Border troops of the USSR

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Border troops of the USSR
(Пограничные войска Комитета государственной безопасности СССР / Pogranitschnije Wojska KGB SSSR - PW SSSR)

USSR Frontier Troops Emblem.PNG

Border troops emblem (general) 1960–1991 (green)
active 1918 to 1991
Country Soviet UnionSoviet Union Soviet Union
Armed forces Armed Forces of the Soviet Union
Strength 220,000
Insinuation State Security Committee of the USSR
Commander
List of bra / bosses: see below

The border troops of the USSR ( Russian Пограничные войска СССР ) were the armed forces responsible for the border protection of the Soviet Union .

They were subordinate to the State Security Service of the Soviet Union with its changing names ( Cheka , GPU / OGPU , NKVD / MGB , since 1954 KGB ) and formed part of the armed forces of the Soviet Union .

Commanders (chiefs)

The service designation of the commanders or chiefs of the border troops of the USSR has changed several times over the years.

  • 1918–1919 = SG Shamschew (Main Directorate of Border Troops, also Headquarters Border Troops [GUPW])
  • 1919–1920 = WA Stepanow (Directorate of border surveillance, also administration of border surveillance)
  • 1920–1921 = WR Menschinski ( Cheka special area - border protection)
  • 1922–1923 = AC Artusow (until 1918 Frautschi) (area border troops, area border protection [OPO])
  • 1923–1925 = JK Olski (OPO)
  • 1925–1929 = SB Kanznelson (Main Directorate Border Protection [GUPO])
  • 1929 = SG Wleschew (GUPO)
  • 1929–1931 = IA Voronzow (GUPO)
  • 1931–1933 = IM Bystrych (GUPO)
  • 1933–1937 = MP Frinowski , (GUPO, from 1934 Main Directorate Border and Internal Protection [GUPuWO]) NKVD of the USSR
  • 1937–1938 = NK Krutschinkin, (GUPuWO)
  • 1938–1939 = AA Kowalow, (GUPuWO)
  • 1939–1941 = GG Sokolow, Lieutenant General (GUPWW)
  • 1942–1952 = NP Strachnow, Lieutenant General (GUPWW)
  • 1952–1956 = PI Syrjanow, Lieutenant General (GUPWW)
  • 1956–1957 = TA Storokatsch, Lieutenant General (GUPWW)
  • 1957–1972 = PI Syrjanow , Colonel General (GUPW)
  • 1972–1989 = WA Matrosow, Army General (GUPW)
  • 1989–1992 = IJ Kalinitschenko, Colonel General (GUPW)
  • Border security of the USSR 1917–1992

  • On observation, Soviet border post in Turkestan around 1917.

  • Mounted border patrol in the high mountains, Soviet-Chinese border, Alma-Ata around 1984.

  • Border guards ready to patrol.

  • Border patrol boat on patrol.

See also

literature

  • History of the Border Troops of the USSR: Historical Summary. Military publishing house of the German Democratic Republic, Berlin 1988.

Web links

Commons : Border Troops of the USSR  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Московский журнал. В. Н. Куликов. «История зеленой фуражки». Рубрика: Пограничная охрана России: история и современность.