page_title: Northern Front (Soviet Union)
section_title: NKVD troops
hierarchical_section_title: Northern Front (Soviet Union) / NKVD troops
caption_attribution_description: English: Soviet armoured motor rail car MBV D-2 as used by the NKVD security detachments Русский: Второй МБВ (Моторизованный броневой вагон) модели Д-2 «Вячеслав Менжинский», состоявший на вооружении частей НКВД
context_page_description: The Northern Front was a front of the Red Army during the Second World War.
  The Northern Front was created on June 24, 1941 from the Leningrad Military District. Its primary goal was the defense of the Kola Peninsula and the northern shores of the Gulf of Finland. On August 23, 1941, the Front's forces were divided into the Karelian Front and the Leningrad Front. Lieutenant General Markian M. Popov commanded the Front for the three months of its existence.
  The Front's major force structure was based on the 7th Army, 14th Army, 23rd Armies and the Leningrad People's Opolcheniye Army. Other forces included four Rifle Corps, two Mechanized Corps, seventeen Rifle Divisions, four Tank Divisions, two Motor Rifle Divisions, eight artillery regiments of the Reserve of Highest Command, eight Aviation Divisions, seven Fortified Regions, one Fortified Position, and thirteen machinegun battalions.
  The formations of the Northern Front included the following subunits:
context_section_description: The 2nd Division of the NKVD troops (Russian: 2-я дивизия войск НКВД) was responsible for security of specific high-value objectives throughout the Leningrad Military District territory, particularly the railways, and its 11,200 troops were equipped with armoured trains and motorised armoured rail-cars.
caption: Soviet light armoured drezine (armoured car on rails) MBV D-1 as used by the NKVD security detachments
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