Decryption SOBR. What is SOBR and what is its function?

Many saw strong Russian guys camouflaged on the "most eyebrows", brave fighters with a huge patch on their back - SOBR. "This is what?" - asked a question to each other bystanders at the very beginning of the dashing nineties. So unaccustomed and gloomy was the sight of these Russian rangers that the consciousness, accustomed to the Soviet baggy military uniform, refused to perceive the new information transmitted by the organ of vision.

Slender and fit strong as a selection, in a dandy uniform and masks caused mixed feelings among the population. From curiosity to fear. People whispered: "SOBR is who?".

Crash

The end of the last century. The dream of the Western world has come true. The death sentence for the USSR was carried out. The Russian colossus, which horrified the advanced overseas continent, collapsed, shaking the nearby land, stirring the minds of newly-born neighbors, still yesterday's residents of a single multi-apartment and multi-national home - the USSR.

Who is guilty? There will not be descriptive events of those times. There are many theories. All of them have the right to exist. Let us leave this work to true pro-historians. They have to find answers to specific questions of descendants. The purpose of this article is different. It was at that time that a special unit was born - SOBR. Explanation of the abbreviation is a Special Rapid Response Unit.

To answer the next question "what for?", It is necessary to return to the past, in the already distant 1992, on February 10, the birthday of this special squad. Initially, the formation had a different name - OTO as part of the Interior Ministry's GUUP. Six months later, the newborn acquired a new name, under which he is recognized until now. This is SOBR.

Lawlessness as the norm of life

To shame is great, but in quite recent Russia there was such a period when open lawlessness was the norm of life. The nineties of the last century left their indelible mark, smelling of gunpowder, blood, suffering and devastation.

Lawlessness of officialdom and lawlessness of household went hand in hand. Now we will not judge and understand the details, this will require a separate narrative. So it was, it's a fact. The percentage of crime went off scale. Spilled blood was in the set. About domestic violations and occasional skirmishes, brawls, even we are not talking. The guys appeared serious, thought out, with connections in all echelons of power, armed to the teeth, insidious and insolent.

They engaged in affairs more serious than to take off a hat from a passerby or to rob a shopping stall so that they could get drunk right away. It's about real gangster formations. Not somewhere in the far-away Asian cinema of the twenties, but in the center of the capital, large cities, openly, at all in sight. Yes what to say? Everywhere. In every village. The situation got out of control. The authorities needed to do something about this. Then the SOBR was born. The deciphering of the abbreviation of this unit was originally a real rebus for ordinary people.

Elimination of gangs

In those years, organized crime flourished violently. So much so that it was not physically possible to combat conventional operatives. Fortunately, the law enforcement agencies found a worthy answer to the criminally-frail crime. This is SOBR.

Already the first operations to remove a malignant tumor from a weakened organism of Russian society forced the flagships of criminal groups to cringe. And the medicines used for this are far from medical instruments, without an anesthetic (from where does it come from in the country flying into the abyss?), By the method of "tearing", rather than "carefully carving and mending", caused shock and awe. Who really did not like the word SOBR. Deciphering by letters was not required. Not before it was.

By the spring of 1993, these special units were established in all regions of the country. The battle continued. Cemeteries expanded due to VIP graves of yesterday's authorities and new "owners" of life, prisoners were crowded in crowded cells of pre-trial detention centers, correctional colonies were greeted daily by new guests.

Anyway, those who managed to sit down "on the bunk" or contrived to slip abroad, have saved their lives. Most of the big gangster factions on their own found out that SOBR are the guys with whom it's not worth joking. They are not located to the playful manner of communication.

It is clear that only a fairy tale is affected quickly. It took time to remove inclusions of wormholes on the entire territory of the state. But the task set before SOBR was fulfilled. The almighty "brothers" retreated into the shadows, and then simply dissolved. This does not mean that the guys from the SOBR lost their job. They are still at the very center of the fight against organized crime.

SOBR. Decoding this word in an unusual way

There is a usual interpretation of this abbreviation, everything is already well-known, universally applied. Special Rapid Response Unit. It can be said more simply, SOBR is special forces.

If there is a common interpretation of the meaning of the word, then why not be unusual? After all, for each of the four letters is a deep meaning, meaningfulness, not an accidental choice.

"C" - special

Emphasis on the letter "C" when decoding SOBR.

These special units were formed mainly from the operating groups of special forces - OMON, which did not cease to exist. There was only a separation of the "client base".

Wards riot police remained hooliganism, organizers and participants of unauthorized mass gatherings, pursuing the goal of a riot, football fans who organize pogroms and other excessively "active" citizens. At that time, there were enough free-thinkers, pseudo-leaders, and outspoken adventurers, provocateurs, ready to gather a large crowd of people in the squares, to arrange a rally with a mandatory pogrom.

People, tired of the Soviet routine, with pleasure rustled, smashed, shouted slogans. They were naturally enraged, without really understanding what was allowed, what was forbidden. Riot policemen admonished and instructed. Where the word, and where the truncheon, everything was.

The fraternal OMON of the SOBR carried out more narrow, special tasks. His regular clients were stable bandit groups, other organized criminal groups, terrorists, people incomprehensible and dangerous. Special tasks, special methods, special means. Clients are also special, notorious, sophisticated and unprincipled, capable of openly resisting multi-barreled "artillery."

The selection and transfer to SOBR was thorough, special. Considered the highest rates of psychological and physical training. The score "good" was not recognized. The pass mark is "excellent". An indispensable condition is the experience of combat operations, participation in serious operations. The fighter must be proven, distinguished in the hot events, to know the weapon perfectly and masterfully master it.

"O" - detachment

SOBR is a detachment. We focus on the letter "O" when deciphering the SOBR.

Candidates in this special unit were not specially trained anywhere. Their teachers were military actions, hot events, military operations. What textbooks and manuals are there? One hundred percent combat experience. Kizlyar and Budennovsk, Afghanistan and Chechnya, Dagestan and Tajikistan - these are their classrooms and audiences for lectures.

SOBR is a detachment of soldiers, without which no major operation, no detentions of terrorists, arms dealers, no liquidation of bandit formations.

The troops received their own names. "Granite" and "Bars", "Bulat" and "Viking", "Vector" and "Terek" - all these groups of special forces (SOBR). Each regional detachment has its own combat history, traditions, its heroes, distinctive symbols.

The special forces (SOBR) units are elite units in the system of all power structures. The majority of SOBR officers deservedly wear "maroon" berets as a symbol of high distinction.

"B" - fast

Officers of the elite subdivisions of the SOBR are constantly in a state of full combat readiness. At any time they are ready to be where their participation is necessary. We make the next accent. On the letter "B" when deciphering the SOBR.

The special task can be formed in any region, territorial remoteness does not matter. Modern transport means will deliver soldiers to positions as quickly as possible. And in cases where a quiet, noiseless approach is required, when the presence of technology will attract unwanted attention of the enemy, elite fighters are able to independently overcome significant distances and immediately engage in combat or perform a different task.

"R" - response

The last character in this abbreviation remains. We focus on the letter "R" when deciphering the SOBR. The ways of responding fighters of these elite units are different. Everything depends on the task. Each SOBR officer is a universal soldier.

He can effectively work in the assault team, in the capture or cover group. This is a mountaineer, paratrooper, parachutist, swimmer and sniper, demolition and sapper. Whoever he has to be. He is able to be an excellent actor and a pleasant interlocutor when the situation demands it. The role of the thug and the bouncer? No problem. To drive a vehicle? You are welcome. Any, mind you. Methods and ways of responding to the SOBR were worked out over the years, through trial and error, in real combat situations.

Among the fighters of the detachment there are their craftsmen, able to perfect weapons, items of equipment, make them as effective as possible. Each squad has its own branded "chips", which it is not customary to speak outside the base.

In most cases, the guys act hard, without curtsey or bow. Those who dealt with SOBR (on different sides of the barricades) witnessed that.

That's the whole interpretation of SOBR.

Eternal memory prematurely gone

Many fighters are awarded the highest governmental awards, awarded the title of Hero of Russia. Among them there are those who received awards posthumously. It should be noted that the mass losses of the SOBR unit are not allowed, the qualification does not allow. But some cases, unfortunately, take place. Eternal memory of these heroes, who fell in the performance of combat missions.