Chief of Combined Staff of the Unified Armed Forces of the Warsaw Treaty Organization
Soviet military post from 1955 to 1991
Chief of Combined Staff of the Unified Armed Forces of the Warsaw Treaty Organization | |
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Начальник Объединенного штаба Объединенных вооруженных сил стран-участниц Варшавского договора | |
Longest serving Army General Anatoly Gribkov 23 April 1976 – 24 January 1989 | |
General Staff | |
Member of | Warsaw Pact General Staff |
Reports to | Supreme Commander of the Unified Armed Forces |
Seat | Moscow, Soviet Union |
Formation | 14 May 1955; 69 years ago (1955-05-14) |
First holder | Aleksei Antonov |
Final holder | Vladimir Lobov |
Abolished | 1 July 1991; 33 years ago (1991-07-01) |
The Chief of Combined Staff of the Unified Armed Forces of the Warsaw Treaty Organization (Russian: Начальник Объединенного штаба Объединенных вооруженных сил стран-участниц Варшавского договора) was a post in command of Combined Staff of the military forces of the Warsaw Pact. Furthermore, the Chief of Combined Staff was also a First Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union. The post, which was instituted in 1955 and abolished in 1991, was always held by a Soviet military officer.
List of officeholders
No. | Portrait | Supreme Commander of the Unified Armed Forces | Took office | Left office | Time in office | Defence branch | Ref. |
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1 | Antonov, AlekseiArmy General Aleksei Antonov (1896–1962) | 14 May 1955 | 16 June 1962 † | 7 years, 33 days | Soviet Army | [1] | |
2 | Batov, PavelArmy General Pavel Batov (1897–1985) | 16 June 1962 | October 1965 | 3 years, 3 months | Soviet Army | [2] | |
3 | Kazakov, Mikhail IlyichArmy General Mikhail Kazakov (1901–1979) | October 1965 | August 1968 | 2 years, 10 months | Soviet Army | [3] | |
4 | Shtemenko, SergeiArmy General Sergei Shtemenko (1907–1976) | August 1968 | 23 April 1976 † | 7 years, 8 months | Soviet Army | [4] | |
5 | Gribkov, AnatolyArmy General Anatoly Gribkov (1919–2008) | 23 April 1976 | 24 January 1989 | 12 years, 276 days | Soviet Army | – | |
6 | Lobov, VladimirArmy General Vladimir Lobov (born 1935) [a] | 24 January 1989 | 1 July 1991 | 2 years, 158 days | Soviet Army | – |
Timeline
See also
- Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe – NATO counterpart
- Supreme Commander of the Unified Armed Forces of the Warsaw Treaty Organization
Notes
- ^ Afterwards served as the Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Union in 1991
References
- ^ "GEN. A.I. ANTONOV OF SOVIET IS DEAD; Chief of Staff of the Warsaw Treaty Forces Was 65 Link With the Past Denounced Beria". The New York Times. 20 June 1962. Retrieved 7 June 2022.
- ^ Theodore Shabad (30 October 1962). "Moscow Picks Batov; Soviet Bloc Chief of Staff Named; Move Is Linked to Cuban Crisis". The New York Times. Retrieved 7 June 2022.
- ^ "Warsaw Pact Gets New Staff Chief". The New York Times. Reuters. 24 November 1965. Retrieved 7 June 2022.
- ^ "GENERAL SHTEMENKO OF WARSAW PACT, 68". The New York Times. Associated Press. 24 April 1976. Retrieved 7 June 2022.
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Commanders of the Warsaw Pact
- Ivan Konev (1955–60)
- Andrei Grechko (1960–67)
- Ivan Yakubovsky (1967–76)
- Viktor Kulikov (1977–89)
- Pyotr Lushev (1989–91)
- Aleksei Antonov (1955–62)
- Pavel Batov (1962–65)
- Mikhail Kazakov (1965–68)
- Sergei Shtemenko (1968–76)
- Anatoly Gribkov (1976–89)
- Vladimir Lobov (1989–91)
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