ST. PETERSBURG. June 10 (Interfax-AVN) - The Russian Federal Border Guard Service is upgrading border control devices on the country's northwestern borders.
"We change the devices for more modern ones - radio beam sensors, better visual and technical surveillance systems in all the AoRs, and radar facilities," Major General Valery Akchurin, deputy chief of the Northwestern Regional Border Guard Directorate, said in an interview with the Pogranichnik weekly published by the directorate in St. Petersburg.
The focus of the program is on the monitoring and signal facilities, on the roads, and on cold-protected posts at long observational sections, he said.
Asked about other ways of pursuing the engineering policy of the directorate, the general said that the way was to better maintain and keep operational the signal facilities in the main border protection areas.
The press service of the directorate told Interfax-Military News Agency Tuesday that more than 160 teams (all in all about 1,300 personnel) were working on the border in the framework of a routine annual technical maintenance cycle.
According to the press service, "the personnel are building and repairing signal facilities, technical checkpoints, roads and bridges, berths for patrol boats, helicopter pads, and vehicles."