Internal Troops - Order of Battle
| OMSDON Dzerzhinsky Division | Reutov, Moscow region | |
| 19th Convoy Division | Tbilisi | active 1969 |
| 28th Division USCH | chronology uncertain | |
| 36th Convoy Division | Moscow | active 1969 |
| 38th Convoy Division | Kizel, Perm region | chronology uncertain. |
| 39th Convoy Division | 42th Convoy Division | Vilnius | active by early 1980s |
| 43th Convoy Division | Minsk | active 1969 |
| 44th Convoy Division | Leningrad | active 1969, inactive 1980s |
| 48th Convoy Division | Pyatigorsk | chronology uncertain |
| 50th Convoy Division | chronology uncertain | |
| 54th Convoy Division | Rostov-on-Don | active 1969, inactive 1980s |
| 68th Convoy Division | Gorky | chronology uncertain |
| 75th Convoy Division | Alma-Ata | chronology uncertain |
| 76th Convoy Division | Petrovsk | chronology uncertain (77th?) |
| 79th Convoy Division | Kirov | active 1969, inactive 1980s |
| 80th Convoy Division | Kuibyshev | active 1969, inactive 1980s |
| 83rd Convoy Division | Syktyvkar | active 1969, inactive 1980s |
| 84th Convoy Division | Perm | active 1969, inactive 1980s |
| 86th Convoy Division | Karaganda | chronology uncertain |
| 87th Convoy Division | Sverdlovsk | active 1969, inactive 1980s |
| 88th Convoy Division | Tashkent | active 1969, inactive 1980s |
| 89th Convoy Division | Novosibirsk | active 1969, inactive 1980s |
| 90th Convoy Division | Kemerovo | active 1969, inactive 1980s |
| 91st Convoy Division | Irkutsk | active 1969, inactive 1980s |
| 92nd Convoy Division | Khabarovsk | active 1969, inactive 1980s |
| 93rd Division USCH | Chelyabinsk-40 | active 1969, active 1980s |
| 94th Division USCH | Arzamas-16 | active 1969, active 1980s |
| 95th Division USCH | Moscow | active 1969, active 1980s |
| 96th Division USCH | Kalinovka-1 | active 1969, active 1980s |
| 97th Division USCH | Novosibirsk | active 1969, active 1980s |
| 98th Division USCH | Tomsk-7 | active 1969, active 1980s |
| 101st Convoy Division | Chelyabinsk | chronology uncertain |
| 102nd Convoy Division | Krasnoyarsk | chronology uncertain |
| guards brigades and regiments | ||
| Special motorized militia units | ||
| Military Academies | ||
By 1976, the MVD guarded 300 critical facilities, 1087 correctional labor colony and 142 medical and labor dispensary, where the were taken prisoners to 4522 facilities, served 468 scheduled routes escorting convicted and remand prisoners, 292 ships and 603 exchange offices, carrying patrol inspection service in 50 major cities across the country, carried out a number of other important tasks.
The Administration of Special Units [USCH] was created to exercise leadership at the internal security concerned with the protection of critical industrial facilities. Created after the separation boundary and internal forces April 1, 1957 based on the Special department of the 2nd Department headquarters GUPVV Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR.
On March 21, 1989 a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR ordered the MVD (along with Border Troops KGB and railway troops) to be withdrawn from the Armed Forces of the USSR. The Forces were managed by the General Directorate of Internal troops, internal and convoy protection - internal troops (since February 1969 - the Main Department of Internal Troops), Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR.
Sofrino Brigade
The Sofrino brigade (named after the suburb of Moscow where it is stationed) is a special destination unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of RF. By April 1995, the Sofrino brigade had not yet seen combat in Chechnya, much less lost any men to it. Then the unit marched into the of Chechen village of Samashki, in what was officially described as a zachistka - "a cleansing." After a tour in Chechnya, the unit pulled out of Grozny and moved towards the neighboring republic of Ingushetia.
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