KGB Border Troops

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:military_organization
gptkbp:awarded gptkb:Order_of_Lenin
gptkb:Order_of_the_Red_Banner
gptkb:Order_of_the_October_Revolution
gptkbp:badge green border guard cap
gptkbp:commemoratedBy gptkb:Border_Guards_Day_(May_28)
gptkbp:country gptkb:Soviet_Union
gptkbp:dissolved 1991
gptkbp:equipment gptkb:AK-47
armored vehicles
patrol boats
guard dogs
gptkbp:formed 1957
gptkbp:headquarters gptkb:Moscow
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label KGB Border Troops
gptkbp:insignia green star with border guard tower
gptkbp:language gptkb:Russian
gptkbp:motto On guard of the Soviet borders
gptkbp:nickname gptkb:Green_Caps
gptkbp:notableCommander gptkb:Viktor_Chebrikov
gptkb:Vladimir_Kryuchkov
gptkbp:notableEvent Berlin Wall border security
Chernobyl Exclusion Zone security
Soviet–Afghan War border operations
prevention of defections
gptkbp:notableMember gptkb:Nikolai_Bordyuzha
gptkb:Viktor_Trufanov
gptkb:Vladimir_Pronichev
gptkbp:notableOperation gptkb:Operation_to_prevent_border_crossings_during_the_Hungarian_Revolution_of_1956
gptkb:Operation_to_prevent_border_crossings_during_the_Prague_Spring_of_1968
gptkbp:operatesIn gptkb:Cold_War
gptkbp:parentOrganization gptkb:KGB
gptkbp:predecessor gptkb:NKVD_Border_Troops
gptkbp:responsibleFor anti-smuggling operations
border surveillance
border checkpoints
preventing illegal border crossings
protection of state secrets at borders
gptkbp:role border security
counter-intelligence
protection of state borders
gptkbp:servedIn all Soviet republics
gptkbp:size approximately 230,000 personnel (at peak)
gptkbp:subordinateUnit gptkb:KGB_Main_Directorate
gptkbp:successor gptkb:Border_Service_of_the_Federal_Security_Service_of_the_Russian_Federation
gptkbp:trainer gptkb:Border_Troops_Academy
gptkbp:type militarized border guard
gptkbp:uniform distinct green uniforms
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Soviet_military
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6