After the end of the Great Patriotic War in 1945, the Marine Units of the Border Troops (MCHPV) carried out the protection of the Soviet Union's maritime borders until its collapse. In different periods of 1945-1957 's border troops, along with their member MCHPV, included in the structure of the various law enforcement agencies of the Soviet Union: the NKVD, MGB, MVD USSR. In 1957, the Marine units of the border troops, along with the rest of the border units , became part of the State Security Committee under the Council of Ministers of the USSR, which in 1978 was transformed into an independent state committee - USSR State Security Committee (KGB of the USSR).