Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia

Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia
Type Military college
Established 1832
Director Vladimir Yakovlev
Address Vernadskovo Prospekt 100, Moscow, Moscow, Russia
Coordinates: 55°38′59.28″N 37°28′26.37″E / 55.6498000°N 37.4739917°E / 55.6498000; 37.4739917

The General staff college of the Russian Federation's armed forces, also General staff academy of the Russian Federation's Armed Forces (Russian: Военная академия Генерального штаба Вооруженных Сил Российской Федерации) was founded in 1918 in Moscow by Leonid Govorov. It was the senior Soviet and now Russian general staff college.

The Academy of the General Staff is located in Moscow, on 14 Kholzunova Lane, not far from the Frunze Military Academy. The "best and the brightest" officers of all the Soviet Armed Forces were selected to attend this senior and most prestigious of all the Soviet academies. Students were, and probably still are, admitted to the Academy in the ranks of lieutenant colonel, colonel, and General-Major (one star). Most were colonels or newly promoted generals. Officers enter in their late 30s, as a general rule.

Officers selected for this academy would have first attended the appropriate service or branch academy (see Military academies in Russia). Graduates who were not already generals or admirals usually were promoted to this rank a short time after completing the course. Length of the academy was only two years, in contrast to the three years for the branch and service academies.

Faculty and students of the General Staff Academy were involved in debates over Soviet military restructuring in the last years of the USSR. They became associated with the military reform efforts of Major Vladimir Lopatin and made specific suggestions for deep force reductions.[1]

The Commandant, as of 2006, is Army General Ivan Yefremov, former commander of the Moscow Military District.[2] He replaced General-Colonel Viktor Chechevatov in 2005.[3]

The Foundations of Geopolitics by Alexander Dugin has reportedly been a geopolitical textbook in the Academy.[4]

Naming

From its inception, the General Staff Academy has gone through a large number of transformations and re-namings:

  • 1832 — Imperial military academy (ru: Императорская военная академия / Imperatorskaja woennaja akademija)
  • 1855 — HIM Nicholas General staff academy (ru: Николаевская академия Генерального штаба / Nikolawjeskaja akademija generalnogo staba)
  • 1909 — Nicholas Military Academy (ru: Николаевская военная академия / Nikolajewskaja woennaja akademija)
  • 1910 — Imperial Nicholas Military academy (ru: Императорская Николаевская военная академия / Imperatorskaja Nikolajewskaja woennaja akademija)
  • 1917 — Nicholas military academy (ru: Николаевская военная академия / Nikolajewskaja woennaja akademija)
  • 1918 — General Staff academy of the Red Army (WPRA) (ru: Академия Генерального штаба Красной Армии (РККА) / Academija Generalnogo staba Krasnoj Armii [PKKA])
  • 1921 — Military Academy of the WPRA (ru: Военная академия РККА / Woennaja academija RKKA)
  • 1936 — WPRA General Staff Academy (ru: Академия Генерального штаба РККА / Academija Generalnogo staba PKKA)
  • 1941 — WPRA General Staff Military Academy named for Marshal K.E. Voroshilov (ru: Военная академия Генерального штаба РККА имени К. Е. Ворошилова / Woennaja academija PKKA Generalnogo shtaba imeni К. Е. Woroschilowa)
  • 1942 — Higher Military Academy named for Marshal K.E. Voroshilov (ru: Высшая военная академия имени К. Е. Ворошилова / Vyshaja Voennaja academija imeni К. Е. Woroschilowa)
  • 1958 — Military Academy of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces (ru: Военная академия Генерального штаба Вооружённых Сил СССР / Woennaja academija Generalnogo shtaba Woorushonnych Sil SSSR)
  • 1969 — Military Academy of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces named for Marshal К. Е. Voroshilov (ru: Военная академия Генерального штаба Вооружённых Сил СССР имени К. Е. Ворошилова / Woennaja academija Generalnogo shtaba Woorushonnych Sil SSSR imeni К. Е. Woroschilowa)
  • 1992 — Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia (ru: Военная академия Генерального штаба Вооружённых Сил Российской Федерации / Voennaja academija Generalnogo shtaba Voorushonnych Sil Rossiiskoi Federazii)
Graduate badge until 1992
Gold medal for the excellent graduates 1950

Notable faculty

Notable alumni

Chiefs since 1918

  • 1918—1919 : Anton Klimowich
  • 1919—1921 : Andrei Snesarev
  • N.N.
  • Komdiv Dmitry Kuchinsky (1936—1937)
  • Kombrig Ivan Shlemin (1937—1940)
  • Lieutenant General Fyodor Kuznetsov (July–August 1940)
  • Lieutenant General Vasily Mordvinov (1940—1941)
  • Lieutenant General Yevgeny Shilovsky (1941—1942)
  • Colonel General Fyodor Kuznetsov (1942—1943)
  • Marshal of the Soviet Union Boris Shaposhnikov (1943—1945)
  • Lieutenant General Vasily Mordvinov (March—November 1945)
  • Army General Matvei Zakharov (1945—1949)
  • Army General Vladimir Kurasov (1946—1956)
  • Marshal of the Soviet Union Ivan Bagramyan (1956—1958)
  • Army General German Malandin (1958—1961)
  • Army General Vladimir Kurasov (1961—1963)
  • Marshal of the Soviet Union Matvei Zakharov (1963—1965)
  • Army General Vladimir Ivanov (1965—1968)
  • Army General Semion Ivanov (1968—1973)
  • Army General Ivan Shavrov (1973—1979)
  • Army General Mikhail Kozlov (1979—1986)
  • Army General Grigory Salmonov (1986—1989)
  • Colonel General Igor Rodionov (1989—1996)
  • Colonel General Valery Tretyakov (1996—1999)
  • Colonel General Viktor Chechevatov (1999–2005)
  • Army General Ivan Yefremov (2005—2007)
  • Army General Alexander Belousov (2007—2009)
  • Army General Vladimir Yakovlev (2009—2012)
  • Lieutenant General of the Reserve Andrei Tretyak (2012—2013)
  • Colonel General of the Reserve Sergei Makarov (2013—2016)
  • Lieutenant General Sergei Kuralenko (2016—2017)
  • Colonel General Vladimir Zarudnitsky (2017—present)

See also

References

  1. ↑ William E Odom, The Collapse of the Soviet Military, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1998
  2. ↑ Russian wikipedia entry on Moscow MD, obtained 20 October 2006, translated by Babelfish
  3. ↑ Scott and Scott, Russian Military Directory 2004, p.194
  4. ↑ John B. Dunlop. "Review: Aleksandr Dugin's Foundations of Geopolitics" (PDF).
  5. ↑ Академия Генерального штаба (General Staff Academy). – М., Военное издательство, 1987. с. 242.
  6. ↑ Академия Генерального штаба. – М., Военное издательство, 1987. с. 243.
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