Rare Footage of KGB Agents Training in Top Secret Soviet Spy School (1991)

On 2 October 1991, just months before the final collapse of the USSR, ITN was granted access to the Yuri Andropov Red Banner Institute, the KGB's espionage academy outside Moscow. Cameras captured the next generation of Soviet spies undergoing a range of training activities, from investigating mock crime scenes to firing weapons on a shooting range. ITN also filmed outside KGB headquarters, also known as the Lubyanka Building, in Moscow. The square on which the building sat had recently been renamed from Dzerzhinsky Square (after Cheka founder Felix Dzerzhinsky) to Lubyanka Square. ITN filmed the empty podium from which a statue of Dzerzhinksy had been removed, and at the nearby patch of waste ground in which it had been deposited.
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[@RocketRenton]

It's where Ivan Danko was trained.

[@skater187101]

Casually shooting with no ear protection while indoors is crazy

[@Seano351]

THE NUMBERS MASON!

[@davidhudson5452]

Your papers please your papers are not in order

[@sid2112]

Note the computer screens are all in English. There's a story behind that worth looking into.

[@Grove-street677]

The Russian president was trained here

[@jordanjohnanderson]

Just incredible. A window into this very historical moment. Thanks for this.

[@Levazadov2]

Why are the cadets in signalmen's uniforms? I served in the Government Signal Corps of the KGB of the USSR (85-87), they belonged to the KGB - but in fact they were military units, they wore black shoulder straps with the combined arms signalman emblem and the letters “SA”, in the video they are cadets, they have “K”. Just like the Border Guard - it was also part of the KGB of the USSR, but they wore green shoulder straps with the letters "PV" and green caps. The "spy" units of the KGB of the USSR rarely wore uniforms; they had cornflower blue shoulder straps with the letters "GB". Summary: this is some kind of army unit, although at that time subordinate to the KGB. Subsequently, this service began to be called FAPSI, then abolished.

[@Ethan-xf4or]

Where’s the “Pushing out of the window” training ?

[@flaggboi]

Why is it looped

[@KuraiOktober]

(Read post scriptum before leave comments) They are signal troops cadets because they have black shoulder tabs with the K letter which means "cadet" (Курсант) and black collar tabs with lightnings, wings and red star which is the signal troops emblem. And also red lines on officers' shoulder straps which mean they are belong to the land forces of Soviet Army.

[@GIORDANOBRUNO1969]

...dear ITN Archive thank you for uploading! Top-interesting Video about the this important academy of the former KGB ! Hallo from Italy!

[@crocodile1313]

So strange that in 1991 I was an American Marine, 21 years old and trained to possibly have to kill some of those young men of my age in this film. They look so young, as did I back then. We both had dreams of girls, cars, fun, family and the future. Thankfully the Soviet/American war never happened because people on both sides, love them or hate them, were smart enough to avoid taking that fateful step. I hope all of those boys, my former enemies, have had good lives as I have, filled with happiness, treasured memories, and more to come.

[@minenotyours212]

The only real kgb agent in this whole film was the guy that snapped his zippo at

[@michaelmcwhirter]

Cool to see there really isn't that much different between us with all the joking and smiles/laughing in the beginning 💪

[@23madrabbit]

Didnt knew draco malfoy was a KGB agent.

[@user-hu4zr2kk9m]

In KGB School Even the Student look at Professor in Suspicion 😂

[@user-oc2si8vi2w]

In fact, at the beginning of the video, this is not the State Security Committee, the KGB had blue bands on its cap, blue fields on its shoulder straps. And these are the technical troops here (according to the lapel signs, this is a technical connection).

[@luxincognita]

Very neat video, but the camera guy has some issues he should address, ahahahah! [EDIT] the same applies to the editor!

[@stevenllewellyn8906]

“My name is Vitoli, how may I be of assistance”