary medicine — Biology and Chemistry; electrical engineering — Mathematics and Physics; law — World History and Fundamentals of Law. The full list is published by the National Testing Center.
Source: testcenter.kz (opens in a new tab) - For creative specialties (for example, media and design), you take History of Kazakhstan and Reading Literacy through the UNT, and two creative exams at the university itself.
Source: testcenter.kz (opens in a new tab) - Some universities have their own admission rules. Nazarbayev University, for example, requires a UNT score of at least 85, a GPA of 4.0 and English at IELTS 6.0 level.
Source: nu.edu.kz (opens in a new tab)
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