Hatsavita Mountain Warfare Training Centre

Hatsavita Mountain Training Center
Labinsk, Krasnodar Krai in Russia
Type	Military base
Site information
Controlled by	Ministry of Internal Affairs
Site history
In use	2005 - present
Garrison information
Occupants	GRU

The Hatsavita Mountain Training Center is a Ministry of Internal Affairs (Russia) (or MVD) training facility located in Labinsk, Krasnodar Krai, southern Russia. The MVD, together with the Federal Security Service (FSB), carries out most internal security operations in Chechnya.

The "Hatsavita" mountain training center was organized in 2005 to increase the effectiveness of Russian Army special forces (Spetsnaz GRU) during fighting in North Caucasus Mountains, especially Chechnya and Dagestan.

Courses

• The center works year-round and the training process takes 4–5 weeks. Soldiers learn the basics of rock climbing, mountain tactics, mountaineering, etc.
• Russian Special Forces training photos

See also

• List of mountain warfare forces
• Spetsnaz GRU
• Alpha Group
• Vympel
• Rus (special forces)
• Vityaz (MVD)
• OMON
• SOBR
• High Mountain Military School
• Mountain Leader Training Cadre
• Mountain Warfare Training Center
• Army Mountain Warfare School
• Mountain Warfare Training Camp Michael Monsoor
• High Altitude Warfare School

Further reading

• Isby, David C., Weapons and tactics of the Soviet Army, Jane's Publishing Company Limited, London, 1988
• Carey Schofield, 'The Russian Elite: Inside Spetsnaz and the Airborne Forces,' Greenhill, London, 1993

External links

• (in Russian) Russian Special Ops Units
• (in Russian) Ministry of Internal Affairs special forces
• (in Russian) https://web.archive.org/web/20050309013355/http://www.kommersant.ru/k-vlast/get_page.asp?page_id=2005769-22.htm
• (in Russian) Russian Special Forces