May 28 - Day of the Soviet border guard

May 28, 1918 Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars V.I. Lenin signed a decree establishing the Border Guard of the RSFSR.

“The Border Guard is entrusted with the protection of the border interests of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, and within the border strip, the protection of the identity and property of citizens, in particular:

a) obstruction of the secret transport of goods and the secret passage of persons across the land and sea borders of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic;

b) protection against the theft of water resources in our border and territorial waters;

c) supervision of compliance with international shipping rules on border rivers;

d) the protection of our fishermen and industrialists in the border seas, lakes and rivers;

e) the protection of our border villages from attacks by robbers and nomadic tribes;

e) implementation of border quarantine, as necessary, and so on ... "



Symbolic photo: “The border is on the castle!”

https://vkpb.ru/sovetskaya-istoriya/682-28-maya-den-sovetskogo-pogranichnika.html

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