Mikhail Kolesnikov (politician)

General of the Army Mikhail Petrovich Kolesnikov (Russian: Михаил Петрович Колесников; 30 June 1939 – 26 March 2007) was a Russian Ground Forces officer and a member of Boris Yeltsin's administration that briefly served as acting Minister of Defense after Pavel Grachev was fired by Yeltsin.^[1]

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Military offices
Preceded by Viktor Dubynin	Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation 25 December 1992 – 1995	Succeeded by Viktor Samsonov (acting)
Political offices
Preceded by Pavel Grachev	Defence Minister of the Russian Federation (acting) 1995	Succeeded by Igor Rodionov

v t e Chiefs of the Russian General Staff
Red Army (1917–1946)	Nikolay Potapov 1917-1918 Revolutionary Military Council (1918-1921) Nikolai Stogov 1918-1919 Alexander Svechin 1919-1919 Nikolay Rattel 1919-1921 Nikolay Rattel 1918-1918 Fyodor Kostyayev 1918-1919 Mikhail Bonch-Bruyevich 1919-1919 Pavel Lebedev 1919-1921 Pavel Lebedev (1921–24) Mikhail Frunze (1924–25) Sergey Kamenev (1925) Mikhail Tukhachevsky (1925–28) Boris Shaposhnikov (1928–31) Vladimir Triandafillov (1931) Alexander Yegorov (1931–37) Boris Shaposhnikov (1937–40) Kirill Meretskov (1940–41) Georgy Zhukov (1941) Boris Shaposhnikov (1941–42) Aleksandr Vasilevsky (1942–45) Aleksei Antonov (1945–46)
Soviet Armed Forces (1946–1992)	Aleksandr Vasilevsky (1946–48) Sergei Shtemenko (1948–52) Vasily Sokolovsky (1952–60) Matvei Zakharov (1960–63) Sergey Biryuzov (1963–64) Matvei Zakharov (1964–71) Viktor Kulikov (1971–77) Nikolai Ogarkov (1977–84) Sergey Akhromeyev (1984–88) Mikhail Moiseyev (1988–91) Vladimir Lobov (1991)
Russian Armed Forces (1992–present)	Viktor Dubynin (1992) Mikhail Kolesnikov (1992–96) Viktor Samsonov (1996–97) Anatoly Kvashnin (1997–2004) Yuri Baluyevsky (2004–08) Nikolai Makarov (2008–12) Valery Gerasimov (2012–present)