page_title: Separate Operational Purpose Division
section_title: Composition
hierarchical_section_title: Separate Operational Purpose Division / Composition
caption_attribution_description: Russian MVD's Internal troops Separate Operational Purpose Division.
context_page_description: The Separate Operational Purpose Division or ODON, formerly called OMSDON, is a rapid deployment internal security division of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR and then the Russian Federation, today of the National Guard Forces Command of the Russian Federation. ODON is an initialism for Отдельная дивизия оперативного назначения.
context_section_description: The division includes the following military units (as of 1 January 2013):
  604th Special Purpose Center, w / h 3179, formed in 2008 combining (Vityaz and Rus)
  2nd Operational Duties Regiment, w / h 3186
  4th Operational Duties Regiment, w / h 3419
  5th Operational Duties Regiment, w / h 3500
  16th Training Center, w / h 3421
  319th Battalion for the protection and security training centers (centers village. New and Noginsk, Moscow region), in / hr 3058
  344th Command Battalion, a / h 6771 (ORRiKS in / hr 3486)
  Communications Battalion, a / h 3128
  Repair and Refurbishment Battalion, w / h 3187
  Selected Medical Battalion, w / h 3532
  4th separate company for radiation, chemical and biological protection, w / h 3401
  Garrison quarters and operations area, a / h 3492
  441st Security Battalion, in / hr 6909 (formed in November–December 2012)
  752nd Engineering Battalion, w / h 6923
  Therefore, the entire division employs more than ten thousand personnel, hundreds of armoured vehicles, and divisional artillery (mortars and anti-aircraft guns).
caption: ODON division servicemen from Russian Internal Troops. Photo by Vitaly Kuzmin
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