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

Precursors The existence of a general staff academy for the Russian military dates back to the Imperial period, with the founding of the Imperial Military Academy in Saint Petersburg in 1832, and its official opening on . In 1855 the academy was renamed the Nikolaev Academy of the General Staff, commemorating Emperor Nicholas I, who had died that year. On 7 October 1918 the Revolutionary Military Council ordered the foundation of the General Staff Academy of the Red Army, based in Moscow. Russian General Staff Academy With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the academy became part of the Russian Armed Forces, and since 1992 has been the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia. == Awards ==

• Order of Kutuzov (2015) • Order of Lenin (1968) • Order of the Red Banner (1986) • Order of Suvorov I degree (1945) • Order of the Red Banner (Czechoslovakia, 1967) • Scharnhorst Order (GDR, 1969) • Order of the Banner of Work (Poland, 1973) • Order of the People's Republic of Bulgaria (NRB, 1974) • Order of the Red Banner (Hungarian People's Republic, 1975) • Order of Sukhbaatar (Mongolian People's Republic, 1976) • Order of Antonio Maceo (Cuba, 1982) • Order of Ho Chi Minh (Vietnam, 1986) == Notable faculty ==

• Fyodor Kuznetsov – Commandant of the Academy (1942–1943), Colonel General • Matvei Zakharov – Commandant of the Academy (1945–1949 & 1963–1964), Marshal of the Soviet Union • Dmitry Karbyshev – Doctor of Military Sciences, professor • Gregory Lavrik – Doctor of Military Sciences, professor. • Valentin Rog – Doctor of Military Sciences, professor, Major General of aviation. • Ivan Timokhovich – Doctor of Historical Sciences, professor, Major General of aviation. ==Notable alumni==

• Beqir Balluku, Albanian former Minister of Defense. • Teme Sejko, Albanian rear-admiral and commander of the Albanian navy in the 1950s. • Sherali Mirzo, Tajik Minister of Defence. • Saken Zhasuzakov, former Defence Minister of Kazakhstan. • Taalaibek Omuraliev, Kyrgyz Minister of Defence. • Aleksi Inauri, Chairman of the Georgian KGB. • Horst Stechbarth, Deputy Minister of Defense of the GDR. • Phùng Quang Thanh, Vietnamese, former Minister of Defense of Vietnam. • Hmayak Babayan, Armenian Red Army Major General and Hero of the Soviet Union. • Sergey Chemezov, CEO of Rostec Corporation. • Yordan Milanov, Bulgarian Air Force Major-General. • Georgij Alafuzoff former Chief of Finnish Military Intelligence Service, as well as former Director of the Intelligence Directorate of the European Union Military Staff. • Sedrak Saroyan, Armenian general and member of parliament. ==Chiefs since 1936==

with Chinese Defence Minister General Li Shangfu on 17 April 2023 • Komdiv Dmitry Kuchinsky (1936—1937) • Kombrig Ivan Shlemin (1937—1940) • Lieutenant General Fyodor Kuznetsov (JulyAugust 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 (19992005) • Army General Ivan Yefremov (2005—2007). • Army General Aleksandr 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 Sergey Kuralenko (2016—2017) • Colonel General Vladimir Zarudnitsky (2017—present) ==References==