Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD)
Source:
http://www.warfare.ru/?
Table 2. Non-MoD commands and deployments
COMMAND LOCATION DISTR/FLT
MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS Moscow
Operative: 462,700 pers.+ 89,200 civilians. Internal Troops: 186,300 pers. + 5,200 civilians
INTERNAL TROOPS (VV) Moscow MVD
186,300 pers. + 5,200 civilians
NORTH WEST DISTRICT St Petersburg NW
12053 pers., 55 ifv/apc
?DIV Arkhangelsk NW
33 BDE Lomonosov NW
2644 pers., 34 BMP, 12 PM-38
1 BDE Siktivkar NW
ICEBREAKER'S GUARD RGT St Petersburg distr NW
INDEP GUARD RGT St Petersburg distr NW
security of St Petersburg Nuclear Electro Station (LAES)
MOSCOW DISTRICT Moscow Msk
56,222 pers., 175 ifv/apc
1 INDEP SPECIAL PURPOS DIV Balashikha Msk
ex-Dzerzhinsky div (ODON). 9000 pers., 9000 pers., 93 T-62, BTR, BMP
118 VITYAZ SPETZNAZ RGT Balashikha Msk
mvd spetznaz
?DIV Sarov Msk
12 DIV Tula Msk
located in 8 Russian districts
?TRG DIV Mulino Msk
55 DIV Moscow Msk
security in Moscow; 6000 pers (incl 2000 officers), 8 rgts, OSNAZ bde
21 MOT OSNAZ BDE Sofrino Msk
2650 pers., 36 BMP, 100 BTR, AGS-17, 4 mot rgts
23 MOT OSNAZ BDE Moscow distr Msk
NORTH CAUCASIAN DISTRICT Krasnodar NC
2 OSNAZ DIV Krasnodar NC
1923 pers., 451,66 rgts, 34 BMP
54 OSNAZ DIV NC
8 bde, 59,81 rgts
99 OSNAZ DIV Rostov, Persianovka NC
1983 pers., 33 BMP, 4 BMD-1, 1 D-30; Cherkmen rgt: 1774 pers., 33 BMD-1
100 OSNAZ DIV Novocherkassk NC
6400 pers., 69 T-62, 18 D-30, 101 BMP. Kadamovsky (trg centr), Kazach'y Lagerya (ex-tk div), 46-49,57 rgts
8 OSNAZ BDE Nalchik NC
2368 pers., 33 BMP
22 OSNAZ BDE Kalach NC
2596 pers., 27 BMP
26 OSNAZ BDE Vladikavkaz NC
46 OSNAZ BDE Chechnya NC
2000 pers., 150 BTR
102 OSNAZ BDE Dagestan NC
?OSNAZ BDE Vladikavkaz NC
2004 pers., 12 BMP
?INDEP OSNAZ RGT Nazran NC
680 pers
7 SPETZNAZ VV GROUP NC
15 SPETZNAZ VV TROOP NC
?INDEP HEL RGT Rostov NC
2 Mi-24, Mi-8
VOLGA URAL DISTRICT Saratov VU
19,831 pers., 117 ifv/apc
?DIV Kirov VU
#7487
54 DIV Gaiva, Perm VU
2818 pers., 15 BMP
35 BDE Samara VU
ex- 80 div.
34 BDE Shumilovo VU
2594 pers., 30 BMP
?SPETZNAZ VV BDE Kazan VU
#7474
URAL DISTRICT U
?DIV Ozersk (Chelyabinsk) U
12 SPETZNAZ VV TROOP N Tagil U
23 SPETZNAZ VV TROOP Chelyabinsk U
SIBERIAN DISTRICT Novosibirsk Sib
98 DIV Kemerovo Sib
89 DIV Novosibirsk Sib
?DIV Seversk Sib
?BDE Irkutsk Sib
ex- div
19 SPETZNAZ VV TROOP Sib
20 SPETZNAZ VV GROUP Sib
EASTERN DISTRICT Khabarovsk Sib
Far East Federal distr except Yakutia and Kamchatka
?DIV Tynda East
Baikal-Amur Pathway guard
?INDEP RGT Vladivostok East
1 bn Vladivostok, 1 bn Ussuryysk
?INDEP HEL SQDN Khabarovsk East
SPECIAL COMDS Moscow SC
SAROV INDUSTRIAL DIV Sarov SC
#3274, 4 rgts, nuclear objects security
SEVERSK INDUSTRIAL DIV Seversk SC
OZERSK INDUSTRIAL DIV Ozersk SC
#3273
EKATIRENBURG INDUSTRIAL DIV Ekatirenburg SC
+ Zlatoust rgt
MOSCOW INDUSTRIAL ASSOC. Moscow SC
#3272
INDUSTRIAL DIV Novosibirsk SC
INDUSTRIAL RGT Angarsk SC
SEA COMDS
1 SEA TROOP Khabarovsk East
1988: 262 pers., 42 boats
2 SEA TROOP Murmansk NW
Atomflot; 22 pers., 4 boats
LAKE GUARD BOATS DIV Ozersk (Ural) U
5 INDEP SEA TRG CENTER Severobaikalsk Sib
2 comps, trg boats
GUARD BOATS SECTION Sosnovy Bor NW
5 boats incl 18623 class
GUARD BOATS SECTION Zheleznogorsk Sib
Minister --- NURGALIYEV, Rashid Gumarovich (Gazeta.ru, 9 Mar 04).
Previous Minister was GRYZLOV, Boris (RIA Novosti, 28 Mar 01).
Previous Minister:
RUSHAYLO, Vladimir (Lenta.ru, 12:24 MT, 12 Jul 00), was appointed Secretary of the Security Council (RIA Novosti, 28 Mar 01).
First Deputy Minister, State Secretary --- VASILYEV, Vladimir (Kommersant, 5 Jul 01).
A veteran central MVD official, rather than a St. Petersburger, and appears to have been brought in because he was a foe of Rushaylo. Vasilyev was made first deputy minister and state secretary of the MVD ( Sobraniye, 2 Apri 01, p. 3227) at the same time as Gryzlov's appointment as minister. Grani.ru (28 Mar 01) said Vasilyev was a specialist in fighting economic crime and did much to bring professional law enforcement officers back into the MVD but found it impossible to work under Rushaylo and, when the latter became minister, Vasilyev quickly found a job in the Security Council. Grani.ru said his popularity in the MVD is "common knowledge" and "Vasilyev is not bound by any commitments to oligarchs."
Deputy Minister, Commander of Internal Troops --- TIKHOMIROV, Vyacheslav, Col-Gen, appointed by Acting President Putin, (lenta.ru, 21:17 MT. 22 Jan 00).
Deputy Minister and Chief of the Federal Service for Economic and Tax Crimes --- VERYOVKIN-ROKHALSKY, Sergey, Lt-Gen, appointed (ITAR-TASS, 25 Mar 03).
Deputy Minister, Chief of the Criminal Police Sservice --- . NURGALIYEV, Rashid, Colonel-General (Agentstvo Voyennykh Novostey, 2 Jul 02).
Deputy Minister, Chief of Rear Support Service --- IGNATYEV, Mikhail Aleksandrovich, Lt-Gen (Rossiyskaya Gazeta 12 Jul 01 P 2).
Deputy Minister, Chief of Public Security Service --- CHEKALIN, Aleksandr, Col-Gen (Agentstvo Voyennykh Novostey, 10 Jul 01).
Deputy Minister, Chief of Personnel --- SOLOVYEV, Yevgeniy (appointed, Agentstvo Voyennykh Novostey, 4 Apr 01).
Deputy Minister, Chief of Investigative Committee --- MOZYAKOV, Vitaly (appointed, Agentstvo Voyennykh Novostey, 4 Apr 01).
Deputy Minister --- GOLUBEV, Ivan, Col-Gen (Kommersant, 5 Jul 01).
Organization & Inspection Main Directorate [MVD]
[The Organization and Inspection Main Directorate replaced the MVD Main Staff (Kommersant, 5 Jul 01).]
First Deputy Chief --- BOKOV, Aleksandr, Colonel (Kommersant, 5 Jul 01).
Apparat
Head --- NOVIKOV, Andrey (from St. Petersburg) (Kommersant, 5 April 01; Moskovskiy Komsomolets, 7 April 01).
Artillery
Chief --- KIREYEV, Anatoliy, Col, (Krasnaya Zvezda, 5 Dec 02).
Aviation
Chief --- PYLNEV, Yuri, Maj-Gen. (Agentstvo Voyennykh Novostey, 18 Feb 03).
Eighth State Directorate [MVD Main Staff]
• («8-ое Государственное управление МВД»)
• Apparently responsible for the GOVD for the city of Mezhgore, the UVD for Beloretsk-15, and the UVD for Beloretsk-16 (Otechestvo, No 3, 21 Feb 00).
Chief --- TEREKHOV, A.A. (Otechestvo, No 3, 21 Feb 00).
Criminal Investigation Directorate [MVD Main Staff]
Head --- Gordiyenko, Vladimir, Major General (Agentstvo Voyennykh Novostey 2 Jul 01).
"Gordiyenko joined the police in 1970. A native of the city of Kemerovo, southern Siberia, he started the career from a post of police inspector. Later he taught in a higher educational establishment and then was transferred to Moscow where he became senior inspector in the main criminal investigation department. For some time he headed the criminal investigation department in Uzbekistan, but then returned to Moscow to assume the post of first deputy head of a department in the Interior Ministry. Gordiyenko is a candidate of legal sciences. He has been awarded the Order of Courage and personal arms. His colleagues characterise him as a high-class professional" (Agentstvo Voyennykh Novostey 2 Jul 01).
Criminal Police Service [MVD Main Staff]
(Deputy Minister) Chief of the Criminal Police Sservice --- . NURGALIYEV, Rashid, Colonel-General (Agentstvo Voyennykh Novostey, 2 Jul 02).
["Nurgaliyev previously worked in the economic security department of the Federal Security Service (FSB), where he headed the section for combating the illegal drug turnover. Prior to his current appointment he was deputy director and head of the inspection department in the FSB" (Agentstvo Voyennykh Novostey, 2 Jul 02).]
Chief
[His predecessor was -- Bobrovskiy, Nikolay Leonidovich, Major-General, appointed (Rossiyskaya Gazeta 12 Jul 01 P 2). BOBROVSKIY was "born in Ivanovo in 1952, graduated from the USSR KGB elite educational institutions, and has served for around 25 years in the state security and foreign intelligence organs. He has great experience in operational work. During the last few years he has worked in the Russian Federation Presidential Staff and the government apparatus and was deputy minister for taxes and levies. Evidently the main thing in N. Bobrovskiy's biography, which has determined his current appointment, is his affiliation with the SVR [Foreign Intelligence Service]." (Rossiyskaya Gazeta 12 Jul 01 P 2).]
[Previous Chief was GURYEV, Valeriy, Lieutenant-General, appointed (Agentstvo Voyennykh Novostey 21 Dec 00). Guryev worked as chief of the ministry's department for curbing economic crimes. Guryev was born in the Tambov region in 1951, graduated from the Tambov Pedagogical Institute and the Interior Ministry Academy. He has been with the police since 1973 and worked all the way up from investigator to department chief. The federal criminal police committee was set up in December 2000 and is the main body in the Russian Interior Ministry dealing with the organised crime. (Agentstvo Voyennykh Novostey 21 Dec 00).
[Previous Head of the Organized Crime Police --- OVCHINNIKOV, Aleksandr (ITAR-TASS, 7 Feb 02).]
Main Department for Fighting Organized Crime [Criminal Police Service]
Deputy Head --- Gorshkov, Vladimir (ITAR-TASS, 7 Feb 02).
Special Rapid-Reaction Unit (SOBR) [Criminal Police Service]
(ITAR-TASS, 7 Feb 02).
Criminal Police Committee, Federal [MVD Main Staff]
• [Supposedly disbanded --- "Kommersant has gotten hold of the text of [Russian Internal Affairs Minister] Boris Gryzlov's Order No. 585 on the reform of the MVD [Ministry of Internal Affairs]. According to this document the minister has decided to disband his predecessor Vladimir Rushaylo's brainchild, the Federal Criminal Police Committee. It will be replaced by the MVD's Criminal Police Service, which will comprise all the power ministry main administrations. But no room has been found for the Administration for Combating Crime in the High Technology Sphere ("R" Administration) in the new structure" (Kommersant 22 Jun 01 P 1).]
Drug Trafficking, Directorate for Combating (UBNON) [MVD Main Staff]
(Segodnya 29 Nov 00 p 1).
Economic Crime, Main Directorate for Combating (GUBEP) [MVD Main Staff]
Chief --- ORLOV, Alexey, Major-General, (ITAR-TASS, 19 Nov 02).
[Previous Chief was NINO, Nikolay, Maj-Gen. Appointed (Agentstvo Voyennykh Novostey 21 Dec 00). Nino was born in the south-western Siberian Omsk region in 1957. After service in the army, he worked at a defence industry plant and simultaneously studied at a higher educational establishment. In 1983, he became a senior official of a district police department, later entered the Department for Combating Socialist Property Misappropriation of the Omsk region. Nino joined the Interior Ministry in 1990. Having started with the position of envoy, he graduated from the Interior Ministry Academy in 1997. Prior to his current post, he worked as first deputy chief of his present department. (Agentstvo Voyennykh Novostey 21 Dec 00).]
Extra-Departmental Security, Main Directorate for (Главного управления вневедомственной охраны (ГУВО))
(Вечерний Новосибирск, 19 Nov 2002).
Internal Security Directorate
Chief --- ROMODANOVSKIY, Konstantin, Major-General (Moskovskiy Komsomolets 24 May 01 P 6).
Investigations Committee
Head --- MOZYAKOV, Vitaly (Agentstvo voyennykh novostey, 4 Apr 01).
[Mozyakov, from the Leningrad Oblast prosecutor's office, was named deputy minister and head of the Investigations Committee (Agentstvo Voyennykh Novostey, 4 April 01; Kommersant, 5 April 01; Segodnya, 5 April 01; Sobraniye, 9 April 01, p. 3349).]
Organized Crime, Main Directorate for Combating (GUBOP) [MVD Main Staff]
(Segodnya 29 Nov 00 p 1).
Personnel and Personnel Policy, Main Directorate for [MVD Main Staff]
Chief (Deputy Minister) --- SOLOVYEV, Yevgeniy (Kommersant, 5 April; Moskovskiy Komsomolets, 7 April; Sobraniye, 9 April, p. 3348).
Public Order, Main Directorate for Assuring [MVD Main Staff]
Passport and Visa Service
First Deputy Director --- Maj-Gen. SMORODIN, Nikolay (Krasnaya Zvezda, 15 Feb 03).
Public Security Service
Chief (Deputy Minister) --- Chekalin, Aleksandr Alekseyevich, Colonel-General (Rossiyskaya Gazeta 12 Jul 01 P 2).
6th ("R") Directorate (Radio Intelligence and Combating Crime in the Hi-tech Area) [MVD Main Staff]
["Usually known in the directorate as the intelligence department. . . . In terms of its official duties the sixth department was responsible for suppressing interference on the frequencies used by the MVD. Something like a radio state traffic inspectorate." (Moskovskiy Komsomolets 27 Jun 01 PP 1-2). Supposedly abolished by Ministerial Order # 585. (Kommersant in Russian 22 Jun 01 P 1).]
Chief --- KUDINOV, Viktor, ?-General (Nezavisimaya Gazeta in Russian 08 May 01).
[Previous Chief was --- CHEPCHUGOV, Dmitriy (Moskovskiy Komsomolets 16 Feb 01).]
Siberian Federal District, Main Department for [MVD Main Staff]
Head --- Skovorodin, Yuriy, Major-General (Agentstvo Voyennykh Novostey 30 Jul 01 ).
Tax Police
Deputy Minister and Chief of the Federal Service for Economic and Tax Crimes --- VERYOVKIN-ROKHALSKY, Sergey, Lt-Gen, appointed (ITAR-TASS, 25 Mar 03).
Transport Police, Main Department for [MVD Main Staff]
Head --- ZAKHARENKOV, Vyacheslav, Maj-Gen (ITAR-TASS, 5 Jan 03).
INTERNAL TROOPS (VV) [MVD Main Staff]
["An overhaul of Russia's interior troops is expected to be completed by late 2005. They will be downsized by 33,700 servicemen, commander-in-chief of the Russian interior forces Col. Gen. Vyacheslav Tikhomirov told journalists on Monday. The interior troops are currently some 200,000 strong." (Interfax, 13 May 02).]
INTERNAL TROOPS CINC (& Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs) --- TIKHOMIROV, Vyacheslav Valentinovich, Gen Army, Appointed by Acting President Putin, (Lenta.ru, 21:17 MT. 22 January 2000). (Voyenno-Promyshlennyy Kuryer, 24 Mar 04).
[Previous CINC, OVCHINNIKOV, Vyacheslav, Col-Gen, was "releaved of duty and transferred to other work." (Lenta.ru, 21:17 MT. 22 January 2000).]
First Deputy Commander --- BARANOV, Valeriy, Col-Gen. Appointed (Agentstvo Voyennykh Novostey, 14 Aug 02).
• [Previous Deputy, Lt-Gen Nikolay Garidov, was killed in a helicopter crash in Chechnya (ITAR-TASS, 27 Jan 02).]
First Deputy Commander (Chief of Staff) ROGOZHKIN, Nikolay, Col-Gen appointed, (Agentstvo Voyennykh Novostey, 14 Aug 02; noted as a Col-Gen, Voyenno-Promyshlennyy Kuryer, 28 Jan 04).
Deputy Commander --- TОPCHIY, Maj-Gen Sergey (Krasnaya Zvezda, 4 Jun 03).
Deputy Commander --- PANKOV, Mikhail, Colonel-General (Agentstvo voyennykh novostey, 14:22 MT, 4 Aug 00).
Deputy Commander --- KAVUN, Stanislav, Lt-Gen (Interfax, 21 Apr 00; 6 Aug 02).
Deputy Commander (Aviation) --- PYLNEV, Yuriy Major-General appointed (Agentstvo Voyennykh Novostey, 14 Aug 02).
Previous Deputy Commander (Armamaents) --- ROVENSKIY, Petr, Lt-Gen (Agentstvo voyennykh novostey, 11:12 MT, 27 Jun 00).
Deputy Commander (Combat Training) --- LAZEBIN, Yevgeniy, Major-General. Appointed (Agentstvo Voyennykh Novostey, 14 Aug 02).
46th Internal Troops Brigade [Internal Troops]
[Permanently deployed in Chechnya. (ITAR-TASS, 19 May 00). Headquaters in Groznyy, Its units are expected to be located in Urus-Martan and in the area of the villages of Shali, Kalinovskaya and Chervlyonaya. (Interfax, 12 Sep 00).]
Deputy Commander --- DEMCHENKO, Vladimir, Col (Interfaks 3 Aug 00).
102nd Internal Troops Brigade
Deployed in Makhachkala (ITAR-TASS, 11 Apr 02).
Nozhay-Yurtovskiy District (ITAR-TASS, 14 Oct 02).
Separate Operational Purpose Division
Commander --- Melikov, Sergey Colonel, appointed (Agentstvo Voyennykh Novostey, 2 Jul 02).
Armaments
Chief of Staff --- Yurchenko, Maj-Gen Sergey (Krasnaya Zvezda 04 Apr 03).
Combat Training [Internal Troops]
Chief --- LAZEBIN, Yevgeniy, Major-General. Appointed (Agentstvo Voyennykh Novostey, 14 Aug 02).
[Previous Chief was POPOV, Nikolai, Lieutenant-General (Agentstvo Voyennykh Novostey 16 May 01 ).
Moscow Internal Troops "operational-territorial formations" (Zakon I Armiya, 17 Feb 03). [Internal Troops]
Commander --- BASKAYEV, Arkadiy, ?-Gen (FAN.RU, 27 January 2000).
Motor Vehicle Directorate
Chief --- Eminov, Tagir, Maj-Gen (Krasnaya Zvezda 04 Jun 03).
North Caucasus Internal Troops Operational-Territorial Formation [Internal Troops]
46th Separate Internal Troops Brigade (Chechnya) (Agentstvo Voyennykh Novostey, 16 May 01).
383rd Separate Operational Purpose Battalion (Agentstvo Voyennykh Novostey, 24 Sep 02).
North-Western Internal Troops Operational-Territoriail Formation [Internal Troops]
Chief-of-Staff and First Deputy Commander --- Fomenko, Gennady, Major-General (Agentstvo Voyennykh Novostey, 29 Mar 01).
Novosibirsk Military Institute of the Internal Troops [Internal Troops]
Head --- STOLYAROV, Aleksandr, Maj-Gen (Krasnaya Zvezda, 18 Jun 01).
Press Service [Internal Troops]
Chief --- PANCHENKOV, Vasiliy Col. (Krasnaya Zvezda, 4 February 03).
Sosnovyy Bor Regiment [Northwestern District ]
Guard force for All-Russia Federal Nuclear Center at Sarov (Voyenno-Promyshlennyy Kuryer, 28 Jan 04).
Commander --- Alebastrov, Colonel Aleksandr (Voyenno-Promyshlennyy Kuryer, 28 Jan 04).
Rear Services [Internal Troops]
Chief of Staff --- BOGOMOLOV, Aleksandr Fedorovich, Major-General (Krasnaya Zvezda; 6 Mar 03).
Rostov Region [Internal Troops]
Chief --- SHEVCHENKO, Vitaly, Major-General (Agentstvo Voyennykh Novostey, 13 Mar 02).
Siberian Internal Troops Operational-Territorial Formation [Internal Troops]
Chief-of-Staff (First Deputy Commander) --- STOLYAROV, Aleksandr, Major-General Appointed (Agentstvo Voyennykh Novostey 14 Aug 02).
Ural Internal Troops Operational-Territorial Formation [Internal Troops]
Commander --- ROMANOV, Vladimir, Maj-Gen. Appointed (Agentstvo voyennykh novostey, 3 Aug 00).
Volga Internal Troops Operational-Territorial Formation [Internal Troops]
Commander --- Zmeyev, Mikhail, Major-General. Appointed (Agentstvo Voyennykh Novostey 12 Mar 01).
• Zmeyev: born in the Rostov region in 1953, graduated from the Interior Ministry higher military college in the city of Ordzhonikidze (now Vladikavkaz) and the Frunze Military Academy. He became major-general in 1995 and served as deputy commander of the North Caucasus district of the Interior Ministry troops in 1996-1998. Was deputy commander of the Siberian district of the Interior Ministry troops in charge of combat training from 1998 to 2001. (Agentstvo Voyennykh Novostey 12 Mar 01).
• Previous Commander was commander Colonel-General Alexander Muratov who in November 2000 was appointed chief federal inspector of the Chuvashian autonomous republic.
• начальник пресс-службы ПривО ВВ МВД РФ подполковник Игорь Софронов
--ИА "ИФ-Регион" (г. Нижний Новгород), 12.02.2003
Western Internal Troops Operational-Territorial Formation [Internal Troops]
Commander --- KOTOV, Yuriy, Major-General. Appointed (Agentstvo Voyennykh Novostey 14 Aug 02).
First Deputy Commander (Chief of Staff) --- ARTYBAKAYEV, Igor', Maj-Gen Appointed (Agentstvo Voyennykh Novostey 14 Aug 02).
Unidentified Subordination
33rd Separate Spetsnaz Brigade
Stationed in the Lebyazhye village of the Leningrad region: will be the first to be manned with professional servicemen (Agentstvo Voyennykh Novostey, 24 Jan 03).