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Internal Troops (until 2016) National Guard Forces Command (since 2016)
Type
Motorized infantry
Role
Protection of public order
Size
~18,000
Part of
Ministry of Internal Affairs (until 2016) National Guard of Russia (since 2016)
Garrison/HQ
Reutov Balashikha
Nickname(s)
Dzerzhinsky Division
Motto(s)
"At any time, any place - any task!"
March
"My Division"
Anniversaries
June 17
Engagements
Winter War World War II Tbilisi tragedy August Coup Russian constitutional crisis of 1993 First Chechen War Second Chechen War Peace enforcement:
Sumgait pogrom
Baku pogrom
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
Osh riots
First South Ossetian War
War in Abkhazia
Wagner Group rebellion
Decorations
Order of Zhukov Order of Lenin Order of the October Revolution Order of the Red Banner
Commanders
Current commander
Major General Nikolai Kuznetsov
Military unit
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][unreliable source?] ODON (Russian: ОДОН) is an initialism for Отдельная дивизия оперативного назначения (Otdel'naya diviziya operativnogo naznacheniya, English: Separate Operational Purpose Division).
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Global Information
Russia
Ministry of Internal Affairs (until 2016)
National Guard of Russia (since 2016)
Order of Zhukov
Order of Lenin
Order of the October Revolution
Order of the Red Banner