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The entrance to the National Guard headquarters at 9 Krasnokazarmennaya Street in the South-Eastern Administrative Okrug of Moscow. The establishment of the National Guard of Russia was one of the new Russian government's first and only significant actions before March 1992. [11]
Military personnel of the Russian National Guard 33rd Special Purpose Detachment "Peresvet" during a public show in 2017. Today's NGF is a paramilitary force with centralized system of ranks, command and service, and as such reports to the National Guard of Russia and the Security Council of Russia. Majority of the officer corps were trained in ...
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Russian cruiser Varyag, ex-Chervona Ukraina (1983), PF, project 1164. Succeeded Varyag (1963) in 1996. guided missile cruiser Moskva, ex-Slava (1979), BSF, project 1164. Succeeded Krasnyi Kavkaz (1966) in 1998. destroyer Gremiashchiy, ex-Bezuderzhnyi (1990), NF, project 956A. Succeeded Gremiashchiy (1987) in 2007. Soviet ships
According to the BBC, there were 90,000 women in the Russian Army in 2002, though estimates on numbers of women across the entire Russian Armed Forces in 2000 ranged from 115,000 to 160,000. [115] [116] Women serve in support roles, most commonly in the fields of nursing, communications, and engineering. Some officers' wives have become ...
In 2007, in Russia there were 87 OMSN units, counting over 5,000 officers stationed in major Russian cities, [5] the most famous unit of the formation is OMSN "Rys" (lynx, Cyrillic ОМСН "Рысь"), established in 1992, which since its inception participated in almost all known special operations in Russia.
With the April 2016 foundation of the National Guard of Russia, the Internal Troops were removed from the MVD and dissolved, becoming the National Guard Forces (Войска национальной гвардии, Voyska Natsionalnoy Gvardi) which now reported directly to the Security Council of Russia and its chairman, the President of Russia.
In 2002, 10% of the Russian armed forces (100,000 of a total active strength of 988,100) were women according to the International Institute for Strategic Studies, [14] [page needed] whereas researcher Aleksandr I. Smirnov stated that about 114,600 women had military contracts that year.