State Border Committee of the Republic of Belarus
Identity
This record matches the headquarters of the State Border Committee of the Republic of Belarus at 24 Volodarsky Street, Minsk. The committee’s official leadership page lists Konstantin Molostov as chairman at that address; Anatoly Lappo appears in current EU sanctions material as the former chairman, so the supplied commander field is outdated as of March 12, 2026. ([gpk.gov.by](https://gpk.gov.by/gpk/rukovodstvo/))
Mandate
The committee’s officially published functions, citing Presidential Decree No. 448 of September 25, 2007, include organizing protection of the state border except in airspace, directing border-service organs, managing border-crossing procedures, coordinating other state bodies on border security, countering border-related offenses, conducting delimitation and demarcation work, supporting operational-search and external intelligence activity within its competence, sustaining readiness and logistics, and managing border-service aviation. ([gpk.gov.by](https://gpk.gov.by/gpk/osnovnyie-zadachi-gospogrankomiteta/))
Force structure
The official territorial-organs portal shows a nationwide command network under this Minsk headquarters: Brest, Gomel, Grodno, and Smorgon border groups; Lida, Mozyr, Pinsk, and Polotsk border detachments; the Minsk border-control detachment; and dedicated communications and materiel-support groups. This indicates a central HQ responsible for both frontier units and support/logistics elements. ([tops.gpk.gov.by](https://tops.gpk.gov.by/))
Aviation
Open sources confirm that the committee still has an aviation function at the policy and command level, and a February 23, 2026 official profile states that border-service aviation performs daily missions; the profiled officer serves as deputy commander of the Brest Border Group for aviation. A historical Belarusian aviation study places the former 1st Separate Aviation Squadron of the Belarusian border troops at Ozorki airfield near Pastavy from 1993 and says the border-service aviation detachment was transferred to the emergencies system in 2014; the supplied helicopter-squadron placemark is therefore consistent with a historical border-aviation site, but current committee use of that exact coordinate is not publicly confirmed. ([gpk.gov.by](https://gpk.gov.by/gpk/osnovnyie-zadachi-gospogrankomiteta/))
Sanctions scrutiny
This headquarters has been directly implicated in international sanctions actions tied to the 2021 Belarus-EU migrant crisis. In December 2021, the U.S. Treasury designated seven State Border Committee leaders and described the committee as the state body responsible for border security and policy. EU sanctions listings stated that then-chairman Lappo, senior border-group heads, and ASAM, a special border-guard unit listed at 24 Volodarsky Street, were responsible for or involved in facilitating illegal crossings toward EU member states; current EU listings still describe Lappo as former chairman and Molostov as current chairman. ([home.treasury.gov](https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0512?utm_source=openai))
Placemark confidence
The supplied generic western-border placemark labeled Border Guard Outpost was not independently matched to a named official outpost in the reviewed official portals. Public official sites enumerate territorial groups and detachments, but do not provide a complete open registry of named outposts at that coordinate, so assessment for that placemark should remain at committee and sector level rather than assign a specific subunit. ([tops.gpk.gov.by](https://tops.gpk.gov.by/))