OMON
Sign in to saveOMON is a system of military special police units within the National Guard of Russia. It previously operated within the structures of the Soviet and Russian Ministries of Internal Affairs (MVD). Originating as the special forces unit of the Soviet militsiya in 1988, it has played major roles in several armed conflicts during and following the 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Key facts
- Law enforcement unit.significant_operations
- January 1991 events in Lithuania January 1991 events in Latvia Lithuanian border attacks First Nagorno-Karabakh War Georgian Civil War Tajikistan Civil War East Prigorodny Conflict 1993 Russian constitutional crisis First Chechen War Second Chechen War
- Law enforcement unit.anniversaries
- 3 October (OMON Day/День ОМОН)
- Law enforcement unit.unit_name
- Special Purpose Mobile Unit
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- File:Patch of the OMON.svg
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- Patch of OMON
- Law enforcement unit.dates
- (Russia) (Soviet Union)
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- (originally)
- Law enforcement unit.agency
- National Guard of Russia
- Law enforcement unit.type
- GendarmerieRiot police
- Law enforcement unit.common_name
- Omonovtsy, "Black Berets"
- Law enforcement unit.abbreviation
- OMOH/ОMON
- Law enforcement unit.sworn_type_label
- Officers
- Law enforcement unit.sworn
- c. 20,000 (in Russia)
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- OMON
- inception
- 1988-10-03
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- отряд мобильный особого назначения
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15 sectionsContents
- History
- Soviet OMON activities
- Post-Soviet OMON activities
- Conflict in Chechnya
- Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- Russia
- Moscow Zubr
- Equipment
- Transport
- Uniforms
- Rest of the former Soviet Union
- See also
- References
- External links
OMON is a system of military special police units within the National Guard of Russia. It previously operated within the structures of the Soviet and Russian Ministries of Internal Affairs (MVD). Originating as the special forces unit of the Soviet militsiya in 1988, it has played major roles in several armed conflicts during and following the 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union.
OMON is much larger and better known than SOBR, another special-police branch of the National Guard of Russia. In modern contexts, OMON serves as a riot police group, or as a gendarmerie-like paramilitary force. OMON units also exist in Belarus, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and other post-Soviet states. However, some post-Soviet units have changed names and acronyms. Russian speakers commonly refer to OMON officers as omonovtsy (; singular: omonovyets – ).