General Staff of the Armed Forces of Belarus
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 Alexander Volfovich, who also serves as First Deputy Minister of Defence. The General Staff is part of the Ministry of Defence of Belarus.[1]
| Belarusian: Генеральны штаб Узброеных Сіл Рэспублікі Беларусь | |
 Emblem of the General Staff | |
 Flag of the General Staff | |
 Current Chief of the General Staff Alexander Volfovich. | |
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| Formed | 1991 |
| Headquarters | Minsk, Belarus |
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Structure
The following departments are under the control of the general staff:[2]
- Main Operations Directorate
- Main Intelligence Directorate
- Main Organizational Mobilization Directorate
- Main Ideology Directorate
- Main Policy Directorate
- Information-Analytical Department
- Department of Communications
- Department of Territorial Defense
- Department of Missile Forces and Artillery
- Department of the Egineering Troops
- Financial department
- Department of Electronic Warfare
- Department of Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection
- Navigational and Topographical Department
List of chiefs of the general staff
| No. | Portrait | Chief of the General Staff | Took office | Left office | Time in office |
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| 1 | Lieutenant General Nikolay Churkin (born 1949) | 1992 | 1994 | 1–2 years | |
| 2 | Lieutenant General Leonid Maltsev (born 1949) | 1994 | 1995 | 0–1 years | |
| 3 | Lieutenant General Aleksandr Chumakov (born 1941) | 1995 | 1996 | 0–1 years | |
| 4 | Lieutenant General Mikhail Kozlov (born 1949) | 1997 | 2001 | 3–4 years | |
| 5 | Major General Sergey Gurulev (born 1953) | 2001 | 2009 | 7–8 years | |
| 6 | Major General Petr Tihonovsky (born 1958) | 2009 | 11 January 2014 | 4–5 years | |
| 7 | Major General Oleg Belokonev (born 1965) | 11 January 2014 | 20 January 2020 | 6 years, 9 days | |
| 8 | Major General Alexander Volfovich (born 1967) | 20 January 2020 | Incumbent | 1 year, 20 days |
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References
- "Вопросы центральных органов военного управления Вооруженных Сил Республики Беларусь" [On the central bodies of military management of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus]. National Legal Internet Portal of the Republic of Belarus (in Russian). Retrieved 1 October 2017.
- http://beloffice-g2n.zohosites.com/mobile/%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%88%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B1.html
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