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Since 1997 the Kremlin Regiment has resumed guard duties by presidential decree on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and its Eternal Flame, keeping alive the legacy of those who served on the Eastern Front. Changing of the Guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Alexander Garden, Moscow, 2008. Soldiers are dressed in the former modern dress ...
[1] [2] Internally, has authority over the operation of certain Kremlin museums. [3] The Commandant of the Moscow Kremlin is the operational head of the office. It has direct control over the Kremlin Regiment, which notable maintains a permanent honor guard (Russian: Почётный караул) at the eternal flame of the Tomb of the Unknown ...
As the Second World War was ending in Europe in 1944 the Soviet NKVD in Moscow was charged with raising a full-time honor guard company as part of the 1st Regiment, OMSDON (then the NKVD 1st Special Duties Division), in the style and manner of the British Household Division's Foot Guards, the 3rd US Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) and the French Republican Guard's First Infantry Regiment.
A soldier of the Kremlin Regiment in a full dress uniform at Post No. 1 (Tomb of the Unknown Soldier). The FSO is organized into the following services: Management (Director, Deputies) Presidential Security Service; Security Service; Commandant's Office of the Moscow Kremlin. Kremlin Regiment. Regiment HQ; Presidential Band of the Russian ...
National Guard (FSVNG) National Guard Forces Command; Federal Security Service (FSB) Federal Security Service by itself; Border Troops of the FSB; Federal Protective Service (FSO) includes the Kremlin Regiment (KP) Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Ministry of Emergency Situations (MChS / EMERCOM) Civil Defense troops
The establishment of the National Guard reportedly caused contention within the Kremlin, since the new force took over duties and functions normally carried out by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. A spokesman denied that the establishment of the National Guard meant a crisis of confidence in the so-called siloviki and stated that the Federal ...
83rd Corps Artillery Regiment; 100th Independent Shipborne Fighter Aviation Regiment; 108th Guards Kuban Cossack Air Assault Regiment; 111th Guards Airborne Regiment; 138th Separate Tank Regiment; 154th Preobrazhensky Independent Commandant's Regiment; 217th Guards Airborne Regiment; 243rd Guards Motor Rifle Regiment; 295th Guards Motor Rifle ...
The Separate Operational Purpose Division or ODON, formerly called OMSDON (a.k.a. Dzerzhinsky Division), is a rapid deployment internal security division of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR and then the Russian Federation, currently part of the National Guard Forces Command of the Russian Federation. [1]