Separate Operational Purpose Division

Separate Operational Purpose Division
Separate Operational Purpose Division
Otdel'naya diviziya operativnogo naznacheniya; ODON
Active	June 17, 1924 – present
Country	Russia
Branch	Internal Troops (until 2016); National Guard (since 2016)
Type	Motorized infantry
Role	Protection of public order
Size	~18,000
Part of	Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs (until 1991); Russian 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	World War II Winter War; ; Tbilisi tragedy; 1991 Soviet coup attempt; 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 Lenin; Order of the October Revolution; Order of the Red Banner; Order of Zhukov; Order of Suvorov
Commanders
Current; commander	Major General Nikolai Kuznetsov

The Separate Operational Purpose Division (ODON; Russian: Отдельная дивизия оперативного назначения, romanized: Otdel'naya diviziya operativnogo naznacheniya), 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 Internal Troops of Russia Russian Federation, currently part of the National Guard Forces Command of the Russian Federation.