militsiya
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The militsiya was the police force of the Russian SFSR and Soviet Union from 1917 to 1991. The term was likewise used for police forces in several Eastern Bloc countries and in the SFR Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1992.
Key facts
- Law enforcement agency.nativename
- Militsiya
- Law enforcement agency.nativenamea
- Милиция
- Law enforcement agency.logo
- MVD Badge (Gradient).svg
- Law enforcement agency.formedyear
- 1917
- Law enforcement agency.dissolved
- 1991
- Law enforcement agency.superseding
- Militsiya (Russia)Militsiya (Ukraine)Militsiya (Belarus)
- Law enforcement agency.country
- Russian SFSR (1917–1922)Soviet Union (1922–1991)
- Law enforcement agency.national
- Yes
- Law enforcement agency.police
- Yes
- Law enforcement agency.headquarters
- Moscow
- Law enforcement agency.parentagency
- People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (1917–1946)Ministry of Internal Affairs (1946–1991)
- Law enforcement agency.child1agency
- Main Directorate for Public Order Maintenance
- Law enforcement agency.child2agency
- State Automobile Inspectorate
- Law enforcement agency.child3agency
- Main Directorate for Transport
- Law enforcement agency.child4agency
- Main Directorate of Criminal Investigation
- Law enforcement agency.child5agency
- Department Against Misappropriation of Socialist Property
- Law enforcement agency.child6agency
- Special Police Department
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Encyclopedic overview
23 sectionsContents
- Name and status
- General overview
- Conscripted police
- Rank insignia
- Soviet ''militsiya'' (1936–1939)
- Soviet militsiya (1939–1943)
- Former Russian militsiya
- Former Ukrainian militsiya
- Belarusian ''militsiya''
- Non-police services
- Soviet ''militsiya'' (GAI) cars
- Heads of the ''militsiya''
- Post-Soviet ''militsiya'' forces
- Russia
- Ukraine
- Serbia
- Other jurisdictions
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Sources
- Further reading
- External links
The militsiya was the police force of the Russian SFSR and Soviet Union from 1917 to 1991. The term was likewise used for police forces in several Eastern Bloc countries and in the SFR Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1992.
The term militsiya continues to be used in common and sometimes official usage in some of the individual post-Soviet states, such as Belarus, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, as well as in the partially recognised or unrecognised republics of Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Transnistria. In Russian law enforcement, the term remained in official usage until the police reform of 2011.
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