Alexander Postnikov

Colonel General Aleksandr Nikolayevich Postnikov-Streltsov (born 23 February 1957) is a retired Russian military officer. He was the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Ground Forces from 2010 to 2012 and a Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces from 2012 to 2014. Commissioned in 1978, he served in several military districts and with the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany. Postnikov-Streltsov graduated from the Frunze Military Academy and the Russian General Staff Academy. His senior commands included the 20th Combined Arms Army from 2000 to 2002 and the Siberian Military District from 2007 to 2010.

Military career Aleksandr Nikolayevich Streltsov was born on 23 February 1957 in Labinsk, Krasnodar Krai, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. While studying at the Kiev Higher Combined Arms Command School, he married the daughter of the Soviet general Stanislav Postnikov, and changed his last name to Postnikov-Streltsov. He graduated and was commissioned in the Soviet Army in 1978.

After commissioning, he held commands at the platoon and company levels in the Kiev Military District and at the battalion level with the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany. Postnikov-Streltsov graduated from the Frunze Military Academy in 1988 and held commands in the Odessa and Far Eastern military districts. As of 1998, he was chief of staff of the Tamanskaya Division in the Moscow Military District. He later attended the General Staff Academy, graduating in 2000.