State Border Service

In December 2018, by order of the President Ilham Aliyev, the SBS took up combat positions and facilities on the section of the border with Armenia, passing through the territory of Gazakh and Aghstafa regions, replacing the units of the Azerbaijani Army covering the border.[10] At the moment, the protection and defense of this section of the border is carried out by units of the Separate Border Division "Gazakh" of the border troops of the State Border Guard Service.[11][12][13] The Border Guard Service also took part in extinguishing forest fires in the summer in the Borjomi-Kharagauli National Park in central Georgia, sending two helicopters to help.[14] In the fall of 2020, during the armed conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh with the participation of the State Border Service, the Azerbaijani forces seized control of several settlements in Jabrayil District. The Supreme Commander of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces, President Ilham Aliyev congratulated Elchin Guliyev in connection with "raising the Azerbaijani flag over the Khudafarin bridge, liberating several residential settlements with the participation of the SBS."[15] During the war, Hikmet Hajiyev, Assistant of the Azerbaijani president, expressed concern over a photo published by Armenia's Defense Ministry in which Defense Minister David Tonoyan were with Armenian soldiers wearing military uniforms of the SBS, saying that they may "organize perpetration of military crimes against the civilian Armenian population, and attempting to put the responsibility on Azerbaijan".[16]

The structure of the State Border Service includes the headquarters, departments, and other organizations. The State Border Service's central office, border guards, naval and military aviation units, border control units, military units, as well as other structural units together form the unified system of the State Border Service. The main units of the State Border's direct guard are the frontier post, the frontier control unit, the frontier ship (boat), the radio engineering post, the frontier aircraft, the division of the operational-search organ, the precinct authorized frontier troops.[1]

On 22 August 1992, the first border detachment of Azerbaijan was established on the basis of the former 41st Border Detachment of the Soviet Transcaucasian Border Troops. President Ilham Aliyev ordered in early 2004 that the Nakhchivan Border Detachment was to be transformed into the "Nakhchivan" Border Division.[21]

An ex-U.S. 82 foot (25 m) patrol boat of the Border Guard's Maritime Brigade

The Azerbaijan Coast Guard is an Azerbaijani law enforcement agency which is a part of the State Border Service.[22] It has been receiving U.S. Coast Guard assistance including the transfer of a Point-class cutter.[23] The Coast Guard was established within the State Border Service by presidential order in 2005.[24] The Coast Guard's new base was built in Türkan district of Baku within the State Program on "Technical development of security of state borders of the Republic of Azerbaijan in 2006-2010". The Maritime Brigade/Coast Guard has one Point class cutter, S 14 (ex U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Point Brower, transferred 28 February 2003), one Osa class missile boat, S 008, which has had its SS-N-2B missiles removed, 3 Stenka class patrol boats, S 005, S 006, and S 007, all with sonar and torpedo tubes removed, 1 Zhuk class patrol craft, P 222, and two 48 foot (15 m) Silver Ships small craft, S 11 and S 12. (Jane's Fighting Ships 2010) The Coast Guard also operates 6 Sa'ar 62 class offshore patrol vessels. The commander is Colonel Afghan Nagiyev.

As the Chief of State Border Service, Elchin Guliyev was able to encourage opening of a new Academy of State Border Troops in August 2010, of which he became the rector.[25]

The Special School of the SBS is located in the Mardakan settlement of the Khazar raion. It was reconstructed at the suggestion of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation in 2011. On 18 October of the same year, the inauguration of the Special School of the Border Guard took place. The total area of the new school building is 11,000 square meters.[26]

Newly built Tufan type border guard ship

The Shipbuilding and Repair Service operates under the Coast Guard Unit of the State Border Service.

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  Flag of the Border Troops (reverse). Note: The obverse of the flag is similar to the national flag
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  Flag of the Border Regiments (reverse). Note: The obverse of the flag is similar to the national flag
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  Flag of the Border Units (reverse). Note: The obverse of the flag is similar to the national flag

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  The flag of the Azerbaijani Coast Guard
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  Flag of the president of Azerbaijan while on board a ship of the State Border Service
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  Flag of the chief of the State Border Service - Commander of Border Troops
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  Flag of the chief of general staff of the Border Troops
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  Flag of the commander of a group of vessels
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  Command Pennant of Border Patrol vessels
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  Masthead Pennant of Border Patrol vessels