Chief of the General Staff (Russia)
Chief of the General Staff
Russian: Начальник Генерального штаба | |
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Member of | General Staff of the Armed Forces |
Reports to | Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation |
Appointer | President of Russia |
Term length | No fixed length |
Formation |
9 August 1812 (historical) 10 June 1992 (current) |
First holder | General-Adjutant Pavel Gagarin |
Deputy | Colonel General Nikolai Bogdanovsky |
Website | Official Website |
The Chief of the General Staff (Russian: Начальник Генерального штаба / Nachal'nik General'nogo shtaba) is the chief of staff of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces. He is appointed by the President of Russia, who is the Supreme Commander-in-Chief. The position dates to the period of the Russian Empire. The current Chief of the General Staff is Army General Valery Gerasimov.
List of chiefs of the general staff
Imperial Russian Army (1812–1917)
№ | Director of the Inspection Department of the Ministry of War | Took office | Left office | Time in office | |
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1 | General-Adjutant Pavel Gagarin (1777–1850) | 9 August 1812 | 13 December 1814 | years, 126 days | 2|
2 | Lieutenant General Andrey Kleinmikhel (1757–1815) | 13 December 1814 | 25 June 1815 | days | 194
№ | Chief of the Main Staff | Took office | Left office | Time in office | |
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1 | General-Adjutant Lieutenant General Friedrich van Heiden (1821–1900) | 1 January 1866 | 22 May 1881 | years, 141 days | 15|
2 | Lieutenant General General of the Infantry Nikolai Obruchev (1830–1904) | 10 June 1881 | 31 December 1897 | years, 204 days | 16|
3 | Lieutenant General Viktor Sakharov (1848–1905) | 20 January 1898 | 11 March 1904 | years, 51 days | 6|
4 | Lieutenant General Pyotr Frolov (1852–?) | 11 March 1904 | 28 June 1905 | year, 109 days | 1
№ | Chief of the General Directorate of the General Staff | Took office | Left office | Time in office | |
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1 | General of the Cavalry Fedor Palitsin (1851–1923) | 28 June 1905 | 2 December 1908 | days | 157|
2 | General of the Cavalry Vladimir Sukhomlinov (1848–1926) | 2 December 1908 | 11 March 1909 | days | 99|
3 | General of the Infantry Aleksander Myshlayevsky (1856–1920) | 11 March 1909 | September 1909 | 5 months | |
4 | Lieutenant General Evgeny Gerngross (1855–1912) | September 1909 | 22 February 1911 | 1 year, 5 months | |
5 | General of the Cavalry Yakov Zhilinsky (1853–1918) | 22 February 1911 | 4 March 1914 | years, 10 days | 3|
6 | Major General Nikolai Yanushkevich (1868–1918) | 5 March 1914 | 1 August 1914 | days | 149|
7 | Major General Mikhail Belyaev (1863–1918) | 1 August 1914 | 10 August 1916 | years, 9 days | 2|
8 | Lieutenant General Pyotr Averyanov (1867–1937) | 10 August 1916 | 15 May 1917 | days | 278|
9 | Lieutenant General Ivan Romanovsky (1877–1920) | 18 July 1917 | 26 September 1917 | days | 134|
10 | Major General Vladimir Marouchevsky (1874–1952) | 26 September 1917 | 23 November 1917 | days | 58
Council of People's Commissars on War and Navy Affairs (1917–1918)
№ | Chief of the General Staff | Took office | Left office | Time in office | |
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1 | Major General Nikolay Potapov (1871–1946) | 23 November 1917 | 8 May 1918 | days | 166
Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic (1918–1921)
Red Army (1921–1946)† denotes people who died in office.
Soviet Armed Forces (1946–1991)† denotes people who died in office.
Russian Armed Forces (1992–present)† denotes people who died in office.
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