Senior staff college of the Russian Armed Forces
The
Military Academy of the
General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
(
Russian
:
Военная академия Генерального штаба Вооруженных Сил Российской Федерации
) is the senior
staff college
of the
Russian Armed Forces
.
The academy is located in Moscow, on 14 Kholzunova Lane. It was founded in 1936 as a Soviet institution, based on higher command courses that had been established at the
M. V. Frunze Military Academy
, itself founded in 1918. An
earlier General Staff Academy
had existed during the
Imperial period
, since 1832.
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.
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As of 22 November 2017,
Colonel General
Vladimir Zarudnitsky
has been the chief of the academy.
History
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Precursors
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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 8 December [
O.S.
26 November] 1832.
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In 1855 the academy was renamed the Nikolaev Academy of the General Staff, commemorating
Emperor Nicholas I
, who had died that year.
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Further renamings followed, to the Nikolaev Military Academy in 1909, the Imperial Nikolaev Military Academy in 1910, and back to the Nikolaev Military Academy in 1917. Following the
Russian Revolutions
, the Nikolaev Military Academy functioned in support of the
White Army
, being evacuated to territory held by Admiral
Alexander Kolchak
. With the defeat of the White cause in the
Russian Civil War
, the academy ceased to exist in 1921, with its final graduation held in
Vladivostok
at the end of that year.
[2]
In the meantime a new academy had been established by the
Red Army
, in light of its early experiences during the first stages of the Civil War, which had demonstrated the inadvisability of entrusting battlefield commands to former workers and soldiers who had little experience of tactics or of leading men.
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On 7 October 1918 the
Revolutionary Military Council
ordered the foundation of the
General Staff Academy of the Red Army
, based in Moscow.
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The first intake of students, who joined on 25 November that year, numbered 183, with the official opening of the academy taking place on 8 December 1918.
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In August 1921 this became the Military Academy of the Red Army, with the focus on training personnel in tactical warfare.
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Additional nine-month courses were established to provide operational-strategic command training, termed the Higher Military Academic Courses, which from 1931 became one-year-long courses as part of the academy's Faculty of Operations.
[2]
These courses became the basis of the creation of a new
General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces
[
ru
]
, and in 1936 a new staff college was created, split from the
M. V. Frunze Military Academy
, as the Military Academy of the Red Army had been known since 1925.
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Soviet General Staff Academy
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The academy trained large numbers of senior commanders and staff officers prior to, and during, the Second World War. From 1941 it became the K. E. Voroshilov Military Academy of the General Staff of the Red Army, and in April 1942 it was named the K. Е. Voroshilov Higher Military Academy, and in 1958 the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR.
[2]
It became the K. E. Voroshilov Military Academy of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces in 1969.
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Russian General Staff Academy
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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.
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Awards
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Notable faculty
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Notable alumni
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- 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
.
- Mai Xuan V?nh
[
vi
]
,
Vietnamese
,
Vice-admiral
and Chief of the
Vietnam People's Navy
.
[8]
- Phung 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
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References
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William E Odom
, The Collapse of the Soviet Military, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1998
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c
d
e
f
g
h
"История академии"
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Военная академия Генерального штаба Вооруженных Сил Российской Федерации
(in Russian).
Ministry of Defence
. Retrieved
13 March
2020
.
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a
b
c
d
"История"
.
Военный учебно-научный центр Сухопутных войск ≪Общевойсковая ордена Жукова академия Вооруженных Сил Российской Федерации≫
(in Russian).
Ministry of Defence
. Retrieved
11 March
2020
.
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Scott & Scott.
The Armed Forces of the USSR
. pp. 354?5.
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"Министр обороны вручил орден Кутузова Военной академии Генерального штаба Вооруженных сил России"
.
Министерство обороны Российской Федерации
. 2015-06-19
. Retrieved
2015-06-19
.
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Академия Генерального штаба (General Staff Academy). ? М., Военное издательство, 1987. с. 242.
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Академия Генерального штаба. ? М., Военное издательство, 1987. с. 243.
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"Pho đo đ?c Mai Xuan V?nh đ??c phong t?ng danh hi?u Anh hung LLVT nhan"
. 13 April 2017.
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Scott and Scott, Russian Military Directory 2004, p.194
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