KGB Border Guard Orbat

[chico20854]

for the first time in (unclassified!) English, it's the KGB Border Guards. For more details on these guys, there is a description in the RDF Sourcebook. Most of these units remained "Border Guard Brigades", with only one mechanized infantry battalion and limited heavy weapons and armored vehicles. The KGB Motor-Rifle Regiments, modeled on KGB units in action in Afghanistan in the 1980s, are mechanized infantry regiments with 3-5 infantry battalions in BTRs and BMPs, an air assault battalion and an engineer company. For T2k, add in a company of tanks to each battalion and a battery of light artillery and BM-21s. The Border Guard Brigades remain on or within 100km of the Soviet frontier; the Motor-Rifle Regiments roam far and wide. The "Special Border Control Battalions" are fairly boring customs and immigration police working ports, rail entrance stations and international airports. The KGB units embedded in Red Army units, those that guard nuclear warheads, VIPs, Lenin's tomb and KGB facilities, and KGB Special Operations forces (the famous Alpha unit, but also some of the others such as Sigma) are generally too small, too specialized or too far away from contact with NATO troops to be listed here - and they reported to other parts of the (massive) KGB structure, although the Border Guards were often a source of recruits for those organizations.


KGB Border Guards, 1 OCT 96, Twilight War

Western District, HQ Kiev

105th "Riga" KGB Motor-Rifle Rgt Berlin-Karlhorst
479th KGB Motor-Rifle Rgt Kaliningrad
7th BGB Lvov
16th BGB Grodno
26th BGB Odessa
27th BGB Mukachevo
79th "Nizhnednestrovsky" BGB Chisinau
86th BGB Brest
98th BGB Chernivtsy
107th BGB Simferopol
Special Border Control Bn Brest
Special Border Control Bn Mostiska
Special Border Control Bn Chop
Special Border Control Bn Odessa
Special Border Control Bn Mykolaiv
30th Independent Engineer Bn Lvov
32nd Independent Engineer Bn Chernivtsi
33rd Independent Engineer Bn Odessa
24th Aviation Rgt (12 Mi-17, 6 Mi-24, 3 An-26) Odessa


Baltic District, HQ Riga

6th BGB Rakveresky (Gdynsky)
8th "Gdynsky" BGB Ventspils
11th BGB Kingisepp (Kuressaarsky)
13th (Training) BGB Bagrationovsk
15th (Training) BGB Ozersk
23rd BGB Klaipeda
95th BGB Kaliningrad
106th BGB Tallin
126th Independent Border Bn Riga
Special Border Control Bn Tallin
Special Border Control Bn Riga
Special Border Control Bn Klaipeda
25th Independent Aviation Rgt (12 Mi-17, 6 Mi-24, 3 An-26) Riga


NW Frontier District, HQ Leningrad

5th "Leningrad" KGB Motor-Rifle Rgt Andropov
100th KGB Motor-Rifle Rgt Nikel, Murmansk Oblast
1st BGB Sortavalsky
4th BGB Arkhangelsk
72nd BGB Kalevalsky
73rd BGB Rebolsky
80th BGB Suoyarvsky
82nd BGB Murmansk
88th (Training) BGB Sosnovy-Bor
101st BGB Alakurttinsky
102nd BGB Vyborg
107th Independent Border Bn Sestoretsk
Separate Border Control Team Leningrad
Special Border Control Bn Vyborg
Special Border Control Bn Murmansk
Special Border Control Bn Pechora
14th Independent Aviation Rgt (12 Mi-17, 6 Mi-24, 3 An-26), also with a security battalion Petrozavodsk
20th Independent Aviation Rgt (12 Mi-17, 6 Mi-24, 3 An-26) Gorelova


Kamchakta Border District, HQ Petropavlovsk

60th BGB Kamchatski-Kuriles
61st BGB Magadan
110th BGB Anadyr (Chukotka)
19th Aviation Rgt (12 Mi-17, 6 Mi-24, 3 An-26) Petropavlosk-Elizovo


Pacific Border District, HQ Vladivostok

115th KGB Motor-Rifle Rgt Nikolayevka, Birobidzhan brought into action on 2nd day of war w/China as immediate reinforcements
52nd "Riga" BGB Sakhalin
57th BGB Dalnerechinsk (Ussurii)
58th BGB Gordyakovsk
59th BGB Hasansky (Posetsk)
62nd BGB Nakhodka
69th BGB Kamen-Rybolovsky
114th "Ruschukinsky" BGB Kuriles
Special Border Control Bn Nakhodka
Special Border Control Bn Vladivostok
11th Independent Aviation Rgt (12 Mi-17, 6 Mi-24, 3 An-26) Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
15th Independent Aviation Rgt (12 Mi-17, 6 Mi-24, 3 An-26) Sovetskaya Gavan
27th Independent Aviation Rgt (12 Mi-17, 6 Mi-24, 3 An-26) Vladivostok


Far Eastern Border District, HQ Khabarovsk

140th KGB Motor-Rifle Rgt Borzov raised in central USSR for service in Manchuria
260th KGB Motor-Rifle Rgt Khabarovsk
55th BGB Skovorodinsky
56th BGB Blagoveschensk
63rd BGB Birobidzhan
70th BGB Khabarovsk
77th BGB Bikinsk
78th BGB Shimanovsk
85th BGB Raychihinsk


Transbaikal Border District, HQ Chita

509th KGB Motor-Rifle Rgt Transbaikal District
25th BGB Akshinsky (Mangutsky) Nizhnednestrovsky
51st BGB Kyahtinsky
53rd BGB Daursky (Hingansky)
54th BGB Priargunsky/Priargunskoe
64th BGB Kyzylsky
74th BGB Sretensk
75th BGB Aktashsky
Special Border Control Bn Zabaikalsk
Special Border Control Bn Irkutsk
Special Border Control Bn Naushki (Kyahtinsky District)


Eastern Border District, HQ Alma-Ata

118th KGB Motor-Rifle Rgt Ishkashim, Tajikistan mountain
29th BGB Chundza, Kazahkstan
30th BGB Bahtinsky
49th BGB Panfilov (Zharkent), Kazahkstan
50th BGB Zaysan, Kazahkstan
96th BGB Naryn, Kyrgyzstan mountain
128th BGB Makanchi, Kazahkstan
129th BGB Przhevalsk, Kyrgyzstan mountain
130th BGB Uch-Aral, Kazahkstan
131st BGB Osh, Kyrgyzstan mountain
134th BGB Kurchum, Kazahkstan
10th Independent Aviation Rgt (12 Mi-17, 6 Mi-24, 3 An-26) Burundai (Alma-Ata)


Central Asian District, HQ Ashgabat

35th KGB Motor-Rifle Rgt Murgab to Iran
47th KGB Motor-Rifle Rgt Kerkinsky to Iran
48th KGB Motor-Rifle Rgt Pyandzhsky to Iran
66th KGB Motor-Rifle Rgt Khorog to Iran
68th KGB Motor-Rifle Rgt Takht-Bazarsky to Iran
81st KGB Motor-Rifle Rgt Termez remains in Afghanistan
117th KGB Motor-Rifle Rgt Moscow to Iran
17th (Training) BGB Dushanbe
45th BGB Serahsky
46th BGB Kaahkinsky
67th BGB Kara Kalinsky
71st BGB Bahardensky
135th BGB Nebit-Dagsky
136th BGB Kalai-Humbsky
31st Independent Engineer Bn Ashgabat
17th Independent Aviation Rgt (12 Mi-17, 6 Mi-24, 3 An-26) Mary, Ashgabat
23rd Independent Aviation Rgt (12 Mi-17, 6 Mi-24, 3 An-26) Dushanbe
Special Border Control Bn Ashgabat


Transcaucasian Border District, HQ Tblisi

487th KGB Motor-Rifle Rgt Zheleznovodsk, N. Caucasus
10th BGB Hachauri, Georgia
14th BGB Migrinsky
32nd BGB Novorossiysk
36th BGB Sukhumi
37th BGB Batumi
38th BGB Ahaltsihsky
39th BGB Leninakan
40th BGB Oktemberyansky
41st BGB Nakhichevan
42nd BGB Hadrut
43rd "Geok-Tapinsky" BGB Prishib, Azerbaijan
44th BGB Lenkoran
125th BGB Artashat, Armenia
12th Independent Aviation Rgt (12 Mi-17, 6 Mi-24, 3 An-26) Tblisi


Border District Moscow

Separate Border Control Team Moscow
29th Independent Engineer Bn Sheremetyevo-2
34th Independent Engineer Bn Sheremetyevo-2


Maritime Border Guard

1st Independent Patrol Boat Bde - Salma Kuvshinskaya
2nd Independent Patrol Boat Bde - Vysotsk
3rd Independent Patrol Boat Bde - Tallinn-Haapsalu
4th Independent Patrol Boat Bde - Liepāja
5th Independent Patrol Boat Bde - Balaklava
6th Independent Patrol Boat Bde - Ochamchira
7th Independent Patrol Boat Bde - Petropavlovsk-Kamchatky
8th Independent Patrol Boat Bde - Shikotan
9th Independent Patrol Boat Bde - Korsakov
10th Independent Patrol Boat Bde - Vladivostok
11th Independent Patrol Boat Bde - Dzhalinda
12th Independent Patrol Boat Bde - Blagoveschensk
13th Independent Patrol Boat Bde - Leninskoe
14th Independent Patrol Boat Bde - Kazakevichev
15th Independent Patrol Boat Bde - Dalnerechensk, Primorsky Krai
16th Independent Patrol Boat Bde - Nakhodka
17th Independent Patrol Boat Bde - Baku
18th Independent Patrol Boat Bde - Odessa
19th Independent Patrol Boat Bde - Nevelsk
20th Independent Patrol Boat Bde - Ventspils
21st Independent Patrol Boat Bde - Novorosiysk
22nd Independent Patrol Boat Bde - Termez composition: command ship type «Shmel» (1204 draft), a unit of 10 border patrol boats (PUK), a platoon of 20 small boats type «Stork».
52th Independent Patrol Boat Bn - Liinahamari
45th Independent Patrol Boat Bn - Sretensk (Transbaikalia)
U/I Special Service Ship Bn - Sochi
2387th Special Service Ship Bn - Yalta


sources:

http://www.ryadovoy.ru/forum/index.php?topic=16
http://forum.pogranichnik.ru/

[Mohoender]

Nice again Chico

I had something on that but the elements I found were highly incomplete and based on current figures.

[Mohoender]

Here is the Orbat I came up with (FBS in my case). The Arctic District doesn't really exist anymore except for border troops. In any other case, troops that were stationed there had been attached to the North-west District or St. Petersburg VO. Border Guards personnels have played a major role in the destruction of the NATO fleet that attempted the attack on Karelia.

FBS (FEDERAL BORDER SERVICE)
Moscow
- Alfa Group
Manpower: 120
Arctic District (Karelia)
- 4th Border Guards Regiment
Manpower: 1100
Assets: 13 BMP-2s, 6 BTR-70s
- 101st Border Guards Regiment
Manpower: 500
Assets: 3 BMP-2s, 14 BTR-70s
- 1st Border Guards Ship Brigade
Manpower: 600
Assets: 2 Pauk PG, 3 Osa PC, 9 Patrol Boat
North West District (St Petersburg)
- 1st Border Guards Regiment
Manpower: 800
Assets: 9 BTR-70s
- 80th Border Guards Regiment
Manpower: 1100
Assets: 5 BMP-2s, 10 BTR-70s
- 102nd Border Guards Regiment
Manpower: 500
Assets: 7 BMP-2s, 14 BTR-70s
Central Asia District
- 29th Border Guards Regiment
Manpower: 1200
Assets: 7 BMP-2s, 11 BTR-70s
- 66th Border Guards Regiment
Manpower: 1200
Assets: 5 BMP-2s, 7 BTR-70s
- 67th Border Guards Regiment
Manpower: 1000
Assets: 3 BMP-2s, 9 BTR-70s
- 74th Border Guards Regiment
Manpower: 1100
Assets: 3 BRDM-2s, 7 BMP-2s, 13 BTR-70s, 2 FH122s, 3 BM-21s
- 91st Border Guards Regiment
Manpower: 1400
Assets: 4 BMP-2s, 4 BTR-70s
- 865th Border Guards Regiment
Manpower: 900
Assets: 6 BTR-70s
- 33rd Border Aviation Regiment
Manpower : 250
Assets : 3 Mi-8, 5 Mi-24
Siberian District
- 52nd Border Guards Regiment
Manpower: 1600
Assets: 8 BMP-2s, 15 BTR-70s
- 54th Border Guards Regiment
Manpower: 1000
Assets: 3 BMP-2s, 15 BTR-70s
- 118th Border Guards Regiment
Manpower: 700
Assets: 4 BMP-2s, 9 BTR-70s
- 23rd Border Aviation Regiment
Manpower: 160
Assets: 1 An-32, 1 Mi-24, 2 Mi-8
Far East District
- 63rd Border Guards Regiment
Manpower: 1400
Assets: 10 BMP-2s, 7 BTR-70s
- 85th Border Guards Regiment
Manpower: 1600
Assets: 17 BMP-2s, 12 BTR-70s
- 23rd Border Guards Ship Brigade
Manpower: 500
Assets: 1 Pauk PG, 2 Osa PC, 5 Patrol Boat

[Mohoender]

Taken from http://www.warfare.ru/?

Federal Border Service (FPS)

Table 2. Non-MoD commands and deployments
COMMAND LOCATION DISTR/FLT
FEDERAL SECURITY SERVICE (FSB) Moscow FSB
counter-intelligence service; 66,200 pers incl 17,900 civilians

FEDERAL BORDER SERVICE (FPS) Moscow FPS
165,000 pers incl 19,400 civilians. 700 ifv/apc, 20+ Grad, 800 arty, 100 ships (97P, 1135.1, 745, 1241.2, 1208, 205P, 10410, 1248), 600 boats (1496, RM376, P1415, 1400, 371U), 70 ac (15 An-72P, An-24/36/72, Il-76, Tu-134), 200 hel (Mi-8, Mi-24, Ka-27PS)

ARCTIC DISTRICT DIRECTORATE (A) Murmansk A

?BORDER TROOP Murmansk A

4 BORDER TROOP Arkhangelsk A
4 control-admission points (CAP), commandant's hq in Nar'yan-Mar, trg center, skr div

?BORDER GUARD SHIPS DIV Arkhangelsk A

?BORDER TROOP Nikel A

101 BORDER TROOP Alakurtti A

?BORDER TROOP Vorkuta A

INDEP CAP Murmansk A

AVIA RGT Vorkuta A

1 BORDER GUARD SHIPS BDE Kuvshinskaya Salma A

?BORDER GUARD SHIPS DIV Liinakhamari A


NORTH WEST DISTRICT DIRECTORATE (NW) St Petersburg NW

102 BORDER TROOP Vyborg NW

?BORDER TROOP Kostomuksha NW
since 1998 based on ex-72,73 border troop

?BORDER TROOP Kingisepp NW

?BORDER TROOP Pskov NW

?BORDER TROOP Pytalovo NW

1 BORDER TROOP Sortavala NW

?BORDER TROOP Sosnovy Bor NW

80 BORDER TROOP Suoyarvi NW

?BORDER TROOP OSNAZ Leningrad distr NW

INDEP CAP St Petersburg NW

INDEP CAP Pechora NW

INDEP CAP Ivangorod NW

?INDEP AVIA SQDN Gorelovo NW

?INDEP AVIA SQDN Petrozavodsk NW

?BORDER GUARD SHIPS BDE Vysotsk NW

?BORDER GUARD SHIPS BDE Pskov NW

?BORDER GUARD SHIPS DIV St Petersburg NW

?BORDER GUARD SHIPS DIV Ivangorod NW

?INDEP COMMS PT Sestroretsk NW


KALININGRAD DISTRICT DIRECTORATE (K) Stavropol K
Border: 650 km, 24 CAPs.

?BORDER TROOP Kaliningrad K

?BORDER TROOP Chernyakhovsk K

?BORDER TROOP OSNAZ Ozersk K

?TRG BORDER TROOP Nivenskoe K

?INDEP AVIA SQDN Nivenskoe K

?BORDER GUARD SHIPS BDE Baltyysk K

?INDEP COMMS PT Sestroretsk K

?SEA RT RGT Pionerskyy K


WEST DISTRICT DIRECTORATE (W) Voronezh W

?BORDER TROOP Bryansk W


NORTH CAUCASUS DISTRICT DIRECTORATE (NC) Stavropol NC

?BORDER TROOP Novorossyysk NC

?BORDER TROOP Sochi NC

?BORDER TROOP Kaspyysk NC

?BORDER TROOP Derbent NC

?BORDER TROOP Nalchik NC

?BORDER TROOP Vladikavkaz NC

?BORDER TROOP Cherkessk NC

?BORDER TROOP Nazran NC

?BORDER TROOP Akhty NC

?BORDER TROOP Khunzakh NC

?BORDER TROOP Tuskhoroi NC

?BORDER TROOP Astrakhan NC

?BORDER TROOP OSNAZ Zheleznovodsk NC

?INDEP AVIA RGT Shpakovskoe (Stavropol) NC

?INDEP AVIA SQDN Gelendzhik NC

?INDEP AVIA SQDN Kaspyysk NC

?TRG CENTER Kochubeevskoe NC

?BORDER GUARD SHIPS BDE Kaspyysk NC

?BORDER GUARD SHIPS BDE Astrakhan NC

?BORDER GUARD SHIPS BDE Novorossyysk NC

?BORDER GUARD SHIPS DIV Temryuk NC

?INDEP COMMS PT Stavropol NC


SOUTH EAST DISTRICT DIRECTORATE (SE) Chelyabinsk SE
4000 pers., 32 frontier posts

?BORDER TROOP Novosibirsk SE

?BORDER TROOP Troitsk SE

?INDEP CAP Troitsk SE

?INDEP AVIA SQDN Kashtak SE

?INDEP COMMS PT Kashtak SE


BAIKAL DISTRICT DIRECTORATE (B) Chita B

?BORDER TROOP Aksha B

?BORDER TROOP Aktash B

?BORDER TROOP Kyakhta B

52 BORDER TROOP Dauriya B

54 BORDER TROOP Priargunsk B

?BORDER TROOP Kokui B

?BORDER TROOP Kyzyl B

INDEP CAP Zabaikalsk B

?INDEP AVIA RGT Chita B

?BORDER GUARD SHIPS BDE Sretensk B


FAR EAST DISTRICT DIRECTORATE (FE) Khabarovsk FE

?BORDER TROOP Blagoveschensk FE

63 BORDER TROOP Birobodzhan FE

85 BORDER TROOP Raichikhinsk FE

?BORDER TROOP Shimanovsk FE

?BORDER TROOP Bikin FE

?BORDER TROOP Khabarovsk FE

?BORDER TROOP Skovorodino FE

?BORDER TROOP OSNAZ Nikolaevka FE

?INDEP AVIA SQDN Khabarovsk FE

?INDEP AVIA SQDN Blagoveschensk FE

?BORDER GUARD SHIPS BDE Leninskoe FE

?BORDER GUARD SHIPS BDE Blagoveschensk FE

23 BORDER GUARD SHIPS BDE Kazakevichevo FE


PACIFIC DISTRICT DIRECTORATE (PAC) Vladivostok PAC

?BORDER TROOP Dalnerechinsk PAC

?BORDER TROOP Nakhodka PAC

?BORDER TROOP Yuzhno-Kurilsk PAC

?BORDER TROOP Kamen'-Rybolov PAC

?BORDER TROOP Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk PAC

?BORDER TROOP Kurily PAC

?BORDER TROOP Grodekovo PAC

?BORDER GUARD SHIPS BDE Nakhodka PAC

?BORDER GUARD SHIPS BDE Nevelsk PAC

?INDEP COMMS PT Vladivostok PAC


NORTH EAST DISTRICT DIRECTORATE (NE) Petropavlovsk NE

?BORDER TROOP Petropavlovsk NE

?BORDER TROOP Magadan NE

?BORDER TROOP Providenie harbour NE

?INDEP AVIA RGT Petropavlovsk NE

?INDEP AVIA SQDN Magadan NE

?INDEP AVIA SQDN Providenie harbour NE

?BORDER GUARD SHIPS BDE Petropavlovsk NE

?BORDER GUARD SHIPS DIV Magadan NE


TAJIKISTAN GROUP (ABR) Dushanbe ABR

66 BORDER TROOP Khorog ABR

?BORDER TROOP Murgab ABR

118 BORDER TROOP Ishkashim ABR

?TRG BORDER TROOP Dushanbe ABR

23 AVIA RGT Dushanbe ABR
An-26, Mi-8, Mi-24, Mi-26

33 INDEP AVIA SQDN Moskovskyy ABR
3 Mi-8, 5 Mi-24

?INDEP AVIA SQDN Khorog ABR


CENTRAL COMD Moscow FPS


MOSCOW FPS INSTITUTE Moscow FPS


GOLITSIN FPS INSTITUTE Golotsino FPS


N NOVGOROD MED FPS INSTITUTE N Novgorod FPS


KHABAROVSK FPS INSTITUTE Khabarovsk FPS

KALININGRAD POLYTECH FPS INSTITUTE Kaliningrad FPS

FPS ACADEMY Moscow FPS

FIRST CADET CORPS FPS Pushkino FPS

SEA TRG CENTER Anapa FPS

GRANITSA INST Moscow FPS

CENTER OF BORDER OP RESEARCH Moscow FPS

INDEP TROOP OF BORDER CONTROL Moscow FPS
"Moscow" troop

A (EX- ALFA) ANTI-TERROR GROUP Moscow FSB
250 pers in Moscow, branches in Krasnodar, Yekaterinburg, and Khabarovsk

VYMPEL ANTI-TERROR GROUP Moscow FSB



Director --- PRONICHEV, Vladimir Yegorovich, Col-Gen, First Deputy Director of the FSB (TV RTR, 11 Mar 03).

Telephone: 224-19-73 (reception), 224-47-08 (press service) (In the case you want to make a phone call )

[Previous Director, TOTSKIY, Konstantin Vasil'yevich, General of the Army (Nezavisimoye Voyennoye Obozreniye, 21 Apr 00). was appointed permanent RF Envoy to NATO, (TV RTR, 11 Mar 03).]


First Deputy Director --- VALUYEV, Mansur, Col-Gen (Trud, 20 Jan 04).

First Deputy Director --- SEMERIKOV, Valeriy, Colonel-General (Agentstvo Voyennykh Novostey, 6 Dec 02).
["Semerikov was born in the Kirov region in 1954. He joined border guard troops in 1971, served in the Trans-Baikal region, northwestern Russia and central administration of the troops, holding various posts related to the organization of technical support. Graduated from the General Staff Academy in 1997 and became chief of the Federal Border Guard Service armament headquarters. In May 2001, he was appointed deputy director of the service and chief of the armament department. The press center said that "the first deputy director will regard implementation of a series of measures aimed at maintaining border security in the North Caucasus in cooperation with other federal executive bodies among his main spheres of responsibility" (Agentstvo Voyennykh Novostey, 6 Dec 02).]
First Deputy Director --- REZNICHENKO, Nikolay, Col-Gen (Rossiyskaya Gazeta, 29 Nov 01).

Deputy Head --- MANILOV, Aleksandr, Lt-Gen (ITAR-TASS, 27 Jan 04).

Deputy Director --- SHCHERBAKOV, Aleksey, Col-Gen (Interfax, 9 Oct 01).

Border Service Main Staff
Chief of the Main Staff --- REZNICHENKO, Nikolay, Col-Gen (RIA-Novosti, 8 Mar 02).

Deputy Chief of the Main Staff --- NEISHCHENKO, V. D. (Agentura.ru, 30 Sep 99).

Arctic Regional Directorate [FPS]
Deputy Chief (Commander of Maritime Forces) --- LOBASOV, Valeriy, R-Adm (Izvestiya, 22 Jun 02).

Armenia, Operational Group Deployed in [FPS]
Commander --- PANKOV, Vladimir, Maj-Gen Appointed 16 Apr 01 (Yerevan Snark, 17 Apr 01)

[Previous Commander was ABAIMOV, Vyacheslav, Maj-Gen (Yerevan Snark 26 Mar 01).]
Far East Regional Department [FPS]
Chief --- VASIL'YEV, Mansur, Lt-Gen (Agentstvo Voyennykh Novostey, 14 Jun 02).

["Vasilyev, 51, graduated from the Moscow higher border guard command college in 1972 and subsequently held various posts in the Central Asian border guard district. He graduated from the Frunze Military Academy in 1980, then commanded the Moscow border guard detachment and headed the Federal Border Guard Service operational group in Turkmenistan for three years. Prior to his current appointment Vasilyev was chief of the Trans-Baikal regional border guard department. The general is married and has two daughters" (Agentstvo Voyennykh Novostey, 14 Jun 02).]
Chief of Staff --- Lt. General Danilenko, Aleksandr (Vek, 18 Oct 02).

Amur Flotilla [Far East Regional Dept.]

(Agentstvo Voyennykh Novostey 30 Jul 01).
International Agreements [FPS]
Chief --- Manilov, Aleksandr, Lt-Gen (Krasnaya Zvezda, 18 Feb 03).

Kaliningrad Military Institute of the Federal Border Service [FPS]
Head --- Polyakov, Yuriy, Maj-Gen (Agentstvo Voyennykh Novostey, 8 Aug 01).

Kaliningrad Border Directorate

Chief --- PROKHODA, Vladisolav Ivanovich. Lt-Gen (Nezavisimoye Voyennoye Obozreniye, 30 Jan 04).

Military Mobilization Dept. [FPS]
Chief --- SAMTSOV, G. S. (, 30 Sep 1999).

Moscow Military Institute of the Federal Border Service [FPS]
Chief --- YEGOROV, Viktor Pavlovich, (Nezavisimoye Voyennoye Obozreniye, 22 Feb 02).

[Affiliated Facility in Anapa] [Military Institute of the Federal Border Service]
[based on the Academy's naval retraining faculty in the town of Anapa on the Russian Black Sea coast (Agentstvo Voyennykh Novostey, 21 Jun 01).]
Moscow Regional Department [FPS]
Chief Navigator --- SHTEFANOV, Dmitriy, R-Adm (Krasnaya Zvezda, 24 Sep 02).

North-Western Regional Directorate
Head --- GOLBAKH, Aleksander, Colonel-General, appointed (Agentstvo Voyennykh Novostey, 14 Jun 02).

North Caucasus Regional Directorate [FPS]
Head --- BOLKHOVITIN, Yevgeniy, Col-Gen, (Agentstvo Voyennykh Novostey, 4 Feb 02).

Pacific Regional Directorate [FPS]
Deputy Chief --- LOBOV, Aleksey, Col, Commander of the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk border guard unit, ( ITAR-TASS, 20 Aug 02).

South-east Regional Directorate

Head --- Lt. Gen Oganesyan, Mikael

Western Regional Directorate [FPS]
Chief --- MINAKOV, Sergey, Maj-Gen (Agentstvo Voyennykh Novostey 18 Jun 01; Nezavisimoye Voyennoye Obozreniye, 22 Jun 01).

["Minakov was born in the town of Snezhnoye, Donetsk region, in 1950. He started working as a fitter adjuster at the Standart casting and mechanical plant in the Zaporozhye region in 1967. Minakov underwent active duty service in the Megrinsky border guard detachment of the Trans-Caucasus border guard district. After graduating from the Dzerzhinsky KGB Higher College in 1976 Minakov occupied various post in units of the Trans-Caucasus and Central Asian border guard districts. He left for service trips to Afghanistan several times from 1981 to 1987. He was deputy chief of the Western border guard district, deputy commander and chief of the Caucasus special border guard district in 1987 to 1995. After graduating from the General Staff Military Academy in 1997 Minakov served in the FBGS central administration. He was awarded Orders of Red Banner, Red Star, for Service to Motherland in the USSR Armed Forces and for Personal Courage. FBGS Director Konstantin Totsky will introduce Minakov to his subordinates on Tuesday" (Agentstvo Voyennykh Novostey 18 Jun 01).]


[Previous Chief was GRIBANOV, Boris, Lt-Gen (Krasnaya Zvezda 20 Jan 01).]
Scientific-Research and Testing Technical Center (NII TTs RF FPS) [FPS]
Chief --- KARASEV, Sergey, Lt-Gen (Krasnaya Zvezda 21 Apr 01).

Tajikistan Border Group [FPS]
Commander --- MARKIN, Aleksandr Lt-Gen (ITAR-TASS, 20 Jan 02). Promoted to Lt-Gen (Agentstvo Voyennykh Novostey, 30 May 01).

["in 1999 Markin was the chief of the operations department of the group and its chief-of-staff. According to a high-ranking official in the Tajik government administration, during the period of Markin's service in the group a reliable defence and security system was established on the Tajikistan-Afghanistan border" (Agentstvo Voyennykh Novostey 30 May 01).]
["The Russian border group in Tajikistan, which comprises 2,000 men, covers around 5,000 kilometers of border, which includes 1,344 km with Afghanistan, 519 km with China, 1,332 km with Uzbekistan, and 987 km with Kyrgyzstan. The group is made up of six border detachments: Pyandzhskiy, Moskovskiy, Khorogskiy, Murgabskiy, Kalay-Khumbskiy, and Ishkashimskiy. The protection of the border is carried out jointly with local Green Caps [border guards wear green peaked service caps]. Six percent of officers, 24% of warrant officers, around 70% of contract soldiers, and all fixed-term draftees are of Tajik nationality. The border group has no missiles but is pretty well armed. They have the latest tracking equipment, communications, and even aircraft" (Moskovskiy Komsomolets 19 Sep 01).]

[chico20854]

And now the Polish Border Guard Force:

3rd “Carpathian” Border Guard Bde – Nowy Sacz:

264th Border Guard Bn (Sanok)
32nd Border Guard Bn (Nowy Targ)
34th Border Guard Bn (Zywiec)

4th “Górnoslaska” Border Guard Bde – Gliwice:

42nd Border Guard Bn (Cieszyn)
43rd Border Guard Bn (Raciborz)
44th Border Guard Bn (Glubczyce)
45th Border Guard Bn (Prudnik)

5th “Sudecka” Border Guard Bde – Klodzko:

52nd Border Guard Bn (Duszniki Zdrój)
53rd Border Guard Bn (Wałbrzych)
54th Border Guard Bn (Paczkow)

8th "Łużycka" Border Guard Bde – Luban:

81st Border Guard Bn (Szklarska Poreba)
82nd Border Guard Bn (Lesna)
83rd Border Guard Bn (Bogatynia)
84th Border Guard Bn (Zgorzelec)

9th “Lubuska” Border Guard Bde – Krosno na Odra

91st Border Guard Bn (Tuplice)
92nd Border Guard Bn (Gubin)
93rd Border Guard Bn (Subice)

12th “Pomorska” Border Guard Bde – Szczeczin:

122nd Border Guard Bn (Chojna)
123rd Border Guard Bn (Szczecin
124th Police Bn (Szczeczin)
125th Border Guard Bn (Swinoujscie)
2 Port Bns (Dabie & Swinoujscie)
Independent Border Cutter Bn (Szczeczin)

15th “Baltic” Border Guard Bde – Koszalin

151st Border Guard Bn (Trzebiatów)
152nd Border Guard Bn (Koszalin)
161st Border Guard Bn (Lebork?)

16th “Kaszubska” Border Guard Bde – Gdansk

maritime detachments in Gdynia, Gdansk

19th “Mazurski” Border Guard Bde – Ketrzyn (Masurian Lakes region), secondary training mission:

191st Border Bn (Braniewo)
192nd Border Bn (Bartoszyce)
193rd Border Bn (Wegorzewo)
194th Border Bn (Kowale)

22nd “Podlasko-Mazurska” Border Guard Bde – Bialystok

221st Border Bn (Goldap)
222nd Border Bn (Sejny)
223rd Border Bn (Sokolka)
224th Border Bn (Michalalowo)
225th Border Bn (Kleszczele)

23rd “Nadbuzanska” Border Guard Bde – Chelm

(subordinate units unknown)

26th “Bieszczadzka” Border Guard Bde – Przemysl

(subordinate units unknown)

[boogiedowndonovan]

"It's beautiful man, it's just beautiful..."

would you happen to have any information on MVD formations?

[chico20854]

For the Polish Internal Troops, I just threw my hands up in frustration. The army was reluctant to be used for internal security tasks, so the communist government set up a host of other paramilitary armed formations:

MO (militia) - regular police.
ORMO (voluntary reserve of the police) - kind of police auxiliary,
some anti-civil disturbance role
ZOMO (mechanized units of the police) - riot cops, motorized with
some BTR-60s & BTR-152s.
NOMO (ZOMO reserves) - riot cop reserves - former ZOMO members
ROMO (police reserves) - former border guards, cops & such brought in
to supplement ZOMO, poorly organized, trained & equipped.
NJW (internal troops) - equivalent to Soviet MVD internal troops.
WOW (Internal army) - militia, intended for rear area security, some
units equivalent to Soviet MVD internal troops.
OT (Territorial defense) - another militia, territorial defense &
rear area security mission
SB (Secret police) - the real bad-asses, equivalent to Stasi,
Securitate, etc...

Rather than try to figure out orbats for all these organizations, the DC group is just going to throw them together into ad-hoc internal security groups when we wargame the Battle of Poland - a division of troops in Warsaw, a brigade or regiment in other cities over 250,000. (Smaller cities and formations don't figure into the Third World War wargame system).

I have yet to piece together a complete Soviet MVD orbat. I found Byelorussia's online somewhere and have parts of Ukraine's. It's definitely still a work in progress.

[Fusilier]

Nice find. I've always wondered about KGB units.

[boogiedowndonovan]

Thanks,

yeah, I was referring to Soviet MVD.

thanks again.

[kcdusk]

hmmm, lots here.

I never worried about ORBAT. Even larger groups of 10 or more, who cares about each individual unit/squad or whatever unit of scale the ORBAT is in. It seems to be too much info to me.

In any part of the T2K landscape, maybe it helps determine what you are more likely to run into. And really, given the world has gone to crap, anything is possible.

But individually numbered units ... its never been of interest to me because i couldnt see the point.