page_title: Valery Gerasimov
section_title: Commands
hierarchical_section_title: Valery Gerasimov / Commands
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Die Militärparade zum 66-jährigen Jubiläum des Sieges in Moskau im Jahr 2011. Русский: Военный парад, посвящённый 66-й годовщине Победы в Великой Отечественной войне.
context_page_description: Valery Vasilyevich Gerasimov is a Russian General, the current Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia, and first Deputy Defence Minister, replacing Nikolay Makarov. He was appointed by President Vladimir Putin on 9 November 2012.
  Gerasimov is the strategist alleged to have conceived the "Gerasimov doctrine" – combining military, technological, information, diplomatic, economic, cultural and other tactics for the purpose of achieving strategic goals. However, this was later retracted by the author of the original paper, Mark Galeotti, who claimed the doctrine doesn't exist.
context_section_description: After graduating from the Kazan Higher Tank Command School, Gerasimov was the commander of a Mechanized Infantry platoon, company and battalion of the Far Eastern Military District. Later he was chief of staff of a Tank regiment and then of a motorized rifle division in the Baltic Military District. From 1993 to 1995 he was the commander of the 144th Guards Motor Rifle Division in the Baltic Military District and then the North Western Group of Forces.
  After he graduated from the General Staff's academy, he was First Deputy Army Commander in the Moscow Military District and commander of the 58th Army in the North Caucasus Military District during the Second Chechen War. His involvement in the arrest of Yury Budanov led to praise from journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
  In 2006 he became commander of Leningrad Military District and moved to be the commander of Moscow Military District in 2009 and Central Military District in April 2012. On 23 December 2010 he became deputy Chief of the General Staff.
  He commanded the Victory Day parades in Moscow four times: 2009 to 2012.
caption: General Gerasimov leading a Victory Day parade in Moscow in a ZiL 41044, 9 May 2011
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