On the same day Strategic Directions commands were instituted.Ī 17 February 1945 decree set out the membership of Stavka as Stalin (President), Zhukov, Aleksandr Vasilevsky, Aleksei Antonov, Nikolai Bulganin and Kuznetsov.- So, I'm here with Jeffrey Rosen head of the National ConstitutionĬenter in Philadelphia and we're continuing to talk about Article II of the US Constitution which talks about the On 8 August 1941 it was again reorganized into Stavka of the Supreme Main Command ( Stavka Verkhovnogo Glavnokomandovaniya). This action occurred after Stalin was named Supreme Commander, and replaced Timoshenko as head of Stavka. Stavka's Main Command was reorganized into the Stavka of the Supreme Command ( Stavka Verkhovnogo Komandovaniya) on 10 July 1941. Meretskov was subsequently released from jail on the same day, at the end of the first week of September 1941, which was called for by Stalin. Very soon afterwards, the deputy defence minister of the army, Meretskov, was arrested following false charges made by Beria and Merkulov. The same decree organized at Stavka 'the institution of permanent counsellors of Stavka': Marshal Kulik, Marshal Shaposhnikov, Kirill Meretskov, head of the Air force Zhigarev, Nikolay Vatutin, head of Air Defence Voronov, Mikoyan, Kaganovich, Lavrenty Beria, Voznesensky, Zhdanov, Malenkov, Mekhlis. According to this decree, Stavka was composed of the defence minister Marshal Semyon Timoshenko (as its president), the head of General Staff Georgy Zhukov, Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov, Marshal Kliment Voroshilov, Marshal Semyon Budyonny and the People's Commissar ( Narkom) of the Navy Admiral Nikolai Gerasimovich Kuznetsov. The Stavka of the Soviet Armed Forces during World War II, or the headquarters of the 'Main Command of the Armed Forces of the USSR' ( Stavka Glavnogo Komandovaniya) (Russian: Ставка Главного Командования Вооруженных Сил Союза ССР), was established on 23 June 1941 by a top-secret decree signed by Joseph Stalin in his capacities both as the head of government and as the leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Main article: Headquarters of the Supreme High Command Stavka of the Red Army during World War II 7 November 1917 – February 1918: Major General Mikhail Bonch-Bruevich.3 November 1917 – 7 November 1917: Major General Mikhail Dieterichs.

10 October 1917 – 3 November 1917: Lieutenant-General Nikolay Dukhonin.30 August 1917 – 9 September 1917: General of Infantry Mikhail Alekseyev.

2 June 1917 – 30 August 1917: Lieutenant-General Alexander Lukomsky.

5 April 1917 – : Lieutenant-General Anton Denikin.

11 March 1917 – 5 April 1917: General of Infantry Vladislav Klembovsky.

10 November 1916 – 17 February 1917: General of Cavalry Vasily Gurko.

18 September 1915 – 1 Abril 1917: General of Infantry (from 1916 adjutant General) Mikhail Alekseyev.

19 July 1914 – 18 August 1915: Lieutenant-General (from 22 October 1914, General of Infantry) Nikolai Yanushkevich.

In August 1915, after the German advance, the Stavka re-located to Mogilev.Ĭhiefs of staff Nikolai Yanushkevich The Stavka was first established in Baranovichi.

Diplomatic chancery (liaison with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs).

Department of General on Duty (Organisation of troops, supplies, promotions, staff matters).

Department of General-Quartermaster (Operations department).

The Stavka was divided into several departments: In the years 1915–1917 Stavka was based in Mogilev and the Tsar, Nicholas II, spent long periods there as Commander-in-Chief. In the summer of 1915 the Tsar himself took personal command, with Mikhail Alekseyev as his chief of staff. Nikolai Yanushkevich was his chief of staff. Appointed at the last minute in August 1914, he played no part in formulating the military plans in use at the beginning of the war. The commander-in-chief of the Russian army at the beginning of World War I was Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholaievitch, a grandson of Tsar Nicholas I. Nicholas II with members of the Stavka at Mogilev, 1 April 1916. Main article: Stavka of the Supreme Commander Alexandra Fyodorovna, Tsarevitch Alexei and Nicholas II arriving at the Stavka, May 1916.

The commander in chief