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Originally Posted by stilleto69
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That's an understatement! It's amazing.
I have a KGB Border Guard orbat on my website at
https://sites.google.com/site/chico2...me/pact-orbats. Send me a PM for the MVD.
Here's a MVD unit history I've worked up, part of a expanded and revised v1 Soviet Vehicle Guide Jason, I and some others have been working on for many years:
104th GUARD DIVISION
This pre-war unit was stationed along the BAM railroad to protect that strategic transportation route against saboteurs and Chinese infiltrators. Headquartered in Tynda at the junction of the BAM and the TSRR, the division’s mission largely evaporated following the rapid Chinese retreats of the 1995 campaign which moved the front line hundreds of kilometers to the south. At the same time, the rail lines and traffic which provided the support for the Soviet expeditionary force in China were under constant attack from Chinese partisans. The commander of the Far Eastern TVD received permission from the Ministry of the Interior to redeploy the 104th to protect the Trans-Manchurian Railroad. The division split into a western group and an eastern group, locating garrisons along the line as Soviet railroad troops regauged the line from standard gauge to the wider Soviet gauge from both the western terminus of the line at Tarskaya and from its eastern end at Ussuriyisk. The division’s troops were in nearly constant action throughout 1996 and 1997, defending bridges, defiles, rail yards and repair facilities against hundreds of Chinese guerrilla detachments. Following the collapse of Chinese resistance the threat changed to that of maintaining the line against plunder by desperate refugees and countering raids by marauders and bandits. The division protected the trains carrying the 13th and 20th Guards Armies when those formations were rushed to Europe to stabilize the deteriorating situation there in September 1997. Throughout 1998 and 1999 the division’s soldiers remained in place protecting the dwindling numbers of trains and their infrastructure that were shipping valuable resources and war booty from the occupation of China back to the war-battered USSR. In early 2000 the last diesel locomotives on the railroad stopped operating and the division used the handful of steam locomotives (brought out of reserve depot storage along the TSRR) to evacuate itself from east to west along the Trans-Manchurian to Chita, where it established security along the TSRR west towards the ruins of Ulan-Ude and rebel-held Irkutsk. It remained nominally loyal to central authorities but had not been in communication with them for some time.
Subordination: Eastern Siberian MVD District
Current Location: HQ in Chita, detachments to west along Trans-Siberian RR
Manpower: 2500