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...

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...

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...

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 Soviet–Japanese border conflicts, also known as the Soviet-Japanese Border War, the First Soviet-Japanese War, the Russo-Mongolian-Japanese Border Wars...

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

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...

Troops in the SFSR were now subordinated to the republican ministry. With the dissolution of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991, the Internal Troops...

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...

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...

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

Excellent Border Troop 1st class, 1969 Excellent Border Troop 2nd class, 1969 70 years Border Troops KGB, 1988 70 years Komsomol Cheka–KGB Soviet Union portal...

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...

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

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...

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

deployed troops at the Sino-Soviet border and Mongolian-Chinese border as an act of showing support to Vietnam, as well as tying up Chinese troops. However...

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...

were killed when Soviet Border troops opened fire on them while they were attempting to forcefully cross the border from the Soviet Union to Romania,...

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...

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...

Republics. After the end of World War II in Europe, the Soviet Union signed the Polish–Soviet border agreement of August 1945 with the new, internationally...

basis of the Soviet Border Troops in the Turkestan Military District. Until 1997, the Armed Forces of Turkmenistan included the Border Troops of the Ministry...

internal troops (Interior Ministry troops) – crimson (dark red), instead of the letters "СА" (Советская Армия) the letters "ВВ" (Внутренние Войска); border troops...

Soviet Armed Forces by the introduction of the AK-47 in the 1950s. Nevertheless, SKS carbines continued to see service with the Soviet Border Troops and...

base of Border Service of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation troops (FSB). During the Cold War, the section of the border between...