Separate Operational Purpose Division

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Separate Operational Purpose Division
Otdel'naya diviziya operativnogo naznacheniya ODON
Active	June 17, 1924 – present
Country	Russia
Branch	Internal Troops (until 2016) National Guard Forces Command (since 2016)
Type	Motorized infantry
Role	Protection of public order
Size	~18,000
Part of	Ministry of Internal Affairs (until 2016) National Guard of Russia (since 2016)
Garrison/HQ	Reutov Balashikha
Nickname(s)	Dzerzhinsky Division
Motto(s)	"At any time, any place - any task!"
March	"My Division"
Anniversaries	June 17
Engagements	Winter War World War II Tbilisi tragedy August Coup Russian constitutional crisis of 1993 First Chechen War Second Chechen War Peace enforcement: Sumgait pogrom Baku pogrom Nagorno-Karabakh conflict Osh riots First South Ossetian War War in Abkhazia Wagner Group rebellion
Decorations	Order of Zhukov  Order of Lenin Order of the October Revolution  Order of the Red Banner
Commanders
Current commander	Major General Nikolai Kuznetsov

The Separate Operational Purpose Division or ODON, formerly called OMSDON (a.k.a. Dzerzhinsky Division), is a rapid deployment internal security division of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR and then the Russian Federation, currently part of the National Guard Forces Command of the Russian Federation.^[1] ODON (Russian: ОДОН) is an initialism for Отдельная дивизия оперативного назначения (Otdel'naya diviziya operativnogo naznacheniya, English: Separate Operational Purpose Division).