Post: | Commander |
Body: | the Kyrgyz Army |
Flag: | File:Military Ensign of Kyrgyz Armed Forces (Kyrgyz).svg |
Flagsize: | 125px |
Flagcaption: | Standard of the Armed Forces |
Insignia: | File:Patch of Kyrgyz Armed Forces.svg |
Insigniasize: | 110px |
Insigniacaption: | Patch of Kyrgyz Armed Forces |
Incumbent: | Colonel Almazbek Karasartov |
Incumbentsince: | 19 January 2019 |
Status: | Active |
Department: | Ministry of Defense |
Style: | Comrade |
Member Of: | General Staff of Armed Forces of the Kyrgyz Republic |
Reports To: | Chief of the General Staff |
Residence: | Bishkek |
Appointer: | President of Kyrgyzstan |
Termlength: | No fixed length |
Constituting Instrument: | Constitution of Kyrgyzstan |
Precursor: | Commanders-in-Chief of the Soviet Ground Forces |
Formation: | 25 January 2017 |
First: | General Valentin Luk'yanov |
The Commander of the Land Forces of the Armed Forces of the Kyrgyz Republic is the professional head of the Kyrgyz Army. He is responsible for the administration and the operational control of the Kyrgyz Army. The current Commander is Colonel Almazbek Karasartov.