Gjorgji Bojadžiev

Bojadžiev was born in the eastern Macedonian village of Novo Selo in 1950, then part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.^[1]

He graduated from the Military Academy in Belgrade in 1973, and from the Command and Staff College in Skopje in 1995. Bojadžiev went on a language course in Montreal, Canada, in 1999, and attended a military academy in Paris from 2000 to 2001.^[1]

His first duty was commander of a platoon, then he became assistant commander for political education, and for some time was the commander of a division, then the Border Guard Brigade, and from 1 January 2004 was the head of the Operations Division on the ARM General Staff. Bojadziev became a lieutenant in 1973, the following year he received the rank lieutenant. In 1986 he was promoted to Major, followed by Lieutenant Colonel, and in 2002 he became a brigadier general.^[1] Following his appointment to Chief of General Staff, Bojadziev was promoted to major general.^[2] He was replaced as the Chief of General Staff in 2005 by Miroslav Stojanovski.

Bojadžiev died on 1 December 2024, at the age of 74.^[3]