The Voroshilov Military Academy of the USSR Army General Staff (Военная академия генерального штаба вооруженных сил СССР им. К. Е. Ворошилова) was foundeded in 1936 in Moscow by Leonid Govorov. It is named after Kliment Voroshilov, and is the senior Soviet and now Russian professional school for officers. 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Marshal of the Soviet Union Leonid Govorov Leonid Aleksandrovich Govorov (Russian Леонид Александрович Говоров) (February 22, 1897 - March 19, 1955), Soviet military commander, was born in the... Marshal of the Soviet Union Kliment Voroshilov Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov () (January 23, 1881 - December 2, 1969) was a Soviet military commander and politician. ...

The Voroshilov Academy of the General Staff is located in Moscow, on 14 Kholzunova Lane, not far from the Frunze Military Academy. The "best and the brightest" officers of all the Soviet Armed Forces were selected to attend this senior and most prestigious of all the Soviet academies. Students were, and probably still are, admitted to the Academy in the ranks of lieutenant colonel, colonel, and General-Major (one star). Most were colonels or newly promoted generals. Officers enter in their late 30s, as a general rule. The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... Colonel (IPA: or ) is a military rank of a commissioned officer, with the corresponding ranks existing in nearly every country in the world. ...

Officers selected for this academy would have first attended the appropriate service or branch academy (see Soviet military academies). Graduates who were not already generals or admirals usually were promoted to this rank a short time after completing the course. Length of the academy was only two years, in contrast to the three years for the branch and service academies. There were a number of military academies in the Soviet Union of different specialties. ...

Faculty and students of the General Staff Academy were involved in debates over Soviet military restructuring in the last years of the USSR. They became associated with the military reform efforts of Major Vladimir Lopatin and made specific suggestions for deep force reductions.^[1]

The Commandant, as of 2006, is Army General Ivan Yefremov, former commander of the Moscow Military District.^[2] He replaced General Colonel Viktor Chechevatov in 2005.^[3] The Moscow Military District is a military district of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. ...

References

1. ^ William E Odom, The Collapse of the Soviet Military, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1998
2. ^ Russian wikipedia entry on Moscow MD, obtained 20 October 2006, translated by Babelfish
3. ^ Scott and Scott, Russian Military Directory 2004, p.194