The National Guard Forces Command of the Russian Federation is the operational gendarmerie component of the National Guard of Russia federal agency, created through a presidential decree on April 5, 2
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 Separate Operational Purpose Division or OMSDON, is a rapid deployment internal security division of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR and then the Internal Troop
National Guard Forces Command
…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 (not to be confused with the Russian Coast Guard, which is under the authority of…
ODON soldiers marching in Alexander Garden on Victory Day in 2015.
ODON division servicemen from Russian Internal Troops. Photo by Vitaly Kuzmin