Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation

Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
founding	1832, 1918
Sponsorship	Ministry of Defense , Military College, Russian Federation
place	Moscow
country	Russian Federation
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Military Academy building, Moscow 2015

Ballroom of the Academy, October 13, 2007

The Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation ( Russian Военная академия Генерального штаба Вооружённых Сил Российской Федерации until 1991 Военная академия Генерального штаба Вооружённых Сил СССР) is that of Russia discontinued formerly highest military training center for the Soviet Union .

The academy was founded in 1936 and is located in Moscow . Since its inception, it has always been an institution for the training and further education of general staff officers and has its roots in the "Imperial Military Academy" ( Russian Императорская военная академия ) in Saint Petersburg, founded in 1832 .

Today this general staff school serves as a teaching facility with an operational-strategic orientation, but also as a military-theoretical center for the research and further development of military science. The name Military Academy of the General Staff was previously the Frunze Military Academy . The name Voroshilov was given to the academy in 1941.

Until the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact , general staff officers from all branches of the USSR and officers from other socialist countries who had already graduated from a military academy and were intended for higher posts and assignments and for whom general staff training was a prerequisite took place here.

Naming

Since its inception, this military educational institution has had the following names.

• 1832: Imperial Military Academy
• 1855: Tsar Nikolai General Staff Academy
• 1909: Tsar Nikolai Military Academy
• 1910: Imperial Tsar Nikolai Military Academy
• 1917: Tsar Nikolai Military Academy
• 1918: Academy of the General Staff of the " Red Workers and Peasants Army " (RABA)
• 1921: RABA Military Academy
• 1936: Academy of the General Staff of the RABA
• 1941: Military Academy of the General Staff of the RABA " KJ Voroshilov "
• 1942: Higher Military Academy of the RABA "KJ Voroshilov"
• 1958: Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR
• 1969: Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR "KJ Voroshilov"
• 1992: Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation

Well-known graduates

• Boris Michailowitsch Schaposchnikow (1910), Chief of Staff 1941–1942, “father” of Soviet operational art
• Heinz Hoffmann (1957), Defense Minister of the GDR
• Horst Stechbarth (1961), commanding general of the land forces of the NVA and chief command of the land forces
• Fritz Streletz (1961), chief of the NVA's main staff
• Wolfgang Reinhold (1967), commanding general of the NVA air force and chief command LSK / LV
• Boris Vsevolodowitsch Gromov (1972), Russian general and politician
• Nikolai Yegorowitsch Makarow (1979), Russian Chief of Staff since 2008
• Igor Dmitrijewitsch Sergejew (1980), Marshal of the Russian Federation , 1997–2001 Minister of Defense
• Gennadi Nikolajewitsch Troschew (1980), Russian colonel general and commander in the Chechen wars
• Alexander Nikolayevich Selin (1997), since 2007 Commander in Chief of the Russian Air Force
• Alexander Vladimirovich Dwornikow (2005), Colonel General

Graduate badge until 1992

Gold medal for best graduates in 1950

Awards

• , Order of Lenin
• Order of the Red Banner
• , Suvorovorden 1st degree
• Order of the ex-socialist countries (including the GDR)

literature

• William E. Odom: The Collapse of the Soviet Military. Yale University Press, New Haven CT et al. a. 1998, ISBN 0-300-07469-7 .

Coordinates: 55 ° 38 ′ 59 ″  N , 37 ° 28 ′ 26 ″  E