High Command Ground Forces (GK SV)

Главное командование Сухопутных войск (ГК СВ)

Military Unit: 31460

Commanders*:

• Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgiy Konstantinovich Zhukov, 21.3.46 - 2.6.46
• Marshal of the Soviet Union Ivan Stepanovich Konev, 3.6.46 - 26.3.50 & 12.3.55 - 12.3.56
• Marshal of the Soviet Union Rodion Yakovlevich Malinovskiy, 13.3.56 - 26.10.57
• Marshal of the Soviet Union Andrey Antonovich Grechko, 12.11.57 - 6.4.60
• Marshal of the Soviet Union Vasiliy Ivanovich Chuykov, 7.4.60 - 7.3.64
• General of the Army Ivan Grigorevich Pavlovskiy, 5.11.67 - 26.11.80
• Marshal of the Soviet Union Vasiliy Ivanovich Petrov, 27.11.80 - 24.1.85
• General of the Army Evgeniy Filippovich Ivanovskiy, 5.2.85 - 4.1.89
• General of the Army Valentin Ivanovich Varennikov, 5.1.89 - 30.8.91
• General of the Army Vladimir Magomedovich Semenov, 31.8.91 - 30.11.96
• General of the Army Nikolay Viktorovich Kormiltsev, 1.4.01 - 5.11.04
• General of the Army Aleksey Fedorovich Maslov, 5.11.04 - 31.7.08
• General of the Army Vladimir Anatolevich Boldyrev, 31.7.08 - 1.1.10
• Colonel-General Aleksandr Nikolaevich Postnikov, 11.1.10 - 26.4.12
• Colonel-General Vladimir Valentinovich Chirkin, 26.4.12 - 2.12.13
• Lieutenant-General Sergey Yurevich Istrakov, 2.12.13 - 2.5.14
• Colonel-General Oleg Leonidevich Salyukov, from 2.5.14

* post was unoccupied during several periods

Activated 21.3.46 in Moscow, Moscow Oblast.

Organisation:

• Office of the Chief of the General Staff
• Operations Directorate
• Organization and Mobilization Directorate
• Political Directorate
• Directorate of Missile Forces and Artillery
• Directorate of Army Air Defense Forces
• Directorate of Army Aviation
• Directorate of Intelligence
• Directorate of Engineering Troops
• Directorate of Communication
• Directorate of Personnel
• Directorate of Weapons
• Office of Electronic Warfare
• Office of Transportation
• Office of Topography

8.92 renamed High Command Ground Forces of the Russian Federation.

HQ:

• Moscow, Moscow Oblast, 1951 - today [55 43 40N, 37 35 25E]