This record matches the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation headquarters in Moscow at Znamenka 14/1. TASS’s institutional dossier states that the present Russian General Staff was established on 7 May 1992 from the Soviet General Staff and that the current headquarters building is the "new" General Staff building at Znamenka 14/1. ([tass.ru](https://tass.ru/info/2610470?utm_source=openai))
Under the presidential regulation governing the General Staff, it is the central military management body that manages the Armed Forces, organizes defense planning, mobilization preparation and mobilization within Ministry of Defense authority, and coordinates other troops and special formations in defense matters. Open sources therefore indicate that Znamenka 14/1 is an institutional national command headquarters, not a publicly identified training or storage installation. ([kremlin.ru](https://www.kremlin.ru/acts/bank/45452/print?utm_source=openai))
As of March 12, 2026, official Kremlin pages continue to identify Army General Valery Gerasimov as Chief of the General Staff and First Deputy Minister of Defense. The Kremlin’s events index shows him in that capacity in a meeting with Putin on April 26, 2025 and in command-related events through December 27, 2025. ([kremlin.ru](https://www.kremlin.ru/catalog/persons/426/events?utm_source=openai))
Open official reporting indicates that top-level Russian defense management is distributed across more than one Moscow site. While Znamenka 14/1 remains the formal General Staff headquarters, the Kremlin publicly located annual expanded Ministry of Defense board sessions at the National Defense Management Center in Moscow in December 2020 and December 2025, indicating that high-level command-and-control activity is not confined to the Znamenka complex alone. ([tass.ru](https://tass.ru/info/2610470?utm_source=openai))
Public official material reviewed for this briefing confirms the institution, address, formal functions, and some subordinate educational organizations under the Chief of the General Staff, but it does not provide a public site-by-site chain linking the many auxiliary units in the supplied placemark list directly to this headquarters. Those listed subordinate placemarks should therefore be treated as unverified in authoritative open sources unless separately corroborated. ([tovvmu.mil.ru](https://tovvmu.mil.ru/edumap?utm_source=openai))