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24-666: The ministry is headquartered in the General Staff building , built-in 1979–1987 on Arbatskaya Square, near Arbat Street in Moscow. Other buildings of the ministry are located throughout Moscow. The supreme body responsible for the ministry's management and supervision of the Armed Forces and the centralization of the Armed Forces' command is the National Defense Management Center , located in

48-653: A former Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union, and Dmitri Yazov . Yazov was listed by the American analysts Scott and Scott in 2002 as a consultant to the (formerly 10th) Directorate for International Military Cooperation. Perhaps the first 'real' non-uniformed Defence Minister was Anatoly Serdyukov , appointed in February 2007. Serdyukov was a former Tax Minister with little siloviki or military associations beyond his two years of military service. Serdyukov launched

72-454: Is considerably different in Russia. The tsars were educated as officers, and they regularly wore military uniforms and carried military ranks. Stalin always wore a military uniform, and he assumed the title generalissimo . Even General Secretary Leonid I. Brezhnev [...] appointed himself general of the army, and he encouraged portraits of himself in full uniform. By tradition dating back to

96-586: Is the military-theoretical journal of the Ministry of Defence, and Krasnaya Zvezda is its daily newspaper. Senior staff in 2024 included: Senior staff in 2021 included: Entities directly subordinated to the Minister of Defence in August 2012 included: The Office of Inspectors General of the Ministry of Defence was established in 2008, consisting of around thirty retired senior officers. The main task of

120-578: The Fifth inauguration of Vladimir Putin on the 14th, Sergey Shoigu was released from duty and several of his staff were investigated for corruption or other misdeeds: Yuri Vasilievich Kuznetsov, Timur Ivanov , Ruslan Tsalikov , as well as Vadim Shamarin , Ivan Ivanovich Popov , Vladimir Verteletsky, and Sukhrab Akhmedov . On 17 June 2024, it was noted that four deputy defence ministers, Nikolay Pankov , Ruslan Tsalikov , Tatiana Shevtsova and Pavel Popov , had been sacked for nepotism that had entered

144-552: The General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces , situated on Arbatskaya Square in Central Administrative Okrug of Moscow , Russia . The building was designed by Mikhail Posokhin who was the main architect of Moscow (1960–1982), and built in 1979–1987. To clear the place for the building, the buildings on Znamenka, Vozdvizhenka, and Arbatskaya Square were demolished. In particular,

168-591: The Main Building of the Ministry of Defense , built in the 1940s on Frunzenskaya Embankment . The current Minister of Defence is Andrey Belousov (since 14 May 2024). The U.S. Library of Congress Country Studies ' volume for Russia said in July 1996 that: [The] structure [...] does not imply military subordination to civilian authority in the Western sense [...]. The historical tradition of military command

192-519: The Security Council of Russia , was appointed defence minister by President Vladimir Putin , becoming Russia's first non-uniformed civilian defence minister. Putin called the personnel changes in Russia's security structures coinciding with Ivanov's appointment as defence minister "a step toward demilitarizing public life." Putin also stressed Ivanov's responsibility for overseeing military reform as defence minister. What Putin did not emphasise

216-563: The military reform in 2008 . On 19 August 2010, Serdyukov appointed Tatyana Shevtsova as his deputy. As of that date, more than 50 women had been appointed by Serdyukov, and mainly in the tax accountant profession. In 2012, he was substituted by General of the Army Sergey Shoigu , who held at that moment the position of the Minister of Civil Defence, Emergency Situations and Disaster Relief . In May 2024 simultaneous with

240-802: The Army Pavel Grachev to the post of Minister of Defence. Despite intense criticism of Grachev's management of the First Chechen War and the Russian military establishment in general, Yeltsin retained Grachev till 18 June 1996. The new minister of defence became General of the Army Igor Rodionov , who subsequently was substituted by Marshal of the Russian Federation Igor Sergeyev . In March 2001, Sergei Ivanov , previously secretary of

264-406: The Ministry of Defence includes the groupings below, but this structure was in transition when it was recorded in 2004, with several deputy minister posts being abolished: , Deputy Minister of Defence for Financial-Economic Work General Staff Building (Moscow) The General Staff Building ( Russian : Здание Генерального штаба , Zdanie General'nogo shtaba ) is the headquarters of

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288-477: The Ministry. Russian energy minister Sergey Tsivilyov 's wife, Anna Tsivileva , the daughter of a cousin of the President, was appointed deputy defence minister. Her responsibilities include improving social and housing support for military personnel. Leonid Gornin, previously the first deputy finance minister, was appointed as the first deputy defence minister. Other personnel changes included Oleg Savelyev and

312-550: The MoD is conceivable, but the MoD without the General Staff is not." Russian General Staff officers exercise command authority in their own right. In 1996 the General Staff included fifteen main directorates and an undetermined number of operating agencies. The staff is organized by functions, with each directorate and operating agency overseeing a functional area, generally indicated by the organization's title. Military Thought

336-736: The commanders of the Joint Strategic Commands/Military Districts, the three Services, and three branches, who together form the principal staff and advisory board of the Minister of Defence. The executive body of the Ministry of Defence is the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation , which is headed by the Chief of the General Staff . U.S. expert William Odom said in 1998 that "the Soviet General Staff without

360-416: The decorative design of the portals and the design of the crowning part of the structure. 55°27′02″N 37°21′41″E  /  55.4505°N 37.3613°E  / 55.4505; 37.3613 Tatyana Shevtsova Tatiana Viktorovna Shevtsova ( Russian : Татьяна Викторовна Шевцова ; born 22 July 1969) is a former Russian Deputy Minister of Defence and Order of Honour recipient. She has

384-530: The federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation . Shevtsova was born in 1969 in Kozelsk , USSR . She attended and later graduated from Leningrad Institute of Finance and Economics in 1991. From 1991 Shevtsova worked as a tax collector for the Federal Tax Service of the Russian Federation . From November 2006 until May 2010, Shevtsova

408-546: The house where Nikolai Rubinstein and Pyotr Tchaikovsky lived in their youth was destroyed, as well as the hotel where Sergei Rachmaninoff lived. In the courtyard of the building is the ground lobby of the Moscow Metro station Arbatskaya of the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line . During the construction of the building, new exits from the lobby through the building were arranged towards Vozdvizhenka, and

432-475: The office is "to promote the organization of combat and operational training of troops, the construction and further development of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the development of the theory and history of military art, and the education of personnel." It is the successor to the Soviet Armed Forces 's Group of Inspectors General , which was dissolved in 1992. An outline structure of

456-478: The old ones, to Arbatskaya Square, were closed. The General Staff Building occupies an entire quarter. One of its facades faces Arbatskaya Square. The building has eight floors. The walls are decorated with marble, Ural stone – serpentine and granite. The facades have horizontal and vertical divisions. The architectural style as a whole is characteristic of Soviet administrative buildings of the 1960s–1970s, but also includes certain features of 1980s postmodernism in

480-710: The signals corps and military communications. On 24 July the Deputy Chief of the Satellite Communications Center for Strategic Nuclear Missile Forces Andrei Torgashev was apparently victimized at his residence by a car bomb. The Ministry of Defence is managed by a collegium chaired by the Defence Minister and including the deputy Defence Ministers, heads of the Main Defence Ministry and General Staff Directorates,

504-418: The son of former Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov . Pavel Fradkov would oversee the management of property, land and construction relating to the military. Other reports had Tsivileva as Putin's niece. On 18 July it was revealed that Lt Gen Shamarin had been formally dismissed from his post because he had accepted bribes from a supplier. He had been serving as deputy chief of the army’s general staff overseeing

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528-501: The tsars, the minister of defence normally is a uniformed officer. The State Duma also seats a large number of deputies who are active-duty military officers—another tradition that began in the Russian imperial era . These combinations of military and civilian authority ensure that military concerns are considered at the highest levels of the Russian government. On 18 May 1992, President of Russia Boris Yeltsin appointed General of

552-499: Was Ivanov's long service within the KGB and FSB and his then rank of General-Lieutenant within the FSB. Such military and security agency-associated men are known as siloviki . As of 2002, there were four living Marshals of the Soviet Union . Such men are automatically Advisors to the Defence Minister. The Marshals alive at that time were Viktor Kulikov , Vasily Petrov , Sergei Sokolov ,

576-587: Was the deputy head of the FNS . On 4 August 2010 Shevtsova was appointed as Deputy Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation , with responsibility for MOD finances, under a Presidential Decree . Journal Forbes included her to the list of the top richest siloviki of Russia (13th place in 2013). In June 2024 Shevtsova was reported to have resigned in the great purge of Defense Ministry officials after Putin's fifth inauguration. Sanctioned by

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