19 separate special-purpose company. Special Purpose Regiment

At the peak of development, the special forces of the GRU General Staff consisted of sixteen separate brigades(obrSpN) special purpose(one in each military district or group of forces) and individual companies (orSpN) - one in each combined arms army. With the exception of the Red Banner Transcaucasian Military District, where there were two (12th and 22nd, Kandahar) brigades.

Each special forces unit included a separate company - a company of special mines - the most formidable (and secret) weapon of special forces - wearable nuclear bombs. To get to serve in such a company was equally difficult and honorable - a kind of elite of the elite ...

Specialists (signalmen and sappers), junior command personnel, as well as warrant officers for special forces units were trained in the city of Pechory (Leningrad Military District) in the 1071st Special Purpose Training Regiment (disbanded in 1999). In 1985, the 467th separate special-purpose training regiment was formed in the city of Chirchik (Uzbek SSR, Turkestan military district). They trained both sergeants and many specialists - reconnaissance snipers, gunners, AGS-17 grenade launchers, sappers and radio operators, as well as ordinary reconnaissance officers.

Officers for special forces were trained on the basis of the Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School. Initially, it was one company of cadets. Since 1981, in connection with the war in Afghanistan, on the basis of platoons of the famous ninth company, the 13th and 14th companies were formed, which were later consolidated into a battalion. Since 1994, the battalion in full strength was transferred to the Novosibirsk Higher Combined Arms Command School and deployed to five companies (the First Chechen began). Before the collapse of the USSR, in 1991, officers for special forces were trained by the intelligence department of the Kyiv VOK. The graduates of other combined-arms (infantry, in other words) schools were not closed to special forces. Graduates of the Baku, Alma-Ata, Tashkent, Far East and other schools served no less valiantly in special forces.

Specialist officers came from specialized schools. Engineers were provided by the Tyumen Higher Military Engineering Command School. Signalers - Cherepovets Higher Military Command School of Communications. Perm Higher Military Command Engineering School missile troops supplied specialists to special mining companies (jokingly, the commander of the special mining group was called "commander atomic bomb", the group was not numerous - only four scouts). Motorists came from Chelyabinsk, airborne service specialists from Ryazan, from the Faculty of Engineering.

Served in special forces and naval officers. Each of the four fleets of the USSR Navy and the Caspian flotilla had units naval special forces. From separate brigades in the part of the Navy, companies were regularly seconded to undergo naval training. And the personnel of individual special forces companies (as well as reconnaissance battalions of combined arms divisions) underwent airborne training at the training base of individual brigades. In addition, there was a regular rotation officers by military districts. As a result, in a small officer corps, almost everyone knew everyone, if not personally, then through one handshake. This contributed to the formation of a special corporate spirit.

The retraining of special forces officers took place at the legendary "SHOT" courses in the city of Solnechnogorsk, Moscow Region, for officers of special mining companies - in Zagoryansky. Some of the officers could continue their studies at the Military Academy. Frunze or at the Military Academy Soviet army(otherwise it was called the Military Diplomatic Academy). Graduates of the latter often went to the Foreign Intelligence Service of the GRU General Staff or to the corps of military attaches.

The main purpose of special forces is reconnaissance and sabotage activities in the rear of regular enemy troops. Primary targets are nuclear attack weapons, command and control posts, headquarters, high-precision weapons systems, airfields and facilities air defense. Concept combat use special forces did not provide for his actions to combat partisans, bandit groups, illegal armed groups, militants, and so on. However, it was the special forces units that turned out to be the most adapted to counterguerrilla warfare in the deserts and mountains of Afghanistan and Chechnya due to their high morale, professionalism and flexible tactics. The special forces have to perform tasks that are not at all characteristic of them - guarding arsenals and airfields, escorting columns, personal protection of senior officers of the district headquarters and the headquarters itself, searching for and destroying armed deserters. (There were also quite exotic tasks, such as the search for the missing artillery ammunition with a special charge) typical tasks infantry or commandant's companies most often it was associated with the degradation of the personnel of motorized rifle units and, as a result, the inability to perform their tasks.

At the end of the 90s, special mining companies were abolished in the brigades. Separate companies were abolished. The training regiment and the ensign school were disbanded. Since 2010, there has been no recruitment of cadets to the Novosibirsk VOK for the special intelligence department. The recruitment of officers of special forces units to military academies and special courses has been stopped. The military-political leadership of the country also decided to disband separate special forces brigades. Today, there are four of them left in the Armed Forces of the country! The Russian Federation is not the USSR, the territory is smaller and there seems to be no global enemy, but it is very reckless to do so, I think!

In fact, special forces units remained the only units capable of resisting irregular armed formations in local conflicts. The price of combat experience of special forces is more than eight hundred dead scouts! And it turns out no one needs it! And this is at a time when the Caucasus is blazing, and sparks fly to the central part of the country. Personally, I do not understand such decisions. A gift for the holiday was the recent decision of the leadership of the Ministry of Defense to abolish the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff. military intelligence we don't need! So decided Serdyukov. The Supreme Commander approved! Of course, the officers have not gone away - they joined the ranks of the FSB and the FSO, Vympel and regional anti-terrorist centers, OMON, and so on. Others joined the orderly ranks of the personal guards of the oligarchs, someone went into business, someone into crime. But this is another story, this is not the history of special forces.

Happy holiday! Happy 61st Anniversary of the Special Forces!

You probably don't know what it was. But-fact! True, it lasted less than a day.
Because it was the most, that neither is, the most typical "war by mistake"

In short:

1983
year. The "Kabul" special forces company, with the support of two DSBs, was sent
to dismantle a village located in the Zaranj region for building materials.
Information has been received that locality used
"spirits" as a base camp, and at the same time the final point on
routes of large caravans from Iran. At such "points" caravans
ceased to exist as a whole and disintegrated into many
small caravans, and to catch 6-7 donkeys on the passes "berets" on
yuh did not rest.

As usual, for information support
operations were answered by KHAD (Afghan bloody gebnya, which, unlike
the Afghan army brought at least some benefit to the Limited
contingent). Its agents were supposed to place a day before the operation
in the mountains triangular panels, the sharp ends of which would point to
village Further, the pilots, using these landmarks, go to the target, "air
cavalry" went and ....

Here at this stage of preliminary
preparations and there were misunderstandings. Whether the KhADovtsy got lost and wandered into
the territory of a neighboring state, or whether the Iranians had a similar
the manner of marking border outposts - most likely, he will not know the truth
no one .... The pilots then swore with one voice that the relief they saw
their terrain one to one corresponded to those demonstrated to them
before the operation, aerial photographs and mock-up.

In short, the valiant Soviet special forces made a surprise attack on the territory of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

village
crumbled in a few minutes and without loss - there are clearly no "guests" here
waited. In the process of collecting trophies, the brave "Soviet Rambo" drew attention
to the fact that some of the dead "spirits" are dressed in some obviously unfamiliar
them a uniform, and even with shoulder straps (the latter in the conditions of a guerrilla war
- is an obvious nonsense). Taking their eyes off the ground, the fighters with surprise
found in the middle of the village a house not marked on their plans in
european style with a tricolor flag on the roof - iranian post
border guard. Interrogation of prisoners finally clarified the situation -
"How in Leningrad?!?".

They "missed" by 15 kilometers,
and at the same time they also committed an act, you understand, aggression. In the asset "Kabulskaya
company", however, could record for itself the fact that irritated by all
according to the rules, the village was still used by the Mujahideen as a transshipment
bases on the same caravan route - but who cares? because
in the morning the home team paid a return friendly visit to
as part of a motorized infantry battalion with the support of two Phantoms.

Fight
in this situation, the spetsnaz of desire, of course, did not have a company
considered it useful to make a maneuver "accelerated withdrawal from the occupied
position", in simpler terms - try to VERY quickly move away
international incident. Because the spetsnaz arsenal is calculated
a lot for something - but not for conducting full-fledged hostilities
against superior enemy forces, which also has aviation.

Necessary
to say that in this operation the "Kabul company" practically had no
losses. But pizdyuly their "at home" were waiting for the grandest. Iran demanded
apologies, bloodshed and the convening of an extraordinary UN assembly. Moscow "did
face" and apologized.

But these guys walked around Kabul as heroes. "If not for the order, they would have reached Tehran," yeah.

However, this is already from the field of "hunting tales" and "war songs".

BUT
on the account of the "Kabul company" in addition to the "Soviet-Iranian war" was
many really successful and beautiful operations and 8 years "across the river"
- more than all parts of the special forces of the Limited Contingent of the Soviet
troops in Afghanistan.

In just a few years, units and subunits of the Special Forces have experienced an amazing round of development: from a serious reduction and reassignment to the formation of new brigades and even battalions, re-equipment with latest designs weapons and military equipment, means of communication, reconnaissance and surveillance devices. But, despite the successful actions " polite people» in the Crimea, the Russian special forces have a lot of serious problems.

Everything that has been happening since 2009 in special forces and subunits has received from the special forces themselves the rather apt name “chaotic throwing” or, even more simply, “chaos”. As they joke in the units and subunits of the Special Forces: “ At first they withered, but now we are trying to bloom in a new way. But everything is somehow unsuccessful».

wild brigades

From the very beginning announced by the ex-Minister of Defense and former boss The General Staff of the transition to a new look of the special forces brigades underwent a sudden reduction and reorganization. Moreover, units and subunits of the Special Forces, by a strong-willed decision of the leadership of the military department, were reassigned to the intelligence department ground forces, leaving the structure of the GRU of the General Staff. But the department responsible for the special forces remained in the GRU.

In 2009, the 12th (city of Asbest) and 67th (Berdsk) special-purpose brigades were disbanded, and the 24th special forces brigade managed to change several locations in just a year and a half, moving first from near Ulan-Ude to Irkutsk, and then to Berdsk, losing with each movement of military personnel who did not want to continue serving in the new garrisons.

According to some reports, it was planned to disband the youngest brigade - the 10th brigade from Krasnodar Molkino, created in 2003 to solve special tasks in the North Caucasus. True, the situation in the region forced them to abandon these plans. But still, one of the detachments of the brigade was transferred to the newly formed experimental 100th reconnaissance brigade.

In other units and subunits of the special forces, the positions of officers and ensigns were reduced, and the number of conscripts who replaced contractors increased significantly. At one time, unit commanders had a special schedule for the dismissal of contract soldiers, for which they were asked at each meeting.

According to the original plan, approved by the former NHS, two or three contract servicemen were enough for a group of 12 people - a deputy group commander, a sniper and a signalman. As the soldiers of the special forces themselves say, at first they broke everything, and then they began to build a new system, not fully understanding what they wanted in the end.

In 2009, the so-called national special-purpose battalions appeared in several combined arms brigades. In particular, in the 19th Motorized Rifle Brigade, such a battalion is staffed by servicemen of the Ingush nationality, and in the 18th and 8th brigades - mainly by Chechens.

Even more chaos in the reform of special forces units brought the Olympics in Sochi. To ensure it, the Ministry of Defense began the formation of a special-purpose brigade - the 346th obrSpN and separate regiment- 25th opSpN. According to some reports, the main task of these military units was to protect the Sochi region from possible terrorist raids from the Greater Caucasus Range.

It is noteworthy that until 2012, before the appointment of Sergei Shoigu as Minister of Defense, in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation there was only one special-purpose regiment - the 45th Special Forces Special Forces of the Airborne Forces, although formally (despite the name) was not part of the structure of the units and subunits of the GRU special forces. And the 25th regiment stationed in Stavropol became unique military unit. According to some reports, at the stage of formation, his companies were “cut into” areas of responsibility in the mountains. The regiment coped with the task of protecting the Olympics "excellently", however, like other units and subunits of the Special Forces involved.

Since 2013, the special forces, having returned under the wing of the GRU, began, as the servicemen themselves joke, “to multiply rapidly.” Literally in two years, the national battalions of the Special Forces appeared as part of the 4th and 7th military bases. It is noteworthy that these units are recruited mainly from residents of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, although, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense, only those who have passports of citizens of the Russian Federation.

In the reconnaissance battalions of several brigades, in particular the 34th motorized rifle (mountain) battalion, special-purpose companies appeared. After an unsuccessful experiment from the 100th reconnaissance brigade, the Special Forces detachment returned to the 10th special forces brigade, and in its place a reconnaissance battalion with two special forces companies was formed. Until recently, the 33rd reconnaissance brigade (mountain) also existed on the same staff. True, this military unit was once again reorganized, but already into an ordinary motorized rifle brigade.

It should be noted that each combined-arms, air assault brigade (regiment) has a company of snipers, which is also formally a special forces unit. At the same time, in the North Caucasian 8th, 18th, 19th motorized rifle brigades, in addition to sniper companies and special forces battalions, there are also groups of snipers - as they say in the North Caucasus Military District, motorized rifle-special forces brigades.

Despite the return of units and subunits of the Special Forces to the structure of the Main Intelligence Directorate, a paradoxical situation arose with their subordination. For example, Special Forces brigades are subordinate to the GRU, and various battalions and companies are simultaneously subordinate to brigade commanders, intelligence chiefs of the army and the district, and in some cases, to the chief of staff and personally to the district commander. At the same time, the GRU is responsible for their training, and also, under certain conditions, for combat use.

Whatever the warrior, then Rambo

In fact, in two years, a kind of special forces took place in the Russian Armed Forces, when special forces units appeared even in motorized rifle and tank brigades. It is clear that the need not only for trained intelligence officers, but also for signalmen, special miners, etc. has increased many times over. We must not forget about snipers, who must complete special courses, until recently held only in the suburbs.

One of the attempts to solve the problem of training specialists was to expand the capabilities of specialized training centers for reconnaissance and Special Forces soldiers in each district. For example, in North Caucasus District the Daryal center specializes in mountain training, and a similar military unit in the Central Military District specializes in actions in winter conditions, in particular in wooded and hilly areas.

But as special forces officers admit, the main problem is the small proportion of contract servicemen, especially in the newly formed sniper companies, as well as companies and battalions of the Special Forces. Often, there are two or three contractors for several dozen conscripts. Not much better with personnel in the brigades of the Special Forces, although there the commanders from the beginning of the creation of a new look made every effort to preserve the backbone of the established military teams.

It is worth noting that despite the widespread belief that all Special Forces brigades were contract brigades before the new look, the percentage of recruits in Special Forces units was quite large. Only the North Caucasian 10th and 22nd Brigade Special Forces could boast of a high proportion of professionals. Although in August 2008 urgently transferred to South Ossetia The 108th detachment of the Special Forces of the 22nd brigade had to be reinforced with consolidated reconnaissance groups of contract servicemen from other parts of this special forces unit.

Until recently, of the four companies and individual platoons in the detachments of the special forces of the brigades, only one company was fully contracted, not counting individual military personnel, in particular, armored personnel carrier drivers, signalmen, miners, etc. All other units consisted of conscripts. It is clear that they tried not to attract conscripts to carry out combat missions, therefore, for the task of the brigades, it was difficult to put up one Special Forces detachment from three special forces companies, a special weapons company and individual platoons.

True, by now a decision has been made to “not spread a thin layer” of contract servicemen over the entire brigade (battalion), but to form a so-called contract detachment or company.

One of the most acute problems is the training of special forces snipers. Even in the sniper companies of the combined arms brigades, several Austrian Steyr-Mannlicher SSG-04 rifles are currently in the state. they train for several months at courses in the Moscow region, where they not only master Steyr, but also undergo special tactical training, topography, camouflage, etc.

So far, only officers and contract servicemen are being sent to the courses, since the conscript will most likely be transferred to the reserve upon completion of the courses. Classes are quite difficult, they require candidates not only physical endurance, but also high level intellect. Alas, it is not always possible to pick up such a contingent. Often, military personnel return to their units expelled. It is noteworthy that the snipers of one of the motorized rifle brigades received certificates of completion of the courses, but according to the results of the training, they were not trusted with complex and expensive Austrian rifles.

Soldiers of unconventional warfare

Not only the structure and composition of the units and subunits of the Special Forces, but also the tasks, have undergone changes. Despite the fact that the documents regulating the combat use of special forces remain classified as "Secret" and even "Top Secret", you can learn from open sources that one of the main tasks of the units and subunits of the Special Forces is to conduct so-called special intelligence. It is not only about observation, but also about conducting ambushes, raids and searches deep behind enemy lines. At present, work in zones of local conflicts has been added to these tasks.

If you look at the American charter FM 3-18 Special Forces Operations, adopted in May 2014, you will find that the so-called special intelligence is not on the short list of the American Green Berets, whose the main task, as indicated in chapter 3 of the field manual, the conduct of unconventional warfare, literally - unconventional hostilities. The second most important task is the training of foreign specialists, and the third is counterinsurgency.

The experience of counter-terrorist operations in the North Caucasus has proved that it is time for special forces units to move from special intelligence to work in a much more a wide range. According to some reports, the new combat regulations of the Special Forces units have new sections that regulate the assigned tasks.

However, such an expansion of functions does not always find understanding not only among the special forces themselves, but also, and more importantly, among the military command and control bodies responsible for planning the combat use of units and subunits of the Special Forces, which traditionally believe that their main task is to conduct reconnaissance, as well as protect headquarters , mobile command and control posts.

Although the annexation of Crimea to Russia last year once again proved that special forces are not only intelligence behind enemy lines, but also a tool for solving complex military-political tasks. The special forces were not abandoned for the purpose of reconnaissance, but blockaded military units, acted against hostile elements, organized local self-defense forces - in fact, they waged the same unconventional warfare prescribed in American charters. But, despite the tasks declared in the new Russian documents, the combat training program in most units and subunits of the Special Forces is still focused mainly on reconnaissance.

It is worth noting that in the US Army, the "green berets" are grouped into special forces assigned to certain regions. the globe. In particular, the 1st Special Forces Group, based in Fort Lewis, operates in Pacific region, 10th - focused on Europe, the Balkans, etc.

Depending on the military specialty, the training of an American commando takes from one year (engineer, heavy weapons specialist) to two years (medic). The structure of not only groups, but the entire command special operations optimized for unconventional warfare.

The question is whether such special forces are expedient in Russian army? What non-traditional fighting can lead a special-purpose company as part of a reconnaissance battalion, actually performing the task of pre-existing reconnaissance and airborne companies, or a sniper company of a combined arms or even an airborne assault brigade, moreover, staffed mainly by military conscripts?

It must be admitted that the vast majority of the newly formed units and subunits of the Special Forces are more likely not special forces, but some kind of military intelligence agency with increased capabilities. But the success of the “polite people” in Crimea led the leadership of the Ministry of Defense to a paradoxical conclusion: instead of structuring a chaotic mass of various companies, battalions, regiments and brigades of special forces and clearly allocating tasks and areas of responsibility between them, special forces continue.

True, judging by the latest decisions of the military department, in particular the reorganization of the 45th reconnaissance regiment Airborne Forces into a separate reconnaissance brigade, as well as changes in the organizational and staffing structures of the units and subunits of the Special Forces, most likely, the quantity is still beginning to turn into quality.

Return status

In less than six years of cuts and reorganization, units and subunits of the Special Forces have grown, even becoming part of the combined arms brigades. True, special forces have so far created a large number of difficulties: there is no established structure, no trained specialists.

« There are never too many special forces. This is a handy tool for hard work ”, - such a phrase can summarize the opinion of many servicemen about what is happening now in special forces units and subunits.

Nevertheless, it cannot be denied that in the course of several years the Russian Armed Forces, in spite of all the difficulties, have created well-prepared special forces units capable of solving even such complex tasks as non-traditional military operations, which was proved by the events in the Crimea. The conclusion suggests itself: the special forces must be the elite. And by definition, there can't be too many. So let military intelligence remain intelligence, without any "specials". It will not diminish her authority.

URSN (Special Forces Training Company listen)) - the first special forces unit in the internal troops of the Soviet Union.

According to the staff of the URSN, it was the 9th company of the 3rd motorized rifle battalion 2nd motorized rifle regiment Separate motorized rifle division special purpose VV Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR. F. E. Dzerzhinsky (OMSDON).

In the 70s and 80s, in the troops of the Moscow garrison and among the employees of the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate, it was better known as the "Ninth Company" - special forces internal troops Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR.

Story

For the first time, the issue of creating special forces units arose in preparation for the 1980 Olympics, which was to be held in Moscow. Everyone remembered the failure of the police operation to free the hostages in Munich, when the entire Israeli team, taken hostage by terrorists, died.

In the structure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs at that time there was no full-time unit capable of solving the tasks of releasing hostages, detaining or eliminating highly trained armed groups. True, in 1973 SOVO (combined operational military detachment) was formed to solve special problems. He took part in the operation to free hostages held by terrorists in a hijacked plane at Bykovo Airport. However, this formation was created temporarily, urgently, for a specific task. Military personnel gathered in the detachment for the duration of the task various parts, as well as employees of various services. Accordingly, coherence, interaction and professionalism in such a unit were lame.

Considering all of the above, on December 29, 1977, the training company special purpose (URSN). The first company commander was Captain V. A. Maltsev (in 2002, Major General, Deputy Head of the Operations Directorate of the Main Command of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia), and one of the platoon commanders, Lieutenant Sergei Lysyuk, the future commander of the Vityaz, Hero of Russia. The choice for the 9th company was not accidental. In terms of the level of general physical training of the fighters, it certainly surpassed the rest of the units not only of the 2nd regiment, but of the entire division. The company, which was a sports unit that served as a base, a reserve for the Dynamo society, was staffed exclusively by conscripts who, at the time of the call, had a sports category of at least a candidate for master of sports in athletics, gymnastics, boxing, wrestling (sambo, judo), shooting and other sports disciplines.

There were three platoons in the company, twenty people each: the 1st - construction, the 2nd - to prepare for action in the gym and for a demonstration show to the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Boxers, wrestlers, acrobats, gymnasts, etc. were selected for the platoon. The 3rd platoon was also athletic, but focused on handling weapons. He prepared like a fireman. The armament was regular. But in the 3rd platoon, there were additionally two AKM assault rifles with PBS.

It was in this unit that, for the first time in the Soviet Union, the maroon beret was adopted as a uniform headdress. By the spring of 1978, by order of the deputy commander of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Lieutenant General Sidorov, 50 berets were brought from Gorky. 25 green and 25 maroon. The form was normal. Only the 2nd platoon was dressed in a uniform for areas with a hot climate. It differed from the usual one in that straight-cut trousers with ankle fasteners and boots are worn. This form was considered the highest chic. Later, the right to wear the specified headgear was granted only to fighters who had reached a certain level of combat and physical training. To this end, the applicant had to pass the Trials. URSN - the first special forces unit in the internal troops Soviet Union. It was in this company that the traditions of the special forces of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs were born. It was this company that served as the foundation for the creation in the future of all parts of the special forces of the USSR MV and, subsequently, the Russian MV. It was on the basis of the UBSN, after the company was reformed into a battalion, that the first Vityaz unit was formed. In fact, URSN is the founder of the special forces of the explosives.

At the first stage, a program was created, which provided for actions for various emergency situations on Olympic Games, namely when taking hostages in land transport, in airplane. The materials of the program were based on the experience and developments of the special forces of the KGB, the Airborne Troops, and foreign anti-terrorist units.

Intensive classes made it possible to prepare the company for the Olympics to perform the assigned tasks with high quality. The company at that time often trained together with the USSR KGB Group "A" (Alpha) being created at that time. URSN fighters surpassed Alpha in terms of physical training, but the "Alfovtsy" were better in terms of fire. It should be recalled here that officers served in Alpha, and conscripts served in URSN.

URSN, or, as it was also called, the 9th company, was a legend not only of the Dzerzhinsky Division, but also of the internal troops as a whole.

Participation in military operations

• The operation to free the hostages held by armed criminals in a school near Izhevsk in the summer of 1981. None of the hostages were hurt.

• suppression riots on the basis of the Ossetian-Ingush conflict in Ordzhonikidze on October 21, 1981, the detention of the instigators.

• Protection of investigators of the Prosecutor General's Office who were involved in the "Uzbek case" in 1984.

• September 20, 1986, together with group "A" of the KGB of the USSR, participation in the operation to apprehend armed criminals who killed several policemen and free the plane they seized in Ufa.

• February 1988 - the suppression of Armenian pogroms in the city of Sumgayit of the Azerbaijan SSR, the detention of the organizers of the riots, active participants.

• July 4. Operation to unblock the runway and air traffic control tower of Zvartnots airport in Yerevan, seized by extremists in order to prevent the arrival of military transport aircraft with OMSDON units. The airport was unblocked without bloodshed, which allowed the planes to land safely and the arrived units to turn around in time.

• September 1988 - security of the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Armenia, higher officials ministries.

• The second half of 1988 - special measures to suppress the activities of illegal gangs in the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region and the city of Baku.

• In 1989, a conflict broke out in the Ferghana Valley between Uzbek extremists and Meskhetian Turks. As a result of the skillful actions of the soldiers and officers of the company, the lives of hundreds of people were saved. different nationalities, many crimes were prevented, a large number of weapons were confiscated, the instigators of the riots were arrested, and gangs that were preparing terrorist attacks against civilians were liquidated.

• In 1990, in the Sukhumi temporary detention facility, a group of prisoners sentenced to death penalty took the employees of the temporary detention center hostage, after which they opened the cells with the arrested, took possession of the weapons stored in the detention center, which had previously been confiscated from the population, and demanded transport. The operation to free the hostages was carried out jointly by employees of the special unit of the KGB of the USSR "Alpha" and URSN fighters. As a result of the operation, the organizers of the riot were destroyed, none of the hostages were injured. One Alpha employee and one URSN fighter were wounded.

The Fergana events prompted the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to increase the organizational and staffing structure of the special forces unit of the VV. In 1989, the URSN was reorganized into a battalion (UBSN), on the basis of which the formation began on May 5, 1991 special unit"Knight". Later, other special forces units were created in the internal troops, but the day the URSN was created can rightfully be considered the birthday of the entire military special forces of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Notes

Sources

• On June 19, solemn events dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the formation of a separate operational division of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia will be held.

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