General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
Following the dissolution of Soviet Union, in January 1992, he was appointed advisor to the newly formed Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and at the same time, as an adviser to the Chief of the General Staff of the Joint Armed Forces of the Commonwealth of Independent States. As an adviser to the Ministry of Defense, Ogarkov communicated primarily with the first Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Andrey A. Kokoshin and the chiefs of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Generals of the Army Viktor Dubynin and Mikhail Kolesnikov. Kokoshin noted that consultations with Ogarkov were very important for working out optimal decisions on the first state arms program of the Russian Federation.