Day officers of state and national security
After the presidential Decree, adopted in 1995, the security staff has received professional holiday. Date of the festival was determined after the issue of the Decree on education of the extraordinary Commission, designed to deal with sabotage. The decision was made at the Council of people's Commissars in the early twentieth century - 1917. The first Chapter of the all-Russian extraordinary Commission stood F. Dzerzhinsky. Later HFR has appeared under many names - the state security Committee it was called in March 1954, later there was the NKVD, MGB and the OGPU.
Originally this date was called the Day of the security officer. Now December 20 – holiday employees of the Federal security service, security services and intelligence. This day those who work for the sake of our security.