Nikolay Yegorovich Makarov

Nikolai Makarov Jegorowitsch (Russian Николай Егорович Макаров; born October 7, 1949 in Glebowo, Ryazan Oblast ) is a Russian officer. General of the Army was on June 3, 2008 to November 9, 2012 Chief of Staff of the Russian armed forces.

After 1971, the General Officer School graduated from Moscow, Makarov was used in subsequent years in the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany ( GSFG ) as a platoon leader, company commander and battalion commander. In 1979 he graduated from the Military Academy " M. W. Frunze " now and then served in the Trans-Baikal Military District as a staff officer, regimental and divisional commander.

1993 graduated from the Makarov Military Academy of the General Staff of the Russian armed forces and subsequently led troops groups in Tajikistan and the Volga region. Since 1998 he was commander of the country and coastal forces and Deputy Commander of the Baltic Fleet for land and coastal forces. As of September 1999 took the post of Chief of Staff Makarov and First Deputy Commander of the troops of the Moscow Military District until he was displaced in December 2002 as commander of the Siberian Military District.

2007 appointed him Minister Vladimir Putin as deputy defense minister, in charge of armaments. On 3 June 2008, he was appointed by the new President Dmitry Medvedev to the Chief of Staff of the Russian armed forces. He thus replaces Yuri Baluievski from, the Deputy Chairman of the National Security Council was. On 9 November 2012, he was replaced at the direction of President Putin in his position of Colonel-General Valery Gerasimov.