The Chief of the General Staff (Russian: Начальник Генштаба) is the chief of staff of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. He is appointed by the President of Russia, who is the commander-in-chief. The position dates to the period of the Russian Empire. The current Chief of the General Staff is Nikolai Makarov.

Contents 1 Chief of the Staff of the Red Army 2 Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces 3 Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation 4 Further reading 5 External links

[edit] Chief of the Staff of the Red Army

• 1919 Mikhail Bonch-Bruevich
• 1919–24 Pavel Lebedev
• 1924–25 Mikhail Frunze
• Mar–Nov 1925 Sergei Kamenev
• 1925–28 Mikhail Tukhachevsky
• 1928–31 Boris Shaposhnikov
• 1931–35 Alexander Yegorov

[edit] Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces

• 1935–37 Alexander Yegorov
• 1937–40 Boris Shaposhnikov
• 1940–41 Kirill Meretskov
• Jan.–July 1941 Georgy Zhukov
• 1941–42 Boris Shaposhnikov
• 1942–45 Aleksandr Vasilevsky
• 1945–46 Aleksei Antonov
• 1946–48 Aleksandr Vasilevsky
• 1948–52 Sergey Shtemenko
• 1952–60 Vasily Sokolovsky
• 1960–63 Matvey Zakharov
• 1963–64 Sergey Biryuzov
• 1964–71 Matvey Zakharov
• 1971–77 Viktor Kulikov
• 1977–84 Nikolai Ogarkov
• 1984–88 Sergei Akhromeyev
• 1988–91 Mikhail Moiseyev
• Aug.–Dec. 1991 Vladimir Lobov

[edit] Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation

• Viktor Dubynin (1991–1992)
• Mikhail Kolesnikov (1992–1996)
• Viktor Samsonov (1996) (acting)
• Anatoly Kvashnin (1996–2004)
• Yuri Baluyevsky (2004–2008)
• Nikolai Makarov (2008–current)

[edit] Further reading

• V.I. Feskov, K.A. Kalashnikov, V.I. Golikov, The Soviet Army in the Years of the Cold War 1945–91, Tomsk University Publishing House, Tomsk, 2004 (for Soviet era list of CGSs).

[edit] External links

• Official Russian Ministry of Defense website