Day of the Special Transportation Center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation

The railway and waterways are actively used for transporting both civilian and military cargo The Bureau for the Organization and Control of Transportation for the NKVD, the predecessor of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, was created on December 31, 1936 after the issuance of Order No 528 Yuri Pavlovich Bril became the head of the new unit The bureau was responsible for the timely supply of large NKVD facilities with materials and equipment: BAM, Kuibyshevstroy and Volgostroy, the Moscow-Minsk highway, second railway tracks in the Far Eastern Territory, a naval base in the Gulf of Finland on Luga Bay, a railway line, going from Ulan-Ude towards Mongolia, hydraulic engineering work on the Amur, the Ukhto-Pechora trust, the Stalin water station, etc Simultaneously with the order, the “Regulations on the Bureau of Transportation of the NKVD of the USSR and planning of transportation of local NKVD bodies” was developed In the Union republics, responsibility for the work of the new unit was assigned to the heads of the Communications Departments, formed in July 1939 Supply of construction sites, including the notorious Gulag, was carried out both by railways and using river and sea transport The date of the Bureau's appearance, December 31, marks the annual Day of the Special Transportation Center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation The stages of formation and work of the service responsible for ensuring the defense capability of the state are inextricably linked with the history of the country In 1940, the commissariat appointed Stefan Ivanovich Zikeev as head of the Railway and Water Transportation Department of the NKVD of the USSR During the Great Patriotic War, the Bureau was tasked with evacuating enterprises and meeting the needs of the front In this regard, the load on stations and railway sections increased many times, which required a restructuring of the work of the Communications Departments Under the leadership of SI Zikeev Bureau, in strict secrecy, was engaged in transportation in 1941-1944 deported peoples in wagons specially converted for this purpose In the 1960s, the department was responsible for organizing the transportation of goods for the KGB, Glavkov, which are part of the NKVD-MVD, MOOP, products of refineries to the State Storage, post office A-1806 under the Ministry of Installation and Special Construction Works of the USSR In the 90s, department employees were engaged in the arrangement of the borders of the Russian Federation after the collapse of the USSR, transporting specialists, equipment and machinery to emergency areas Today, FKU "GTSSP Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia" ensures the fulfillment of the tasks assigned to it by the Ministry of organizing special transportation in the interests of the Department of Internal Affairs, as well as other federal authorities on the basis of government decisions and interdepartmental agreements The Special Transportation Center oversees the transportation of equipment and other cargo for the Federal Penitentiary Service, the Russian Guard, the Medical Emergency Service and the FSB, the Central Bank and Gokhran The work of the GSSP military personnel to ensure the defense capability of the Russian Federation in war and peacetime is responsible and very important On December 31, colleagues and relatives congratulate PKU employees on the holiday, wishing them professional success and good luck in all their endeavors