THE GENERAL STAFF ACADEMY

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• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 18, 2013
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: January 13, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT The General Staff Academy
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1. The General Staff Academy in MOSCOW is now 0.952 called Akademiya General-
novo Shtaba imeni Voroshilova (General Staff Academy imeni Voroshilov).
Prior to the end of World War II it was designated as Akademiya Generalnova
Shtaba KA (General Staff Academy of the Red Army). It was founded in about
1931. The Academy was located in a building which had been used by the
Frunze Military Academy and., prior to the Russian Revolution, had housed a
school for gentlewomen named the Alexander Marianski Institute. It was
located on Prechistenka Ulitsa. This street is now called by another name,
which I do not recall. It was between Arbat Ulitsa and Ulitsa Metrostroye.
The opening of the Academy was made easier by the fact that some of the
instructors and students of the Frunze Military Academy were taken over by
the General Staff Academy. Students were assigned to the new Academy, but
could not apply for it. About half of the students were generals command-
ing divisions and the other half colonels commanding regiments. There were
a few officers of somewhat lower rank, as major, who were chosen for out-
standing ability. Officers selected to attend this Academy were those who
were believed likely to advance to positions of high rank and responsibility.
They were chosen from only the basic arms: infantry, artillery, tanks,
cavalry, and a few from the air force.
2. Both instructors and students at the General Staff Academy wore special
uniforms. The trousers were blue with three narrow stripes of dark rasp-
berry down the sides. The blouse was the usual khaki, but with dark rasp-
berry piping and tabs.
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3. As of 1941, the Academy had approximately 55 instructors (almost all were
of general rank) and about 100 or 120 students. It was a two-year course
and all students followed the same curriculum. At times, students were
reassigned, if needed elsewhere, before completing the course. In 1941,
the head (nachalnik) of the General Staff Academy was Lieutenant General
(fnu) Shilovsky 5quivalent to Major General in the US Arne. A well
informed and well educated man, he had served in the Russian Imperial Army
as a captain of the General Staff. Be was a member of the Communist Party
as of 1941. He would be about 70 years old in 1953. Incidentally, there
was no specific retirement age for officers in the Soviet Army.
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4. The main faculty (kafedra) of the Academy was that of Tactics. It was
called Tactico Operativnaya Iskustva; in effect, over-all military plan-
ning. More than half of the instructors were in this faculty. Another
quite important faculty was that of Military History, which had four or
five instructors. Other faculties were concerned with the various arms and
services, such as Engineers, Tanks, and Artillery. They each had one or
two instructors.
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