Mikhail Alekseyevich Moiseyev (Russian: Михаил Алексеевич Моисеев; 22 January 1939 – 18 December 2022) was a Soviet-Russian military officer and politician.

A member of the Communist Party, he served as commander of the 27th Guards Motor Rifle Division from 5 April 1978–21 June 1980, and Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces from 1988 to 1991.

[2] Mikhail Alekseyevich Moiseyev was born in a large family on 22 January 1939 in the village of Maly Iver, Svobodnensky District, Amur Oblast.

His father, a kolkhoznik of the local collective farm, was conscripted into the Red Army in the mid-1930s and fought in the Battle of Lake Khasan in August 1938, and returning home after demobilization, took the opportunity offered to him as a war veteran to move with his family to the village of Chernovka, Svobodnensky District, where he became a trackman on the Amur Railway.

After completing his schooling, Moiseyev worked as a sailor and boilerman on auxiliary harbor ships of the Pacific Fleet at Abrek Bay in Primorsky Krai.

In August 1969, following promotion to captain, he entered the Frunze Military Academy for advanced officer training, where he received positive evaluations from superiors.

With his performance assessed as superior, he returned to the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany in April 1978 to command the 27th Guards Motor Rifle Division.

[3] After two years in Germany, in June 1980, Moiseyev and his family moved to Moscow as he became a student of the Military Academy of the General Stafffor senior command training.

[3] Moiseyev was appointed chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces and first deputy minister of defense, the second highest position in the country's military leadership, on 2 December 1988.

He led the General Staff during Perestroika and the growth of the economic and social crisis in the Soviet Union, which negatively affected the armed forces.

That year he became a member of the central council of the All-Russia People's Front, and the supervisory board of the National Center for Labor Glory.