Anatoly Kontsevoy
Anatoly Georgiyevich Kontsevoy is a Belarusian-born Russian Airborne Forces officer who has served as a deputy chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces since 2025. He was previously the chief of staff and first deputy commander of the Airborne Forces from 2022 to 2025, and the deputy commander and from 2019 to 2022.
Early life and education
Kontsevoy was born in 1968 in Gomel Region, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union. He graduated from the Ryazan Guards Higher Airborne Command School in 1989, the Combined Arms Academy of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in 2008, and the General Staff Academy in 2019.Military career
Between 1989 and 2001 he held commands at the platoon, company, and battalion level, before being appointed as the commander of the 45th Guards Spetsnaz Brigade, a post he held from 2002 to 2006.Kontsevoy was the deputy director of the Ryazan Guards Higher Airborne Command School from 2008 to 2012, and from 14 September 2012 until 2 September 2017, he was the director of the school. Starting in 2017 he attended the General Staff Academy.
Kontsevoy became the deputy commander of the Airborne Forces in 2019, after graduating from the General Staff Academy, and in 2022 became the chief of staff and first deputy commander. As of November 2025, he was serving as a deputy chief of the General Staff, and had been succeeded as Airborne Forces chief of staff by Aleksandr Kornev.