page_title: Border Guards Day
section_title: Russian Federation
hierarchical_section_title: Border Guards Day / Celebrations around the world / Russian Federation
caption_attribution_description: English: “День Пограничника”. Frontier Guards Day Русский: «День Пограничника». День Пограничника. Россия, Москва
context_page_description: Border Guards Day, also known as Frontier Guards Day is a former Soviet holiday that celebrates the Border guard services of Russia and former Soviet republics. It is currently observed in Russia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Moldova on 28 May - the day of the anniversary of the formation of the Soviet Border Troops in 1918.
context_section_description: The holiday was established as a professional holiday in 1958, by order of the Council of Ministers of the USSR. Following the fall of the Fall of the Soviet Union, the status of the holiday was unclear due to the lack effort in the Russian government to make in an official holiday in the Russian Federation. President Boris Yeltsin signed a decree in 1994 officially making Border Guards Day a professional day off for the servicemen of the Border Service of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, which was founded 2 years earlier. Today, it is a celebration of more than 4 centuries of border protection and control in Russia, dating back to Prince Mikhail Ivanovich Vorotynsky's Zasechnaya cherta in the 16th century, an early prototype to the border checkpoints in operation today nationwide.
caption: A border guard veteran and his wife embrace during the celebrations in 2004.
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