Special forces unit Mars. Russian special forces. Special units of the Federal Customs Service of Russia

Special purpose units of the Russian Federation

Special purpose units and units- units and units of various special services, armed forces and police (militia), as well as anti-terrorist units, are designed to neutralize and destroy terrorist groups, conduct operations deep behind enemy lines, sabotage and perform other complex combat missions.

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M.S. Svechnikov can probably be considered a Russian theorist and author of the very ideology and concept of the use of special forces, who managed to convey many of his ideas to students of the Military Academies, followers and supporters. The practical implementation and real testing of the ideas was probably started by I.G. Starinov; he organized the first combat use during the Spanish Civil War. There was probably a fruitful ideological exchange between M. S. Svechnikov and I. G. Starinov, during the latter’s studies at the Academy.

Special Purpose Units (SPU)

"Zenith" - special purpose operational group (OGSpN) of the KGB of the USSR
"Omega"
"Cascade"
"Alpha" - specializes in the release of hostages.
Zaslon is a special unit of the SVR (foreign intelligence service). Number of people: 300 people.
Special units of the Federal Penitentiary Service Directorates for the constituent entities of the Russian Federation. Each territorial division has its own name (for example, OSN "Typhoon" of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, OSN "Saturn" of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for Moscow, OSN (b) "Rosich" of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for the Ryazan Region)
FSKN special forces

Police special forces (SOBR)

SOBR (special rapid response department) - federal and regional special units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, which were regularly included (until 2003) in the Department for Combating Organized Crime of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation (units of over 200 people were called squads from the late 1990s). Since 2002, SOBRs have been disbanded, some employees were asked to move to OMSN (Special Purpose Police Unit). In 2011, in connection with the reform of the internal affairs bodies, and the renaming of “militia” to “police”, OMSN detachments were renamed OSN (special forces). Since 2012, all OSN units have been given the name SOBR (special rapid response unit).

The main task of creating SOBR is the fight against organized crime, in all its manifestations, in all types and methods, and against terrorism. Special forces were also successfully used in military operations carried out in the TFR.

SOBR KM GUVD for Moscow is the very first special forces detachment in the system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Founded in 1978. SOBR officers are constantly on business trips in the North Caucasus.

In accordance with existing agreements, SOBR officers are allowed to take tests for the right to wear a maroon beret, taking into account their specific service and assigned tasks. This is expressed in slightly modified tests.

Units and formations of the Special Forces of the Russian Ministry of Defense

Parts and formations of the Special Forces GRU GSh

2nd separate special forces brigade of the GRU (Promezhitsy village, Pskov district, Leningrad Military District)
3rd Separate Guards Special Purpose Brigade (Chernorechye PriVO)
10th separate special forces brigade of the GRU (Molkino village, Krasnodar region, North Caucasus Military District)
14th separate special purpose brigade of the GRU (Ussuriysk, Primorsky Territory, Far Eastern Military District)
16th separate special purpose brigade of the GRU (Tambov, Moscow Military District)
22nd separate guards special purpose brigade of the GRU (Stepnoy settlement, Rostov region, North Caucasus Military District)
24th separate special purpose brigade of the GRU (Irkutsk, Siberian Military District)

42nd naval reconnaissance point (Russky Island, Haluai Bay, near Vladivostok, Pacific Fleet);

420th naval reconnaissance point (Polyarny settlement, near Murmansk, Northern Fleet);
431st naval reconnaissance point (Tuapse, Black Sea Fleet);
561st naval reconnaissance point (Parusnoye village, near Baltiysk, Kaliningrad region, Baltic Fleet).

Detachments for combating underwater sabotage forces and means:

Parts and connections of the Special Forces of the Airborne Forces

45th separate reconnaissance regiment of airborne special forces

Special forces of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia

Through the efforts of the head of the VV intelligence, General Kuznetsov, and his deputy, General Chevrizov, after the first Chechen campaign, attempts were made to form a regiment on the basis of the Vityaz detachment. However, veterans of the unit assess this consolidation step negatively. With the departure of the detachment commander V. Nikitenko, this became possible.

In 1999, on the basis of the detachment and the 1st Red Banner Regiment of ODON, the 1st Red Banner Special Purpose Regiment “Vityaz” was formed. However, three years later, in the interests of more efficiently performing tasks, it was again reorganized into a detachment. Now, on the basis of the unit, the 604th Special Purpose Center of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation has been formed. There is also a special purpose detachment of the Novocherkassk Division of Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.

Special purpose departments of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia

Special units of the Federal Penitentiary Service. They are part of the structure of the territorial departments of the Federal Penitentiary Service for the constituent entities of the Russian Federation. Currently they are called “Special Purpose Departments”. The tasks of the units include the prevention and suppression of crimes and offenses at the facilities of the Federal Penitentiary Service, the search and capture of especially dangerous criminals, ensuring security at special events, the release of hostages taken by convicts, as well as the protection of senior officials of the department. Created during the period when the Penitentiary System (GUIN) was part of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

SATURN - 04.29.92 - Moscow
TORCH - 05.30.91 - Moscow region
SOKOL - 03/17/91 - Belgorod
TORNADO - 06/11/91 - Bryansk
MONOMACH - 06/21/91 - Vladimir
SKIF - 07.07.97 - Rostov-on-Don
HURRICANE - 01/04/91 - Ivanovo
GROM - 09/23/91 - Kaluga
THUNDER - 06/07/92 - Kostroma
BARS-2 - 01/15/93 - Kursk
TITAN - 01/06/91 - Lipetsk
ROSICH - 07.30.91 - Ryazan
JAGUAR - 08/13/92 - Eagle
PHOENIX - 09/14/91 - Smolensk
VEPR - 04/17/93 - Tambov
GRIF - 12/04/93 - Tula
LYNX - 03.26.91 - Tver
STORM - 08/19/91 - Yaroslavl
CONDOR - 07.07.91 - Republic of Adygea
SCORPIO - 06/07/91 - Astrakhan
BARS - 03/13/91 - Volgograd
EAGLE - 11.11.92 - Republic of Dagestan
SHARK - 03/04/91 - Krasnodar
VOLCANO - 03.14.93 - Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria
GYURZA - 02.10.92 - Republic of Kalmykia
ROSNA - 03/14/91 - Rostov-on-Don
BULAT - 10/20/91 - Republic of North Ossetia
RUBEZH - 03/01/92 - Stavropol
SIVUCH - 08/18/93 - Arkhangelsk
VIKING-2 - 07/23/91 - Vologda
GRANITE - 07.07.93 - Republic of Karelia
SAPSAN - 03/11/93 - Komi Republic
BASTION - 03/06/91 - Kaliningrad
ICEBERG - 07/11/91 - Murmansk
RUSICH - 11/13/91 - Novgorod
BISON - 11/13/91 - Pskov
TYPHOON - 02.20.91 - St. Petersburg
DELTA - 01.11.92 - Severonezhsk
SPRUT - 07.07.93 - Mikun
FOBOS - 06.28.91 - Penza
‎YASTREB - 01/22/92 - Republic of Mari El
RIVEZ - 03/14/91 - Saransk
LEOPERS - 01/17/91 - Kazan
GUARD - 06.08.91 - Cheboksary
TORDO - 04/03/91 - Ufa
KRECHET - 07/01/91 - Izhevsk
SARMAT - 01.02.91 - Orenburg
BEAR - 02/06/91 - Perm
MONGUST - 06.22.91 - Samara
ORION - 05.09.91 - Saratov
ALMAZ - 03/01/91 - Kirov
BERSERK - 03/04/91 - Nizhny Novgorod
SHKVAL - 11/28/91 - Ulyanovsk
VARYAG - 03/23/93 - Solikamsk
CHEETH - 04/23/93 - Yavas
CENTAUR - 10/01/92 - Lesnoy
MIRAGE - 07/31/91 - Kurgan
ROSSY - 01/14/91 - Ekaterinburg
GRAD - 03/19/91 - Tyumen
NORTH - 09.09.99 - Surgut
URAL - 01/09/91 - Chelyabinsk
VORTEX - 12.22.93 - Sosva
SOBOL - 03.22.93 - Tavda
WOLVERINE - 12/01/2008 - Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
EDELWEISS - 04/05/93 - Republic of Gorny Altai
SAGITTARIUS - 07/11/91 - Ulan-Ude
HURRICANE - 06/18/91 - Irkutsk
KODAR - 02.26.91 - Chita
LEGION - 04/17/91 - Barnaul
ERMAK - 02.21.91 - Krasnoyarsk
KEDR - 05/09/91 - Kemerovo
VIKING - 02/12/91 - Omsk
CORSAIR - 09/14/91 - Novosibirsk
SIBERIA - 02.12.91 - Tomsk
IRBIS - 06.06.91 - Kyzyl
OMEGA - 06.11.91 - Abakan
SHIELD - 02.25.91 - N. Poyma
EAST - 04/01/92 - Blagoveshchensk
SHADOW - 02.26.93 - Birobidzhan
LEADER - 08/22/92 - Vladivostok
POLAR WOLF - 05.27.91 - Magadan
MIRAGE - 04.04.91 - Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
AMUR - 02.12.91 - Khabarovsk
POLAR BEAR - 05.05.92 - Yakutsk
BERKUT - 03/31/93 - Kamchatka
Interregional training center for training employees of special purpose departments "Krasnaya Polyana" Sochi - training of special forces of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia and other law enforcement agencies to carry out operational combat missions in mountains and other special conditions. Created on August 29, 2001. Official website: www.mucsn-fsin.ru

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1071 Separate Special Purpose Training Regiment of the GRU of the General Staff of the Ministry of Defense (Pechory Pskov)
Spetsnaz. (English)

The Federal State Unitary Enterprise "SVYAZ-Bezopasnost" was created in October 2001 on the basis of the Federal Law "On Departmental Security" and the Regulations on Departmental Security of the Ministry of Communications of Russia, approved by decree of the Government of the Russian Federation.

FSUE "SVYAZ-Bezopasnost" is the Departmental Security Service of the Ministry of Communications and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation and provides services for the protection of facilities and structures of the communications industry throughout the Russian Federation.

The main goal of the enterprise is to ensure the protection of protected objects under the jurisdiction of federal executive authorities in the field of communications, in particular:

ensuring the safety and protection of information (information, technologies) that constitute official, commercial and other secrets protected by law;

protection of cargo, valuables, documents and other property during their transportation and escort, implementation of measures for the operation of engineering and technical protection equipment and fire alarm systems, etc.

The company operates on the basis of the Charter, in close cooperation with law enforcement agencies, together with the bodies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB.

Assets

FSUE "SVYAZ-Bezopasnost" has a large branch structure. As of August 2013, territorial divisions of the enterprise operate in all regions of the country, 71 branches have been created in 7 federal districts.

The number of departmental security workers is more than 16 thousand people, over 3 thousand industry facilities are taken under physical protection, more than 30 thousand facilities are protected by technical means, and 4.2 thousand military and service weapons are in service. To successfully solve the problems of quickly responding to emerging emergencies at protected facilities, a special-purpose detachment “Mars” has been created within the framework of the FSUE “SVIAZ - Security”.

Main article: Special forces units of the Russian Federation

Special forces of the Russian Armed Forces

Special forces of the GRU of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces

2nd separate special purpose brigade (formed 1962-1963), Pskov, Western Military District);
3rd Separate Guards Warsaw-Berlin Red Banner Order of Suvorov 3rd Class Special Purpose Brigade (formed in 1966), Togliatti, Samara Region, Central Military District);
10th Separate Order of Zhukov Special Purpose Brigade of the North Caucasus Military District (formed in 2003), Molkino village, Krasnodar Territory, Southern Military District);
14th separate special purpose brigade (formed in 1963), Ussuriysk, Eastern Military District);
16th separate special purpose brigade (formed in 1963), redeployed to Tambov, Western Military District;
22nd separate guards special purpose brigade (formed in 1976), Stepnoy village, Aksai district, Rostov region, Southern Military District);
24th separate special purpose brigade (formed in 1977), Ulan-Ude, Eastern Military District); relocated to Irkutsk. In 2012, it was relocated to Novosibirsk;
346th separate special forces brigade. Prokhladny. Kabardino Balkaria. Southern Military District.
25th Special Forces Regiment. Created in 2012 to ensure security for the 2014 Sochi Olympics. It is stationed in Stavropol on the territory of the headquarters of the 49th Army.
TsSN "Senezh", military unit 92154, Solnechnogorsk

GRU naval reconnaissance posts

42nd naval reconnaissance point (Russky Island, Novy Dzhigit Bay, near Vladivostok, Pacific Fleet);
420th naval reconnaissance point (Polyarny, near Murmansk, Northern Fleet);
431st naval reconnaissance point (Tuapse, Black Sea Fleet);
561st naval reconnaissance point (Parusnoye village, near Baltiysk, Kaliningrad region, Baltic Fleet).

Airborne special forces

45th Separate Guards Reconnaissance Order of Kutuzov Order of Alexander Nevsky Special Forces Brigade of the Airborne Forces. Formed in 1994, military unit 28337 Kubinka.

Special forces of the Russian Navy

Main article: PDSS

Detachments for combating underwater sabotage forces and means:

140th OB PDSS (Vidyaevo, Northern Fleet);
152nd OB PDSS (Polar, Northern Fleet);
153rd OB PDSS (Gremikha, Northern Fleet);
160th OOB PDSS (Zaozersk, Northern Fleet);
269th OOB PDSS (Gadzhievo, Northern Fleet);
313th OOB PDSS (Sputnik settlement, Northern Fleet);
311th OOB PDSS (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Pacific Fleet);
159th OSpNB PDSS (Pavlovsk, Pacific Fleet);
313th Special Forces of the Navy (Baltiysk, Baltic Fleet);
473rd Special Forces of the Navy (Kronstadt, Baltic Fleet);
102nd OOB PDSS (Sevastopol, Black Sea Fleet).
136th OSNB PDSS (Novorossiysk, Black Sea Fleet);
137th OSNB PDSS (Kaspiysk, Caspian Flotilla);

Special forces of the State Military Medical University of the Russian Defense Ministry

166 MOSN (Novosibirsk, Central Military District);
183 MOSN (Ekaterinburg, Central Military District);
220 MOSN (Dolgoprudny, Western Military District);
529 MOSN (Rostov-on-Don, Southern Military District);
532 MOSN (Moscow region, Western Military District);
660 MOSN (Krasnoe Selo settlement, Western Military District);
696 MOSN (Moscow, Western Military District);
697 MOSN (Khabarovsk, Eastern Military District);
879 MOSN (Samara, Central Military District).

Special Operations Forces of the Russian Federation (SSO Russia)

Special intelligence units

Special forces of the FSB of Russia

OSN "Alpha" of Directorate "A" TsSN FSB of Russia
OSN "Vympel" of Directorate "B" TsSN FSB of Russia
Directorate “T” - for counterintelligence support of transport facilities (Antiterror)
ROSN "Kasatka", Murmansk
RSSN "GRAD", St. Petersburg
ROSN "Voron", Voronezh

Special forces of the Border Service of the FSB of Russia

GSN "Sigma" (Department "C") - Disbanded in 2003.

Special Forces of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service

OSPN "Barrier"

Special units of law enforcement agencies

Special forces of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia

604 TsSN - formed in 2008 as part of ODON by combining 1 OSN "Vityaz" and 8 OSN "Rus", the successor of URSN.
7 OSN "Rosich", Novocherkassk
12 OSN "Ural", Nizhny Tagil
Special Forces Company "620 VV Regiment", Yekaterinburg
Special Forces Platoon "620th Infantry Regiment", Zarechny
15 OSN "Vyatich", Armavir
17 OSN "Edelweiss", Mineralnye Vody,
19 OSN "Ermak", Novosibirsk
21 OSN "Typhoon", Khabarovsk
23 OSN "Obereg", Chelyabinsk
25 OSN "Mercury", Smolensk
26 OSN "Bars", Kazan
27 OSN "Kuzbass", Kemerovo
28 OSN "Warrior", Arkhangelsk
29 OSN "Bulat", Ufa
33 OSN "Peresvet", Moscow
34 OSN, Grozny
35th OSN "Rus", Simferopol
OVSN "Lynx", Seversk Separate special purpose platoon of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
Wolverine, Zheleznogorsk (Krasnoyarsk Territory).
- The tasks of the center and detachments include carrying out anti-terrorist measures in the operational service area, searching for and eliminating illegal armed groups, eliminating mass riots, detaining especially dangerous criminals, and releasing hostages.

Police special forces of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia

SOBR - special rapid response units of the Internal Affairs Directorate-GUVD of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, formerly - OMSN (Special Purpose Police Units). Currently, the detachment of the Central Office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia is named after the SOBR "Lynx" of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. It is “first among equals,” that is, judging by the repeated statements of the leadership of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs in the media, it serves as a standard for police special forces. Officers of the SOBR "Lynx" of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia constantly take an active part in all significant special operations on the territory of the Russian Federation. In 2011, the abbreviation SOBR was returned to special purpose police units. The main task of creating SOBRs is to fight organized crime in all its manifestations, in all types and ways. However, due to changes in the internal political situation, SOBRs were successfully used, including in military operations carried out in the TFR. Strength: 87 units, total 5,200 units
OMON is a special purpose mobile detachment. It is the legal successor of the OMON of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR, as well as the special police detachment of the Russian Federation. Structurally, it consists of battalions and companies located in all regional centers of the Russian Federation, as well as under the Department of Internal Affairs for Transport. The main tasks are actions in conditions of extremely complicated operational conditions, the elimination of group hooliganism and riots, the detention or liquidation of armed criminals, and force support for events carried out by local police departments. In normal circumstances, "OMON" carries out patrol service to protect public order and is engaged in service training. During the armed conflict in the North Caucasus, almost all regional OMON units went there on business trips, carrying out anti-terrorist measures. In 2011, in connection with the reform of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, it was first renamed to the UN (special purpose unit), but later the unit was returned to its usual abbreviation with a different decoding (special purpose mobile unit). In 2012, there were 121 riot police units, numbering 20 thousand fighters.

Special forces of the Federal Penitentiary Service

Special purpose departments (OSN) of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia were created on November 13, 1990. The tasks of the units include the prevention and suppression of crimes and offenses at the facilities of the Federal Penitentiary Service, the search and capture of especially dangerous criminals, ensuring security at special events, the release of hostages taken by convicts, as well as the protection of senior officials of the department.

Today there are about 80 units, each of which has its own name [source not specified 939 days]. Some of them:

Vulcan is a special purpose department of the Federal Penitentiary Service for the Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria.
Yastreb - special purpose department of the Federal Penitentiary Service for the Republic of Mari El.

FSKN special forces

Special Purpose Department "Grom" of the Directorate for Special Purpose and Security of the Federal Drug Control Service of the Russian Federation
5th operational combat department "Nika"

Special forces of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia

Special Risk Rescue Operations Center "Leader".

Special units of the Federal Customs Service of Russia

Customs and operational customs offices include special rapid response units that provide force support for activities carried out by operational units of the Federal Customs Service.

Special units of the FSSP of Russia

The regional departments of the FSSP of Russia include special rapid response units that undergo special training and are armed with automatic weapons. They provide forceful support for events, ensure the security of courts during high-profile trials, bailiffs in the event of resistance (including armed resistance), and personal security for the leadership of the FSSP.

In 2012, by order of the director of the FSSP of the Russian Federation, an exam for the green beret of the FSSP of the Russian Federation was introduced (a distinctive sign for the most professionally trained employees of the bailiff service), winners who pass the exam are awarded an award edged weapon - a combat knife "Combat"

OSN "Skala"

Who guards communication facilities, how often Ulyanovsk residents are wiretapped, as well as about the attempt on the Ulyanovsk television tower, Colonel Sergei Lobin, head of the SVIAZ-Security department for the Ulyanovsk region, told an NG correspondent about all this

No connection - no control

It’s hard to imagine our life without communications today, and if, for example, a transmitting or receiving center is disabled, or relay communications are destroyed, then neither landline nor cell phones will work. And by today's standards this is a global catastrophe.

Therefore, in 2002, in our region, a special unit was created in our region to protect communications industry facilities from terrorist actions - a branch of the FSUE SVIAZ-Bezopasnost.

There is no connection, no life, no control,” says Vladimir Stepanovich. - We have everything necessary for the safety of communication facilities. An armed unit has been created - the special forces detachment "Mars". There are weapons from pistols to machine guns. We are directly subordinate to the Ministry of Information and Communications of the Russian Federation. Over the five years of their security activities, employees of our department have prevented more than 100 crimes. More than 50 intruders were detained at communication facilities. Many of them were later prosecuted. In our activities, we closely interact with law enforcement agencies. Today the management employs highly qualified specialists who know their business. Once, during a visit to our city by the plenipotentiary representative to the Volga Federal District, Alexander Konovalov, we assisted the employees of the Federal Security Service, who ensured the safety of the distinguished guest. Then the leadership of the FSO thanked their Ulyanovsk colleagues for their work.

They also fight crime

It happened that Mars special forces fighters also detained criminals. Recently, the departmental security department received operational information that a criminal group in Zasviyazhye wants to steal a cable. The population of a large microdistrict could be left without means of communication and lose assistance in emergency situations. This crime had to be stopped. At night, a group of the Mars special forces detachment was quietly transferred to the desired area. The soldiers settled in an ambush. Using night vision devices, they began to monitor the territory. Suddenly they noticed a man hanging around a car parked near a residential building on the street. Pushkareva. The fighters reported the strange behavior of the man to the Zasviyazhskoe district police department. The operational duty officer gave the go-ahead to detain the unknown person if he tried to open the car. And so it happened. The young man climbed into the cabin and stole a car radio from there. But he was immediately detained by members of the Mars special forces. The soldiers handed him over to the police who arrived in time.

“We have been fighting non-ferrous metal thieves lately,” says Vladimir Stepanovich. - As a rule, attackers cut communication cables. An alarm goes off at our security console, and a capture team immediately arrives at the scene. Literally before the New Year, we detained two Ulyanovsk residents who were cutting out 15 meters of cable on Parfenov Street. The perpetrators were handed over to the police.

Attempt on television center

Recently, employees of the Svyaz-Security department stopped an attempt to disable the Ulyanovsk television tower. As a result, the entire television center could have suffered.

Here is how it was. One repeat offender, by the way, who had just been released from the zone, decided to make some money on non-ferrous metal. I saw that the “tower” was full of cable. “Armed” with a saw and a hammer, jumped over the fence into the restricted area and rushed to the transmitting center. But security saw the attacker and detained him. He immediately admitted that he wanted to cut the cable and make money from it, since he had no means of subsistence. By the way, if he had managed to cut the cable then, the Ulyanovsk residents would have lost television for a long time. The security guards handed the attacker over to the security officers. While he was in jail, officers from the regional FSB checked him for a terrorist attack. But nothing of the sort was revealed. After 15 days, the kidnapper was released.

Bugs on the line

In the mid-90s, a fashion for private detective agencies appeared. Similar organizations have appeared in our city. As a rule, cool businessmen ordered private detectives to provide all the information about their wives. And agencies often resorted to wiretapping. But this is prohibited by law. Only intelligence services can wiretap subscribers, and only with the permission of a judge.

However, at the beginning of their activities, the department’s security guards were faced with the problem of “bugs.” Thus, two years ago in Kindyakovka, when checking a “communication cabinet,” Mars fighters discovered an object for listening to telephone conversations and collecting information. The “bug” was seized and handed over to law enforcement agencies.

To prevent illegal wiretapping, today all cable distribution cabinets are alarmed. When the system is triggered, a special team immediately goes to the scene. So Ulyanovsk residents can rest assured: their conversations are not being monitored.