General Staff of the Armed Forces of Belarus

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General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus

Belarusian: Генеральны штаб Узброеных Сіл Рэспублікі Беларусь
Emblem of the General Staff
Flag of the General Staff
Viktor Gulevich
Agency overview
Formed	1991; 33 years ago (1991)
Headquarters	Minsk, Belarus
Ministers responsible	Alexander Lukashenko, President of Belarus Viktor Khrenin, Minister of Defence
Agency executive	Viktor Gulevich, Chief of the General Staff of Belarusian Armed Forces

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 General Staff is part of the Ministry of Defence of Belarus.^[1]

The current Chief of the General Staff is Viktor Gulevich, who also serves as First Deputy Minister of Defence.^{[citation needed]} His deputy is Major General Ruslan Kosygin.^[2]

Structure[edit]

The following departments are under the control of the general staff:^[3]

• 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 Engineering 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[edit]

No.	Portrait	Chief of the General Staff	Took office	Left office	Time in office	Defence branch	Ref.
1		Churkin, NikolayLieutenant General Nikolay Churkin [be] (born 1949)	1992	1994	1–2 years	Armed Forces of Belarus	-
2		Maltsev, LeonidLieutenant General Leonid Maltsev (born 1949)	1994	1995	0–1 years	Armed Forces of Belarus	-
3		Chumakov, Aleksandr PetrovichLieutenant General Aleksandr Chumakov (born 1941)	1995	1996	0–1 years	Armed Forces of Belarus	-
4		Kozlov, Mikhail FyodorovichLieutenant General Mikhail Kozlov [be] (born 1949)	1997	2001	3–4 years	Armed Forces of Belarus	-
5		Gurulev, SergeyLieutenant General Sergey Gurulev [be] (born 1953)	2001	2009	7–8 years	Armed Forces of Belarus	-
6		Tihonovsky, PetrMajor General Petr Tihonovsky [be] (born 1958)	2009	11 January 2014	4–5 years	Armed Forces of Belarus	-
7		Belokonev, OlegMajor General Oleg Belokonev (born 1965)	11 January 2014	20 January 2020	6 years, 9 days	Armed Forces of Belarus	[4]
8		Volfovich, AlexanderMajor General Alexander Volfovich (born 1967)	20 January 2020	11 March 2021	1 year, 50 days	Armed Forces of Belarus	[5]
9		Gulevich, ViktorMajor General Viktor Gulevich (born 1969)	11 March 2021	Incumbent	3 years, 47 days	Armed Forces of Belarus	[6][7] [8]

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