SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION ON MVD TROOPS

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 18, 2009
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: October 8, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL .INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
1N1=~RMATION REPORT
This mate{tal contains lnformatlon aftecting 'the Na-
ttonal Defense of the United States within i~he mean-
ing of the Espionage,imwa; Title 16, U.B.C. Becs. 793
and 794, the tranamieslon or revelation o1 which in
any mAnner to sa unaut!-orized person is prohibited
by law.
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COUNTRY USSR . REPORT
SUBJECT Supplementary Information on MVD Troops DATE DISTR.' 8 October 1954
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1. Throughout this a^eport, for Main Directorate read Chief Dis~ectorate,
In paragraph 2~ Vilnus ie~ correctly Vilnius; Shaulyai is correctly..
$iauliai.
Comment 1, for ''"tYlat '1'n~Lc:rne~l Troops were or
anized into a Maa
g
n
Directorate-C}UVY" readNthat only Internal Troops -and Border Troops were
organized into Chief directorates (aUVV and GUPV)".
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to differentiate between various types of
MVD troops, M'YD operat ona un s, the were
several types and varieties. First, err was the
Border 4uard, 'which was represented as a Main Directorate (Ciavnoye
tT ravleni a Po r chnikh Voysk - GIUPY), directly under the MVD.
the various other t es,~vhich were all called
ose y n er or troops" (vuutrenniki', in?lude (a) Operational
Troops "for fighting banditism" ?~ i.e, to control internal disorder
sueh'as from partisan anti-regime elements. (b) Railway Troops,
(e) Internal Troops, (d) Troopanfor the Protection of Special
ab~ects (VQyska ?khrany 4sobykh Obyektov - V000) who guard "lagers,
prisons, military installations, etc.", a Convo Troops] and.
possibly there were some others Eaoh of the
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oregoing had a Main Directorates osoow, directly under the I'~.1.
another type of MVD troops, one of the internal~wariet ~~'~?Wy ~~~-
Co aen. fnu) riyA9LERFCOV,
was the deputy for the Troops for the Prot
ti
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on o
Special Ob~eets (VpOC).
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2. MVD Operational Troops and A~TD Internal TrQooe
to distinguish more clearl b t
e w
eep Internal Troops
nu reran y
yye Voyska) and Operational i!roo
s O
ti
p
pera
vnyye Voyeka)
sometimes ca~;led 3peoial Desi ation Troops ~'~oyska 0sobogo Idaznaeh-
eniya,or "OzMaz"') it was quite difficult to ex lain
this rat'~ier fine difference The
2d and 4th biv. 2. were AgVD Operational Troops; their primary ~?b was
to combat Lithuania
b
d
n
an
its and to bolster the newly reintroduced
,~?viet regime. A division of Int r roops (Vnutrenniye V?~rskli~,
oomraanded up to 1951 by - a Col. PERSIKOV - in the.
vicinity of arodno ~ g -
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Wh
,
n
ite Russia had a similar
mission. A^ aneth~~r+ ~.~,?.. ..~ w......
or thee? latter troo s
?arthqualce in Ashkhabad - - ~~
Intert~a~, Troops took command of all important Bites and inatall~tions
in the city, including banks, h?spitals, sto.. They performed guard
duty to preserve order and prevetat riotirr , lootin and pillage (of
ahioh there was considerable amount). th? mission of
the two types was urt about ode and t ame, preventio~a of mass
disorder or, "The maintenance of revo ry order
and the power of ~th? doviet government;. perational
Troops wsr? to be found more in the ~newsr territories of-the doviet
IInion, - such se Baltic countries, Bessarabia, the revently aogwired
portions of White Russia, where their mission was to sump out or
ke.p down anti-regime partisans. The 4th Regt. of Internal Troops
stationed at Riev durin~_World War II had the sane function, the
maintenance of order.
e v lion strength to ba between 10,000 and 12,000
two divisions of O
eration
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2
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p
a
Tro~o s
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the 2d Div.
n Vi lnus~ ovmmateded by a Qen
VETROV (a
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44
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s o
19
, and tha 4th Div .
in shaulyai, commanded by a sera. (fnu) P~YA9f3CRESt (as or 1980 .
These were all the ~ operational troops in Lithuania,
along tr angu ar ineea three regiments per division, threei~ea
battalions per regiment three cos iss per battalion, three
platoons per company. the component parts of these
omits w widely coat ?re on garrison duty throughout Lithuania.
th di i
D~_Qovernment 9igaa Troops.
MVD signal troops.
were ca.
Prayitel!stvenno~r
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between Moscow and Warsaw was not d?ne by 1~IIVD troops but by a
w?rkiag colu~an"~abochaya kolonna) under the direction of officer-
spec3.alists from troo s ?t the MVD
Capt. fnu KOLESNIROV as an engineer in charge of the
pro ec n that area.
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1~VVD Railaa~r Troupe
there euieted another organization of ~ troops
Qa led xailaay Troops" - ("ZZ~t~D4ROZffi+TYYE 9~~SKA~) .
Thas? aere organized generally into "garris?ns" ?! three categor;Les,
depetr~ding on the importance ?! the c-b~ect or area guarded. For
ext~aple, an, i~portant tunnel a~i ht have a co any or a Plato?n
sized unit to guard it. the Volga river bridge
in the vicinity ?! saratov had lirst oategary garrison e! ooa~amy
size. In the ones o! sa~aller bridges, a third oategory garrison o!
about 30 men would bs a~eegned. In come oaseo, a oo an aot~id be
assigned a nt~ber o! brid se.
sb~Qry, .gguuarch might be ~t1113tdrized",
but. bridge,,,. tunbel,, et~d oo~i~oatimn route. guards had to be
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,arms a sa ?rs oltem eseu iA soviet statioAS by many l0rei ere.
they were oalied 9tre1'tey (guard) or Dezhurnyye ~guare!): 25X1
e were only Railway Militia (police), Aot troupe. 0 25X1
the soviet militia in eneral were considered "s~ilitary'"
or militarized", they were "hai! and halt'". Most 25X1
militia msn aere. ormer eerv oemen aad.oould if meoeesity demanded
be converted into troops.
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