List of the Commanders (in chief)
|
Time |
Name |
Rank |
Designation of the assignment
|
1918-1919 |
Sergey Grigorevich Shamshev |
Polkovnik |
Chief Main directorate Border troops
|
1919 |
Aleksandr Leontevich Pevnev |
General-mayor
|
Military leader Directorate border protection, Secretary Border troops RSFSR
|
1919-1920 |
V.A. Stepanov |
|
Chief Directorate border inspection
|
1920-1921 |
Vyacheslav Rudolfovich Menzhinsky |
|
Chief Special division VCheKa (Border protection)
|
1922-1923
|
Artur Khristyanovich Artuzov |
Corps commissar (1935) |
Chief division Border troops, division Border protection to Joint State Political Directorate
|
1923-1925 |
Yan Kalikstovich Olsky |
|
Chief division Border protection to Joint State Political Directorate
|
1925-1929 |
Zinovy Borisovich Kantselson |
Commissar stat security 2nd rank
|
Chief Main directorate Border protection to Joint State Political Directorate
|
1929 |
Sergdey Georgievich Velezhev |
|
Chief Main directorate Border protection to Joint State Political Directorate
|
1929-1931 |
Ivan Aleksandrovich Vorontsov |
|
Chief Main directorate Border protection to Joint State Political Directorate
|
1931-1933 |
Nikolay Mikhaylovits Bystrykh |
Commissar stat security 3rd rank
|
Chief Main directorate Border protection to Joint State Political Directorate
|
1933-1937 |
Mikhail Petrovich Frinovsky |
Komandarm 1st rank
|
Chief Main directorate Border protection (from 1934 Border and Internal troops) to Joint State Political Directorate (from 1934 NKVD USSR)
|
1937-1938 |
Nikolay Kuzmich Krutsinskin |
Komdiv
|
Chief Main directorate Border and Internal troops to NKVD USSR
|
1938-1939 |
Aleksandr Antonovich Kovalyev |
Komdiv
|
Chief Main directorate Border and Internal troops to NKVD USSR
|
1939-1941 |
Grigory Grigoryevich Sokolov |
General-leytenant
|
Chief Main directorate Border troops to NKVD USSR
|
1942-1952
|
Nikolay Pavlovich Stakhanov |
General-leytenant
|
Chief Main directorate Border troops to NKVD USSR (from 1946 MVD USSR, from 1949 MGB USSR
|
1952-1956 |
Pavel Ivanovich Zyryanov |
General-leytenant
|
Chief Border troops to MGB USSR (from 1953 MVD USSR)
|
1956-1957 |
Timovey Amvpocievich Strokach |
General-leytenant
|
Chief Main directorate Border and Internal troops to MVD USSR
|
1957-1972 |
Pavel Ivanovich Zyryakov |
General-polkovnik
|
Chief Border troops to KGB USSR
|
1972-1989 |
Vadim Aleksandrovich Matrosov |
General armii
|
Chief Border troops to KGB USSR
|
1989-1992 |
Ilya Yakovlevich Kalinichenko |
General-polkovnik
|
Chief Border troops to KGB USSR, from 1991 Commander in chief Border troops of the CIS
|
1992-1993
|
Vladimir Ivanovich Shlyakhtin
|
General-polkovnik
|
Commanding general Border troops of the RF
|
1993-1997 |
Andrey Ivanovch Nikolaev |
General armii
|
Commander in chief Border troops, from 1994 Director Border Service of the FSB of the RF
|
1998
|
Nikolay Nikolayevich Bordyuzha |
General-polkovnik
|
Director Federation Border Service
|
1998-2003 |
Konstantin Vasilyevich Totsky |
General armii
|
Director Border Service of the FSB
|
2003-2013
|
Vladimir Yegorovich Pronichev |
General armii
|
1st Deputy director of the Russian FSB, head Border service to Russian FSB
|
April 10, 2013-
|
Vladimir Grigoryevich Kulishov |
General armii
|
1st Deputy director of the Russian FSB, head Border service to Russian FSB
|