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General Staff of the Armed Forces of Belarus 
Summary
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]
| Belarusian: Генеральны штаб Узброеных Сіл Рэспублікі Беларусь | |
 Emblem of the General Staff | |
 Flag of the General Staff | |
 Viktor Gulevich | |
| Agency overview | |
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| Formed | 1991 |
| Headquarters | Minsk, Belarus |
| Ministers responsible | |
| Agency executive |
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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. |
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| 1 | Lieutenant General Nikolay Churkin (born 1949) | 1992 | 1994 | 1–2 years |  Armed Forces of Belarus | - | |
| 2 | Lieutenant General Leonid Maltsev (born 1949) | 1994 | 1995 | 0–1 years | Armed Forces of Belarus | - | |
| 3 | Lieutenant General Aleksandr Chumakov (born 1941) | 1995 | 1996 | 0–1 years | Armed Forces of Belarus | - | |
| 4 | Lieutenant General Mikhail Kozlov (born 1949) | 1997 | 2001 | 3–4 years | Armed Forces of Belarus | - | |
| 5 | Lieutenant General Sergey Gurulev (born 1953) | 2001 | 2009 | 7–8 years | Armed Forces of Belarus | - | |
| 6 | Major General Petr Tihonovsky (born 1958) | 2009 | 11 January 2014 | 4–5 years | Armed Forces of Belarus | - | |
| 7 | Major General Oleg Belokonev (born 1965) | 11 January 2014 | 20 January 2020 | 6 years, 9 days | Armed Forces of Belarus | [4] | |
| 8 | Major General Alexander Volfovich (born 1967) | 20 January 2020 | 11 March 2021 | 1 year, 50 days | Armed Forces of Belarus | [5] | |
| 9 | Major General Viktor Gulevich (born 1969) | 11 March 2021 | Incumbent | 3 years, 41 days | Armed Forces of Belarus | [6][7] [8] |
![Nikolay Churkin [be]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Nikolai_Churkin.jpg/100px-Nikolai_Churkin.jpg)
![Mikhail Kozlov [be]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/No_image.png)
References edit
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Косыгин: наш ответ на провокации Запада однозначно будет адекватным и жестким". BELTA. 6 July 2022.
- ^ http://beloffice-g2n.zohosites.com/mobile/%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%88%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B1.html
- ^ "Начальником Генштаба Вооруженных сил назначен Олег Белоконев". 12 January 2014.
- ^ "Belarus' new defense minister, chief of General Staff introduced to Defense Ministry team". eng.belta.by. Belarusian Telegraph Agency. 21 January 2020. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
- ^ "Лукашенко назначил Виктора Гулевича начальником Генштаба Вооруженных сил Белоруссии". ТАСС. Retrieved 2021-04-02.
- ^ "Лукашенко назначил начальника генерального штаба Белоруссии". regnum.ru. Retrieved 2021-04-02.
- ^ "Лукашенко назначил Гулевича начальником Генштаба Вооруженных сил Беларуси". Российская газета. 11 March 2021. Retrieved 2021-04-02.