General Staff Building (Saint Petersburg)

View from the Palace Square

Eastern Facade

The General Staff Building (Russian: Здание Главного штаба, Zdanie Glavnovo Shtaba) is an edifice with a 580 m long bow-shaped facade, situated on Palace Square in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in front of the Winter Palace.

The monumental Neoclassical building was designed by Carlo Rossi in the Empire style and built in 1819-1829. It consists of two wings, which are separated by a tripartite triumphal arch adorned by sculptors Stepan Pimenov and Vasily Demuth-Malinovsky and commemorating the Russian victory over Napoleonic France in the Patriotic War of 1812. The arch links Palace Square through Bolshaya Morskaya Street to Nevsky Prospekt.

Until the capital was transferred to Moscow in 1918, the building served as the headquarters of the General Staff (western wing), Foreign Ministry and Finance Ministry (eastern wing).

The western wing now hosts the headquarters of the Western Military District. The eastern wing was given to the Hermitage Museum in 1993 and was extensively remodeled inside.

External links

Media related to Building of the General Staff at Wikimedia Commons
General Staff Building @ Encyclopaedia of Saint Petersburg

Russian Armed Forces

Leadership	Supreme Commander-in-Chief: President of Russia Chief of the General Staff Minister of Defence

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Previous military districts	Leningrad Military District Moscow Military District Volga-Urals Military District North Caucasus Military District Siberian Military District Far East Military District

Current military districts	Western Military District (headquarters: Saint Petersburg) Southern Military District (Rostov-on-Don) Central Military District (Ekaterinburg) Eastern Military District (Khabarovsk)

Fleets of the Russian Navy	Baltic Fleet Black Sea Fleet Caspian Flotilla Northern Fleet Arctic Sea Flotilla Pacific Fleet

Services	Ground Forces Special Forces Signal Troops Navy Infantry Aviation Aerospace Forces Air Force Air and Missile Defence Troops Space Forces

Independent	Airborne Strategic Missile Troops Rear Services Highway and Road Forces Railway Troops Pipeline Troops

Departments in the Ministry of Defence	Main Intelligence Directorate Main Directorate of Military Police Main Missile and Artillery Directorate 12th Chief Directorate Main Agency of Automobiles and Tanks Main Agency of Military Medicine Central Television and Radio Studio

Equipment	Ground Forces' equipment Navy ships Air Forces' equipment

Coordinates: 59°56′17″N 30°19′02″E / 59.9381°N 30.3172°E / 59.9381; 30.3172

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