Abstract: The research subject is the psychological patterns of structural organization of the professional “self” of psychologists working at internal affairs agencies. The research object is the manifestation and development of the professional “self” of psychologists working at internal affair agencies during the educational activity. The authors analyze the main problems of development of the professional “self” of students during the educational process. The authors give special attention to the results of the empirical research of the structure and patterns of the professional “self” of psychologists working at internal affairs agencies. The article contains the essential characteristics of the phenomenon of the professional “self” and the structural peculiarities of the professional “self” of psychologists working at internal affairs agencies; the authors formulate practical recommendations for the development of the professional “self” of psychologists working at internal affairs agencies during their study at an educational institution of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. The main conclusion of the research is the authors’ research of the structure and peculiarities of the professional “self” of psychologists working at internal affairs agencies.  The authors’ contribution to the study of the topic is their practical recommendations about the development of the professional “self” of psychologists working at internal affairs agencies during their study at an institution of higher education of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.  The scientific novelty of the research consists in the study of the essential characteristics of the phenomenon the professional “self”, consideration of the structural peculiarities of the professional “self” of psychologists working at internal affairs agencies, and the offered factors of the improvement of the quality of training the students of educational institutions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia - the future psychologists of internal affairs agencies - for the development of the professional “self” in the process of studying at the educational institution of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.  

Keywords: psychologist of the internal affairs bodies, self-awareness, professional self, subject, I, psychological work, educational organization, educational activities, official activity, the learning process, professional self-knowledge

Abstract: The research object is the process of teaching police officers how to use physical force. The research subject is the case-study method used for teaching police officers how to use physical force. Physical training of police officers is aimed at the formation of readiness to legally use physical force for solving official tasks. However, at physical training lessons police officers study combat techniques, and much less attention is paid to teaching how to use these techniques during official service. One of the reasons for insufficient readiness of police officers is the lack of teachers’ attention to the case-study method of training and the possibility to use it at physical training lessons.  The research is based on scientific methods: analysis and generalization of scientific sources; situation simulation; pedagogical experimenting; testing. The authors formulate the following conclusions: 1. The main unified situations of the use of physical force by police officers are: “Identity checks”, “Stopping of public intoxication”, “Assault on a police officer”. 2. Analysis of the results of testing the complex of unified situations of the use of physical force by police officers has demonstrated the effectiveness of using the case-study method for teaching police officers how to use physical force. The effectiveness of applied techniques in the test group was on average 15,6% higher than that in the control group.  The described complex of unified situations can be used at physical training lessons for police officers. The scientific novelty of the research consists in the fact that it proves the effectiveness of the use of the case-study method for teaching police officers how to use physical force.  

Keywords: training and combat practice, professional training, situational method, fighting techniques, physical strength, tactics, physical training, police officers, integration, listeners

Abstract: The research subject is the actualization of organizational and pedagogic peculiarities of professional training of penal institutions personnel during the Great Patriotic War. Professional training of penitentiary personnel in today’s Russia, aimed at the formation of competent professionals, traditionally deals with the question of continuity of education fundamentals at particular time line.   The research is based on archive materials of the State Archive of the Russian Federation. The research methodology includes the method of historicism, and the system approach, the chronological method (historical periodisation), the methods of historical retrospective and historical comparison, which help to analyze archive sources from the viewpoint of contemporary historical and pedagogical science.  The authors study the historical and pedagogical materials and analyze the experience, as well as theoretical and practical results of the search for new approaches, means and methods of professional training and improvement of conceptual background of the educational sphere of penal service of Russia.  During the period under study (the years of the Great Patriotic War), the most effective organizational and pedagogical models were searched for, as well as their orientation towards school education with prevailing in-service training.   

Keywords: the Great Patriotic War, places of detention, employees, GULAG, GULAG courses, GULAG schools, retraining, professional training, school courses training, educational and methodological support

Abstract: The article contains the author’s technique of formation of radio communication skills during the process of local police officers training within the practical lessons in the discipline “Special technique of internal affairs bodies”. This technique helps to form necessary competences in the sphere of service radio communication with minimum participation of a teacher in the process of radio communication. The research contains samples of educational materials (procedure charts, radio communication control charts for the operator of the main communication station, a radio communication control chart for the teacher), necessary for a lesson. The author considers the knowledge assessment criteria for the section “Means of communication of internal affairs bodies”, related to radio communication. The topicality of the research is determined by the necessity to form stable skills of using service radio communication and radio exchange during the local police officers service. The author emphasizes that pedagogical literature doesn’t cover this issue.  The scientific novelty of the research consists in the development of the author’s technique of formation of practical skills of radio communication within the educational process preparing the future local police officers. The technique contains the action plan for a teacher, the samples of educational materials, and knowledge assessment criteria, and helps to effectively form radio communication competences of students. The main approaches of this research can be used for other specializations.   

Keywords: radio station, district commissioner of the police, organization of radio communication, negotiation table, порядок радиообмена the order of radio exchange, methodology, radio communication, radio exchange, радиоэфир radio broadcast, competencies

Abstract: The research object is the history of the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs. The research subject is the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and its battle group - the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. The article studies the experience of the Internal Affairs bodies’ struggle against the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, which became a symbol of the national-separatist movement in postwar regions of Western Ukraine.  The purpose of the research was to analyze the practice of the Internal Affairs bodies’ struggle against the nationalist armed groups of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army in 1944 - 1955. The research task was to consider various measures aimed at the extermination of nationalist armed groups in postwar Western Ukraine.  The research methodology is based on analysis and synthesis, and the historical-legal analysis of events. The scientific novelty of the research consists in the need for a comprehensive study of the experience of struggle against armed national-separatist groups in the context of complicated Russia-Ukraine relations after the 2014 armed coup in Kyiv which resulted in radicals coming to power, who use the ideas of the OUN-UIA and the postwar experience of struggle against official authorities. The topicality of the research consists in the fact that the experience of military and ideological struggle against the Internal Affairs bodies of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic has been actively used by the modern Security Service of Ukraine. Territorial claims to Russia’s south-western areas are expanding, which are believed to belong to the Ukrainian Republic by Ukrainian radicals. The author’s contribution to the research of the topic is the definition of the strategy and tactics of internal affairs and security bodies of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic aimed at the elimination of nationalist armed groups. The author defines the reasons which impeded the work of internal affairs bodies during the suppression of armed separatism.   

Keywords: fighting, armed confrontation, Western Ukraine, Ukrainian Insurgent Army, Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, Ukrainian Nationalism, liquidation, separatism, MVD, post-war years