A few hours of flight - and we are in the capital of the Chechen Republic. Those who visited here five years ago will not recognize this city today. New streets have appeared, cultural centers have opened. Grozny has become not only a daytime, but also a night city! Shops are open, and women with strollers walk along the avenue. Residents are not afraid of the dark - they know that there is someone to protect them ...
Among those who guard the peace and tranquility of the Chechen capital is the 248th special motorized battalion of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, with the commander of which, Colonel Alibek Delimkhanov, our correspondent met.
Business card.
Colonel Delimkhanov Alibek Sultanovich. Born on October 16, 1974 in the village of Dzhalka, Gudermes District, Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. A graduate of the Chechen State University, a historian by education.
Since 2006 - Commander of the 248th Special Motorized Battalion of Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia (named "Sever" in the press). Chevalier of the Order of Courage, awarded the medal of the Order of Merit to the Fatherland, II degree and the Zhukov medal.
By the decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated June 23, 2009, Alibek Delimkhanov was awarded the title of Hero of Russia. He is currently a graduate student at the Academy of Management of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.
For reference
In May 2006, in accordance with the order of the Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia, two special motorized battalion of internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia 248th with a deployment in Grozny and 249th, located in Vedeno.
According to the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs - Commander-in-Chief of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, General of the Army Nikolai Rogozhkin, “no special, specific tasks were initially set for these units. They carry out those service and combat tasks that are determined by the law on the internal troops: together with the local internal affairs bodies, they protect public order in the places of deployment, and fight armed bandits. They are no different from other special motorized military units of the Interior Ministry troops, which are deployed in many cities of Russia. "
- Alibek Sultanovich! Most of the servicemen in your battalion are local residents, Chechens. Such units were part of the troops in the 1930s of the last century and have proven themselves well. But in the modern history of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, there were no such mono-ethnic military formations until recently ...
- Right. This was a joint decision by the leadership of the republic and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, the High Command of the Internal Troops to create two special motorized battalions in which local residents would serve. They proceeded from common sense: their knowledge of the area, customs, way of life is a huge advantage in the fight against terrorists and bandits. And besides this, who else, if not the Chechens themselves, should take care that there is order in the republic, so that a peaceful life is established!
All servicemen entered military service on a competitive basis. This made it possible to qualitatively select the personnel of the military unit and complete its formation. The selection was thorough. At the same time, we had to refuse many who wanted to put on shoulder straps, including because they did not fit due to age, health status, and other reasons.
The guys I command, I trust 100 percent. These are proven combat comrades who have gone through fire and water. Warriors who have proven that they are ready to defend Russia and, if necessary, die for it.
- In your opinion, does the battalion's national specifics help in service, in working with subordinates, or vice versa?
- Of course it helps! The fact is that in the Chechen mentality there is an acute issue of honor, justice, brotherhood, and loyalty. These four words organically fit into the general military regulations. Namely, based on our mentality, we do not have any questions about hazing relationships, with the use of the same alcoholic beverages. During the four years of the battalion's existence, there was only one such case.
Everyone in the battalion serves with great desire. Outside our gates, one might say, there is a kilometer-long queue of people who want to get to the service just to us. And we do not even know that there are such violations as non-return from vacation or unauthorized abandonment of a part.
- The President of the Republic Ramzan Kadyrov shows special attention to the battalion ...
- As for the help from the leadership of the republic, then, of course, it is essential. The battalion was given the honorary name of the first president of the Chechen Republic, Akhmat-Khadzhi Kadyrov, and we bear this name with honor. With the direct support of the President of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Akhmatovich Kadyrov, a military town was being built; to ensure service and combat tasks, the republican government additionally allocated us all-terrain vehicles. And these are not one-time actions, help is constantly being provided.
But here, in addition to a kind and interested attitude to our pressing problems on the part of the leadership of the republic, one must not overlook the fact that the duty of local authorities to take care of the economic infrastructure of the battalion is determined by the relevant provisions of the federal law "On Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation."
- But for the most part, your battalion is mentioned in connection with participation in special operations against bandit groups ...
- Yes, this is the specificity of our service. We are still focused on fighting terrorists and bandits of all stripes, and for this, the battalion has an intelligence unit that is doing a good job with the assigned tasks.
But the normalization of the situation in the republic is obvious, it already bears little resemblance to the one that was here 4-5 years ago. The nature of the tasks performed by our division has changed accordingly. To date, the overwhelming majority of the bandit formations have been destroyed and defeated. To destroy the remaining bandits, we are now assigned more specific, "pinpoint" tasks.
In addition, if, in the first months from the moment of its creation, the main task of the battalion was the elimination of bandit formations, today it is more to protect public order and ensure public safety in the city of Grozny. All mass events held both in the capital of the republic and in other regions, mainly in its flat part, are carried out with the direct participation of our unit.
Alibek Sultanovich, is it possible to dwell more specifically on the results of the battalion's service and combat activities?
- During our existence, the results of the activities of our battalion have been fully felt by the leaders of the bandit formations.
I remember one of the first special operations, in which we took part literally a few months after entering military service. This was in 2006. Then, in the Achkhoi-Martanovsky district, my guys entered into a clash with a bandit group of a certain Yavmerzaev. It was established that this bandit named "Mulla" participated in the attack on the convoys of the federal forces, directly prepared terrorist attacks against the Interior Ministry officers in the Chechen Republic, and was engaged in blackmailing the local population. At the base discovered during a special operation, where militants from the Mullah bandit group got used to "rest" after carrying out their bloody "exploits", 4 grenade launchers were seized, more than 130 shots to an under-barrel grenade launcher, 6 grenades, 7 shells and mines, 5 radio stations, more than 4 thousand small arms ammunition.
Over the next years, our battalion took part in hundreds of effective special operations, which were mostly carried out jointly with units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Chechen Republic, officers of the FSB of Russia, colleagues from special forces of the internal troops.
Divisions of the battalion provide assistance, including to neighbors - the internal affairs bodies of Dagestan, Ingushetia and North Ossetia.
In total, since 2006, the battalion's servicemen, together with other units of the United Group of Forces (forces) in the North Caucasus region, have destroyed more than 100 bandits, about 90 bases and hiding places, over 150 explosive items, seized a large number of weapons and ammunition, including 2 MANPADS "Igla", 3 ATGMs, 4 rocket infantry flame throwers "Shmel", more than 40 hand-held anti-tank grenade launchers.
Other statistics can also be cited. It shows no less eloquently how the battalion fulfills the tasks assigned to it. Since 2006, we have lost 10 servicemen. 14 of our colleagues were awarded orders and medals, 8 of them were awarded the Orders of Courage.
The 248th battalion is part of the 46th operational brigade of the internal troops. It is not the first year that there has been talk that it is time to withdraw the brigade from Chechnya, they say, it has solved its tasks. Do you think it's time for her to go to "winter apartments"?
- The 46th brigade is needed not only by the republic, but all of Russia needs it. Recently, I heard the following words from one of the generals: "... Whatever we say there, but the integrity of Russia begins in Chechnya!" In my opinion, these are very correct words.
Today the brigade is a factor of stability and a guarantee of tranquility in the region. Moreover, the connection is not just a combat component of the republic, but also, oddly enough, an economic one. I mean, first of all, those jobs that are extremely important to us today.
Alibek Sultanovich, combat work leaves its mark on everyday reality. You have already mentioned the loss. What work is being done by the battalion command to perpetuate the memory of the fallen military personnel and provide assistance to their relatives?
- It's hard to lose comrades in arms. Indeed, often the best warriors leave us, who, at the cost of their lives, brilliantly completed their combat mission, covering those around them. Therefore, caring for their families is our sacred duty. All due state payments to the dead servicemen in the unit entrusted to me have been issued in full.
Recently, on behalf of the President of the Republic, the families of the victims received 100 thousand rubles each, and the wounded servicemen - 50 thousand rubles each. This is a lot of money for our republic. And this help is far from one-time. Not a single request to the management has been ignored yet.
Of course, no amount of money can return our comrades. But we do everything so that their families do not feel abandoned, so that they know that we remember our fallen friends.
Alibek Sultanovich, what would you wish the young guys who these days throughout Russia begin their service to the Fatherland, wearing soldier's shoulder straps?
- I would like to wish all the guys in Russia to be patriots of their country. I believe that this is one of the main qualities of a man who must be ready to defend his country no matter what area he serves or works in.
Lieutenant Colonel Sergei KUZNETSOV,
Major Vyacheslav KALININ
Moscow-Grozny-Moscow
P.S. At the end of the conversation, we asked Alibek Sultanovich whether we can publish photos of the battalion servicemen in the open press. Smiling, he replied with the words of the President of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov: "If a person is on the righteous path, then he does not need to hide his face."
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Foreword by Yu.G. Veremeev
People who are quite distant (and not very) from, as it has become fashionable to call in the press, the power structures, do not particularly distinguish and do not see a significant difference between the Russian Army and the Internal Troops of Russia. As before, we did not see the difference between the military formations of the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR. Moreover, in the nineties of the XX century and at the beginning of the XXI century, in armed conflicts within the country, units and formations of the RA and the Internal Troops often performed the same military tasks in the same areas. And quite often the police (OMON, SOBR) and even divisions of the Ministry of Justice (Sentsnaz GUFSIN) joined in here.
So who and why needed such a division of the armed forces, especially since it did not go to the benefit of the cause? Army divisions and regiments are subordinate to the Ministry of Defense, divisions, regiments and battalions of the Internal Troops are subordinated to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The subordination of units to various departments in itself creates conditions for mutual misunderstanding, complicates the control of hostilities and the coordination of efforts, or even generates certain frictions.
Moreover, war is not at all the sphere of activity that the Ministry of Internal Affairs and especially the Ministry of Justice should be engaged in. War is the lot of the Army. Any war. And what happened (and did not end to this day) in Chechnya, Ingushetia, Dagestan cannot be called otherwise than a war. Although the Russian leadership came up with elegant names for what was happening. Either "establishing constitutional order", now "counter-terrorist operation." Just not to admit to ourselves that there is a war going on in the country. A kind of ostrich politics. Like, we do not see any war. Although all citizens and all overseas openly call what is happening as a war.
All this confusion with the BB began in the early nineties, when everyone's so beloved first president of Russia Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin, to please the meager Russian intelligentsia, solemnly and loudly proclaimed that "... from now on, the Army will never be used against its citizens," although even it was already clear to ordinary, but thinking citizens that this was just a shameless attempt by the Kremlin's inmates to deceive the country. After all, it is enough to declare that since yesterday the N division has been subordinate not to the Ministry of Defense, but to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, in order to legally send it to suppress unrest in any region of the country.
Today the Internal Troops outnumber the Russian Army. They are better organized, equipped, trained, armed, including heavy weapons (except for strategic missiles and heavy aircraft).
This evokes certain thoughts that the current democratic leadership of Russia is not in the least afraid of an external enemy, and is not going to defend the country and fellow citizens from outside attacks, but is extremely concerned about the "internal enemy", that is, robbed and robbed by the new authorities by their compatriots.
Still, the foreign banks and governments, where the modern Russian aristocracy keeps their money, do not threaten their deposits (as long as it obediently fulfills the instructions of the US State Department). But the indignant "rabble" inside the country may try to call the gentlemen who promised universal prosperity to account. And from here it is clear that in such a case an internal army is needed, which will suppress any rebellion and guard the villas, estates, Mercedes and yachts of the new Russian landowners. And if someone from outside attacks, and the question of the existence of the Russian state itself arises, then the gentlemen will jump into their personal liners and leave for the "beautiful far away", from where it is very sweet to grieve about the fate of Russia and tell how much they did for the prosperity of the Motherland, which did not understand and did not appreciate.
And we can only hope that the Internal Troops will be able to do what the now destroyed Russian Army should have done, i.e. protect the country.
So where did the Internal Troops come from, and what they did during the existence of the Soviet Union, and the veteran of the Internal Troops Valery Timofeevich Vlasenko is trying to tell. This will help readers understand the place and role of explosives in the past, their difference from the Soviet Army, before they were transformed into what we have today.
I in no way want to say that VV is the support and hope of today's democratic regime, that they are the faithful dogs of Russian oligarchs, deputies and other short-lived people (which they would very much like). I respect the soldiers and officers of the Internal Troops as much as I do in the army, and I flatter myself with the hope that in the event of a threat to the country, both of them will defend Russia shoulder to shoulder, without thinking about their departmental affiliation.
End of the preface.
Few people really know anything about such, as it is now customary to write in the press, "power structure", as the internal troops, what they are intended for and what they do.
In glorious times, in the Bose of the deceased USSR, there were internal troops (VV), which did not belong to the internal affairs bodies, but existed on their own. Although they were subordinate to the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD), and not the Ministry of Defense (MO).
The tasks of the explosives in the Soviet Union were:
1.Protection of public order in large cities (cities with a population of more than 1 million people, as well as the capitals of the union republics).
2. Protection of places of detention (correctional labor institutions). Convoy of persons under investigation, defendants, as well as convicts on their way to places of deprivation of liberty.
3. Protection of especially important state facilities (nuclear power plants, defense plants, bridges over large rivers, important tunnels, dams, etc.).
4. Protection of especially important state cargo during their transportation.
Usually, the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are known from numerous books, films, songs, etc., incredibly proliferated during the years of "perestroika", as about the troops that exclusively mocked innocent "convicts". Few know what these troops really were.
In fact, the role of these troops in the Soviet state was quite significant, although not particularly honorable. The functions performed by the VV were vital to the state.
From the author. After reading the list of VV tasks, you will agree that in a modern state, someone needs to perform these functions. Indeed, in addition to the bank manager and office managers, the staff also has a cleaner and a janitor, which are necessary for the normal functioning of this bank. These are the realities of life.
The internal troops, although they were directly part of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs, existed separately. So, for example, military units deployed in any region were not subordinate to the head of the local police department (internal affairs department).
The Internal Troops, like the Soviet Army, were recruited exclusively by conscription, the command staff was trained in the military schools of the Ministry of Internal Affairs according to programs close to the programs of combined-arms schools (with its own specifics, of course), the structure of the troops was of an army type. Armament - light rifle (up to a hand grenade launcher).
Equipment such as armored personnel carriers was available in single copies, and even then - only when necessary. For example, the explosive operational regiment stationed in Grozny during the Soviet era was armed with armored personnel carriers of old models of the BTR-152 type, although even twenty years after the end of World War II, in 1965-68, this regiment had to catch armed gangs hiding in the mountains.
Objective 1."Maintenance of public order in large cities (cities with a population of over 1 million people, as well as the capitals of the union republics)".
This means that military patrols were allocated from the Internal Troops to help the territorial militia bodies. What were the explosives units that performed this task? It was by no means OMON in the modern sense. These are SMChM - specialized motorized police units. Let's see what it is.
Specialized motorized police unit (SMCM).
Organization
A specialized motorized militia unit (SMCM) is a battalion of approximately an army state (350-400 people), but with its own variations.
There were two types of battalions - the so-called "company composition" and "platoon composition". The difference was in the number of personnel and organization.
Usually the need for the number of personnel was justified by the country's top party leadership. So, for example, in the cities of Kiev and Leningrad - a whole regiment. In Moscow, of course, there is a little more - the famous division. Dzerzhinsky (OMSDON).
The company battalion was usually stationed in a large city, where the population exceeded 1.5 million people. It consisted of two or three patrol companies of a three-platoon composition and an automobile company (two or three automobile platoons and an economic platoon).
The platoon battalion was stationed in a large city - "millionaire". Consisted of 4-5 patrol platoons and one or two automobile platoons.
Private and junior command personnel of such battalions were recruited in the same way as ordinary army units - by conscription.
The officers were trained in the military command schools of the Internal Troops of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Kharkov Higher Military School of the Logistics.
There were other schools in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, not entirely military, but rather paramilitary. For example - fire-technical.
But the Internal Troops were recruited only from their military schools, although signalmen and chemists were also sent from the schools of the USSR Ministry of Defense.
Officers and warrant officers, in addition to the usual army identity cards, additionally had police officers' identity cards.
Schedule
In the battalion for conscript personnel, there were three options for the daily routine.
The usual daily routine is patrolling.
The weekend routine is patrol duty on Saturday and Sunday.
The weekend routine is Monday. The battalion did not go into service that day.
A typical day in the battalion began with the rise of personnel at 8.30 am. Therefore, all officers and warrant officers arrived in the battalion by the same time.
Then, as usual - physical exercises, washing, making the beds and breakfast. After breakfast - divorce for classes and classes on combat and political training on schedule. Then - lunch, half an hour of personal time, changing clothes.
Divorce for service at 15.00. All personnel are present at the divorce. The appearance and equipment of patrols, knowledge of the Charter of the Combat Service of the Explosives and the procedure for the use of physical force and special equipment are thoroughly checked.
After that, the personnel embarks on cars (foot patrols - on trucks, auto patrols - on cars) and each convoy of cars moves to the city police department where they are to serve today.
Estimated time of arrival at the ROVD - 16.00. Service - until 23.30-00.00.
Dinner, evening check-up, hang up at 00.30 (but not later than 01.00).
Naturally, we wake up the next morning at 08.30.
Carrying out service.
Let me remind you that the military units of the Interior Ministry of the USSR were not directly subordinate to the local chief of the Internal Affairs Directorate. Subordination was only operational. This means that on certain days and hours, a certain number of patrols were posted to serve in the city. During the service, the military detachments were subordinate to the person on duty at the ATC, and at the end of the service, the patrols left the command of the person on duty.
The main type of activity is patrolling the streets of cities with paired patrols (patrol - two people, one of them is the head of the patrol, the second is the patrol). The patrol's outfit is standard for the police - a portable radio station at the head of the patrol and a spray can "Cheryomukha-10" (it was not always issued, but only by special order), the patrolman had a field bag-tablet, and everyone had a whistle.
In the early 90s, rubber truncheons made of white soft rubber, more like whips, entered service. They were issued for service by special order. Only officers and warrant officers had weapons - pistols. Upon arrival at the ROVD, the personnel are additionally instructed by the leadership of the ROVD on the specific situation in the area, orientations are read, etc.
Note by Yu.G. Veremev It's even strange somehow. The totalitarian regime, judging by the numerous writings of the modern democratic press, is passionately hated by all citizens - and at the same time, there are no OMON or SOBR in the country, the Internal Troops patrols are armed with a maximum of cans of gas. And the number of troops of the explosives is very, very small. Imagine - on a city with 1.5 million population - 400 people are patrolling. Today, in democratic Russia, the regime, which is "approved" and "loved" by literally everyone, the explosives outnumber the army, are equipped with all types of weapons, except perhaps strategic missiles and strategic bombers.
Who intends to defend against whom?
Further, the patrols disperse to patrol areas. If the patrol section is far away - (15-20 minutes on foot) they are transported by hectare cars.
Previously, even at the location of the unit, a patrol section is assigned to each patrol, instructed on the features of service, hot spots, and points of deployment of precinct.
For every 5-8 patrols, a head of the patrol section is appointed from among the warrant officers (in a patrol car). For all patrols operating in the area - a duty officer for military detachments (an officer or warrant officer in a patrol car).
Usually the patrol area was a block of residential buildings, which can be bypassed at a leisurely pace in 1 hour. Each patrol commander had a map of the patrol area on his tablet. The patrol route was laid in such a way that the patrolled area was within the route.
On each patrol route there was a point (the so-called “strong point”), at which (and only there) the patrol registered the detainees.
In addition, there were four "checkpoints" along the route. This meant that when bypassing the route, the patrol had to be at the first CT at 15 minutes of every hour, at the second at 30 minutes, at the third at 45 minutes, "by zeros" at the fourth CT. The patrol was supposed to stay at the checkpoint for 3-5 minutes, then continue patrolling along the route. Any deviation from the route was prohibited, except in cases of detention of a public order violator. But at the same time, the patrol had to immediately report on the radio station where and why he was leaving the route. Naturally, when the patrol left the route, a car immediately drove there either with the head of the patrol section (NPU), or with the officer on duty for military detachments (DVN).
In the usual mode of service, both the NPU and the DVN had to check all subordinate patrols within an hour with a mark in the patrol checklist, that is, during seven hours of service, each patrol should be checked 7-14 times. A special patrol officer, who worked according to a special method in the car of the corresponding chief (usually a company clerk), kept track of the patrols checked. He also radioed and monitored the departure of patrols from the route. The check was carried out by bypassing the patrol areas at checkpoints.
The absence of a patrol on CT without a good reason was considered a grave violation of the rules of duty, a thorough investigation was carried out with the punishment of the perpetrators, usually the head of the patrol.
If DVN drove along the route of the patrol section and did not detect the patrol, it requested the location of the patrol by radio. The very fact of requesting the location of the patrol was the basis for punishing the patrol by the corresponding commander.
Going into shops and cafes to buy something was also a violation of the service, but if the patrolmen kept the time schedule, they turned a blind eye to it.
There was one more type of service check, the most unpleasant for the patrolmen - the so-called "secret". During a secret check of the service, the observation of the patrol service (or two adjacent ones) was carried out by an officer or warrant officer in civilian clothes. At the same time, he naturally tried to be unnoticed by the patrol.
All actions of the patrol were recorded with further "debriefing". Neglaska was used quite often, where and when it would be carried out - only the chief of staff of the battalion knew.
Encouragements and punishments were applied only at the end of the service and return to the location of the unit. The DVN did not have the right to punish the patrolmen, especially since the DVN was often not their direct superior.
When the offender was detained, the patrol chief immediately reported his callsign to the central radio station that he had withdrawn from the route with the detainee to such and such a point (address). For example: "Riga-2, I am 704 on foot, filmed with a detainee in the Lenin House of Culture."
If required, asked for help. Usually, an auto patrol from the DVN or NPU arrived at the same point, which controlled the actions of the patrol, checked the drawn up protocol and delivered the detainee with accompanying documents to the ROVD. When requesting help, it was common for nearby patrols to come running.
After surrendering the detainee to the auto patrol, the foot patrol returned to its route according to the time schedule. The patrols served on the street; burglaries and domestic hooliganism were usually not involved, except in cases where they were directly contacted by citizens. In this case, the algorithm of actions was standard - a radio report, moving to the scene of the incident, if possible - arresting the perpetrators, guarding the scene until the arrival of the task force from the ROVD. Then - a detailed written report to the head of the ROVD.
The patrol officers were specially trained in the procedure for dealing with citizens, how to introduce themselves, what questions to ask, etc.
At the end of the service (23.00) the patrols returned to the ROVD, where the results of the service were summed up (5-10 minutes). Then the convoy of vehicles returned to the unit, the immediate commanders summed up the results of the service.
Armament.
Personnel armament is standard for army motorized rifle units, with the exception of heavy weapons:
Officers - PM pistols.
Personnel - AK-74 assault rifle (for the RPK light machine gun squad).
The battalion had several RPG-7 hand-held anti-tank grenade launchers.
Transport.
There was a lot of transport in the battalion, usually 30-40 patrol cars, in this regard, the battalion commander (lieutenant colonel) had a deputy for technical part (major).
* Patrol cars - UAZ-469, with special signals "flashing light" and "siren". They had a special police painting (in police jargon - "canary").
* Trucks GAZ-53 (the so-called "combatant") for the transport of personnel.
In addition to them, there were several "household" machines such as a refrigerator, a bread truck, etc.
All cars had ordinary civilian license plates. All cars, without exception, had radio stations. 98% of the patrol cars were to be on duty every day. , If the machine breaks down due to a malfunction, then after 16 hours it should be on the move. Only 1 patrol car could be repaired for more than a day (engine repair, etc.).
Connection.
The battalion had about 150-200 radio stations. These were portable radios at the rate of one radio per patrol plus backup.
In addition, each car had a car radio.
When performing service in the duty unit of the Internal Affairs Directorate in the city (service 02), an operator was posted to the central radio station, who conducted radio communications with all military patrols. All negotiations were recorded by sound recording and in the radio exchange journal.
Handheld radios provided communication between foot patrols within a radius of 1-2 km, and between foot and auto patrols - up to 5 km.
The central radio station had the power to communicate with all portable and vehicle radios.
Usually there were zones of radio silence in the city, which was due to the peculiarities of urban conditions. But usually there were no patrols in these places, or measures were taken to ensure stable communication.
When joining the service, each patrol received a radio station in the unit and a fully charged battery for it. Naturally, the entire personnel knew how to use radio stations, tk. one of the first lessons with recruits was a radio business (including radio traffic rules). Radio exchange was carried out according to a simplified scheme, and the rules of radio exchange were significantly different from the army rules.
Example: "Riga-2, I am 704, for communication", "704, I received Riga-2 for communication". Numerical data on the radio was pronounced like this - "seven zero four". If necessary, send, for example, the number of the offending car 29-32 GOSH - "two nine three two Grigory Olga Shura". Messages were usually answered with "accepted" to confirm. Violation of the rules of radio traffic was punished in a disciplinary manner.
Outfit.
The entire personnel of the specialized motorized battalions of the VV militia were dressed in the uniform of the militia, and not in the uniform of the army type, which was worn in other parts of the Internal Troops.
The soldiers had a field uniform of an army pattern, but made of gray-blue cotton fabric. This form was used only inside the unit, in the classroom, in the maintenance of equipment and chores, as well as when leaving for field exercises (fire training, tactics, etc.).
Uniforms were issued at the rate of 4 sets for 2 years of service. Since the soldiers wore this uniform for only about 30% of their service time, the preservation of the field uniform was quite good.
Boots - an analogue of tarpaulin, but completely leather (yuft). In the capitals of the Union republics and hero cities - officers are chrome.
Basically, in specialized motorized battalions of the militia, the Internal Troops wore everyday uniforms. The casual uniform consisted of trousers and chrome boots, or breeches and boots (depending on the weather). Police jacket, shirt, tie. When wearing boots - an officer's harness.
The casual uniform was issued for a period of a year, and everyone was supposed to have two casual shirts. The dress one is the same as the everyday one, but with a white shirt, gold shoulder straps and ceremonial metallic buttonholes.
A parade belt of the militia (of the type of an officer's army sample).
Shirt - always with shoulder straps.
In winter - a militia coat or a militia sheepskin coat, as well as boots or felt boots (depending on the weather).
From the author. Outwardly, the VV patrol differed from the usual militia in smartness, age, cleanliness and elegance of uniforms (this was followed very strictly). It is inconceivable that a soldier was sent to serve unshorn, in unironed uniforms, uncleaned shoes, etc. Naturally, the fitting of the uniform to the figure of the patrolman was carried out very carefully, even sometimes it was necessary to alter the uniform to fit the figure of an ordinary patrolman in the military shop. By the way, the uniforms were sewn not according to the army patterns, but according to the police ones - the uniforms on the figure of a soldier sat much better than the army ones.
Nutrition.
The food ration from the general army No. 1 differed in the increased amount of meat (by 50 g.), Butter, sugar.
The food was prepared by civilian chefs, but there were also soldier chefs. The head of the dining room (aka the chef) is an ensign.
The order for the dining room from among the battalion soldiers was assigned for a day.
From the author. Food was usually prepared very tasty, but there were certain difficulties that no one paid attention to in the army units of the Ministry of Defense, but which had to be taken into account in the Internal Troops.
The fact is that, according to the supply standards, in the part of the Interior Ministry of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, as well as in the part of the Ministry of Defense, a certain range of cereals was supplied, including little popular pearl barley, oatmeal, millet. But if the soldiers ate buckwheat, rice porridge with pleasure, then barley, oatmeal, millet - alas!
Seeing barley or oatmeal on the table, the soldiers will simply drink tea with bread and butter, and will not touch the porridge. Therefore, the rear officials had to go to various tricks. For example, barley went well in pickle, millet in soup. The chefs prepared the pea soup in such a way that almost everyone ate it with great pleasure. Oatmeal, on the other hand, usually had to be used in subsidiary plots as feed for pigs. Otherwise, a soldier during patrolling will easily violate the order of service and will find an opportunity to go to a store or cafe.
A feature of the SMCM was that the soldiers in them were selected according to special criteria.
The first is nationality. Basically there were Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians, a small number of Balts, Volga nationalities - Chuvash, Mordvins, Mari, Tatars. There were no Caucasians and Central Asians at all.
Second, everyone spoke Russian, and without an accent.
The third is education of at least 10 classes (complete secondary). The fact is that the patrol officer had to be able to competently draw up a report to the ROVD about the incident. By the way, special classes were held with the personnel to draw up a report.
The fourth is physical fitness. The conscript had to be at least 170 cm tall with the appropriate build. Imagine a policeman with a height of "a meter with a cap" trying to detain a drunk bruiser-bully 180 in height (with the exception of drivers and cooks, that is, those who did not directly carry out the patrol service).
By the way, a similar growth qualification exists to this day in the selection of candidates for service in the police, especially in patrol units.
Fifth - the absence of being brought to the police before conscription, as well as the absence of convicted relatives.
These selection criteria for recruits meant that the soldiers were truly elite. In addition, compassionate fathers and mothers by hook or by crook tried to arrange their over-aged children in a "warm place". Therefore, there were a lot of so-called "sons". True, the attitude towards the "sons" on the part of the commanders was even tougher than towards all the other soldiers.
Parents usually asked the commanders to bring up their children tougher, especially the unlucky ones. There were calls when the "sons" made up almost the entire call.
The discipline was tough, but not brutal. Officers and warrant officers in the ranks addressed each other by rank, in accordance with the Charter of the Internal Service. At the same time, out of order - by name and patronymic. But if at a meeting the battalion commander turned to someone by rank, expect trouble. The soldiers, naturally, turned to their superiors. Let me remind you that the officers were with the soldiers almost constantly and around the clock. Much in the battalion was unusual from the point of view of a person who had arrived in the battalion from the usual military units.
So, for example, for a month, a schedule was drawn up for the performance of service by officers and warrant officers, which indicated the duty of the unit and the performance of the patrol service, as well as days off. If, for some reason, an officer or warrant officer was involved in the service on his day off according to the schedule, the issue of postponing the day off to a specific day was immediately decided. Moreover, on the initiative of the boss, not the subordinate.
On Saturday and Sunday, the officers and warrant officers taking up the service in the patrol arrived at the unit at 15.00. After the end of their service, the officers and warrant officers were transported home in a specially designated vehicle.
The next day after the service, they arrived at the unit not by 8.30, but by 11.00.
At the end of the service, a duty officer or warrant officer remained in each unit until the arrival of the company commander, after which he went home to rest until the next morning.
The daily outfit, in part, entered service in the morning at 09.00, and before that, the personnel were not involved in the service, they rested from 22.00 to 07.00.
The duty officer after the shift from duty went home to rest until the next morning, the rest of the personnel of the changed outfit rested (went to bed) until 14.00, after which he entered the patrol service.
The outfit for the unit usually consisted of a duty officer (an officer or an experienced warrant officer), an assistant on duty (a conscript sergeant), guards for the protection of a military town, internal outfits for companies, an outfit for a vehicle fleet and an outfit for a canteen. The peculiarity was that all the outfits had radio stations.
The duty officer was not obliged to constantly be at the checkpoint in the duty department. Taking the radio station, the duty officer constantly walked around the territory of the unit, checking the performance of the service by the squad. If necessary, the assistant could find the person on duty at any time.
The personnel from the moment they arrived at the unit were accustomed to the order in the battalion, considered order and traditions to be completely natural.
By the way, strict discipline was organically combined with concern for the personnel.
For example, if the mother came to visit the soldier, then for this period the soldier was given dismissal, and if the mother wishes, after meeting her son, she will be taken to the station to the train.
There was a saying in the battalion - the soldier had just thought to do something, but the commanders already knew.
The authority of the sergeants was very high. The fact is that there was order in the battalion - soldiers who had served six months in the battalion and were selected for their business and command qualities were sent to the sergeant "training".
For various sins during the patrol service, the punishment was practically standard - after arriving at the unit, the patrol chief cleaned the company's bathroom, the patrolman washed the barracks stairs with soap.
There were practically no unauthorized absences. If a soldier had to go out into the city for some business, the commanders usually resolved this issue positively.
Drunkenness among the personnel was generally beyond understanding. This was usually followed by a transfer from the battalion "to the tower", that is, to the convoy unit for the protection of the ITK (correctional labor colonies). But during the two and a half years of my service in the battalion, there were no such cases.
An interesting point - in the army there were the ranks of "warrant officer" and "senior warrant officer", the police did not have such ranks yet (they were introduced only in 1994). Therefore, the former army warrant officers and senior warrant officers who had transferred to serve in the SMChM battalion wore the shoulder straps of the police foreman. But in the unit, everyone knew who among them was just a warrant officer, and who was a senior warrant officer.
Also in the army there was a rank "corporal". Naturally, the corporals were also in the battalion, but they did not wear the corporal's insignia, tk. there were no such ranks in the militia and there are none.
Performance results.
Usually, military detachments, by decision of the head of the Internal Affairs Directorate, were exhibited in those areas of the city where the criminal situation was complicated. The high density of patrol coverage of the territory made it possible to control the city well. The very presence of a police squad on the street is already acting quite sobering on violators of public order. At the same time, the VV patrol squads effectively fought street crime, drunkenness and hooliganism in the streets. There were cases of disclosure of street robberies, and the soldiers were encouraged by the leadership of the Internal Affairs Directorate with cash bonuses.
When our battalion left on a business trip to Nagorno-Karabakh in February 1988, according to statistics, the number of offenses on the streets of the city increased by a third.
Objective 2."Protection of places of detention (correctional labor institutions). Convoy of persons under investigation, defendants, as well as convicts on their way to places of detention."
This task was carried out by the convoy units of the explosives.
Convoy unit.
These are military units of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, organized approximately as military units of the Ministry of Defense, i.e. shelves. The regiments had an army structure: battalion-company-platoon-squad.
However, the specific staff, location and number of personnel depended on the specific tasks performed by the convoy unit, i.e. regiment.
Usually in a large settlement there was a regiment management, and around the city (depending on the number and location of Correctional Labor Institutions (ITU)) at some distance from it there were several separately deployed units (ODP), of which there could be up to 20.
These units carried out the protection of the Correctional Labor Institutions (ITU). The removal of these units from the regiment's control could be up to 300 km.
Several such separate units could be reduced to a battalion, or could be directly subordinate to the control of the regiment. There were many variations, as well as variations in the size of a particular unit.
Separately stationed unit (ODP).
The structure and number of RBOs depended on the size of the protected object (protected perimeter).
The fact is that observation towers were installed along the perimeter of the protected object at certain intervals (about 200 meters), on which sentries were on duty.
Based on the number of towers, the calculation of the required number of personnel for such a separately deployed unit was carried out. It was usually called a convoy company.
Most often, the convoy company had a number that allowed it to have two full-fledged guards. The guards were on duty every other day, i.e. today one guard takes over the service, the second rests: he is engaged in daily affairs, is studying.
In addition, an internal outfit was exhibited daily in the company. There was also a service department (drivers, cooks, radio operators).
Usually a company consisted of two or three platoons and a service squad.
One of the platoons was a platoon of supervisors. This platoon consisted of warrant officers.
If the soldiers served along the perimeter of the guarded object and did not have access inside, then the controllers, on the contrary, performed their official duties inside the object, and during the service were in the direct operational subordination of the DPNK (duty assistant to the head of the colony).
DPNK is the main person on duty inside the guarded facility. He is not a soldier of a convoy company, but belongs to the correctional system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, i.e. has a different service subordination.
The convoy company could have up to 100 or more people.
To protect objects with a particularly long perimeter, requiring a large number of personnel, escort battalions were created, which were divided immediately into platoons, bypassing the company stage. Typically, such a convoy battalion had 4 to 7 platoons.
Separately deployed units formed the basis of the convoy units. In essence, they were a small military unit, with their own barracks, canteen, club, parade ground, and vehicle fleet.
The captain commanded the convoy company. In addition to the company commander, the company control staff included the deputy for political affairs (senior lieutenant) and platoon commanders (senior lieutenants).
At the end of the 1980s, the position of deputy company commander for general issues was introduced (albeit later reduced). The chief of the company was in charge of all matters of the rear.
Author's note. In the early 90s, there was a massive reduction in the number of "special contingent". Many convicts were amnestied. Correctional labor institutions began to empty rapidly. The leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, obviously not realizing that the convoy units are guarding not the number of convicts, but the perimeter of the object, began to reduce the number of convoy units of the Internal Troops, although the guard does not care how many convicts are currently inside the object - that one and a half thousand, that one hundred people - the number of posts does not change, since it depends on the length of the object's perimeter. The reduction in the number of personnel of the convoy units led to a sharp decline in the reliability of the guards.
And if we take into account that it was mainly those convicted of grave crimes (murder, robbery, robbery, etc.) who fled, one can imagine how the reduction in the number of convoy units of the explosives turned out for the citizens of the country. And the "dashing nineties" began.
The difference between the convoy unit and the administration of the ITU.
Representatives of the penitentiary administration worked directly with the convicts. Usually these are officers of the so-called "internal service" who belonged to the system of execution of punishments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and were subordinate to the head of the local police department. They were semi-civilian employees, but in army uniforms with maroon buttonholes. They had no direct relation to the internal troops, although they cooperated during their service.
The administration of the penitentiary institution included: - The head of the colony, the deputy head of the colony, employees of the operational unit of the colony, heads of detachments of convicts, production workers: heads of shops, foremen of sections, etc.
The day-to-day life of the penitentiary institution was led by the assistant to the head of the colony on duty (DPNK), in whose operational subordination a detachment of warrant officers - the so-called controllers for supervision - was allocated from the convoy unit of the Internal Troops.
Placement of a convoy company.
Usually the companies were located close to the protected object (at a distance of up to 1 km), but there were cases when the distance from the company to the object was more significant - up to 5-10 km.
The fact is that usually the object consisted of two zones - a residential zone and an industrial zone. Sometimes an industrial zone was located at a considerable distance from a residential one. For example, the construction of any industrial premises.
In this case, the company constantly guarded the residential area and, in addition, daily escorted the convicts to the construction site, guarded them at the place of work, and then escorted them back.
The company premises itself did not belong to the troops, but to a guarded facility. That is, if repairs were necessary, money and materials were allocated by the guarded object, the management of the convoy unit did not allocate any funds for these purposes.
Armament.
The escort companies were armed like ordinary motorized rifle units - all the soldiers were with AK-74 assault rifles, in addition, the company had two or three RPK light machine guns. There were no heavier weapons.
From the author. So idle fantasies about how poor, unfortunate prisoners were shot from the towers from machine guns - complete nonsense of writers and directors. At a distance of about 100-200 meters, a conventional assault rifle is no less effective than a light machine gun. In addition, it was strictly forbidden to fire inside the zone by the Charter of the Combat Service of the Internal Troops.
For service, soldiers were usually armed with AK-74 assault rifles with an ammunition load of 2 full ammunition magazines (60 rounds). In the early 90s, 20 cartridges were issued for service in 2 stores (10 cartridges in each). In addition, in the weapons storage room (CWR) of the company, each soldier in the cell had 2 fully equipped magazines in case of alarm.
Particular attention was paid to ensure that during service the soldiers did not send a cartridge into the chamber, since in this case the possibility of an accidental shot increased many times over. When the cartridge is sent into the chamber, a trace of the striker remains on the cartridge primer, the so-called "prick". For control after changing the guard and handing over weapons and cartridges to the CWC (weapons storage room), each soldier put his cartridges in a special box. The company officer on duty examined the cartridges and if he noticed a trace from the drummer ("pin"), he immediately reported to the officer in charge. Naturally, measures of influence were immediately taken - moral and in the form of a disciplinary sanction.
Transport.
In a separately deployed unit, there were usually 2-3 transport units. This is a car for transporting convicts (paddy wagon), a truck for transporting personnel and goods, sometimes a passenger car of the UAZ-469 type.
It was strictly forbidden to transport personnel or cargo in paddy wagons. The transport was supplied with fuel and lubricants from the regiment's management (coupons for gasoline and oil were allocated), maintenance and repairs were carried out by drivers.
Once every six months, the repair department from the regiment's management by car went around the separately deployed units and performed seasonal maintenance. The rest of the time, maintaining the transport in good condition was the task of the commander and foreman of the separately deployed units.
Outfit.
All servicemen were provided with the same uniforms and the same supply standards as the military units of the Ministry of Defense.
The difference is in the color of shoulder straps and buttonholes (maroon, not scarlet, like in army motorized riflemen) and on the shoulder straps of conscripts - the letters BB. Field (khaki) shoulder straps were not worn, only colored.
In winter, in extreme cold, sheepskin coats (sometimes sheepskin coats) and felt boots were issued to posts. Quilted cotton pants were used.
Sometimes in units by the forces of military workshops, masks were made of flannel fabric, which the soldiers wore to protect their faces in severe frosts and winds.
Departing from the topic. Where did the maroon color from the internal troops come from?
Reference.
October 2, 1829. The Minister of War awarded the ranks of the Separate Corps of Internal Guards with maroon edging (kanty).
Nutrition.
The food supply rates were similar to those of the army.
Each separately stationed unit had a catering unit. Since the food was prepared for a small number of personnel, the prepared dishes were always of good quality, the food was delicious.
The cooks were mostly conscripts, but sometimes civilian civilians.
Food was delivered to the guard in thermoses, and they were delivered either manually (if the distance was short) or by transport. In many units, especially in rural areas, there were horses for household needs (not riding).
At night, the guard received the so-called doppayok - usually bread sandwiches with bacon and hot tea.
In addition, bread and onions were always on guard at the meal table (especially in winter). Products for a day were received from the food warehouse of the ITU, which was always outside the protected area. Almost every separately stationed unit had a subsidiary farm, which had 1-2 cows, pigs, and sometimes chickens and rabbits. Almost everywhere there were greenhouses, which mainly grew green onions, sometimes herbs for seasoning food. This depended on the economic abilities of the company foreman.
Internal order and discipline.
The peculiarity of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was that they were recruited on a leftover basis. When conscripted into the Armed Forces, the best contingent went to army units, for example, missile, tank, etc. troops.
The contingent is worse - in the Internal Troops, the only selection criterion for which was - the conscript should not be convicted (and not have convicted relatives) and not be brought to the police. Therefore, there were a lot of soldiers from Central Asia and the Caucasus, mainly Uzbeks and Azerbaijanis. Sometimes all the soldiers, without exception, were from Central Asia or the Caucasus. This created certain difficulties. First, the language barrier. Many conscripts understood Russian very poorly. The Political Directorate of the VV even published a special book like a primer for training such soldiers. Secondly, the difference in culture. Many soldiers only during their service realized that there are such things as a sheet and a pillowcase. Third, the difference in food. Upon learning that they had cooked pork food, many of the soldiers simply refused to eat. In the first weeks after arriving at the unit, many soldiers suffered from stomach pains due to unusual food. By the way, by the end of their military service, many soldiers ate salted bacon with black bread quite normally (night rations on guard).
The biggest problem was the ethnic strife between Central Asians and Caucasians, which they brought from civilian life. Therefore, sometimes there were fights between soldiers of different nationalities.
Note by Yu.G. Veremeev. The extent of interethnic strife and intolerance that existed in the Caucasian and Central Asian republics (for example, between Uzbeks and Turkmens) was carefully hushed up by the authorities and the press of the Soviet Union. This was not particularly difficult, since, as a rule, people of one nationality usually lived in one settlement, and in cities, residents of one nationality lived on one street, and another on another (for example, in Grozny, Russians lived in one area, and Chechens in another ). But in the army, where, one way or another, in one unit there were young people of nations antagonistic to each other (for example, Armenians and Azerbaijanis), this problem arose in front of the officers in all its ugliness. Mutual hostility and barracks hooliganism (completely incorrectly called in the press "bullying") was mainly dictated by nationality, and by no means by the length of service. It all depended on which nationality soldier was more in the barracks.
Schedule.
6.00 - rise,
6.10 - 6.40 - physical exercise,
6.40 - 7.10 - toilet, bed refueling,
7.10 - 7.20 - morning review (checking the appearance of soldiers),
7.30 - 7.50 - breakfast,
8.00 - 8.30 - divorce for classes or household work,
8.30 - 13.00 - training sessions, work,
13.00-13.30 - lunch,
14.00 - 16.00 rest (sleep),
16.00 -16.30 - preparation for entry into the service and divorce into the service,
17.00 - 18.00 - arrival at the guardhouse, reception of the guard, setting up sentries,
18.00 - 19.00 - arrival of the changed guard at the unit, surrender of weapons,
19.00 - 19.30 - dinner,
19.30 - 20.00 - political information,
20.00 - 21.00 - personal time,
21.00 - 21.30 - Watching the TV program "Time",
21.30 - 21.50 - evening walk,
21.50 - 22.00 - evening verification, combat crew and retreat.
In the classroom according to the Charter of the Combat Service of the Internal Troops, they studied the duties of a sentry, the peculiarities of serving at specific posts (towers), the order of actions of a sentry when a convict escapes from protection and the procedure for using weapons.
Organization and performance of service.
The guard for the protection of the residential and adjacent production zone of the facility usually took over service at 17.00. The guardroom was usually located in the administrative building of the institution, next to the checkpoint (checkpoint).
The composition of the guard:
* Chief of the guard (sergeant of compulsory service, since the beginning of the 90s - ensign)
* Assistant Chief of the Guard - conscript sergeant.
* Reconnaissance - sergeant or corporal (with a large perimeter of the object).
* Sentinels - two or three soldiers for each post.
* Sentry checkpoints - sergeants (later - military women).
* Operators of means of engineering and technical means of protection (ITSO) - two or three.
* Instructor of service-search dog breeding (SRS) - sergeant of compulsory service.
With a considerable remoteness of the guardhouse from the location of the company, the chef was included in the guard, preparing food on the guard.
With three guards at the post, the change of sentries was carried out after two hours, with two - after four. There was an option when five people were appointed to two posts. In this case, the fifth sentry was used to replace the sentries at two posts alternately according to the schedule.
It was especially difficult to organize service with a shortage of personnel during the period of dismissal of old-timers and training of soldiers of a new conscription. Some companies switched to a service regime in which the guard did not change for a month.
The sentries who had changed from their posts usually unloaded their weapons, handed them over to the chief of the guard in the pyramid, took food and went to rest in a specially equipped sleeping room. The guard's dormitory was a separate room, usually with darkened windows, in which there were ordinary soldiers' bunks.
The guards were allowed to sleep, taking off their shoes (boots or felt boots). At each change of soldiers at their posts, the assistant chief changed the pillowcases on the pillows. Sheets were changed once a week.
The common room had a TV set and a table for eating. There were various literature, books, newspapers, dominoes, checkers, backgammon.
Classes were held on guard - political training, service training, the study of the Charters, the special duties of sentries at specific posts.
In the guard yard there was a smoking room, a mini-sports ground, a place for loading and unloading weapons, and an open-air cage for a service dog.
The ITSO operator was usually located in a room on the top floor of an administrative building.
Restricted area equipment. Along the perimeter, the object was surrounded by a fence 3-5 meters high (the main fence), which was called the security line.
Reference. The guard line is a conditional line, the crossing of which is considered by the convict to escape from the guard. Each facility has its own security line.
Above, the fence is equipped with barbed wire obstacles, including a canopy, as well as service lighting.
On both sides of the fence, there are two restricted areas 10-15 meters wide, an internal and an external one. They also have barbed wire fencing. The inner and outer exclusion zones have a control and trail strip (CSP) representing plowed land without any vegetation.
The outer prohibited lane has two paths - the patrol path, along which the sentry change passes and the inspector passes, and the ITSO path, along which they walk to maintain security systems, repair fence posts, etc.
It is forbidden to walk on the control-trail strip, except for cases of maintenance of the strip itself (weeding vegetation, loosening the earth). In any case, after passing through the PCB, the traces behind them are processed with a rake.
Observation tower of the sentry. The towers could have different designs - wooden, metal, sometimes - stone. Usually the towers were located so that the sentry was directly above the line of protection. The tower usually had glazing on the sides, sometimes also on the front side. Whenever possible, in severe frosts, various kinds of electric heating devices were installed. The tower had a telephone connection with the ITSO operator (central console). The tower door was bolted from the inside.
Checking the performance of the sentry. It is carried out once an hour by the chief of the guard, assistant chief or breeders. When the inspector approaches, the sentry is obliged to stop 50 meters before the tower with the command "Stop, who is coming?" The inspector is obliged to name his position. The sentry asked for a password, calling any number, for example, three. The verifier was obliged to name another number, which in total gave the required numeric password. In addition, the sentry might have requested that the face be illuminated. The sentries were supposed to report on the service by telephone to the central console once every half hour. All telephone conversations were recorded on a tape recorder, which turned on automatically when the ITSO operator picked up the phone. The time binding was carried out by the operator, who at the beginning of the conversation said the time, after which the conversation took place. The unit commander regularly listened to the tapes.
The actions of the sentry during the escape of the guarded.
Escaping security was an emergency.
Reference. Escape is the crossing of the security line by a guarded person in any way.
The sentry was obliged to cross the escape from security by using weapons. The order of using weapons and the cases when it is prohibited to use weapons, each soldier knew by heart. Any use of weapons by sentries entailed an investigation by the Prosecutor's Office, which gave an opinion whether the weapon was lawfully or unlawfully used. In case of illegal use of weapons, the serviceman was brought to criminal responsibility. In addition, any case of escape threatened a lengthy internal investigation by the unit command, search for the guilty and punishment. For the suppression of escape, a conscript was encouraged to leave for 10 days with a trip to his homeland. In any case, a soldier who killed or wounded a convict was immediately transferred to another unit.
Convoy.
This is the protection of those under investigation, defendants, as well as convicts on the way somewhere. For example, transportation of defendants from a pre-trial detention center (pre-trial detention center) to a court, transportation from a pre-trial detention center to a place of serving a sentence, etc.
There is transportation by car, rail, river and air. Most often - by road and rail. Transportation is carried out in a specially equipped vehicle (paddy wagon), special wagon (common name "Stolypin").
A standard paddy wagon is a van-type body on a truck chassis. Inside it has a common cell, several solitary cells and a place for the guard. Equipped with lighting, ventilation, has an alarm in the driver's cab. One window, only for the guard. A special requirement is that the exhaust pipe of the car must extend beyond the body at least 15-20 cm. Otherwise, the vehicle body may turn into a gas chamber. A regular body on the GAZ-53 chassis has a seating rate of 16 people.
The special railway car is a compartment car, which has a room and a mini-dining room for the guard. The compartments are open, all open towards the corridor and separated from it by gratings. There are no windows in the compartment, only in the corridor where the sentry is on duty.
The transported special contingent does not feed the guard. During transportation, convicts receive dry rations from the institution that was the point of departure.
Armament of the forensic and railway guard - pistols. In the late 80s - automatic rifles with a folding stock.
There is a special method of embarking and disembarking the special contingent both for the railway carriage and for the car. The presence of a trainer with a service dog is mandatory.
The order of service is thoroughly specified in the Charter of the Combat Service of the Internal Troops. So, for example, when the train stops, the guard guards the special wagon from both sides.
When convoying by rail, the approximate composition of the guard:
The chief of the guard is an ensign.
Assistant Chief of the Guard - Sergeant.
There are 4-5 guards, one of them is a cook.
The relationship between the personnel and the protected.
Apart from official relations, no relations with the guarded were allowed. There was a concept of "entering into a criminal relationship", which was severely punished, up to criminal punishment.
Unofficial conversations with convicts, the transfer of any objects, letters, etc. was strictly prohibited.
It cannot be said that the relationship between the personnel of the guard and the guards has always been the same as required by the Charter. Naturally, there were various violations, both minor and major.
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Shield of Our Country
Internal troops - 186.3 thousand people (16 divisions, 24 brigades, 104 regiments and 5 higher educational institutions)
By 2006, instead of districts, five regional commands and two regional directorates of troops will be created. 60% of the number of troops are operational units performing missions in Chechnya and the North Caucasus region.
Operational units
Parts for the protection of important state objects
Special motorized police units
In accordance with the reform plan, the number of troops will be reduced several times, instead of districts, five regional commands and two regional directorates of internal troops will be created. In addition, special forces will be formed in the structure of the internal troops. In the future, special forces detachments of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation will become the main component of the immediate response forces of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. Now the special forces of the VV consists of 16 mobile detachments, which are already 90 percent equipped with modern weapons and military equipment, including special forces.
Combat training of explosives includes three main areas: training of operational units; special motorized military units; parts for the protection of important government facilities and special cargo. Internal troops are recruited to perform service and combat missions, usually as part of a company or battalion. Therefore, the main efforts in training are focused on individual training and coordination of small units. The Internal Troops refused to hold such global events as divisional and even regimental tactical exercises, they are now not relevant in the Internal Troops. The combined arms training of a motorized rifle platoon commander and a platoon commander of the Internal Troops is practically the same. In military training, perhaps the only difference is that, in addition to combined-arms tactics, cadets study the tactics of the Internal Troops, that is, the methods of action of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the protection of public order, the organization of RBS to protect important state facilities and in emergency situations.
Internal troops number about 300 thousand people (29 divisions and 15 brigades). The units are better manned than the army. But can they be called full-blooded? Of the 29 divisions, 19 were transferred to the internal troops from the ground forces, with all the ensuing consequences. Apparently, it was possible to impose some semblance of order in them, but providing such a mass of troops with new weapons and equipment is a disastrous business. Most of the senior officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs also do not have the necessary training.
Northwestern District - 12053 people, 55 armored combat vehicles
Division-Arkhangelsk
Brigade 33 - Lebyazhye, Lomonosov - 2644 people, 34 BMP, 12 PM38
1 brigade - Syktyvkar (ibid, engineer regiment of special forces)
Regiment for the protection of the parking lot of the nuclear icebreaker fleet
Separate battalion for the protection of the Leningrad NPP
In St. Petersburg - 1607 people, 10 infantry fighting vehicles
Moscow district (4 divisions) - 56222 people, 175 AFV
· 1 separate special-purpose division (formerly Dzerzhinsky) (ODON) -Balashikha-central subordination- 1, 2, 4, 5 pon, 1 psn Vityaz -9982 people, 46 infantry fighting vehicles, according to other sources, 9 thousand people. , 60 tanks (93 mechanized regiment-T-62), 400 armored combat vehicles or 12 and a half thousand people .. 5 regiments, one on the BMP-1, four on the armored personnel carrier .. a separate tank battalion, 31 tanks .. A GS -17 , automatic easel grenade launcher .. SPG-9 .. tank .. easel .. anti-tank grenade launcher .. combat helicopters. The 1st Red Banner Operational Regiment ODON was disbanded, the SN Vityaz detachment was reorganized into the 118th Regiment of the SN VV with the presentation of the banner of the disbanded 1st March ("Brother" magazine for July-August 2003).
Division-Sarov
12 division-Tula - units of the Tula division of the internal troops are located in 8 regions of Central Russia
Division (training) Mulino (Molino)
· 55th division-Moscow (police in Moscow) - 6 thousand people (2 military officers and warrant officers) - 8 regiments, before that - the OMSDON police regiment, then the police brigade.
21 BRON-Sofrino-2650 people, 36 infantry fighting vehicles, according to other sources, 2 thousand people, 100 armored personnel carriers (4 motorized battalions (in bat. , reconnaissance and grenade launcher (AGS-17) platoon))
23 ARMOR (motorized)
The garrison of the Moscow militia - together with the civilian personnel - numbers about 100,000 people. These are not only directorates, departments of internal affairs of municipal districts and police departments. These are four regiments of patrol and guard service, with the 1st PPS regiment - a battalion of search dogs, with the 4th - a battalion of mounted militia. A particularly formidable force is the riot police, which are attached to infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers. By analogy with the OMON, special-purpose militia units (OMSN) operate under the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department and the RUOP. As part of the Moscow District of Internal Troops: ODON - artillery, armored vehicles, helicopters, the Sofrinskaya special forces brigade, the 23rd motorized brigade. In special cases, the escort regiment of the GUVD may also be involved in certain operations. Small in number, but well armed and efficient municipal militia - about 3,000 people.
The North Caucasian District is the main grouping of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the North Caucasus numbering 26.5 thousand people, 700 armored personnel carriers and infantry fighting vehicles armed with large-caliber machine guns and artillery pieces, caliber up to 100 mm. Military units are deployed in Vladikavkaz, in cities, towns and villages of the Stavropol Territory and Dagestan.
2 Don, Krasnodar-451, 66 Mon- 1923 people, 34 BMP
· 54 DON - 8 armor, 59 mon, 81 mon
· 99 DON-Rostov, Persianovka - 1983 people, 33 BMPs, 4 BMD-1, 1 D-30, 3 PM38 / regiment in Chermen - 1,774 people, 33 BMD-1
· 100 DON-Novocherkassk, Kadamovsky (UC), Cossack Camps ("Cossack camps" are between Shakhty and Novocherkassk. A tank division stood at this place, the division was disbanded and in its place a special purpose division DON 100 was created. The division was copied from the division Dzerzhinsky.The division consisted of 4 regiments, and 4 battalions) - 46.47, 48, 49, 57 pon, 93 m divisions (actually a tank regiment on T-62), in the regiment 60 tanks.), 7 main rosich-Novocherkassk-1859 people, 34 infantry fighting vehicles, Kadamovsky-1261 people, 69 T-62, 18 D-30, Cossack Camps- 3708 people, 69 infantry fighting vehicles
8 BRON-Nalchik - 2368 people, 33 BMP, 22 BRON-Kalach - 2596 people, 27 BMP, 12 PM38 - formed on the basis of a training regiment in 1988
26th Bron-Vladikavkaz
46 BRON-Chechnya - about 2,000 thousand people 150 armored personnel carriers - before that there was the 101st BRON (Stavropol-rasf.)
· 102 BRON- Dagestan
BRON-Vladikavkaz - 2004 people, 12 BMP
OPN - Nazran - 680 people, 2 batn - formed in 2004
7th special forces detachment of explosives
15th special forces detachment of explosives
Ovp-Rostov - 777 people, 2 Mi-24, Mi-8
There are also references to 28 and 31 BRONS.
In Labinsk - 1807 people, 34 BMP, in Kartsa (S. Ossetia) - 2097 people, 34 BMD-1, 6 PM38, in Stavropol - 1830 people, in Blagodarny, Stavropol - 1446 people, 31 BMD-1 , 6 PM38, Zelenokumsk - 1819 people, 34 BMP, Mozdok - 1716 people, 34 BMP, 6 PM38 and a helicopter unit - 439 people, 2 Mi24 and Mi-8
Privolzhsky district - In Privolzhsky and Uralsky districts - 19831 people, 117 AFV
Division -Kirov- (Kirov, military unit 7487, formerly a convoy division, the division consisted of 5 regiments (Kirov, Glazov, Votkinsk, Izhevsk, Kazan), at different times, units and subunits of the division, in addition to the Vyatka region, were located in the territories of the Kostroma region , the republics of Komi and Udmurtia, now the compound is stationed in Kirov and Kirovo-Chepetsk, the cities of Tatarstan, Udmurtia, Chuvashia and Mari El, recently a military unit was transferred to the division, providing protection of the chemical arsenal in the village of Maradykovo)
54 divisions - Gaiva, Perm - 2818 people, 15 BMP
35th brigade (80th division until 1999) -Samara- until 1999 the 80th Samara division of the BB, a separate battalion of the 80th division until the disbandment in July 1999 was engaged in the protection of defense enterprises of the city of Chapaevsk)
34 brigade - Shumilovo, Bogorodsk, Nizhegorodskaya - 2594 people, 30 BMP
BRON-Kazan - formerly an explosive convoy regiment with a deployment in Kazan (military unit 7474), reorganized in the mid-90s
Brigade - Chuvashia, now disbanded, before that it guarded the Novocheboksary chemical plant
There are 1949 people in Saratov, 4 infantry fighting vehicles
Ural district
Division-Ozersk, Chelyabinsk
12th detachment of special forces VV (Nizhny Tagil)
23rd detachment of special forces of the BB (Chelyabinsk)
Siberian District - Novosibirsk - The tasks of protecting correctional labor institutions have been removed, since 1995. formations and units for the protection of important state facilities and special cargo were subordinated, new operational units were created.
98th division (including 18 OSMBM (military unit 5438)) -Kemerovo
89 division-Novosibirsk
1) the specificity of the internal troops is that the internal troops divisions can have a unique composition and be deployed on the territory of several territories and regions, for example, it can include not only regiments, but also brigades and separate battalions, and individual brigades and regiments can include separate battalions and companies (for example, an industrial regiment for the protection of the OV facility may include a separate company to escort special cargoes exported from it)
2) units for the protection of OVO and SG are not part of the districts, but into the Directorate of the VGO and the SG of the GKVV, and, for example, in Angarsk there are operational and training regiments of the Irkutsk formation of the Eastern District (headquarters in Khabarovsk), and the Angarsk industrial regiment is subordinate and included into the Novosibirsk industrial division of the explosives
3) the term industrial itself in relation to parts has long (since Beriev's time) not been an official BUT (!) Due to the conservatism and closed nature of the Environment, it still circulates among the personnel, their entourage (families, journalists) and at the facilities / territories where they are acts. About the same, in the province of RUBOPs (RUOPs), the 6th department is still called
