Memorable days of Russia: The exhibition “Loyalty. Honor. Duty” to the 80th anniversary of the Presidential Regiment is opened at the Historical Museum in Moscow

The Presidential Regiment celebrates its 80th anniversary of April 8, 2016 with the opening of the exhibition "Loyalty. Honor. Duty" in the State Historical Museum (SHM) in Moscow.

The exposition presents materials from the collections of the State Historical Museum and the Museum of the Presidential Regiment - documents and photographs, regimental banners and standards, uniforms and equipment, martial and ceremonial weapons, as well as Moscow Kremlin disguise plans in 1941. 

Organizers plan to talk about the only one of its kind military part of Russia, the personnel of which ensures the safety of state protection, including the Moscow Kremlin - the official residence of the President of the Russian Federation, takes part in the state-level events.

The formation of the Presidential Regiment began in December 1918, when the protection of the Moscow Kremlin, by the decision of the Soviet government, involved machine-gun courses that in February 1921 have been converted into the first school of Red commanders on behalf of the Central Executive Committee. In 1929, at the School is created a training battalion, which is then converted to a training battalion reserve platoon commanders. In October 1935, the authority for the protection of the Moscow Kremlin was transferred to special purpose battalion, which became part of the Office of the Commandant of the Moscow Kremlin.  

Historical chronicle of the Regiment as the state protection bodies division begins from April 8, 1936, when the order № 122 on the Moscow Kremlin garrison battalion was transformed into the Office of the Special Purpose Regiment of the commandant of the Moscow Kremlin.