The Soviet Border Troops (Russian: Пограничные войска СССР, romanized: Pogranichnyye voyska SSSR) were the border guard of the Soviet Union, subordinated...

of many other countries, Soviet Border Troops were a centralized force including also the marine units of the Border Troops (i.e., a coast guard). Following...

third-largest Warsaw Pact border guard after the Soviet Border Troops and Poland's Border Protection Troops. The Grenztruppen's main role was preventing Republikflucht...

escalated in March 1969 when a group of People's Liberation Army troops engaged Soviet border guards on Zhenbao Island in Manchuria, resulting in considerable...

the Soviet Border Troops in 1918. The first Border Guards Day celebrations were marked on May 28, 1919, the first anniversary since the Border Troops were...

Border Troops may refer to: Soviet Border Troops Border Troops of the German Democratic Republic Tajik Border Troops Border Troops of the State Security...

The Border Troops (Tajik: Қӯшунҳои сарҳадӣ, romanized: Qūşunhoi sarhadī), also called the Border Service, is the border guard of Tajikistan. Functioning...

March 1969) was a Soviet Border Troops colonel and a Hero of the Soviet Union, who was killed in action during the 1969 Sino-Soviet border conflict. Leonov...

institutions for the Soviet Ground Forces, the Air Forces, and the Navy. The Soviet Border Troops, the KGB and the Internal Troops also maintained service...

July 1938, when Far Eastern Front and Soviet State Security (NKVD) Border Guard troops reinforced the Khasan border with Manchuria. This was prompted in...

The Soviet–Japanese border conflicts were a series of minor and major conflicts fought between the Soviet Union (led by Joseph Stalin), Mongolia (led...

the withdrawal of Vietnamese troops from Cambodia and the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The Sino-Vietnamese land border was formally agreed upon in...

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1945, the Marine Units of the Border Troops (MChPV) carried out the protection of the Soviet Union's maritime borders until its collapse. In different...

Бубе́нин; born 11 July 1939) was a Soviet Border Troops major general and recipient of the title Hero of the Soviet Union. Bubenin was born on 1939 in...

Ukrainian border guards are the national successors of the Soviet Border Troops. They were formed from the approximately 17,000 Border Troops located in...

Institute of the Border Troops of the Russian Federation. In 1996, it was transformed into the Moscow Military Institute of the Federal Border Service. Since...

During the Soviet era the border was guarded by Soviet border troops. The border was one of the two land borders between NATO and the Soviet Union, the...

the former Soviet Republic's directorate of the KGB's Central Asian Border Troops District, which was part of the wider Soviet Border Troops that numbered...

up to 3,000 civilians were killed by Soviet Border Troops as they attempted to cross the border from the Soviet Union to Romania near the village of Fântâna...

commission. In 1979, Soviet troops of the 40th Army crossed the border at Termez via a series of pontoons as part of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan...

and even demanded Soviet troops to seal the border with Pakistan before any negotiations with Mujahideen. Eventually, the Soviet Union decided to dispose...

and thus its Internal troops were under the joint management of the Defence and Interior Commissariats. In 1989, the Soviet Armed Forces consisted of...

former Soviet Border Troops deployed on Moldovan territory. On January 11, 1992, Colonel Vasile Calmoi was appointed as the first commander of the border troops...

16 March 1907 – 3 January 1992) was a Soviet colonel general, who served as commander of the Soviet Border Troops from 1952 to 1956 and 1957 to 1972. Zyryanov...

Invasion of the Soviet Union, cadets from two battalions of the Novy-Peterhof Military-Political School of the Border and Internal Troops of the NKVD stopped...

School of Border Guard and OGPU troops. In April 1938, the school was renamed the Kharkov Military School of the Border and Internal Troops of the NKVD...

It guarded the western part of the Chinese-Soviet border and a small section of the Afghan-Soviet border along the Wakhan District, after which began...

into battle-ready state in the spring of 1940. Soviet troops were concentrated along the Romanian border between 15 April and 10 June 1940. To co-ordinate...

enforcement services, which are found mostly in the post-Soviet states, primarily Russia. Internal troops are subordinated to the interior minister (and interior...