Happy RUBOP day to all involved.
On November 15, 1988, by order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR No. 0014 "On the establishment of a department for combating organized crime", the 6th Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR was organized, later renamed RUBOP. In the photo, the Department for the Control of Regional Organized Crime in the Urals headed by General Valery Borisov. In the first row, second from the left - Deputy Chief, legendary SOBR commander Nikolai Osotkin.