National Guard Forces Command
The National Guard Forces Command of the Russian Federation is the operational gendarmerie component of the National Guard of Russia, created through a presidential decree on April 5, 2016. Functionally, it is a gendarmerie organized along paramilitary lines with a mission to ensure public order, national security and defense against terrorism. To this end, Forces Command handles the operational units of the National Guard, including its rapid deployment branch, the Separate Operational Purpose Division (ODON); and its naval branch, the National Guard Naval Service Corps.
Military personnel of the Russian National Guard 33rd Special Purpose Detachment "Peresvet" during a public show in 2017
Military personnel of the Russian National Guard 604th Special Purpose Center "Vityaz" with support of BTR-80 during a training exercise to assault a building in 2017
Ural-VV armored vehicle, designed on the basis of a multi-purpose vehicle Ural-4320 6 × 6 chassis
Russian National Guard BK-16-class landing craft at the Crimean Bridge in 2019
The National Guard of the Russian Federation, also known as the Rosgvardiya, is the national gendarmerie and internal military force of the Russian Federation, comprising an independent agency that reports directly to the President of Russia Vladimir Putin under his powers as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and Chairman of the Security Council.
The entrance to the National Guard headquarters at 9 Krasnokazarmennaya Street in the South-Eastern Administrative Okrug of Moscow
A national guard banner awarding ceremony, 27 March 2017
Soldiers of the National Guard providing security in Nizhny Novgorod during the 2018 FIFA World Cup
Rosgvardia personnel on Red Square, 2019
