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The strongest research directions include In the Soviet Union and Equipment. Use the connected concepts below as starting points, not as a keyword checklist.
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In the Soviet Union
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Equipment
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In the Russian Federation
Hero of the Russian FederationDissolution and collapse of the Soviet UnionMain Guard Directorate (GUO)Ninth Chief DirectorateMinistry of Internal Affairs (MVD)
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Overview
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Key facts & relationships
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- Founded
- 28 July 1974; 52 years ago (1974-07-28)
- Branch
- Spetsnaz of the KGB (1974–1991) Russia: GUO (1991–1993) MVD (1993–1995) TsSN FSB (1995–present)
- Country
- Soviet Union (1974–1991) Russia (1991–present)
- Current commander
- Col. Valery Kanakin[citation needed]
- Engagements
- Operation Storm-333 Aeroflot Flight 6833 hostage crisis January Events Soviet coup d'état attempt Russia: Russian constitutional crisis Budyonnovsk hostage crisis Kizlyar-Pervom…
- Motto
- Победить и вернуться
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Overview
- Russian Russian language
- Romanized Romanization of Russian
- Russian special forces Spetsnaz
- Special Purpose Center FSB Special Purpose Center
- Federal Security Service
- KGB
- Vympel
- Black operations
- Leonid Brezhnev
- Regime change
- Democratic Republic of Afghanistan
- Kabul
- KHAD
- Darul Aman Palace
- Tajbeg Palace
- Hafizullah Amin
- Mistress Mistress (lover)
- Operation Storm-333
- Soviet Airborne paratroopers (VDV) Soviet Airborne Troops
- GRU Glavnoye Razvedyvatel'noye Upravleniye
- Storm-333
- Soviet–Afghan War
- Beirut
- The Kremlin Kremlin
- Muslim Brotherhood
- Syrian involvement Syrian occupation of Lebanon
- Lebanese Civil War
- Abduction and murder Abduction of Russian diplomats in Iraq
- Hezbollah
- Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah
In the Soviet Union
- Yuri Andropov
- 1972 Munich massacre Munich massacre
- West Germany
- GSG 9
- First Chief Directorate
- Moscow
- Russian SSR
- Khabarovsk Krai
- Ukrainian SSR
- Kiev Oblast
- Alpha Group Alpha Group (Ukraine)
- Belarusian SSR
- Minsk Oblast Minsk Region
- Alpha Group Alpha Group (Belarus)
- Kazakh SSR
- Almaty Oblast Almaty Province
- NSC Arystan unit National Security Committee (Kazakhstan)
- Krasnodar Krai
- Sverdlovsk Oblast
- Counter-terrorism
- Embassy of the United States in Moscow
- Hostage taking
- Soviet Army
- Dymshits–Kuznetsov hijacking affair
- Aeroflot Flight 6833
- Tbilisi
- Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic
- Tu-134 Tupolev Tu-134
- Attempted Tu-134 hijacking Aeroflot Flight 36075 (1986)
- Ufa International Airport
In the Russian Federation
- Hero of the Russian Federation
- Dissolution and collapse of the Soviet Union Dissolution of the Soviet Union
- Main Guard Directorate (GUO) Federal Protective Service (Russia)
- Ninth Chief Directorate
- Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) Ministry of Internal Affairs (Russia)
- Federal Security Service (FSB) Federal Security Service (Russia)
- Sergei Stepashin
- Mikhail Barsukov
- Tsentr Spetsnaz
- Vladimir Pronichev
- Organized crime Russian mafia
- Our Home – Russia
- Legislative election of 1995 1995 Russian legislative election
- State Duma
- Nursultan Nazarbayev
Equipment
- AK-74
- AS Val
- AK-12
- AK-105
- M4A1
- AR-15
- AN-94
- HK-416
- PKP Pecheneg
- PKM PK machine gun
- Dragunov Dragunov sniper rifle
- HK417 Heckler & Koch HK417
- Vintorez
- Accuracy International AWM
- Orsis T-5000
- Lobaev Arms
- Heckler & Koch MP5
- Vityaz-SN
- Brügger & Thomet MP9
- Glock 19
- Glock 17
- Strizh Arsenal Firearms Strike One
- MP-443
- Stechkin APS
- Makarov PM
- OTs-33 Pernach
General sources
- Christopher Andrew Christopher Andrew (historian)
- Vasili Mitrokhin
- ISBN ISBN (identifier)
- David Satter
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Top relations
related to Shuffling and reforms · 50
Alpha Group → After, Alpha, Alpha-B, As, ATC, August, Budyonnovsk, Col, Director, Directorate, Duma, Federal Security Service, FSB, FSB Anti-Terrorist Center, Gen, Golovatov, Goncharov, GUO, In, Internal Affairs
related to Operations · 26
Alpha Group → Aeroflot, Aeroflot Flight, Airline, Alpha, Between, Consular Section, Dymshits, Embassy, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, He, In, Initially, Kuznetsov, Moscow, Notably, September, Soviet Army, Soviet Ukrainian, Soviet Union, Tbilisi
related to Creation and organization · 23
Alpha Group → Alpha, Another, At, By, First Chief Directorate, Grenzschutzgruppe, GSG, It, July, Kaskad/Omega, KGB, KGB Chairman, Later, Moscow, Munich, On, Seventh Directorate, Soviet, Soviet Union, Soviet Union's
related to Equipment · 6
Alpha Group → AN-94, AR-15, HK-416, Limited Use, ValAK-12AK-105M4A1, Various AK-74
related to External links · 2
Alpha Group → In Russian, Ukraine
Branch · 1
Alpha Group → Spetsnaz of the KGB (1974–1991) Russia: GUO (1991–1993) MVD (1993–1995) TsSN FSB (1995–present)
Country · 1
Alpha Group → Soviet Union (1974–1991) Russia (1991–present)
Current commander · 1
Alpha Group → Col. Valery Kanakin[citation needed]
Engagements · 1
Alpha Group → Operation Storm-333 Aeroflot Flight 6833 hostage crisis January Events Soviet coup d'état attempt Russia: Russian constitutional crisis Budyonnovsk hostage crisis Kizlyar-Pervom…
Founded · 1
Alpha Group → 28 July 1974; 52 years ago (1974-07-28)
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Important terminology
alpha soviet group russian forces security kgb hostages special moscow gen members unit fsb also operations union vympel crisis killed
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
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| Alpha Group | Branch | Spetsnaz of the KGB (1974–1991) Russia: GUO (1991–1993) MVD (1993–1995) TsSN FSB (1995–present) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Alpha Group | Country | Soviet Union (1974–1991) Russia (1991–present) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Alpha Group | Current commander | Col. Valery Kanakin[citation needed] | 1.00 | infobox |
| Alpha Group | Engagements | Operation Storm-333 Aeroflot Flight 6833 hostage crisis January Events Soviet coup d'état attempt Russia: Russian constitutional crisis Budyonnovsk hostage crisis Kizlyar-Pervom… | 1.00 | infobox |
| Alpha Group | Founded | 28 July 1974; 52 years ago (1974-07-28) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Alpha Group | Motto | Победить и вернуться | 1.00 | infobox |
| Alpha Group | Nicknames | Alpha Group, Alpha (Alfa) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Alpha Group | Notable commanders | Gen. Vitaly Bubenin Gen. Viktor Karpukhin Gen. Gennady Zaitsev | 1.00 | infobox |
| Alpha Group | Part of | Federal Security Service Moscow (main force) Khabarovsk, Krasnodar, Yekaterinburg, Grozny (in Russia) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Alpha Group | Size | Classified (estimated 500 in 1991, 250–300 in Russia in 2004) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Alpha Group | Type | Spetsnaz | 1.00 | infobox |
| CIA agent Adolf Tolkachev in 1985 | instance of | interdicting hostile intelligence operations on Soviet territory and seizing enemy spies | 0.80 | text |
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Nodes217
Edges216
Triples121
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.009217
Components1
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