Chief of Combined Staff of the Unified Armed Forces of the Warsaw Treaty Organization

The Chief of Combined Staff of the Unified Armed Forces of the Warsaw Treaty Organization 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 was instituted in 1955 and abolished in 1991.

List

#NameImageBorn–DiedRankStartEndNote
1 Aleksei Antonov 1896–1962 Army General 1955 1962 Died in office
2 Pavel Batov 1897–1985 Army General 1962 1965
3 Mikhail Kazakov 1901–1979 Army General 1965 1968
4 Sergei Shtemenko 1907–1976 Army General 1968 1976 Died in office
5 Anatoly Gribkov 1919–2008 Army General 1976 1988
6 Vladimir Lobov 1935– Army General 1989 1991 Afterwards served as the Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Union in 1991

See also

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