NKVD TO&Es

[SergioDV]

Someone could provide me TO&Es for NKVD divisions and regiments?

[Art]

What regiments and divisions exactly? There were different ones.

[SergioDV]

Border Guard, Rifle, Cavalry and Artillery. By the way, there were armored units in the NKVD?

[Art]

By the way, there were armored units in the NKVD?

Depends on size. Tank battalions in motorized rifle divisions, tank companies in motorized rifle regiments, tank squadrons in cavalry regiments.

[SergioDV]

Well, so there were no NKVD armored division but just tank armored battalions and companies. I'm looking for those TO&Es too.

[Art]

Actually in June 1941 an order was issued to form an NKVD tank division, but it was almost immediately rescinded. See:
http://vif2ne.ru/rkka/forum/0/archive/54/54163.htm

[SergioDV]

Nafziger provides a list of NKVD divisions from German intelligence summaries:

http://www.cgsc.edu/CARL/nafziger/939RXAE.PDF

And a TO&E for a NKVD Regiment in March 1942 (I suppose NKVD Infantry Regiment)

http://www.cgsc.edu/CARL/nafziger/942RCXA.PDF

[Art]

According to the NKVD order of 12 June 1943 the following organization of the border regiment was approved:

Command
Intelligence department
Staff
Political department
Supply section
Financial section
Sanitary service
Veterinary service
Signal company
Chemical defense platoon
Engineer platoon
Commandant platoon
Transport platoon
Maneuver group
3 rifle battalions with
15 line and 3 reserve zastava’s
“Zastava” (literally “outpost”) was of platoon size

Authorized strength:
192 officers, 379 NCOs, 923 privates, total 1494 men
61 riding horses, 116 draft horses, 18 search dogs, 22 mine-search dogs.
9 heavy and 39 light machineguns, 27 AT rifles, 3 82-mm mortars, 6 RSB radio-sets, 21 RB radio-sets, 1 radio receiver, 1 kitchen (auto trailer)
10 cars, 43 GAZ-AA trucks, 15 ZIS-5 trucks, 6 pickups, 6 GAZ-AAA for transporting radio-sets, 1 ZIS-5 for hauling kitchen, 5 motorcycles with sidecars, 1 refueling vehicles, 1 sanitary truck, 1 motor disinfection camera, 1 motor repair workshop type “A”, 1 motor sound&filming vehicle, 51 2-horse wagons, 1 1-horse wagons, 1 wagon for telephone equipment, 2 degassing wagons, 4 field kitchens.
Source: "Voyenno-Istoricheskiy Arkhiv", No.3, 2006
There were earlier TO&Es but they were not very different, as far as I know.

Contrary to what the name suggests border regiments didn’t guard border but rather were engaged in security duties in the rear of frontline forces. Most regiments were reorganized from NKVD border detachments with the same numbers. Typically a chief of rear security of each front had several border regiments (plus sometimes other NKVD units) under his command.

[Art]

As an additional information: on 23 October 1943 two documents were compiled which listed NKVD border units performing rear security functions handed over to the NKVD's Main Directorate of Internal Forces on 28 April 1942 and forces handed over to the newly established Main Directorate of Rear Security Forces on 4 May 1943. From these documents the following information on authorized and actual strength of border regiments can be obtained:

As of 28 April 1942
Unit authorized/actual strength

Karelian Front
72 Border Regiment 1557/1582
73 Bord.Reg. 1557/1093
80 Bord. Reg. 1557/1525
82 Bord.Reg. 1603/1360
101 Bord. Reg. 1603/1869

7th Army
1st Border Regiment 1557/1361

Leningrad Front
103 Bord. Reg. 1417/913
104 Bord.Reg. 1480/764
105 Bord.Reg. 1417/807
106 Bord. Reg. 1417/763
108 Bord.Reg. 1417/688
also 99 Bord. Detachment 544/460

North-West Front
9 Bord. Reg. 1417/795
11 Bord. Reg. 1417/786
12 Bord. Reg. 1417/683

Kalinin Front
13 Bord. Reg. 1417/1028
31 Bord. Reg. 1417/797
37 Bord. Reg. 1417/852
83 Bord. Reg. 1417/976

West Front
16 Bord. Reg. 1417/1139
86 Bord. Reg. 1417/1129
87 Bord. Reg. 1417/1193
88 Bord. Reg. 1417/1002

Bryansk Front
17 Bord. Reg. 1417/965
18 Bord. Reg. 1417/993
38 Bord. Reg. 1417/1099
90 Bord. Reg. 1417/1313

South-West Front
79 Bord. Reg. 1417/1289
91 Bord. Reg. 1417/1385
92 Bord. Reg. 1417/1351
98 Bord. Reg. 1417/1349

South Front
2 Bord. Reg. 1416/1123
23 Bord. Reg. 1416/1308
24 Bord. Reg. 1416/1165
25 Bord. Reg. 1416/1247

Crimean Front
26 Bord. Reg. 1416/327
95 Bord. Reg.1416/767
also 32 Novorossiysk Border Detachment 621/728

Total in NKVD rear security forces 66766 men authorized/49785 actual

As of 4 May 1943

Karelian Front
72 Bord. Reg. 1545/1418
73 Bord. Reg. 1545/1290
80 Bord. Reg. 1545/1442
101 Bord. Reg. 1626/1301
82 Bord. Reg. 1663/1262

7th Army
1st Bord. Reg. 1545/1315

Leningrad Front
103 Bord. Reg. 1490/919
104 Bord.Reg. 1490/1213
106 Bord. Reg. 1490/838
108 Bord.Reg. 1490/787
also 99 Bord. Detachment 548/522

Volkhov Front
10 Bord. Reg. 1490/1092
105 Bord. Reg. 1490/1077

North-West Front
9 Bord. Reg. 1490/1112
11 Bord. Reg. 1490/1067
12 Bord. Reg. 1490/1145
133 Bord. Reg. (in formation) 1490/1490

Kalinin Front
31 Bord. Reg. 1490/1044
37 Bord. Reg. 1490/1026

West Front
13 Bord. Reg. 1490/1260
83 Bord. Reg. 1490/1311
87 Bord. Reg. 1490/1354
132 Bord. Reg. (in formation) 1490/610

Central Front
2 Bord. Reg. 1490/1172
16 Bord. Reg. 1490/1196
98 Bord. Reg. 1490/1202

Bryansk Front
18 Bord. Reg. 1490/1372
38 Bord. Reg. 1490/1450
88 Bord. Reg. 1490/1221

Voronezh Front
90 Bord. Reg. 1490/1095
92 Bord. Reg. 1490/1060
128 Bord. Reg. (in formation) 1490/2112

South-West Front
24 Bord. Reg. 1490/1521
91 Bord. Reg. 1490/1270
127 Bord. Reg. 1490/1265

South Front
17 Bord. Reg. 1490/1327
79 Bord. Reg. 1490/1253

North-Caucasus Front
26 Bord. Reg. 1490/1447
32 Bord. Reg. 2000/1929
95 Bord. Reg. 1490/1509
123 Bord. Reg. 1490/1677
124 Bord. Reg. 1490/1285
23 Bord. Reg. 1490/1477

Total in rear security forces 74835/62818 men

As one can see authorized strength of different regiments varied somewhat. Source:
http://www.pogranec.ru/showthread.php?t=18643&page=9