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Soviet Border Troops
Пограничные войска СССР Pograníchnyye Voiská SSSR
Patch of the Soviet Border Troops
Founded	1918
Disbanded	1992
Country	Soviet Union (1918–1991)  CIS (1991–1992)
Allegiance	Communist Party of the Soviet Union (until 1990) President of the Soviet Union (1990–1991) Commonwealth of Independent States (1991–1992)
Type	Border guard
Size	220,000 (1991)
Colors	Green
Engagements	First World War Basmachi movement Operation Faustschlag Battle of Bakhmach Crimea Operation (1918) Chinese Civil War Sino-Soviet conflict (1929) Soviet–Japanese border conflicts Battle of Lake Khasan Second World War Winter War Operation Barbarossa Continuation War Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran Soviet-Japanese War Hungarian Revolution of 1956 Sino-Soviet border conflict Soviet–Afghan War
Commanders
Current commander	See list
Notable commanders	Timofei Strokach Pavel Zyryanov

Soviet Armed Forces
Components
General Staff Strategic Rocket Forces Red Army Soviet Army Air Defence Forces Air Forces Navy
Ranks of the Soviet Military
Military ranks of the Soviet Union
History of the Soviet Military
Military history of the Soviet Union History of Russian military ranks
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The Soviet Border Troops (Russian: Пограничные войска СССР, romanized: Pogranichnyye voyska SSSR) were the border guard of the Soviet Union, subordinated to the Soviet state security agency: first to the Cheka/OGPU, then to NKVD/MGB and, finally, to the KGB. Accordingly, they were known as NKVD Border Security and KGB Border Troops. Unlike the border guards of many other countries, Soviet Border Troops also included the maritime border guarding units, and aviation units (i.e., a coast guard).

The mission of the Border Troops included repulsing armed incursions into Soviet territory; preventing illegal crossings of the border or the transport of weapons, explosives, contraband or subversive literature across the border; monitoring the observance of established procedures at border crossing points; monitoring the observance by Soviet and foreign ships of navigation procedures in Soviet territorial waters; and assisting state agencies in the preservation of natural resources and the protection of the environment from pollution. Border guards were authorized to examine documents and possessions of persons crossing the borders and to confiscate articles; to conduct inquiries in cases of violations of the state border; and to take such actions as arrest, search and interrogation of individuals suspected of border violations.

With the end of the Soviet Union, the Soviet Border troops remained under the command of the Commonwealth of Independent States but later were divided between the Union's constituent republics.

History

In 1934, under the NKVD, Border Troops were immediately subordinated to the GUPVO (abbreviated "Chief Directorate of Border and Internal Guard"). In 1939 they were reorganized into the GUPV ("Chief Directorate of Border Troops").

NKVD Border Troops consisted of infantry, cavalry, reconnaissance, naval and aviation units.

Since the 1920s, the distinctive part of Soviet Border Troops uniform was the medium-green colored parts of headwear and insignia (Russian Empire's Separate Corps of the Border Guard has it distinction since 1893). The color is also present on a maritime Border Troops ensign.

World War II

After the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, the Border Troops assisted the pacification of the newly acquired Soviet territory adjoining the state border. The mass execution of Romanian civilians known as the Fântâna Albă massacre happened at this time.

Border Troops units on the western USSR frontier saw particularly fierce combat in the first weeks of the German invasion of the USSR (June–July 1941). They bore the brunt of the initial German assault, and due to this, suffered high casualty rates. Border Troop servicemen were among the defenders of the Brest Fortress.

Border troops were involved in all major campaigns of the war. Notably, the 105th, 157th, and 333rd Border Troops regiments (operating like regular army units) took part in the Battle for Berlin in 1945. During and after the war, 150 border guards were awarded the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union and over 13,000 of them were decorated with different orders and medals.

Post-War history

In wartime, the Border Troops would become a frontline combat service. The Border Troops also saw combat in 1969 in border clashes with Chinese soldiers on islands in the Ussuri River.

After the formation of the KGB, Soviet Border Troops became subordinated to this agency and remained so until the dissolution of the Soviet Union. As such, the Troops were concentrating on the tasks of preventing espionage infiltrations. The Border Guards were involved in the Soviet–Afghan War and a number of them were even awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union for their bravery during these conflicts.

The Soviet border was the longest in the world (From Norway to North Korea) and it comprised harsh terrain and climates; accordingly the Border Troops employed significant manpower, intensive maritime presence, and a dense and sophisticated system of field engineering devices. The most notable in that system was the trace-control strip (Russian: контрольно-следовая полоса) - a wide strip of plowed soil to make it apparent where a crossing had occurred.

The Border Troops consisted of conscripts drafted by the same system as for the Soviet Army, and a small number of professional enlistees. Officers were trained in specialized academies. Both conscripts and officer candidates for Border Troops were carefully selected and checked by the KGB. This made service in the troops privileged.

Landing Assault units

The Border Troops had Landing Assault Manoeuvre Groups (sing. десантно-штурмовая маневренная группа (ДШМГ)). The LAMGs of the KGB's Border Troops were temporary task forces, organised for a period of time by a Border Guard Detachment (пограничный отряд (ПОГО)), the border guard equivalent of an army brigade. The BG detachments formed temporary task forces, equivalent to battalions, for manoeuvre warfare. The land component units were called Motorised Manoeuvre Group (мото-маневренная группа (ммг)) and consisted of 3 or 4 Motorised Manoeuvre Border Outposts (sing. мото-маневренная пограничная застава), the Border Troops equivalent of a company). The 1st MMBO was armed with BMP-1 or BMP-2, the 2nd MMBO was armed with BTR-70 and the 3rd MMBO was armed with BTR-60PB. Each MMBO had 5 BMPs or BTRs. The MMG also had a motorised mortar battery, an anti-tank platoon and additional support units for a total of ca. 300 men. The fire and service support units were motorised with GAZ-66 light trucks.^[1] The Landing Assault Manoeuvre Group formed the airmobile component, which operated in concert with the MMGs. While both types of units were commanded by Border Troops Lieutenant-Colonels, with manpower of less than 50 an LAMG number far fewer men than both the Border Troops's MMGs and the Landing Assault Battalions of the Ground Forces. An LAMG consisted of a command element and two Landing Assault Manoeuvre Border Outposts and had the following structure:^[2]

Landing Assault Manoeuvre Group

• command group (группа управления): 8 men - Commander (начальник ДШМГ); NCO; Translator; Paramedic; Radio Operator; 3 Sappers
• 1st Landing Assault Manoeuvre Border Outpost (1 ДШПЗ) : 21 men
  • Commander (начальник ДШПЗ)
  • Fire Section (огневое отделение): 10 men - SPG-9 team of 3 men; AGS-17 team of 2 men; PK machine gun team of 2 men; RPG-7 team of 2 men and 1 Sniper / Radio Operator armed with SVD and equipped with R-392 radio
  • Rifle Section (стрелковое отделение): 10 men - 1 Commander and 9 Riflemen, armed with Kalashnikov rifles (some with night vision sights) and equipped with 1 R-392 radio
• 2nd Landing Assault Manoeuvre Border Outpost (2 ДШПЗ): 21 men, identical to 1st LAMBO

The LAMG relied on Mil Mi-24 attack helicopters and Mi-8MTV-1 assault helicopters from the KGB Border Troops' own aviation assets.

Commanders of the Soviet Border Guards

• Nikolai Stakhanov, 1942–1952
• Pavel Zyryanov, 1952–1956
• Timofey Strokach, 1956–1957
• Pavel Zyryanov, 1957–1972
• Vadim Matrosov, 1972–1989
• Ilya Kalinichenko, 1989–1991

Legal authority

The legal status, duties, and rights of the Border Troops were set forth in the Law on the State Border, confirmed by the Supreme Soviet on November 24, 1982. Article 28 defined the basic duties of the Border Troops. Their duties included repulsing armed incursions into Soviet territory; preventing illegal crossings of the border or the transport of weapons, explosives, contraband, or subversive literature across the border; monitoring the observance of established procedures at border crossing points; monitoring the observance by Soviet and foreign ships of navigation procedures in Soviet territorial waters; and assisting state agencies in the preservation of natural resources and the protection of the environment from pollution. Border guards were authorized to examine documents and possessions of persons crossing the borders and to confiscate articles; to conduct inquiries in cases of violations of the state border; and to take such actions as arrest, search, and interrogation of individuals suspected of border violations.

Structure

The Border Troops strength was estimated in 1989 to be in the range of 230,000 men. Although under the operational authority of the KGB, the Border Troops were conscripted as part of the biannual call-up of the Ministry of Defense, and their induction and discharge were regulated by the 1967 Law on Universal Military Service, which covered all armed forces of the Soviet Union.^[3]

On top of the Border Troops stood the Main Directorate of the Border Troops (MDBT, Russian: Главное управление пограничных войск), which played a role similar to that of the General Staff for the armed forces. The Main Directorate was subordinated to the First Deputy Chairman of the KGB (the second highest-ranking official in the committee). The Commander of the Border Troops normally held the rank of lieutenant general when he took over the position and later was promoted to Colonel general. Out of the three officers who commanded the troops the second one (Vadim Alexandrovich Matrosov) has reached the rank of Army general at that position. The Commander had several Lieutenant generals and Major generals as his deputies. The Main Directorate administered approximately nine border districts (pogranichnye okruga), which covered the nearly 63,000 kilometers of the state border and additional smaller formations and independent units. Border district boundaries were distinct from civil or military district boundaries.^[4] At the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 the Border Troops included the following operational forces:

Main Directorate of the Border Troops

Main Directorate of the Border Troops

Main Directorate of the Border Troops (Главное управление пограничных войск)

• Command (Руководство)
  • Commander - Lieutenant general / Colonel general; Office of the Commander
• Secretariat (Секретариат)
• Staff (Штаб) - Lieutenant general (the Chief of Staff of the BT is simultaneously the First Deputy Commander of the BT)
• Military Political Directorate (Военно-политическое управление) - Major general / Lieutenant general
• Combat Training Directorate (Управление боевой подготовки) - Major general
• Operations Directorate (Оперативное управление) - Lieutenant general
• Naval Directorate (Морское управление) - Rear admiral / Vice admiral
• Engineering Technical Directorate (Инженерно-техническое управление) - Lieutenant general
• Personnel Directorate (Управление кадров) - Major general / Lieutenant general
• Automotive and Armored Fighting Vehicles Department (Отдел автобронетанковой техники) - Major general
• Aviation Department (Авиационный отдел) - Major general of aviation
• Military Construction Department (Военно-строительный отдел) - Major general
• Military Education Establishments Department (Отдел военно-учебных заведений) - Major general / Lieutenant general
• Military Scientific Directorate (Военно-научное управление) - Major general / Lieutenant general
• Military Medical Department (Военно-медицинский отдел) - Major general
• Military Veterinary Service (Военно-ветеринарная служба)
• Financial Department (Финансовый отдел) - Major general
• Rear Services (Тыл ПВ) - Major general / Lieutenant general

Under the Main Directorate was the

Border Troops Staff

Border Troops Staff (Штаб пограничных войск)

• Chief of Staff / 1st Deputy Commander of the Border Troops - Lieutenant general
  • First Deputy Chief of Staff - Lieutenant general
• 1st Directorate (Operations) (1-е Управление (оперативное)) - Major general / Lieutenant general
• Directorate of Organization and Mobilization (Организационно-мобилизационное управление) - Major general
• 3rd Department (Signals and Warning Systems) (3-й отдел (связи и сигнализации) - Major general
• Department of Information and Analysis (Информационно-аналитический отдел) - Major general
• Directorate of Border-crossing Checkpoints (Управление КПП) - Major general
• Department of Programs in Planning (Отдел программ планирования) - Major general

Directly subordinated to the MDBT

Border Districts

The Border Districts were combined arms formations of the KGB, which included border guards similar to motor-rifle infantry, border crossings and their organic aviation units (air regiments, squadrons and flights), signals (battalions and companies), combat engineers, construction engineers (battalions and companies), medical, repair and supply units. The districts bordering oceans and seas also included brigades of guard ships (сторожевые корабли (СКР) - patrol frigates, corvettes and boats, which next to their patrol tasks also had substantial anti-submarine role). The personnel of the Naval Service within the Border Troops held navy style ranks. The Chief of the Naval Directorate within the Main Directorate of the Border Troops was the highest-ranking officer in the service with the rank of Rear admiral / Vice admiral. The Maritime Border Troops of the Russian Border Troops (Ru:Морские части Пограничных Войск КГБ СССР) operated within the twelve-mile limit of Soviet territorial waters. It was equipped with frigates and corvettes, fast patrol boats, hydrofoils, helicopters, and light aircraft.^[5] In 1991 the Border Troops numbered ten Border Districts (singular: Пограничный округ, abbr. ПО):^[6]

Note: The border districts and their subordinated formations are listed clockwise, starting with the easternmost area of the Soviet Union.

Northeastern Border District

The Northeastern Border District (Russian: Северо-Восточный пограничный округ) had its headquarters in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. It guarded the easternmost territories of the Soviet Union from Wrangel Island and Mys Shmidta on the Arctic Ocean through the Bering Strait, the coastline of the Chukotka and Kamchatka Peninsulas to the island of Simushir, where it met the Pacific Border District's AOR. The security of the Sea of Okhotsk was also within the tasks of the NEBD and from Simushir its AOR ran in a strait line to the northern tip of Sakhalin and from there it continued to the mainland and the village of Ayan, Russia.

Land units:

• 110th Koenigsbergskiy, awarded the Order of the Red Star Border Detachment (110-й ПОГО) — Anadyr
• 60th Awarded the Order of Lenin and the Order of Alexander Nevsky Vilnius Kuril Islands Border Detachment (60-й ПОГО) — Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
• 61st Magadanskiy Border Detachment (61-й ПОГО) — Magadan

Naval units:

• 1st Red Banner Division of Border Guard Ships (1-я КДПСКР) — Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
  • 1st Brigade of Border Guard Ships (1-я БрПСКР)
  • 2nd Brigade of Border Guard Ships (2-я БрПСКР)
  • Supply Ships Battalion (ДнКО) (some sources list the battalion (divizyon (дивизион)) as a unit of the 1st Brigade)

Air units:

• 15th Separate Aviation Regiment (15-й ОАП) — Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky – Yelizovo Airport (helicopters detached to Yelizovo – Khalakhtyrka Airfield)
  • Detachment at Klyuchi-1 Air Base
• 21st Separate Aviation Squadron (21-я ОАЭ) — Magadan – Sokol Airport
  • Forward Operating Location at Okhotsk
• 7th Separate Aviation Squadron (7-я ОАЭ) — Providence Bay Airfield
  • Forward Operating Locations at Anadyr Airport, Mys Shmidta Airport, Cape Dezhnev, Vankarem, Kresta Bay, Saint Lawrence Bay and Egvekinot

Red Banner Pacific Border District

The Red Banner Pacific Border District (Russian: Краснознамённый Тихоокеанский пограничный округ) had its headquarters in Vladivostok. It guarded the coastline of the larger southern Kuril Islands from Simushir to Kunashir, through the southern tip of Sakhalin it reached the Asian mainland at the border between the Khabarovsk Krai and Primorsky Krai. From there the district's AOR followed the coastline, the border with North Korea and the border with China to the place where the territory of the Primorsky Krai met the territory of the Khabarovsk Krai and the AOR of the Red Banner Far Eastern Border District.

Land units:

• 114th Rushtukskiy, Awarded the Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky (2nd grade) Border Detachment (114-й ПОГО) — Goryachiy Plyazh, Kunashir, Kuril Islands
• 52nd Sakhalinskiy Rizhskiy, Awarded the Order of Lenin Border Detachment (52-й ПОГО) — Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Sakhalin
• 62nd Nakhodkinskiy Sea Border Detachment (62-й МПОГО) — Nakhodka
• 59th Khasanskiy Red Banner and awarded the Order of Kutuzov (2nd grade) Border Detachment (59-й ПОГО) — Posyet^[7]

• • 1st Border outpost "Mramornaya"
  • 2nd Border outpost "named after Ovchinnikov"
  • 3rd Border outpost "Sinny Utyos"
  • 4th Border outpost "Slavyanka land"
  • 5th Border outpost "Ryazanovka"
  • 6th Border outpost "Shkolnaya"
  • 7th Border outpost "Ugolovaya"
  • 8th Border outpost "Verkhnya"
  • 9th Border outpost "named after Krainov"
  • 10th Border outpost "Ugolnaya"
  • 11th Border outpost "Utinaya"
  • 12th Border outpost "Zareche"
  • 13th Border outpost "named after A. E. Makhalin"
  • 14th Border outpost "named after P.F. Tereshkin"
  • 15th Border outpost "Pesechanaya"
  • 16th Border outpost "Zarubino"
  • 17th Border outpost "Slavyanka sea"
  • 18th Border outpost "Barabash"
  • 19th Border outpost "Kraskino"
  • 20th Border outpost "Checkpoint Khasan"
  • 21st Border outpost "Posyet Checkpoint"
• 58th Grodekovskiy Red Banner and awarded the Order of Kutuzov (2nd grade) Border Detachment (58-й ПОГО) — Pogranichny
• 69th Kamen-Rybolovskiy Red Banner Border Detachment (69-й ПОГО) — Kamen-Rybolov
• 57th Ussuriyskiy Red Banner and awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour, "V. R. Menzhinsky" Border Detachment (57-й ПОГО) — Dalnerechensk
• 12th Training Border Detachment (12-й УПОГО) — Perevoznaya
• Vladivostok Border Entry Seaport (Владивостокский МПП) — Vladivostok
• Separate Border-crossing Checkpoint «Nakhodka» (ОКПП «Находка»)
• Separate Border-crossing Checkpoint «Vladivostok» (ОКПП «Владивосток»)

Naval units:

• 8th Awarded the Order of the Red Star Separate Brigade of Border Guard Ships (8-я ОБрПСКР) — Malokurilskoye, Shikotan, Kuril Islands
• 9th Separate Brigade of Border Guard Ships (9-я ОБрПСКР) — Korsakov, Sakhalin
• 19th Separate Brigade of Border Guard Ships (19-я ОБрПСКР) — Nevelsk, Sakhalin
• 16th Sakhalinskaya Red Banner Separate Brigade of Border Guard Ships (16-я ОБрПСКР) — Nakhodka
• 10th Separate Brigade of Border Guard Ships (10-я ОБрПСКР) — Vladivostok
• 15th Separate Brigade of Border Guard Ships (15-я ОБрПСКР) — Dalnerechensk

Air units:

• 11th Separate Aviation Regiment (11-й ОАП) — Vladivostok – Knevichi Airport
  • Detachment at Sovetskaya Gavan Airfield
  • Forward Operating Locations at Dalnerechensk, Kamen-Rybolov, Spassk-Dalny Airfield and Pogranichny
• 16th Separate Aviation Regiment (16-й ОАП) — Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk – Khomutovo Airport
  • Detachment at Yuzhno-Kurilsk Mendeleyevo Airport

Red Banner Far Eastern Border District

The Red Banner Far Eastern Border District (Russian: Краснознамённый Дальневосточный пограничный округ) had its headquarters in Khabarovsk. It guarded the Chinese border in the Amur Oblast from the Primorsky Krai to the Zabaykalsky Krai where it met the AOR of the Red Banner Trans-Baikal Border District.

Land units:

• 77th Bikinskiy Red Banner Border Detachment (77-й ПОГО) — Bikin, Khabarovsk Krai
• 70th Kazakevichevskiy Red Banner Border Detachment (70-й ПОГО) — Kazakevichevo, Khabarovsk Krai
• 63rd Birobidzhanskiy Border Detachment (63-й ПОГО) — Birobidzhan, Jewish Autonomous Oblast
• 75th Raychikhinskiy Red Banner Border Detachment (75-й ПОГО) — Raychikhinsk, Amur Oblast
• 56th Blagoveshchenskiy Red Banner Border Detachment (56-й ПОГО) — Blagoveshchensk, Amur Oblast
• 78-й Shimanovskiy, Awarded the Order of Alexander Nevsky Border Detachment (78-й ПОГО) — Shimanovsk, Amur Oblast
• 55-й Skovorodinskiy, Awarded the Order of the Red Star Border Detachment (55-й ПОГО) — Skovorodino, Amur Oblast
• Separate Border-crossing Checkpoint «Nikolayevsk-on-Amur» (ОКПП «Николаевск-на-Амуре»)

Naval units:

• 14th Separate Brigade of Border Guard Ships (14-я ОБрПСКР) — Kazakevichevo, Khabarovsk Krai
• 13th Separate Brigade of Border Guard Ships (13-я ОБрПСКР) — Leninskoye, Jewish Autonomous Oblast
• 12th Separate Brigade of Border Guard Ships (12-я ОБрПСКР) — Blagoveshchensk
• 11th Separate Brigade of Border Guard Ships (11-я ОБрПСКР) — Dzhalinda

Air units:

• 16th Separate Aviation Squadron (16-я ОАЭ) — Khabarovsk Airport
• 19th Separate Aviation Squadron (19-я ОАЭ) — Blagoveshchensk Airfield

Red Banner Trans-Baikal Border District

The Red Banner Trans-Baikal Border District (Russian: Краснознамённый Забайкальский пограничный округ) had its headquarters in Chita, Zabaykalsky Krai. It guarded the eastern part of the Soviet-Chinese border from the Amur Oblast to Mongolia and the Mongol-Soviet border. At the Chinese-Mongol-Soviet border three-point in the Gorno-Altai Autonomous Oblast near Khüiten Peak its AOR met the AOR of the Red Banner Eastern Border District.

Land units:

• 74th Sretenskiy Red Banner Border Detachment (74-й ПОГО) — Kokuy, Chita Oblast
• 54th Priargunskiy Red Banner Border Detachment (54-й ПОГО) — Priargunsk, Chita Oblast
• 53rd Khinganskiy Red Banner Border Detachment (53-й ПОГО) — Dauriya, Chita Oblast
• 51st Kyakhtinskiy Border Detachment (51-й ПОГО) — Kyakhta, Buryat Autonomous SSR
• 29th Kyzylskiy Border Detachment (29-й ПОГО) — Kyzyl, Tuva Autonomous SSR
• Separate Border-crossing Checkpoint «Zabaykalsk» (ОКПП «Забайкальск»)
• Separate Border-crossing Checkpoint «Irkutsk» (ОКПП «Иркутск»)

Naval units:

• mostly land border, no naval units

Air units:

• 18th Separate Aviation Squadron (18-я ОАЭ) — Chita – Cheremushki Airfield
  • Detachment at Kyzyl Airport

Red Banner Eastern Border District

The Red Banner Eastern Border District had its headquarters in Almaty. It guarded the western part of the Chinese-Soviet border and a small section of the Afghan-Soviet border along the Wakhan District, after which began the area of responsibility of the Central Asian Border District.

Land units:

• 134th Kurchumskiy Border Detachment (134-й ПОГО) — Kurshim, Kazakh SSR
• 50th Zaysanskiy Краснознаменный Border Detachment (50-й ПОГО) — Zaysan, Kazakh SSR
• 30th Makanchinskiy Краснознаменный Border Detachment (30-й ПОГО) — Makanchi, Kazakh SSR
• 130th Uch-Aaralskiy Border Detachment (130-й ПОГО) — Usharal, Kazakh SSR
• 49th Panfilovskiy Краснознаменный Border Detachment (49-й ПОГО) — Zharkent, Kazakh SSR
• 132nd Chundzhinskiy Border Detachment (132-й ПОГО) — Chundzha, Kazakh SSR
• 29th Przhevalskiy Border Detachment (29-й ПОГО) — Karakol, Kirghiz SSR
• 96th Narynskiy Border Detachment (96-й ПОГО) — Naryn, Kirghiz SSR
• 131st Oshskiy Border Detachment (131-й ПОГО) — Osh, Kirghiz SSR
• 35th Murghabskiy Border Detachment (35-й ПОГО) — Murghab, Tajik SSR

Naval units:

• mostly land border, no naval units

Air units:

• 10th Separate Aviation Regiment (10-й ОАП) — Almaty – Burunday Airfield
• 22nd Separate Aviation Squadron (22-я ОАЭ) — Usharal Airfield

Red Banner Central Asian Border Districtedit

The Red Banner Central Asian Border District (Russian: Краснознамённый Среднеазиатский пограничный округ) had its headquarters in Ashgabad. It guarded the Afghan-Soviet (without the strip along the Wakhan District) and the Iranian-Soviet border. The sea border of the district extended halfway along the southern line of Soviet territorial waters in the Caspian Sea until it met the AOR of the Red Banner Trans-Caucasus Border District.

Land units:

• 118th Ishkashimskiy Border Detachment (118-й ПОГО) — Ishkoshim, Tajik SSR
• 66th Khoroghskiy Border Detachment (66-й ПОГО) — Khorogh, Tajik SSR
• 117th Moskovskiy Border Detachment (117-й ПОГО) - Moskovskiy, Tajik SSR
• 48th Pyandzhskiy Border Detachment (48-й ПОГО) — Panj, Tajik SSR
• 81st Termezskiy Border Detachment (81-й ПОГО) — Termez, Uzbek SSR
• 47th Kerkinskiy Border Detachment (47-й ПОГО) — Kerki, Turkmen SSR
• 68th Tahta-Bazarskiy Border Detachment (68-й ПОГО) — Tahta-Bazar, Turkmen SSR
• 45th Serakhskiy Border Detachment (45-й ПОГО) — Serakhs, Turkmen SSR
• 46th Kaakhanskiy Border Detachment (46-й ПОГО) — Kaakha, Turkmen SSR
• 71st Baherdenskiy Border Detachment (71-й ПОГО) — Baherden, Turkmen SSR
• 67th Kara-Kalinskiy Border Detachment (76-й ПОГО) — Kara-Kala, Turkmen SSR
• 135th Nebit-Dagskiy Border Detachment (135-й ПОГО) — Nebit-Dag, Turkmen SSR
• 17th Training Border Detachment (17-й УПОГО) — Dushanbe, Tajik SSR
• Separate Border-crossing Checkpoint «Mary» (ОКПП «Мары»)
• Separate Border-crossing Checkpoint «Termez» (ОКПП «Термез»)
• Separate Border-crossing Checkpoint «Irkutsk» (ОКПП «Ташкент»)

Naval units:

• 22nd Separate Brigade of Border Guard Ships (22-я ОБрПСКР) — Termez, Uzbek SSR river patrol
• 46th Separate Battalion of Border Guard Ships (46-й ОДнПСКР) — Krasnovodsk, Turkmen SSR

Air units:

• 17th Separate Aviation Regiment (17-й ОАП) — Mary-3 Airfield
  • Detachment at Nebit-Dag Airfield
• 23rd Separate Aviation Regiment (23-й ОАП) — Dushanbe Airport

Red Banner Trans-Caucasus Border Districtedit

The Red Banner Trans-Caucasus Border District (Russian: Краснознамённый Закавказский пограничный округ) had its headquarters in Tbilisi. It guarded the western half of the Caspian Sea section of the Iranian-Soviet border, the western Iranian-Soviet land border, the Turkish-Soviet border and the Black Sea coastline from the Turkish border to the Kerch Strait, where the Red Banner Western Border District took over.

Land units:

• 44th Lenkoranskiy Border Detachment (44-й ПОГО) — Lankaran, Azeri SSR
• 43rd Prishibskiy Red Banner Border Detachment (43-й ПОГО) — Prishib, Azeri SSR
• 42nd Gadrutskiy Red Banner Border Detachment (42-й ПОГО) - Hadrut, Azeri SSR
• 127th Meghrinskiy Border Detachment (127-й ПОГО) — Meghri, Armenian SSR
• 41st Nakhichevanskiy Border Detachment (41-й ПОГО) — Nakhchivan, Azeri SSR
• 125th Artashatskiy Border Detachment (125-й ПОГО) — Artashat, Armenian SSR
• 40th Oktemberyanskiy "A. I. Mikoyan" Border Detachment (40-й ПОГО) — Armavir, Armenian SSR
• 39th Leninakanskiy Red Banner Border Detachment (39-й ПОГО) — Gyumri, Armenian SSR
• 38th Akhaltsikhskiy Red Banner Border Detachment (38-й ПОГО) — Akhaltsikhe, Georgian SSR
• 10th Hichaurskiy Border Detachment (10-й ПОГО) — Shuakhevi, Georgian SSR
• 37th Batumskiy Red Banner "Bulgarian-Soviet Combat Fellowship" Border Detachment (37-й ПОГО) — Batumi, Georgian SSR
• 36th Sukhumskiy Border Detachment (36-й ПОГО) — Sukhumi, Georgian SSR
• 32nd Novorossiyskiy Red Banner Border Detachment (32-й ПОГО) — Novorossiysk, Russian SFSR
• Separate Border-crossing Checkpoint «Novorossiysk» (ОКПП «Новороссийск»)
• Separate Border-crossing Checkpoint «Batumi») (ОКПП «Батуми»)
• Separate Border-crossing Checkpoint «Tbilisi Airport» (ОКПП «Тбилиси-аэропорт»)
• Separate Border-crossing Checkpoint «Astara» (ОКПП «Астара»)
• Separate Border-crossing Checkpoint «Julfa» (ОКПП «Джульфа»)

Naval units:

• 6th Separate Brigade of Border Guard Ships (6-я ОБрПСКР) — Ochamchire, Georgian SSR
• 17th Separate Brigade of Border Guard Ships (17-я ОБрПСКР) — Baku, Azeri SSR
• 21st Separate Brigade of Border Guard Ships (21-я ОБрПСКР) — Poti, Georgian SSR

Air units:

• 12th Separate Training Aviation Regiment (12-й ОУАП) — Tbilisi Airfield

Red Banner Western Border Districtedit

The Red Banner Western Border District (Russian: Краснознамённый Западный пограничный округ) had its headquarters in Kiev. It guarded the Black Sea coastline to the west of the Kerch Strait, the borders with Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and the Ukrainian and Belarusian sections of the Polish-Soviet border. To the north began the AOR of the Red Banner Baltic Border District.

Land units:

• 16th Grodnenskiy Border Detachment (16-й ПОГО) — Grodno, Byelorussian SSR
• 86th Brestkiy Red Banner "F. E. Dzerzhinsky" Border Detachment (86-й ПОГО) — Brest, Byelorussian SSR
• 7th Karpatskiy, Awarded the orders of the Red Star, of Kutuzov and of Alexander Nevsky Border Detachment (7-й ПОГО) — Lviv, Ukrainian SSR
• 27th Mukachevskiy Red Banner Border Detachment (27-й ПОГО) — Mukachevo, Ukrainian SSR
• 98th Chernovitskiy Border Detachment (98-й ПОГО) — Chernivtsi, Ukrainian SSR
• 79th Nizhnednestrovskiy Red Banner Border Detachment (79-й ПОГО) — Chișinău, Moldavian SSR
• 26th Odesskiy Red Banner Border Detachment (26-й ПОГО) — Odessa, Ukrainian SSR
• 107th Simferopolskiy Red Banner Border Detachment (107-й ПОГО) — Simferopol, Crimea, Ukrainian SSR
• Separate Border-crossing Checkpoint «Kiev» (ОКПП «Киев»)
• Separate Border-crossing Checkpoint «Mariupol» (ОКПП «Мариуполь»)
• Separate Border-crossing Checkpoint «Brest» (ОКПП «Брест»)
• Separate Border-crossing Checkpoint «Mostyska» (ОКПП «Мостиска»)
• Separate Border-crossing Checkpoint «Odessa» (ОКПП «Одесса»)
• Separate Border-crossing Checkpoint «Chop» (ОКПП «Чоп»)
• Separate Border-crossing Checkpoint «Izmail» (ОКПП «Измаил»)

Naval units:

• 5th Separate Red Banner Brigade of Border Guard Ships (5-я ОБрПСКР) — Balaklava, Crimea, Ukrainian SSR
• 18th Separate Brigade of Border Guard Ships (18-я ОБрПСКР) — Odessa, Ukrainian SSR

Air units:

• 24th Separate Aviation Squadron (24-я ОАЭ) — Odessa – Shkolniy Airfield

Red Banner Baltic Border Districtedit

The Red Banner Baltic Border District (Russian: Краснознамённый Прибалтийский пограничный округ) had its headquarters in Riga. It guarded the Lithuanian and Kaliningrad sections of the Polish-Soviet border and the Kaliningrad, Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian sections of the Baltic Sea Soviet coastline.

• Land units:
  • 95th Koenigsbergskiy, Awarded the orders of Lenin and of the Red Star Border Detachment (95-й ПОГО) — Pravdinsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russian SFSR
  • 23rd Klaypyedskiy Border Detachment (23-й ПОГО) — Klaipėda, Lithuanian SSR
  • 8th Ventspilsskiy Border Detachment (8-й ПОГО) — Ventspils, Latvian SSR
  • 11th Kuresaarskiy Border Detachment (11-й ПОГО) — Kuressaare, Estonian SSR
  • 106th Tallinnskiy Border Detachment (106-й ПОГО) — Tallinn, Estonian SSR
  • 6th Gdynskiy, Awarded the Order of the Red Star Border Detachment (6-й ПОГО) — Rakvere, Estonian SSR
  • Separate Border-crossing Checkpoint «Kaliningrad» (ОКПП «Калининград»)
  • Separate Border-crossing Checkpoint «Tallinn» (ОКПП «Таллин»)
  • Separate Border-crossing Checkpoint «Riga» (ОКПП «Рига»)
  • Separate Border-crossing Checkpoint «Vilnius» (ОКПП «Вильнюс»)
• Naval units:
  • 4th Separate Brigade of Border Guard Ships (4-я ОБрПСКР) — Liepāja, Latvian SSR
  • 20th Separate Brigade of Border Guard Ships (20-я ОБрПСКР) — Ventspils, Latvian SSR
  • 3rd Separate Red Banner Brigade of Border Guard Ships (3-я ОБрПСКР) — Tallinn, Estonian SSR
• Air units:
  • 20th Separate Aviation Squadron (20-я ОАЭ) — Rakvere Airfield
    • detachments at Riga – Skulte and Ventspils airfields

Red Banner Northwestern Border Districtedit

The Red Banner Northwestern Border District (Краснознамённый Северо-Западный пограничный округ) had its headquarters in Leningrad. It guarded the Russian section of the Baltic coastline, the Finnish-Soviet border, the Barents Sea, White Sea and the Kanin Peninsula coastline.

• Land units:
  • 5-й Leningradskiy пограничный отряд имени Ю. В. Андропова Border Detachment (5-й ПОГО) — Sosnovy Bor, Leningrad Oblast
  • 102-й Vyborgskiy Red Banner пограничный отряд имени С. М. Кирова Border Detachment (102-й ПОГО) — Vyborg, Leningrad Oblast, Russian SFSR
  • 1-й Sortavalskiy Red Banner Border Detachment (1-й ПОГО) — Sortavala, Karelian ASSR, Russian SFSR
  • 80-й Suoyarvskiy Red Banner Border Detachment (80-й ПОГО) — Suoyarvi, Karelian ASSR, Russian SFSR
  • 73-й Rebolskiy Red Banner Border Detachment (73-й ПОГО) — Repola, Karelian ASSR, Russian SFSR
  • 72-й Kalevalskiy, Awarded the Order of the Red Star Border Detachment (72-й ПОГО) — Kalevala, Karelian ASSR, Russian SFSR
  • 101-й Alakurttinskiy Border Detachment (101-й ПОГО) — Alakurtti, Murmansk Oblast, Russian SFSR
  • 100-й Nikelskiy, Awarded the Order of the Red Star Border Detachment (100-й ПОГО) — Nikel, Murmansk Oblast, Russian SFSR
  • 82-й Murmanskiy Red Banner Border Detachment (82-й ПОГО) — Murmansk, Murmansk Oblast, Russian SFSR
  • 4-й Arkhangelskiy Border Detachment (4-й ПОГО) — Arkhangelsk, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russian SFSR
  • Separate Border-crossing Checkpoint «Leningrad» (ОКПП «Ленинград»)
  • Separate Border-crossing Checkpoint «Vyborg» (ОКПП «Выборг»)
• Naval units:
  • 1st Separate Red Banner Brigade of Border Guard Ships (1-я ОБрПСКР) — Kuvshinskaya Salma, Murmansk Oblast, Russian SFSR
  • 2nd Separate Brigade of Border Guard Ships (2-я ОБрПСКР) — Vysotsk, Leningrad Oblast, Russian SFSR
• Air units:
  • 14th Separate Aviation Regiment (14-й ОАП) — Petrozavodsk

Separate Border Detachmentsedit

The main forces of a border district were organised in formations called Border Detachments (singular: Пограничный отряд, abbr. ПОГО). These formations roughly corresponded to separate motor-rifle brigades in the Soviet Army Ground Forces. However, unlike army motor-rifle brigades, which were commanded by Major-generals, the Border Detachments were commanded by Colonels. Four of the border detachments were separate from the districts and reported directly to the Main Directorate:

• 4th Arkhangelsk Border Detachment (4-й Архангельский ПОГО)
Zdroj:https://en.wikipedia.org?pojem=Soviet_Border_Troops
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