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In October 1941, was created OMSBON (Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade Special Purpose NKVD). This team has been focused mainly on intelligence work behind enemy lines. Battle group includes the commander, radio operator, demolition, demolition assistant, two machine gunners and snipers on a mandatory basis.
In addition to regular weapons snipers stood carbine model 1938 with a telescopic sight, it is conditioned by the fact that such a weapon (relatively short), it was more convenient to work in the woods. Also used a rifle with a silencer, "Brahmi".
After the war, Walter Schellenberg, chief of German intelligence noted "the difficulty of combating special forces of the NKVD, whose parts are almost 100% staffed by snipers."