Chief of Combined Staff of the Unified Armed Forces of the Warsaw Treaty Organization
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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 | |
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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 |
First holder | Aleksei Antonov |
Final holder | Vladimir Lobov |
Abolished | 1 July 1991 |
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 officer.
List[]
No. | Portrait | Supreme Commander of the Unified Armed Forces | Took office | Left office | Time in office | Defence branch | Ref. |
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1 | Army General Aleksei Antonov (1896–1962) | 14 May 1955 | 16 June 1962 † | 7 years, 1 month | ![]() | – | |
2 | Pavel Batov (1897–1985) | Army General16 June 1962 | October 1965 | 3 years, 3 months | ![]() | – | |
3 | Mikhail Kazakov (1901–1979) | Army GeneralOctober 1965 | August 1968 | 2 years, 10 months | ![]() | – | |
4 | Sergei Shtemenko (1907–1976) | Army GeneralAugust 1968 | 23 April 1976 † | 7 years, 8 months | ![]() | – | |
5 | Anatoly Gribkov (1919–2008) | Army General23 April 1976 | 24 January 1989 | 12 years, 9 months | ![]() | – | |
6 | Vladimir Lobov (born 1935) [a] | Army General24 January 1989 | 1 July 1991 | 2 years, 5 months | ![]() | – |
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Notes[]
- ^ Afterwards served as the Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Union in 1991
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Categories:
- Cold War stubs
- Warsaw Pact
- Warsaw Treaty Organization people