History of the 8th armored forces of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. Eighth armor Shield of Our Country
Brigades of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia
Basis of formation
Date of formation (reformation),
No. of orders
Brigades during the period
Subordination, resubordination
No. and dates of orders
Dislocation
Fate
6 arr USCH
Kurchatov
Compound:
17 p USCh / 169 about USCh (military unit 3031 Rossokha, Slavutich)
164 about USCH (military unit 3678 Desnogorsk)
165 about USCh (military unit 3679 Udomlya)
166 about USCh (military unit 3680 Nitishin) As part of brigade 31.5.90 (No. 000)-3.1.92, became part of the military unit
167 about USCH (military unit 3681 Kuznetsovsk) As part of brigade 31.5.90 (No. 000)-3.1.92, became part of the VVU
168 about USCh (military unit 3682 Yuzhno-Ukrainsk) As part of brigade 31.5.90 (No. 000)-3.1.92, became part of the VVU
169 about USCh (military unit 3031 Slavutich) As part of brigade 31.5.90 (No. 000)-3.1.92, became part of the VVU
622 about USCH (military unit 3510 Moscow)
658 about USCh (military unit 3561 Pripyat) As part of brigade 31.5.90 (No. 000)-3.1.92, became part of the VVU
Additions:
8 BrON
Nalchik
Compound:
Composition for 1995 :
1 BON for BMD-1
2 BONs for BTR-80, BTRD-1
3 BONs for BTR-8-, BTRD-1
Reconnaissance Company
Additions:
Nizhny Novgorod
Compound:
Additions:
10th separate engineering and construction brigade of explosives
Moscow
Compound:
Ostroitbat (military unit 2650 Moscow)
Ostroitbat) HF 2644 Sochi)
Ostroitbat (unit 2645 Alupka Ukraine)
Ostroitbat (unit 3533 Moscow)
Ostroitbat (unit 3556 Kalach-on-Don)
Ostroitbat (HF 3558?)
Ostroitbat (unit 5372 Solnechnogrsky district, Lunevo settlement)
Ostroitbat (unit 5373 Moscow-Skhodnya)
Ostroitbat (unit 6702 Kapotnya village)
Additions:
Not earlier than 1991
12 Oct-arr
Astrakhan
Compound:
189 about VV-osmbm-obon (military unit 3710 Elista)
300 obon (Astrakhan) from 5.96
AZDN (until 1.99 separate mortar and anti-aircraft companies)
Additions:
13 Oct
54 cd, standard deviation BB
Krasnodar city
Compound:
Additions:
15 Oct
Puksozero (Plesetsk district)
Kvandoozero
X 90s kp
Compound: security of the institution KM-401/OU-250 (Onega ULITU). KB in Kvantozero and Saltozero
Additions:
19 kbr
Saratov
Compound:
Additions: units were stationed in Saratov, Balakovo, Balashov, Volsk, Krasnoarmeysk, Pugachev, Engels
21 special purpose brigade of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs
21 special purpose military units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation(12.5.92 № 000)- arranging for operational purposes(4.94)
Until 12.5.92 TsU VV
12.5.92 No. 000 GUVV
Np. Sofrino
Compound: control
1-4 BON (n. Sofrino)
Azdn (n. Sofrino)
sniper company (n. Sofrino)
rs (n. Sofrino)
isr (n. Sofrino)
r rd and ks (n. Sofrino)
security company (n. Sofrino)
RMO (n. Sofrino)
repair company (n. Sofrino)
medrota (n. Sofrino)
canine platoon (n. Sofrino)
uc (n. Sofrino)
information and computing center (n. Sofrino)
Additions:
22 OBRON
Kalach-on-Don
Compound:
Azdn (1-2 minbaht)
82 military unit (military unit 3722 Shakhty)
508 SMP (military unit 7461 Volgograd) – 390 OSMB
413 OSMB (military unit 2666 Elista)
98 About USCh (military unit 3433 Kamensk-Shakhtisky)
Additions:
23 osmbr
Moscow
Compound:
224 OSMB-107 SMP (military unit 3747 Moscow)
Additions:
25 arr USCH
Chelyabinsk
Compound:
Additions:
26 BRON
Vladikavkaz
Compound:
Bon (Krasnaya Gorka)
Bon (Dachnoye)
Bon (Kartsa village)
company (platoon) Special Forces
Additions:
28 arr.
MO VV, TsO VV
Ivanovo
X 95 units became part of the 12th Airborne Forces
Compound:
Linear units for the protection of ITU and RMO (formerly units of the 513th checkpoint in Ivanovo), in 1994. reorganized into a linear BON under brigade control
512 regiment (military unit 6581 Yaroslavl) from 23.3.93 from airborne forces in the Volga region
518 kp (military unit 6523 Vladimir)
50 OSMB (military unit 5470 Vladimir)
114 OSMB (military unit 5494 Yaroslavl)
115 OSMB (military unit 5495 Ivanovo)
Additions:
29 arr.
MO VV, TsO VV
Compound:
Linear units for the protection of ITU and RMO (formerly units of the 667th police station in Tula), in 1994. reorganized into a linear BON under brigade control
638 kp (military unit 6681 Kaluga)
444 OKB (military unit 6680 Ryazan)
138 Osmbm (military unit 5518 Tula)
Additions:
30 uch br
RMS, at 10 SKRK
88-91 Shakhty-19
np. Persianovsky
Compound:
Additions:
31 Carpathian OKZ (31 arr.)
(31 OBRON)
Solikamsk
Compound:
KB Solikamsk (20 kr)
KB Berezniki
KB Kuchino
4 kb in Svesvyatsky
Additions:
236 Minsk KZ AN kp
Minsk KZ AN ( from 236 kp) okbr-obron
Moscow
About TSOVV
Compound:
Additions:
33 OBRON
11. Np. Lebyazhye
Compound:
Additions:
34 OBRON
11 np. Bogorodsk
Compound:
Additions:
35 arr.
11 Samara
Compound:
113 smp (military unit 5599 Samara)
524 training reserve regiment (military unit 6622 Tolyatti)
589 p. USCh (military unit 3473 Penza-19/Zarechny) from 8.99
633 SMP-738 OSMB (military unit 3997 Cheboksary) X 98
OSMB (military unit 6672 Ulyanovsk)
3 Osmbm (military unit 5423 Saratov)
Osmb (military unit 6556 Penza) X 10.10.01
Osmb (military unit 6520 Ufa)
SK (military unit 3509 Shikhany)
About the USCh (military unit 3684, Balakovo).
Additions:
36 arr.
87 cd, URO explosive
Chelyabinsk
Compound
Additions. In. parts of USCH, SMHF and dog handlers
37 kbr
Perm region
Np. Kizel
Compound:
Additions: during Stalin's time, the Kizellag guard. Companies: No. 10 - became No. 9, No. 11 became No. 7, No. 14 became No. 8, 21 controllers became No. 10, No. 17, No. 7. Subdivisions in the city of Kizel, Taly village, n. Shirokovsky, n. Bolshaya Oslyanka, n. Semyonovka, n.p., Shakhta-40, Solnechny village
Np. Ivdel
Compound
Additions: part of sf. 10/25/56
39 kbr
77 87 cd, airborne air in the Urals, 152 cd
Sverdlovsk region, n. Sosva
Compound:
Additions:
40 kb
Nizhnyaya Poima
Compound:
Additions:
Village Tilichet-2. Letter "B".
KB Novobiryuchinsk
Pos. Reshots
41 Oct
Kemerovo
Compound:
Additions:
42 okbr-arr
Irkutsk
Compound:
63 mon (military unit 3695 Angarsk)
684 USCh Regiment (military unit 3466 Angarsk-16)
630 pVV (military unit 3520 Chita).
126 OSMB (military unit 5506 Ulan-Ude)
405 OSMB (military unit 2658 Irkutsk)
VG (military unit 3867 Angarsk)
5th Marine Detachment (military unit 7628 Severobaikalsk)
Additions:
43 mod
Khabarovsk
Compound:
Additions:
44 model BB
Compound:
Additions:
46 OBRON
11 Chechen Republic
np. Northern
Compound:
140 ap (military unit 3761 Naurskaya station) formed 3.10
248 OSMB "North" (military unit 4156 Grozny)
249 OSMB "South" (military unit 4157 Vedeno village)
231 obon (military unit 3761 Naurskaya station)
348 obon/94 pon (military unit 6779 Urus-Martan)
349 obon/96 pon (military unit 6780 Gudermes)
351 obon/34 main (military unit 6775 Grozny)
352 orb "Mirage" (military unit 6783 Grozny)
353 obs (military unit 6784 aer Severny)
354 OISB (military unit 6785 Severny Air Force)
355 orvb (military unit 6786 aer northern)
356 obmo (military unit 6787 air force northern)
357th medsb (military unit 6788 aer northern)
358 obon (military unit 6776 Chervlenaya village)
360 obon (military unit 6776 Shelkovskaya village)
386 obon (military unit 6778 Grozny)
6 military units (military unit 6782 Severny Air Force)
7 airborne unit (military unit 6806 Severny air force)
32 ovk (military unit 6789 aer northern)
6 OR RHBZ (HF 6807 Air Northern)
424 Obon (military unit 2671 Khankala)
743 Obon (military unit 6884 Vedeno village)
744 obon (military unit 6885 Nozhai-Yurt village)
34 SN detachment (military unit 6775 Grozny) formerly 351 obon
Additions:
47 OBRON 2
11 Krasnodar
Compound:
196 obon (military unit 3717 Kropotkin) X 09
377 obon/139 smp (military unit 3703 Krasnodar)
378 KZ Obon (military unit 3219 Labinsk)
244 obs (military unit 3774 Krasnodar)
282 orvb (military unit 5589 Krasnodar)
380 obmo (Krasnodar)
322 medical SB (military unit 6765 Labinsk)
8 OISR (military unit 6823 Labinsk)
180 Osmb/127 SMP (military unit 3662 Sochi)
15 OSPN "Vyatich" (military unit 6767 Armavir)
215 Osmbm (military unit 5562 Cherkessk)
413 obon (military unit 2666 Elista) transfer from 22 obron
Additions:
48 OBRON
Stavropol
98 KZv SMP
Compound:
320 obon (military unit 5137 Dydymkin village, Stavropol Territory)
363 Obon (military unit 6794 Astrakhan) may not be part of the brigade
366 Obon (military unit 3709 Blagodatny)
367 obon (military unit 3753 Neftekumsk) after the disbandment of the brigade became part of the 102 oboron
365 obon (military unit 3673 Zelenokumsk)
346 orb (military unit 6774 Shpakovskoye)
17 OSN (military unit 6762 Mineralnye Vody or Novotersky settlement)
121 pon (military unit 3723 Nalchik) after disbandment became part of the 49th ObrON
404 OSMB (military unit 6873 Nalchik) after disbandment became part of 49 OBRON
215 OSMB (military unit 5562 Cherkessk)
256 obmo (military unit 3786 Pyatigorsk) from 99, previously military unit 7410
Additions:
49 OBRON
1.01.08 SK RK VV
11 Vladikavkaz
Compound:
121 pon (military unit 3723 Nalchik) became part of the brigade after the disbandment of 48 OBRON
126 p VV (military unit 3718 Nazran)
674 pon (military unit 3737 Mozdok)
362 obon (military unit 3754, Vladikavkaz, Chermen village)
383 Obon (military unit 3724, Vladikavkaz, Kartsa) former 26 Obon
242 orb (military unit 3772 Zelenokumsk)
247 orvb (military unit 3777, Vladikavkaz)
255 obmo (military unit 3785 Mozdok)
256 obmo (military unit 3786 Pyatigorsk) previously in 48 armor
281 OISB (military unit 5588 Zelenokumsk)
243 obs (military unit 3773 Mozdok)
404 OSMB (military unit 6873 Nalchik) became part of the brigade after the disbandment of 48 OBRON
98 KZv SMP (military unit 7427 Pyatigorsk) former 48th defense
261st medsb (military unit 3791, Vladikavkaz)
On security and CS (military unit 6828 Vladikavkaz) X 08
17 OSN (military unit 6761 Mineralnye Vody)
Additions:
50 OBRON
1.01.08 SK RK VV
Novocherkassk
Compound:
732 detachment (military unit 5138 Novocherkassk)
Howitzer artillery division
133 SMP (military unit 3656 Novocherkassk)
186 OISB (military unit 3666 np
51 kbr
Compound:
Additions: divisions in Nyrob, Cherdyn, Perm
Compound:
Additions:
578 kp, 579 kp
55 Oct
Knyazhpogostsky district
X 10.10.96 No. 000
Compound:
Additions:
62 kbr
Primorsky Krai
Vladivostok
Shkotovsky district
Bolshoy Kamen village
Compound:
Additions:
divisions in Slavyanka, Chuguevka, Ussuriysk, Bolshoy Kamen, Partizansk
63 arr USCH
np. Volkhonka Gorelovo
Compound:
2 Commandant's office at the railway station. "Saint Petersburg"
1 Military commandant's office (for the protection of the Zapovednik plant in the village of Semrino, Leningrad region
Military commandant's office (for the protection of the state plant named after Morozov, village named after Morozov, Leningrad region - 56 km), consists of a directorate, a commandant's office and a pass office, a technical support group, 8 rifle platoons, a radio station crew (R-134 stats), a group ensuring combat service, medical paragraph
Group (for the protection of special cargo)
Combat service support company, consists of a command and control platoon, a communications and engineering support platoon, a platoon of combat and special vehicles, an information and computing center, a security platoon (helipad and fuel and lubricant warehouses)
Material and technical support company, consists of management, automobile platoon, material support platoon, warehouses, bath and laundry plant
Training company (for the preparation of KO VGO) (according to the state - 19 military ranks (permanent composition) - 5 officers, 1 pr., 12 sergeant, 1 soldier + 77 military ranks of variable composition), consists of management, 3 training platoon
Medical station (with infirmary for 15 beds)
Club
124 p USC (military unit 3705 Sosnovy Bor) security of the Branch of the Rosenergoatom Concern "Leningrad Nuclear Plant" of the Ministry of the Russian Federation for Atomic Energy and the Scientific Research Technological Institute named after. Ministry of the Russian Federation for Atomic Energy
59 about USCh (military unit 3636 St. Petersburg) security of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Plant named after. Morozov" of the Russian Munitions Agency.
285 about USCh (military unit 3644 Polyarnye Zori) security of the Branch of the Rosenergoatom Concern “Kola Nuclear Power Plant, Ministry of the Russian Federation for Atomic Energy
2 mo (military unit 3798 Murmansk) security of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Atomflot", Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation
Add-ons:
Security of objects:
St. Petersburg Institute of Nuclear Physics named after. Russian Academy of Sciences (Gatchina).
Scientific and Production Association “Radium Institute named after. » Ministry of the Russian Federation for Atomic Energy (St. Petersburg).
Central Design Bureau of Mechanical Engineering of the Ministry of the Russian Federation for Atomic Energy (St. Petersburg)
Plant "Reserve" of the Russian Agency for State Reserves, village. Semrino).
64 obrk (frames)
04 Veliky Novgorod
Compound:
776 pkVV (military unit 5600 Petrozavodsk)
803 pkVV (military unit 5547 Cherepovets)
805 pkVV (military unit 6718 Pskov)
806 pkVV (military unit 5491 Veliky Novgorod)
956 obkVV (military unit 3932 Kaliningrad)
Additions:
65 arr USCH
UVVOVOiSG
75-99 Novocheboksarsk
Compound:
614 about USCH (military unit 3414 Novocheboksarsk)
615 about USCH (military unit 3508 Volgograd)
Additions:
111 defense
03-07 Khabarovsk
Krasnaya Rechka
Compound:
1 naval detachment (military unit 3800 Khabarovsk)
412 OSMB (military unit 2665 Khabarovsk)
Additions:
Arkhangelsk
Compound:
Divisions:ODON VV
2 DON VV
54 DON VV
99 DON BB
100 DON BB
Brigades:
8 OBRON explosives
12th separate explosive brigade
21 OBRON VV
22 OBRON VV
26 OBRON VV
28th separate explosive brigade
30th separate explosive brigade
33 OBRON VV
34 OBRON BB
46 OBRON
81st separate explosive brigade
92nd separate explosive brigade
94 OBRON BB
101 OSBRON VV
102 OBRON VV
OBRON VV Arkhangelsk
OBRON VV Stavropol Territory
Operational and explosive regiments:
1 PON BB ODON
2 PON VV ODON
4 PON VV ODON
5 PON BB ODON
46 MON BB
47 MON BB
48 MON BB
49 MON BB
51 MON BB
57 MON BB
59 MON BB
63 MON BB
66 PON BB
81 MON BB
451 PON BB
477 PON BB
501 PON BB
502 PON BB
599 PON BB
633 PON BB
649 PON BB
656 PON BB
666 PON BB
667 PON BB
674 PON BB
676 PON BB
680 PON BB
PON VV Ufa
MON VV Nizhny Novgorod
PON VV Kostroma
PON VV St. Petersburg (possibly 49)
PON VV Kirov
PON VV Ulyanovsk
621 p BB
627 p BB
439 p BB
512 p VV Yaroslavl
638 p BB
consolidated regiment of the Siberian district, Novosibirsk
Eastern District Regiment
Regiment of the Ural District
Operational battalions:
193 OBON VV
196 OBON VV
221 OBON VV
204 OBON VV
303 OBON VV
320 OBON
329 OBON
330 OBON VV
OBON VV Labinsk
OBON VV Apatity
OBON VV Chelyabinsk
OBON VV Ulyanovsk
OBON VV Tver
OBON VV Kemerovo
OBON VV Tula
OBON VV Vladimir
OBON VV Blagoveshchensk (according to other sources 127 OSMB)
OBON VV Arkhangelsk
BON 627 p VV
BON 528 p BB
BON 634 p VV
BON 502 p VV
BON VV 577 convoy regiment
BON VV of the Siberian district VV
BON VV of the "Minsk" brigade of the Ministry of Defense of the VV (possibly 32 OBRON VV)
BON 92 mod VV
Battalion or company 81st brigade, summer 1996. Grozny Khankala (possibly SMB)
Special motorized shelves:
2 SMP
13 SMP
92 SMP
93 SPM
120 SMP
518 SMP Vladimir
SMP Zelenograd
1 consolidated SMP
2 consolidated SMP
4 consolidated SMP
Consolidated SMP SIBO VV
SMP 12th division
1st Special Forces Regiment "Vityaz"
Special motorized battalions:
1 OSMB
14 SMB
Temporary 45 SMB
117 OSMB
127 OSMB
159 OSMB
444 OSMB
729 OSMB
SMB 439 p VV
SMB 512 p VV
SMB 638 p VV
SMB 621 PON VV
SMB Novosibirsk or already 13 SMB
SMB Barnaul
SMB Kislovodsk
SMB Kaliningrad
SMB of the Krasnoyarsk division or 40 convoy brigade
SMB Samara
SMB Perm
SMB Cherkessk
SMB Saratov
SMB Tula
SMB Cherepovets
SMB Tver
SMB Pskov
Aviation explosives:
685th Separate Mixed Aviation Regiment of Special Purpose
675 separate mixed aviation regiment
2nd Separate Aviation Squadron
8th Separate Aviation Squadron
11th Separate Aviation Squadron
Individual parts:
Privo VV sniper company
Sniper company of the Military Defense Ministry
Tank units and explosive units:
Tank battalion 8 OBRON VV
Tank battalion 100 DON VV
Special Forces units:
1st Special Forces Detachment "Vityaz" (ODON-1)
3rd Special Forces Detachment
6th Special Forces Detachment
7th Special Forces Detachment "Rosich" (Don-100)
8th Special Forces Detachment "Rus" (separate)
9th Special Forces Detachment "Lynx"
10th Special Forces Detachment
12th Special Forces Detachment "Ural"
15th Special Forces Detachment "Skif"
17th Special Forces Detachment
19th Special Forces Detachment
20th Special Forces Detachment
21st Special Forces Detachment
23rd Special Forces Detachment
25th Special Forces Detachment
26th Special Forces Detachment
27th Special Forces Detachment
28th Special Forces Detachment
29th Special Forces Detachment
30th Special Forces Detachment
33rd Special Forces Detachment
Twenty years ago the first Chechen war began. She left a difficult mark in people's memory. This war had its heroes, there was a lot of betrayal and meanness. Many did not understand its reasons and did not think that such a thing could happen. But it happened, a cruel, merciless meat grinder. Today's events in Donetsk and Lugansk confirm that we need to keep our powder dry.
Alexander Korshunov, a participant in the fighting in the North Caucasus, talks in his book about the first Chechen war, its heroes and enemies of Russia.
Born in 1954. Reserve Lieutenant Colonel. He graduated from the Saratov Higher Military Command Red Banner School of Internal Troops named after F. E. Dzerzhinsky of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs. Served in the internal troops from 1972 to 2004. He participated in the liquidation of the Ossetian-Ingush conflict, fought in the Chechen Republic in 1994-96 and in 2000-2003. He was awarded the Order of Military Merit and the Medal of Courage.
Lives in the city of Ramenskoye.
This is not a memoir. I didn’t reach them either in position or rank. They are written, as a rule, by generals and marshals. They require an accurate presentation and detailed analysis of events and facts. Here the accuracy is very approximate; I simply don’t remember many dates. One day, remembering my service in the army, I suddenly unexpectedly discovered that I began to forget the names and surnames of the people with whom I served and fought. By chance, a thick notebook caught my eye, and I decided to write down my memories in it, without at all pretending to be “artistic.” Like a nomad riding a horse across the steppe and singing about what he sees around him, so I wrote down what I remembered, without writing. So, in general, this book came about spontaneously.
I probably have the right to call myself a hereditary officer. Still, the “servant” is in the third generation, starting with his grandfather. I don’t know about my great-grandfathers; if they served the Tsar-Father, it was perhaps as soldiers. The class is not the same. Our peasant family from the Tver province - what golden epaulettes there are. It was only under Soviet rule that my grandfather Dmitry Ivanovich Korshunov, a farm laborer and village Komsomol member Mitka Verin (that was his name in the village after his mother), was drafted into the Red Army in 1927. There he joined the party, stayed for long-term service, then completed courses for political instructors and received two “kubars” in his buttonholes. Of his six brothers, two were also Red commanders. Well, starting with the Finnish and then the Great Patriotic War, everyone went to the front. In memory of one of them, regiment commander Alexander Ivanovich Korshunov, who died in 1941 near Smolensk, I was named Alexander.
My grandfather met the war in Western Ukraine near the city of Rivne as a senior political instructor, commissar of the 2nd battalion of the 777th Infantry Regiment of the 227th Infantry Division. He fought out of encirclement in the Kiev cauldron together with Bagramyan. In '42, near Kharkov, he was seriously wounded. Then he fought on the Leningrad Front. He ended the war in the Baltic States, near Riga, as a lieutenant colonel, deputy commander of the 62nd Guards Gniezno Red Banner, Order of Suvorov mechanized regiment. He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Battle, two Orders of the Red Star and many medals. By the way, after the war the 62nd mechanized regiment was transformed into the 245th Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment, well known in Chechnya, with which we fought side by side more than once.
My father, Viktor Dmitrievich Korshunov, at the age of thirteen became a Red Army soldier in the commandant’s platoon in besieged Leningrad. Of course, it was the grandfather who saved his son from hunger, but not from a bullet. The boy, along with adult soldiers, carried out difficult patrol duty and went on combat operations. And there was only one discount for age - a piece of sugar instead of shag. After the war, he graduated from the anti-aircraft artillery school in Zhitomir and became a missile officer. Served in the country's air defense forces for more than 25 years, in the Ural taiga, at missile points. He retired from the army with the rank of major.
Uncle - Sergei Vasilyevich, internal troops officer, NKVD member. In 1942, accelerated graduation from the Saratov School and to Stalingrad. Then he fought through Western Ukraine, where he fought with Bandera’s followers until 1948. Lieutenant Colonel, Chief of Staff of the Strategic Missile Forces, served in the army for 27 years.
If we add my 32 years to their service, then the four of us alone served Russia for almost 110 years, although we did not rise to high ranks.
However, as a boy I had no intention of following in their footsteps into the army. My youthful dreams were directed towards the profession of a long-distance sailor, since I grew up in sunny Feodosia on the shores of the Black Sea. After graduating from school, I went to enroll in the Kherson Marine Corps. Romantics are full of pants, “wet my vest - I can’t live without the sea.” But at the commission I was assigned to the radio engineering department, but I wanted to study navigation. In general, I did not turn out to be a sailor.
Here the grandfather, father and uncle took the unreasonable child in their turn and sent him on the right path in accordance with family tradition. So I became a cadet at the Saratov Higher Military Command School of the Internal Troops of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs, the same one that Uncle Sergei graduated from in 1942.
After graduation, he ended up serving in the Siberian taiga in the Angara region:
- “Where there is a river, the Biryusa River, breaking the ice, makes noise and sings to the voices...”
I served in those parts for fourteen years, instead of the required ten, and then they transferred me to “warmer” lands, to the North Caucasus in the city of Nalchik, or rather to a tiny mountain village, not far from Nalchik. In Siberia, these places were considered a resort, but by that time, with the collapse of the Union, warm resorts quickly turned into “hot spots” - this is how places of armed conflicts began to be called. Global political warming in the country caused overheating in the heads of local princes and princelings of all calibers, and the Caucasus began to burn in feverish divisions of power. Tbilisi, Baku, Sumgait, Stepanakert, then Abkhazia, Ossetia with Ingushetia, and Chechnya.
Nalchik was not spared either. In 1991, a certain " Congress of Mountain Peoples of the Caucasus“organized a rally on the square in front of the government house of Kabardino-Balkaria, which quickly escalated into riots, and even with shooting. The local police fled, and it was somehow inconvenient for them - what if they accidentally hit a relative in the spine with a baton. And only the internal troops who arrived to reinforce them restrained the crowd and prevented the building from being captured. But in the hands of the attackers there were not only sticks and iron fittings, but also trunks.
Police lieutenant Shkhagoshev then became the national hero of Kabarda. While neutralizing a criminal armed with a grenade, he lost his hands. The entire republic collected money for him to buy prosthetics. But the press, as always, modestly kept silent about the fact that fourteen soldiers from the Dzerzhinsky Military Division were lying in the republican hospital with serious injuries and wounds.
It was in such a warm climate that in October 1992 our eighth operational brigade (abbreviated as 8 BRON) was created, in the formation and establishment of which I participated from the first days and served until its disbandment.
By the standards of the internal troops, it was created as a very weighty fist to counter extremism and armed terrorism in the region. The brigade was stationed at the base of a disbanded unit of the strategic missile forces in the former closed garrison of Nalchik-20.
I won’t give away a military secret if I list the staff of the brigade in those years. It consists of: a battalion of airborne combat vehicles, two battalions of BTR-80, a tank battalion (PT-76), an anti-aircraft artillery division (ZU-23-2, SPG-9, 82-mm mortars), special police and rifle battalions, repair battalion. Later, a separate reinforced battalion of the 101st Grozny Brigade was included in the brigade, which was equal in number and firepower to our two line battalions.
Yes, plus there are also separate companies: special forces, reconnaissance, snipers, sappers, commandant service, communications, autocompany, chemical protection platoons and mine-detecting dogs. And rear logistics units. One “armor” for two hundred units, and even a full fleet of “wheels”. In general, the power is considerable. When all this is lined up in a marching column, it takes your breath away.
I remember our first brigade commander with great respect. Colonel Andreevsky Protogen Protogenovich (later general). They say about such people in the troops - a commander from God. In a matter of months, he created not just a military unit, but a Brigade with a capital B. After two or three months the soldiers said:
— Eighth BRON — sounds proud and strong, like armor.
And the word “soldier” was almost never used; more often it sounded like “fighter” - somehow closer in spirit, in the general mood. But just yesterday there was a “ragtag army” on the parade ground with maroon, scarlet, black, blue shoulder straps and emblems of almost all branches of the military.
The basis, of course, was the “Veveshniks” - Nalsk, Angara, Khabarovsk residents. And the reinforcements were sent to us “selected” - from the disbanded units of the Ministry of Defense. There are mahra infantry and landing troops, aviation and artillery, tank crews, signalmen, and motorists. There is perhaps no construction battalion with the Zheldorvoysk.
The selection, naturally, is based on the principle of “oh my God, I’m not good for it”, the personnel is still the same. The “Red Army” simply pushed its slobs into the VV, taking advantage of the opportunity. While they were being transported in trains from the Leningrad and Moscow districts, about forty people simply ran away along the road. At that time, desertion was common, even fashionable. However, it is unlikely that the brigade lost its best fighters.
Those who remained were somewhat disappointed. The guys thought that the same barracks routine and show-off would begin in the new place. Again, endless washing of floors and sweeping paths, making “square” snowdrifts and digging ditches “from post to evening.” But it started, as expected, with a bathhouse, and then they changed everyone into a new uniform, but not the usual one. Camouflage, vest, combat boots, berets! It was cool then. Shabby overcoats and cotton washed to white were used as replacements, or even as rags. Soldiers transferred to a foreign department were dressed by their father-commanders in discarded cast-offs. The army, having changed into new clothes, and after a bathhouse with a steam room, immediately perked up and became cheerful.
(To be continued)
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In the 90s, due to the aggravation of the internal political situation in the country, internal troops began to receive heavier equipment than traditional armored personnel carriers. So the airborne troops “shared” the BMD-1 and BTRD, the ground forces transferred the T-62 and PT-76. If the topic of the use of medium tanks by explosive units has been studied at least a little, then practically nothing is known about the PT-76.
But “boats with guns” were used from the very beginning of the Chechen company. They entered the rebellious republic in the advanced columns of troops. For example, tank crews of military unit 3723 from Nalchik. According to some reports, these tanks were mainly used to defend checkpoints and at times to escort convoys. For example, the author saw one PT-76 in Grozny not far from the former Dudayev palace. (See also: OPERATION AND COMBAT USE OF FLOATING TANKS PT-76 AND VEHICLES AT THEIR BASE)
However, there is evidence that these tanks were also used during operations of internal troops to liberate settlements occupied by militants. Here is one such testimony, recorded in April 1995. The fact is that a resident of Saransk, Lieutenant Sergei Golubev, served in military unit 3723.
In 1993, after being awarded the rank of lieutenant, he was sent to the North Caucasus District of Internal Troops, to a tank unit stationed in Nalchik. In December 1994, tanks from Golubev’s company entered Chechnya as part of a unit. On April 18, 1995, Lieutenant Golubev died during the assault on Bamut.
Captain of the Nalchik brigade of internal troops Alexander Korshunov and warrant officer Alexander Maksimov:
“All of us have been in Chechnya since the first days. They all passed: Chervlennaya, Vinogradnaya, Grozny assault... On February 18 they left there and returned to replace them. Then again - there. There are military operations there again - Gudermes, Argun, Samashki, and now - Bamut...
The circumstances of the battle?.. I don’t know how the operation was planned and carried out there, but it just turned out that two tanks - an army T-72 and a Seryogin “Petashka” - ended up in the very center of the village.
The “spirits” let them through, and then they slammed the trap - a fire bag. The battle went on for more than two hours.
Serezhkin’s tank was immediately knocked out, then the army tank of Vyacheslav Kubynin caught fire. Sergei, from his crippled and stationary tank, fired until the last - there, in one of the “peaceful” houses near the “spirits,” a firing point was set up: a large-caliber machine gun was hitting ours. He destroyed this machine gun. Then they began to cover the retreat of the assault groups..."
Later it became known that during the battle Golubev personally destroyed three enemy firing points. In total, the PT-76 received two hits from rocket-propelled grenades.
For this battle, the command of the unit nominated Sergei Golubev for the title of Hero of Russia, but he was posthumously awarded the Order of Courage.
After the first war in September 1998, on the basis of a battalion of light tanks PT-76 of the 8th separate operational brigade of internal troops, stationed in Nalchik, and a separate Novocherkassk tank battalion with T-62 tanks of the 100th operational division, 93 1st mechanized regiment of the VV.
This unit took part in the battles in Dagestan in the summer and autumn of 1999. But if the medium T-62s fought there, then the light PT-76s have already gone to Chechnya. One of the photos showed a joint column of PT-76 and T-62. Taking into account previous experience, the tankers tried to strengthen the armor protection of their tanks with spare tracks and side screens.
As in the first war, they tried to use light tanks to defend checkpoints. As soldiers from one of the riot police said, in November 1999 they were given one such tank.
“With a tank, even if it is light, you feel much more confident than, say, with an armored personnel carrier or BRDM; after all, a 76-mm gun is a much more powerful argument than a machine gun, even a large-caliber one. Due to the fact that the tankers fired harassing fire, there were no attacks on us.”
In 2006, the tank units of the internal troops were disbanded, and military equipment was transferred to the bases of the Russian Ministry of Defense. According to some reports, in the formations where the PT-76 was in service, the IS-3, T-55, T-62, BRDM-2, BTR-60 and BTR-50 were preserved as museum exhibits. And, unfortunately, not a single PT-76. The information has not been fully verified. Maybe, after all, there was a place somewhere for at least one “peteshka”.
PT-76B of the Russian Internal Troops during combat operations in Chechnya
P.S. This material is the first attempt to cover the topic of the use of tanks by internal troops in the North Caucasus. The author hopes that the participants in those events will supplement it with new facts.
Twenty years ago the first Chechen war began. She left a difficult mark in people's memory. This war had its heroes, there was a lot of betrayal and meanness. Many did not understand its reasons and did not think that such a thing could happen. But it happened, a cruel, merciless meat grinder. Today's events in Donetsk and Lugansk confirm that we need to keep our powder dry.
Alexander Korshunov, a participant in the fighting in the North Caucasus, talks in his book about the first Chechen war, its heroes and enemies of Russia.
Born in 1954. Reserve Lieutenant Colonel. He graduated from the Saratov Higher Military Command Red Banner School of Internal Troops named after F. E. Dzerzhinsky of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs. Served in the internal troops from 1972 to 2004. He participated in the liquidation of the Ossetian-Ingush conflict, fought in the Chechen Republic in 1994-96 and in 2000-2003. He was awarded the Order of Military Merit and the Medal of Courage.
Lives in the city of Ramenskoye.
This is not a memoir. I didn’t reach them either in position or rank. They are written, as a rule, by generals and marshals. They require an accurate presentation and detailed analysis of events and facts. Here the accuracy is very approximate; I simply don’t remember many dates. One day, remembering my service in the army, I suddenly unexpectedly discovered that I began to forget the names and surnames of the people with whom I served and fought. By chance, a thick notebook caught my eye, and I decided to write down my memories in it, without at all pretending to be “artistic.” Like a nomad riding a horse across the steppe and singing about what he sees around him, so I wrote down what I remembered, without writing. So, in general, this book came about spontaneously.
I probably have the right to call myself a hereditary officer. Still, the “servant” is in the third generation, starting with his grandfather. I don’t know about my great-grandfathers; if they served the Tsar-Father, it was perhaps as soldiers. The class is not the same. Our peasant family from the Tver province - what golden epaulettes there are. It was only under Soviet rule that my grandfather Dmitry Ivanovich Korshunov, a farm laborer and village Komsomol member Mitka Verin (that was his name in the village after his mother), was drafted into the Red Army in 1927. There he joined the party, stayed for long-term service, then completed courses for political instructors and received two “kubars” in his buttonholes. Of his six brothers, two were also Red commanders. Well, starting with the Finnish and then the Great Patriotic War, everyone went to the front. In memory of one of them, regiment commander Alexander Ivanovich Korshunov, who died in 1941 near Smolensk, I was named Alexander.
My grandfather met the war in Western Ukraine near the city of Rivne as a senior political instructor, commissar of the 2nd battalion of the 777th Infantry Regiment of the 227th Infantry Division. He fought out of encirclement in the Kiev cauldron together with Bagramyan. In '42, near Kharkov, he was seriously wounded. Then he fought on the Leningrad Front. He ended the war in the Baltic States, near Riga, as a lieutenant colonel, deputy commander of the 62nd Guards Gniezno Red Banner, Order of Suvorov mechanized regiment. He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Battle, two Orders of the Red Star and many medals. By the way, after the war the 62nd mechanized regiment was transformed into the 245th Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment, well known in Chechnya, with which we fought side by side more than once.
My father, Viktor Dmitrievich Korshunov, at the age of thirteen became a Red Army soldier in the commandant’s platoon in besieged Leningrad. Of course, it was the grandfather who saved his son from hunger, but not from a bullet. The boy, along with adult soldiers, carried out difficult patrol duty and went on combat operations. And there was only one discount for age - a piece of sugar instead of shag. After the war, he graduated from the anti-aircraft artillery school in Zhitomir and became a missile officer. Served in the country's air defense forces for more than 25 years, in the Ural taiga, at missile points. He retired from the army with the rank of major.
Uncle - Sergei Vasilyevich, internal troops officer, NKVD member. In 1942, accelerated graduation from the Saratov School and to Stalingrad. Then he fought through Western Ukraine, where he fought with Bandera’s followers until 1948. Lieutenant Colonel, Chief of Staff of the Strategic Missile Forces, served in the army for 27 years.
If we add my 32 years to their service, then the four of us alone served Russia for almost 110 years, although we did not rise to high ranks.
However, as a boy I had no intention of following in their footsteps into the army. My youthful dreams were directed towards the profession of a long-distance sailor, since I grew up in sunny Feodosia on the shores of the Black Sea. After graduating from school, I went to enroll in the Kherson Marine Corps. Romantics are full of pants, “wet my vest - I can’t live without the sea.” But at the commission I was assigned to the radio engineering department, but I wanted to study navigation. In general, I did not turn out to be a sailor.
Here the grandfather, father and uncle took the unreasonable child in their turn and sent him on the right path in accordance with family tradition. So I became a cadet at the Saratov Higher Military Command School of the Internal Troops of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs, the same one that Uncle Sergei graduated from in 1942.
After graduation, he ended up serving in the Siberian taiga in the Angara region:
- “Where there is a river, the Biryusa River, breaking the ice, makes noise and sings to the voices...”
I served in those parts for fourteen years, instead of the required ten, and then they transferred me to “warmer” lands, to the North Caucasus in the city of Nalchik, or rather to a tiny mountain village, not far from Nalchik. In Siberia, these places were considered a resort, but by that time, with the collapse of the Union, warm resorts quickly turned into “hot spots” - this is how places of armed conflicts began to be called. Global political warming in the country caused overheating in the heads of local princes and princelings of all calibers, and the Caucasus began to burn in feverish divisions of power. Tbilisi, Baku, Sumgait, Stepanakert, then Abkhazia, Ossetia with Ingushetia, and Chechnya.
Nalchik was not spared either. In 1991, a certain " Congress of Mountain Peoples of the Caucasus“organized a rally on the square in front of the government house of Kabardino-Balkaria, which quickly escalated into riots, and even with shooting. The local police fled, and it was somehow inconvenient for them - what if they accidentally hit a relative in the spine with a baton. And only the internal troops who arrived to reinforce them restrained the crowd and prevented the building from being captured. But in the hands of the attackers there were not only sticks and iron fittings, but also trunks.
Police lieutenant Shkhagoshev then became the national hero of Kabarda. While neutralizing a criminal armed with a grenade, he lost his hands. The entire republic collected money for him to buy prosthetics. But the press, as always, modestly kept silent about the fact that fourteen soldiers from the Dzerzhinsky Military Division were lying in the republican hospital with serious injuries and wounds.
It was in such a warm climate that in October 1992 our eighth operational brigade (abbreviated as 8 BRON) was created, in the formation and establishment of which I participated from the first days and served until its disbandment.
By the standards of the internal troops, it was created as a very weighty fist to counter extremism and armed terrorism in the region. The brigade was stationed at the base of a disbanded unit of the strategic missile forces in the former closed garrison of Nalchik-20.
I won’t give away a military secret if I list the staff of the brigade in those years. It consists of: a battalion of airborne combat vehicles, two battalions of BTR-80, a tank battalion (PT-76), an anti-aircraft artillery division (ZU-23-2, SPG-9, 82-mm mortars), special police and rifle battalions, repair battalion. Later, a separate reinforced battalion of the 101st Grozny Brigade was included in the brigade, which was equal in number and firepower to our two line battalions.
Yes, plus there are also separate companies: special forces, reconnaissance, snipers, sappers, commandant service, communications, autocompany, chemical protection platoons and mine-detecting dogs. And rear logistics units. One “armor” for two hundred units, and even a full fleet of “wheels”. In general, the power is considerable. When all this is lined up in a marching column, it takes your breath away.
I remember our first brigade commander with great respect. Colonel Andreevsky Protogen Protogenovich (later general). They say about such people in the troops - a commander from God. In a matter of months, he created not just a military unit, but a Brigade with a capital B. After two or three months the soldiers said:
— Eighth BRON — sounds proud and strong, like armor.
And the word “soldier” was almost never used; more often it sounded like “fighter” - somehow closer in spirit, in the general mood. But just yesterday there was a “ragtag army” on the parade ground with maroon, scarlet, black, blue shoulder straps and emblems of almost all branches of the military.
The basis, of course, was the “Veveshniks” - Nalsk, Angara, Khabarovsk residents. And the reinforcements were sent to us “selected” - from the disbanded units of the Ministry of Defense. There are mahra infantry and landing troops, aviation and artillery, tank crews, signalmen, and motorists. There is perhaps no construction battalion with the Zheldorvoysk.
The selection, naturally, is based on the principle of “oh my God, I’m not good for it”, the personnel is still the same. The “Red Army” simply pushed its slobs into the VV, taking advantage of the opportunity. While they were being transported in trains from the Leningrad and Moscow districts, about forty people simply ran away along the road. At that time, desertion was common, even fashionable. However, it is unlikely that the brigade lost its best fighters.
Those who remained were somewhat disappointed. The guys thought that the same barracks routine and show-off would begin in the new place. Again, endless washing of floors and sweeping paths, making “square” snowdrifts and digging ditches “from post to evening.” But it started, as expected, with a bathhouse, and then they changed everyone into a new uniform, but not the usual one. Camouflage, vest, combat boots, berets! It was cool then. Shabby overcoats and cotton washed to white were used as replacements, or even as rags. Soldiers transferred to a foreign department were dressed by their father-commanders in discarded cast-offs. The army, having changed into new clothes, and after a bathhouse with a steam room, immediately perked up and became cheerful.
(To be continued)
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