Commanders of the border troops USSR and RF

First day of issue cover, 70th anniversary border troops KGB USSR, 1988

Commanders (in chief) – in the meaning of chief, commander, commanding general, supreme commander, or manager, etc. – of the border troops and organs of state security of the USSR and the RF were as follows.

List of the Commanders (in chief)
TimeNameRankDesignation of the assignment
1918-1919Sergey Grigorevich ShamshevPolkovnikChief Main directorate Border troops
1919Aleksandr Leontevich PevnevGeneral-mayor Military leader Directorate border protection, Secretary Border troops RSFSR
1919-1920V.A. Stepanov Chief Directorate border inspection
1920-1921Vyacheslav Rudolfovich Menzhinsky Chief Special division VCheKa (Border protection)
1922-1923 Artur Khristyanovich ArtuzovCorps commissar (1935)Chief division Border troops, division Border protection to Joint State Political Directorate
1923-1925Yan Kalikstovich OlskyChief division Border protection to Joint State Political Directorate
1925-1929Zinovy Borisovich KantselsonCommissar stat security 2nd rank Chief Main directorate Border protection to Joint State Political Directorate
1929Sergdey Georgievich Velezhev Chief Main directorate Border protection to Joint State Political Directorate
1929-1931Ivan Aleksandrovich Vorontsov Chief Main directorate Border protection to Joint State Political Directorate
1931-1933Nikolay Mikhaylovits BystrykhCommissar stat security 3rd rank Chief Main directorate Border protection to Joint State Political Directorate
1933-1937Mikhail Petrovich FrinovskyKomandarm 1st rank Chief Main directorate Border protection (from 1934 Border and Internal troops) to Joint State Political Directorate (from 1934 NKVD USSR)
1937-1938Nikolay Kuzmich KrutsinskinKomdiv Chief Main directorate Border and Internal troops to NKVD USSR
1938-1939Aleksandr Antonovich KovalyevKomdiv Chief Main directorate Border and Internal troops to NKVD USSR
1939-1941Grigory Grigoryevich SokolovGeneral-leytenant Chief Main directorate Border troops to NKVD USSR
1942-1952 Nikolay Pavlovich StakhanovGeneral-leytenant Chief Main directorate Border troops to NKVD USSR (from 1946 MVD USSR, from 1949 MGB USSR
1952-1956Pavel Ivanovich ZyryanovGeneral-leytenant Chief Border troops to MGB USSR (from 1953 MVD USSR)
1956-1957Timovey Amvpocievich StrokachGeneral-leytenant Chief Main directorate Border and Internal troops to MVD USSR
1957-1972Pavel Ivanovich ZyryakovGeneral-polkovnik Chief Border troops to KGB USSR
1972-1989Vadim Aleksandrovich MatrosovGeneral armii Chief Border troops to KGB USSR
1989-1992Ilya Yakovlevich KalinichenkoGeneral-polkovnik Chief Border troops to KGB USSR, from 1991 Commander in chief Border troops of the CIS
1992-1993 Vladimir Ivanovich Shlyakhtin General-polkovnik Commanding general Border troops of the RF
1993-1997Andrey Ivanovch NikolaevGeneral armii Commander in chief Border troops, from 1994 Director Border Service of the FSB of the RF
1998 Nikolay Nikolayevich BordyuzhaGeneral-polkovnik Director Federation Border Service
1998-2003Konstantin Vasilyevich TotskyGeneral armii Director Border Service of the FSB
2003-2013 Vladimir Yegorovich PronichevGeneral armii 1st Deputy director of the Russian FSB, head Border service to Russian FSB
April 10, 2013- Vladimir Grigoryevich KulishovGeneral armii 1st Deputy director of the Russian FSB, head Border service to Russian FSB

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