Soviet Border Troops - Wikipedia
Soviet Border Troops (Russian: Пограничные войска СССР, Pograníchnyye Voiská SSSR) were the militarized border guard of the Soviet Union, subordinated to its subsequently reorganized state security agency: first to Cheka/OGPU, then to NKVD/MGB and, finally, to KGB.Accordingly, they were known as NKVD Border Troops and KGB Border Troops (with Russian abbreviations ...