Saturn (detachment)

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OSN Saturn
Active	April 29, 1992
Country	Russia
Branch	Federal Penitentiary Service
Type	Special police
Role	Law enforcement in detention facilities
Garrison/HQ	Moscow, Russia
Commanders
Current commander	Boris Nikolaev

OSN Saturn (ОСН Сатурн УФСИН России по г. Москве; Otdel Spetsialnogo Naznacheniya Saturn) is the Moscow department of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) special purpose unit. Saturn was formed in April 1992 as a part of the Moscow Department of Punishment Execution (UIN) under the Ministry of the Interior. In 2006, the UIN system (including all regional departments and special purpose units) was renamed the Federal Penitentiary Service, and was moved from the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Interior to the Russian Ministry of Justice. The Saturn unit is also often called "Jail Spetsnaz".

Function[]

Current duties:

• Preventing crimes in Moscow detention facilities
• Anti-riot actions in detention facilities
• Search and arrest of escaped criminals
• Securing special operations
• Hostage rescue in detention facilities
• Counter-terrorism actions in detention facilities
• Personal security for Ministry of Justice and court officials

Operations[]

The Saturn unit participated in the First Chechen War, including the storming of Grozny in December 1994-January 1995, and in the Second Chechen War.^{[citation needed]}

In summer 2000, Saturn officers protected PACE delegates during their visit to the Chechen Republic.^{[citation needed]}

Saturn participated in the hostage rescue operation in Kapotnya investigative isolation ward №9 on September 2006.^{[citation needed]}

It provided protection and convoy support during both Mikhail Khodorkovsky cases.^{[citation needed]}

Saturn provide illegals program agent protection in Moscow.^{[citation needed]}

Training[]

• Airborne training
• Marksmanship
• Hand-to-hand combat and knife fighting
• Psychological warfare
• Weapons handling
• Rappelling
• Anti-riot actions

Equipment[]

Vehicles[]

• KAMAZ 43269 Vistrel
• Ford E-series armored prisoners van
• Armored Volkswagen T5 Transporter TDI
• KAMAZ-43114
• Toyota Land Cruiser 100
• Nissan Patrol GR (Y60)
• VAZ-2131 Niva
• GAZ-2217 Barguzin passenger van

Weapons[]

Saturn officer with a silenced 9A-91 carbine assault rifle

• Glock 17
• Glock 19
• Makarov pistol PMM
• GSh-18
• CZ 75
• AEK-919K “Kashtan”
• 9 mm submachine gun PP-91 KEDR
• Carbine assault rifle 9A-91
• 9mm submachine gun PP-19 Bizon
• Submachine gun PP-19-01 Vityaz SN
• KS-23M Drozd
• Assault rifle AEK-971 with GP-25
• RPG-7
• AGS-30
• Assault rifle AN-94 Abakan
• Yarygin pistol MP-443 Grach
• AK-74M
• AK-103
• RPK-74
• OSV-96
• SVD
• SVU

See also[]

• List of special police units

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Saturn Special Purpose Detachment.

• Official website
• Rappelling training photos
• Armored vehicle and weapons photos
• Saturn cars and armored vehicles photos
• Saturn KAMAZ-43269 Vistrel walkaround