General Staff of the Armed Forces of Belarus

General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus

Belarusian: Генеральны штаб Узброеных Сіл Рэспублікі Беларусь
Emblem of the General Staff
Flag of the General Staff
Current Chief of the General Staff Oleg Belokonev.
Agency overview
Formed	1991 (1991)
Headquarters	Minsk, Belarus
Ministers responsible	Alexander Lukashenko, President of Belarus Andrei Ravkov, Minister of Defense
Agency executive	Oleg Belokonev, Chief of the General Staff of Belarusian Armed Forces

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus is the central body of military management and operational control of the Armed Forces of Belarus. The Chief of the General Staff is appointed by the President of Belarus, who is the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. The current Chief of the General Staff is Major General Oleg Belokonev. The General Staff is part of the Ministry of Defense of Belarus.^[1]

Structure

• Main Operations Directorate
• Main Intelligence Directorate
• Main arganizatsynae Mobilization Directorate
• Information-Analytical Department
• department of communications
• territorial protection management

• Department of Missile Forces and Artillery
• finance department

List of chiefs of the general staff

№		Chief of the General Staff	Took office	Left office	Time in office
1		Churkin, NikolayLieutenant General Nikolay Churkin	1992	1994	2 years
2		Maltsev, LeonidLieutenant General Leonid Maltsev (born 1949)	1994	1995	1 year
3		Chumakov, Aleksandr PetrovichLieutenant General Aleksandr Petrovich Chumakov (born 1941)	1995	1996	1 year
4		Kozlov, MikhailLieutenant General Mikhail Kozlov	1997	2001	4 years
5		Gurulev, SergeyMajor General Sergey Gurulev	2001	2009	8 years
6		Tihonovsky, PetrMajor General Petr Tihonovsky	2009	January 11, 2014	5 years
7		Belokonev, OlegMajor General Oleg Belokonev (born 1965)	January 11, 2014	Incumbent	7003173600000000000♠4 years, 275 days

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