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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: H-27Last update of repository: 18 July 2019Tsentral'nyi pogranichnyi muzei FSB RossiiPrevious names
An earlier museum under the staff of one of the units of border guards was founded in St. Petersburg in 1914, but only lasted for several months. The present museum was established in 1932 under the Chief Political Directorate (or Main Political Administration) of the Border Guards (literally Frontier Troops) under the OGPU/NKVD, and then in May 1935 was transferred to the administration of the Higher Border Guards School under the NKVD USSR. Starting in September 1935 it was under the authority of the F. Dzerzhinskii Special Motorized Artillery Division Special Forces (Osobaia motostrelkovaia diviziia osobogo naznacheniia im. F. Dzerzhinskogo—OMSDON). In 1939 it was transformed into the Chief Directorate of Border Guards (Glavnoe upravlenie pogranvoisk) under the NKVD USSR. During the Second World War, the museum was evacuated to Tashkent, and after its return to Moscow in June 1943, it was reorganized as the Museum of the Guards of the NKVD (later MVD) USSR. In March 1957, it became the Museum of the Border Guards under the KGB USSR, and in 1977, it acquired the status of the Central Museum of the Border Guards. After the reform of the structure of the former KGB, following the attempted coup in August 1991, the Border Guards became a separate federal service. The museum was reorganized accordingly and, following a new federal decree regarding the agency, the museum was also renamed. |
