Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces (Kazakhstan)

The Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces (Kazakh: Құрлық әскерлерінің бас қолбасшысы, romanized: Qūrlyq äskerlerınıñ bas qolbasşysy; Russian: Главнокомандующий сухопутными войсками) is the professional head of the Kazakh Ground Forces. He/she is responsible for the administration and the operational control of the Ground Forces. The current Commander is Major General Mereke Kuchekbayev.^[1]

Commander-in-Chief of the Kazakh Ground Forces
Incumbent Major General Talgat Koibakov since 5 November 2020
Ministry of Defense
Style	Comrade
Status	Active
Member of	Security Council of Kazakhstan
Reports to	Chief of the General Staff
Residence	Nur-Sultan
Appointer	President of Kazakhstan
Term length	No fixed length
Constituting instrument	Constitution of Kazakhstan
Precursor	Commanders-in-Chief of the Soviet Ground Forces
Formation	February 1994

The position of the Commander of the Ground Forces, as well as the state institution that is the Directorate of the Commander of the Ground Forces did not exist from July 2000 to June 2002 and from November 2004^[2] to April 2009. In the indicated periods, the Ground Forces of Kazakhstan did not have their own centralized command and control body. On 14 June 2002, the office was created.^[3] The ground forces, in addition to regional commands, were subordinate to the Committee of the Chiefs of Staff of the armed forces.^[4]

List of Commanders

No.	Portrait	Chief of the General Staff	Took office	Left office	Time in office	Ref.
1		Shcherbakov, FedorFedor Shcherbakov (1947–2022)	February 1994	6 July 2000	6 years, 5 months	[5]
Position unfilled (14 June 14, 2002 – 15 September 2003)
2		Dzhulamanov, NurlanLieutenant general Nurlan Dzhulamanov (born 1956)	15 September 2003	12 November 2004	1 year, 1 month	[6]
4		Zhasuzakov, SakenMajor general Saken Zhasuzakov (born 1957)	1 April 2009	11 March 2010	11 months	[7]
5		Maikeyev, MuratMajor general Murat Maikeyev (born 1959)	11 March 2010	28 September 2016	5 years, 6 months	[8]
6		Bektanov, MuratMajor general Murat Bektanov (born 1965)	28 September 2016	4 May 2019	2 years, 7 months	[9][10]
7		Khusainov, MaratMajor general Marat Khusainov (born 1967)	4 May 2019	5 November 2020	1 year, 6 months	[11][12]
8		Kolbakov, TalgatMajor General Talgat Koibakov	5 November 2020	Incumbent	4 years, 9 months	[13]