Marshal of the Soviet Union
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Marshal of the Soviet Union (Template:Langx, {{#invoke:IPA|main}}) was the second-highest military rank of the Soviet Union. Joseph Stalin wore the uniform and insignia of Marshal after World War II.
The rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union was created in 1935 and abolished in 1991 when the Soviet Union dissolved. Forty-one people held this rank. The equivalent naval rank was until 1955 admiral of the fleet and from 1955 Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union.
History of the rankEdit
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The first five marshals of the Soviet Union from left to right: Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Semyon Budyonny, Kliment Voroshilov, Vasily Blyukher, and Alexander Yegorov. Only Budyonny and Voroshilov would survive the Great Purge.
The military rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union was established by a decree of the Soviet Cabinet, the Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom), on 22 September 1935. On 20 November, the rank was conferred on five people: People's Commissar of Defence and veteran Bolshevik Kliment Voroshilov, chief of the General Staff of the Red Army Alexander Yegorov, and three senior commanders, Vasily Blyukher, Semyon Budyonny, and Mikhail Tukhachevsky.
Of these, Blyukher, Tukhachevsky, and Yegorov were executed during Stalin's Great Purge of 1937–38. On 7 May 1940, three new marshals were appointed: the new People's Commissar of Defence, Semyon Timoshenko, Boris Shaposhnikov, and Grigory Kulik.
During World War II, Kulik was demoted for incompetence, and the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union was given to a number of military commanders who earned it on merit. These included Georgy Zhukov, Ivan Konev and Konstantin Rokossovsky to name a few. In 1943, Stalin himself was made a Marshal of the Soviet Union, and in 1945, he was joined by his intelligence and police chief Lavrentiy Beria. These non-military marshals were joined in 1947 by politician Nikolai Bulganin.
Two Marshals were executed in postwar purges: Kulik in 1950 and Beria in 1953, following Stalin's death. Thereafter the rank was awarded only to professional soldiers, with the exception of Leonid Brezhnev, who made himself a marshal in 1976, and Dmitry Ustinov, who was prominent in the arms industry and was appointed Minister of Defence in July 1976. The last Marshal of the Soviet Union was Dmitry Yazov, appointed in 1990, who was imprisoned after the failed coup against Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991. Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev committed suicide in 1991 during the fall of the Soviet Union.
The Marshals fell into three generational groups.
- Those who had gained their reputations during the Russian Civil War. These included both those who were purged in 1937–38 (Blyukher, Tukhachevsky, and Yegorov), and those who held high commands in the early years of World War II (Budyonny, Kulik, Shaposhnikov, Timoshenko and Voroshilov). All of the latter except Shaposhnikov and Timoshenko proved out-of-step with modern warfare and were removed from commanding positions.
- Those who built their reputations during World War II and assumed high commands in the latter part of the war. These included Zhukov, Vasilevsky, Konev, Rokossovsky, Malinovsky, Tolbukhin, Govorov, and Meretskov.
- Those who assumed high command during the Cold War era. All were officers in World War II, but their higher commands were held in the Warsaw Pact or as Soviet defence ministers. These included Sokolovsky, Grechko, Yakubovsky, Kulikov, Ogarkov, Akhromeyev, and Yazov.
All marshals in the third category had been officers in World War II, except Ustinov, who had been People's Commissar for Armaments. Even Yazov, who was 20 when the war ended, had been a platoon commander. Brezhnev was not a professional soldier, but was still commissioned as a political commissar in the war.
Of the 35 Marshals who were career soldiers, the majority were of Russian origin. Timoshenko (Tymoshenko), Kulik (Kulyk), Grechko (Hrechko), Yeremenko (Yeryomenko), Moskalenko, Batitsky (Batytsʹkyy) and Koshevoy (Koshovyy) were of Ukrainian origin, while Sokolovsky (Sakaloŭski) and Yakubovsky (Jakuboŭski) had Belarusian origins. Rokossovsky (Rokossowski) was born in Congress Poland to a Polish family, while Malinovsky (Malinowsky) was born in Odessa (now in Ukraine) to a Polish father. Tukhachevsky also had Polish ancestry. Bagramyan (Baghramyan) was the sole marshal of Armenian origin.
The rank was abolished with the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991. It was succeeded in modern Russia by the rank of Marshal of the Russian Federation, which has been held by only one person, Igor Sergeyev, who was Russia's defence minister from 1997 to 2001. There have been no living marshals since Yazov's death in February 2020.
List of marshalsEdit
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25 | (1881–1969) Resigned as head of state, 1960.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Mayor of Luhansk, 1917; People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs, 1925–1934. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1956 and 1968; Hero of Socialist Labour, 1960. | ||||
| 2 | Semyon Budyonny | File:Маршал Советского Союза Семён Михайлович Будённый.jpg | Template:Nowrap |
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Template:No | Template:No | 17 | (1883–1973) Retired, 1954. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1958, 1963 and 1968. | ||||
| 3 | Mikhail Tukhachevsky | File:Tukhachevsky.png | Template:Nowrap |
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| 4 | Alexander Yegorov | File:Александр Егоров.jpg | Template:Nowrap |
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| 5 | Vasily Blyukher | File:Vasily Konstantinovich Blyukher.jpg | Template:Nowrap |
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| 6 | Semyon Timoshenko | File:Маршал Советского Союза Герой Советского Союза Семён Константинович Тимошенко.jpg | 7 May 1940 |
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| 7 | Boris Shaposhnikov | File:Boris Shaposhnikov 02.jpg | 7 May 1940 |
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| 8 | Grigory Kulik | File:Grigory Kulik.jpg | 7 May 1940 |
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| 9 | Georgy Zhukov | File:Zhukov LIFE.jpg | Template:Nowrap |
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14 | (1896–1974)Template:Efn Dismissed as minister of defence, 1957. Chief, General Staff of the Red Army, 1941. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1940, 1944, 1945 and 1956; awarded Order of Victory, 1944 and 1945. | |||
| 10 | Aleksandr Vasilevsky | File:Aleksandr Vasilevsky 4.jpg | Template:Nowrap |
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2 | (1878–1953) Died in office. Promoted to Generalissimo, 27 Jun 1945. Made Hero of Socialist Labour, 1939; Hero of the Soviet Union, 1945; awarded Order of Victory, 1944. | ||||||
| 12 | Ivan Konev | File:Ivan Stepanovich Konev.jpg | Template:Nowrap |
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| 13 | Leonid Govorov | File:Leonid Govorov 1.jpg | Template:Nowrap |
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| 14 | Konstantin Rokossovsky | File:Маршал Советского Союза дважды Герой Советского Союза Константин Константинович Рокоссовский.jpg | Template:Nowrap |
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Template:No | Template:No | 18 | (1896–1968) Appointed to Group of Inspectors General, 1962. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1944 and 1945; awarded Order of Victory, 1945. Made Marshal of Poland, 1949. | |||||
| 15 | Rodion Malinovsky | File:Rodion Malinovsky 1.jpg | Template:Nowrap |
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Template:No | Template:No | 23 | (1898–1967) Died in office. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1945 and 1958; awarded Order of Victory, 1945. | ||||||
| 16 | Fyodor Tolbukhin | File:Маршал Советского Союза Ф.И. Толбухин.jpg | Template:Nowrap |
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Template:No | Template:No | Template:No | 5 | (1894–1949) Died in office. Posthumously made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1965; awarded Order of Victory, 1945. | ||||||
| 17 | Kirill Meretskov | File:Кирилл Афанасьевич Мерецков с сыном Владимиром (cropped).jpg | Template:Nowrap |
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Template:No | Template:No | 20 | (1897–1968) Appointed to Group of Inspectors General, 1964. Chief, General Staff of the Red Army, 1940–1941. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1940; awarded Order of Victory, 1945. | ||||||
| 18 | Lavrentiy Beria | File:Lavrentiy Beria portrait 2.jpg | Template:Nowrap |
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8 | (1899–1953)Template:Efn Stripped of rank, 1953. First Secretary, Communist Party of Georgia, 1931–1932, 1934–1938; First Secretary, Communist Party, Transcaucasian SFSR, 1932–1938. Made Hero of Socialist Labour, 1943. | ||||||
| 19 | Vasily Sokolovsky | File:Vasily Sokolovsky.jpg | 3 Jul 1946 |
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Template:No | Template:No | 14 | (1897–1968) Appointed to Group of Inspectors General, 1960. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1945. | ||||||
| 20 | Nikolai Bulganin | File:Nikolai Bulganin.jpg | Template:Nowrap |
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11 | (1895–1975)Template:Efn Stripped of rank, 1958.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
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| 21 | Andrei Grechko | File:Andrei Grechko 3.jpg | 11 Mar 1955 |
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21 | (1903–1976) Died in office. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1958 and 1973. | |||||
| 22 | Ivan Bagramyan | File:Баграмян Иван Христофорович.jpg | 11 Mar 1955 |
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Template:No | Template:No | 13 | (1897–1982) Appointed to Group of Inspectors General, 1968. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1944 and 1977. | |||||
| 23 | Sergey Biryuzov | File:Sergey Biryuzov.jpg | 11 Mar 1955 |
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| 24 | Kirill Moskalenko | File:Kirill Moskalenko 01.jpg | 11 Mar 1955 |
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Template:No | Template:No | 28 | (1902–1985) Appointed to Group of Inspectors General, 1983. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1943 and 1978. | |||||
| 25 | Vasily Chuikov | File:Маршал Советского Союза дважды Герой Советского Союза Василий Иванович Чуйков.jpg | 11 Mar 1955 |
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Template:No | Template:No | 17 | (1900–1982) Appointed to Group of Inspectors General, 1972. Commander in Chief, Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany, 1949–1953. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1944 and 1945. | ||||||
| 26 | Andrey Yeryomenko | File:Маршал Советского Союза Герой Советского Союза Андрей Иванович Ерёменко (cropped).jpg | 11 Mar 1955 |
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Template:No | Template:No | 3 | (1892–1970) Appointed to Group of Inspectors General, 1958. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1944. | ||||||
| 27 | Matvei Zakharov | File:Matvei Zakharov 1.jpg | 8 May 1959 |
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Template:No | Template:No | 12 | (1898–1972) Appointed to Group of Inspectors General, 1971. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1945 and 1971. Director, Main Intelligence Directorate, 1949–1952. | ||||
| 28 | Filipp Golikov | File:Маршал Советского Союза Филипп Иванович Голиков.jpg | 6 May 1961 |
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Template:No | Template:No | 1 | (1900–1980) Relieved and appointed to Group of Inspectors General, 1962. Director, Main Intelligence Directorate, 1940–1941. | ||||||
| 29 | Nikolay Krylov | File:Nikolay Ivanovich Krylov 1.jpg | 28 Apr 1962 |
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Template:No | Template:No | 10 | (1903–1972) Died in office. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, twice in 1945. | ||||||
| 30 | Ivan Yakubovsky | File:Генерал-майор И.И. Якубовский на улице Москвы.jpeg | 12 Apr 1967 |
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Template:No | Template:No | 9 | (1912–1976) Died in office. Commander in Chief, Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, 1960–1961; 1962–1965. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, twice in 1944. | |||||
| 31 | Pavel Batitsky | File:Batitskiy.jpg | 15 Apr 1968 |
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Template:No | Template:No | 10 | (1910–1984) Appointed to Group of Inspectors General, 1978. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1965. | ||||||
| 32 | Pyotr Koshevoy | File:No image available.svg | 15 Apr 1968 |
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| 33 | Leonid Brezhnev | File:Staatshoofden, portretten, Bestanddeelnr 925-6564 (cropped)(d).jpg | Template:Nowrap |
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6 | (1906–1982) Died in office. First Secretary, Communist Party of Moldavia, 1950–1952; First Secretary, Communist Party of Kazakhstan, 1955–1956; Chairman, Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, 1960–1964; Second Secretary, Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1963–1964. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1966, 1976, 1978 and 1981; Hero of Socialist Labour, 1961; awarded Order of Victory, 1978 (rescinded 1989). | ||||||
| 34 | Dmitry Ustinov | File:Dmitry Ustinov (colorized, full).jpg | Template:Nowrap |
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8 | (1908–1984)Template:Efn Died in office. Minister of the Defence Industry, 1941–1957;Template:Efn Deputy Chairman, Council of Ministers, 1957–1963; First Deputy Chairman, Council of Ministers, 1963–1965; CPSU Central Committee Secretary for Administrative Organs, 1963–1976; for the Defence Industry, 1965–1976. Made Hero of Socialist Labour, 1942 and 1961; Hero of the Soviet Union, 1978. | ||||||
| 35 | Viktor Kulikov | File:Куликов Виктор Георгиевич.jpg | 14 Jan 1977 |
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| 36 | Nikolai Ogarkov | File:Nikolai Ogarkov 1 (enlarged).jpg | 14 Jan 1977 |
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| 37 | Sergei Sokolov | File:Sergey Leonidovich Sokolov.jpg | 17 Feb 1978 |
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9 | (1911–2012) Dismissed as minister of defence, 1987. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1980. | ||||||
| 38 | Sergey Akhromeyev | File:Sergey Akhromeyev (cropped).jpg | 25 Mar 1983 |
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| 39 | Semyon Kurkotkin | File:Semyon Kurkotkin 2.jpg | 25 Mar 1983 |
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| 40 | Vasily Petrov | File:Marshal Vasily Ivanovich Petrov.jpg | 25 Mar 1983 |
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| 41 | Dmitry Yazov | File:Marshal Dmitry Yazov.jpg | 28 Apr 1990 |
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TimelineEdit
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bar:kulik from:1940.42 till:1942.17 color:other text:"Grigory Kulik"
bar:zhukov from:1943.08 till:1944.25 color:other bar:zhukov from:1944.25 till:1945.50 color:theatre bar:zhukov from:1945.50 till:1946.25 color:warsawgermany bar:zhukov from:1946.25 till:1946.50 color:service bar:zhukov from:1946.50 till:1953.25 color:theatre bar:zhukov from:1953.25 till:1955.17 color:other bar:zhukov from:1955.17 till:1957.83 color:defence text:"Georgy Zhukov"
bar:vasilevsky from:1943.17 till:1945.17 color:genlstaff bar:vasilevsky from:1945.17 till:1946.25 color:theatre bar:vasilevsky from:1946.25 till:1948.92 color:genlstaff bar:vasilevsky from:1948.92 till:1949.25 color:other bar:vasilevsky from:1949.25 till:1953.25 color:defence bar:vasilevsky from:1953.25 till:1957.92 color:other text:"Aleksandr Vasilevsky"
bar:stalin from:1943.25 till:1953.25 color:gensec text:"Joseph Stalin"
bar:konev from:1944.17 till:1946.33 color:theatre bar:konev from:1946.33 till:1946.50 color:political bar:konev from:1946.50 till:1950.25 color:service bar:konev from:1950.25 till:1951.92 color:other bar:konev from:1951.92 till:1955.25 color:theatre bar:konev from:1955.25 till:1956 color:service bar:konev from:1956 till:1960.33 color:warsawgermany bar:konev from:1961.67 till:1962.33 color:warsawgermany text:"Ivan Konev"
bar:govorov from:1944.50 till:1946.33 color:theatre bar:govorov from:1946.33 till:1954.42 color:other bar:govorov from:1954.42 till:1955.25 color:service text:"Leonid Govorov"
bar:rokossovsky from:1944.50 till:1949.92 color:theatre bar:rokossovsky from:1949.92 till:1956.92 color:political bar:rokossovsky from:1956.92 till:1957.83 color:other bar:rokossovsky from:1957.83 till:1957.98 color:theatre bar:rokossovsky from:1957.98 till:1962.33 color:other text:"Konstantin Rokossovsky"
bar:malinovsky from:1944.75 till:1956.25 color:theatre bar:malinovsky from:1956.25 till:1957.83 color:service bar:malinovsky from:1957.83 till:1967.25 color:defence text:"Rodion Malinovsky"
bar:tolbukhin from:1944.75 till:1949.83 color:theatre text:"Fyodor Tolbukhin"
bar:meretskov from:1944.83 till:1954.42 color:theatre bar:meretskov from:1954.42 till:1964.33 color:other text:"Kirill Meretskov"
bar:beria from:1945.58 till:1946.08 color:nkvd bar:beria from:1946.08 till:1953.25 color:political bar:beria from:1953.25 till:1953.50 color:nkvd text:"Lavrentiy Beria"
bar:sokolovsky from:1946.58 till:1949.25 color:warsawgermany bar:sokolovsky from:1949.25 till:1952.50 color:other bar:sokolovsky from:1952.50 till:1960.33 color:genlstaff text:"Vasily Sokolovsky"
bar:bulganin from:1947.92 till:1949.25 color:defence bar:bulganin from:1949.25 till:1953.25 color:political bar:bulganin from:1953.25 till:1955.17 color:defence bar:bulganin from:1955.17 till:1958.92 color:political text:"Nikolai Bulganin"
bar:spacer_khrushchev from:1930 till:1999 color:category bar:leader_khrushchev from:1980.17 till:1980.17 color:none text:"Malenkov–Khrushchev era (1953–1964)"
bar:grechko from:1955.25 till:1957.92 color:warsawgermany bar:grechko from:1957.92 till:1960.33 color:service bar:grechko from:1960.33 till:1967.33 color:warsawgermany bar:grechko from:1967.33 till:1976.33 color:defence text:"Andrei Grechko"
bar:bagramyan from:1955.25 till:1968.33 color:other text:"Ivan Bagramyan"
bar:biryuzov from:1955.25 till:1963.25 color:service bar:biryuzov from:1963.25 till:1964.83 color:genlstaff text:"Sergey Biryuzov"
bar:moskalenko from:1955.25 till:1960.83 color:theatre bar:moskalenko from:1960.83 till:1962.33 color:service bar:moskalenko from:1962.33 till:1983.98 color:other text:"Kirill Moskalenko"
bar:chuikov from:1955.25 till:1960.33 color:theatre bar:chuikov from:1960.33 till:1964.25 color:service bar:chuikov from:1964.25 till:1972.58 color:other text:"Vasily Chuikov"
bar:yeryomenko from:1955.25 till:1958.33 color:theatre text:"Andrey Yeryomenko"
bar:zakharov from:1959.42 till:1960.33 color:warsawgermany bar:zakharov from:1960.33 till:1963.25 color:genlstaff bar:zakharov from:1963.25 till:1964.92 color:other bar:zakharov from:1964.92 till:1971.75 color:genlstaff text:"Matvei Zakharov"
bar:golikov from:1961.42 till:1962.33 color:other text:"Filipp Golikov"
bar:krylov from:1962.33 till:1963.25 color:theatre bar:krylov from:1963.25 till:1972.17 color:service text:"Nikolay Krylov"
bar:spacer_brezhnev from:1930 till:1999 color:category bar:leader_brezhnev from:1986.45 till:1986.45 color:none text:"Brezhnev era (1964–1982)"
bar:yakubovsky from:1967.33 till:1976.92 color:warsawgermany text:"Ivan Yakubovsky"
bar:batitsky from:1968.33 till:1978.58 color:service text:"Pavel Batitsky"
bar:koshevoy from:1968.33 till:1969.75 color:warsawgermany text:"Pyotr Koshevoy"
bar:brezhnev from:1976.42 till:1982.92 color:gensec text:"Leonid Brezhnev"
bar:ustinov from:1976.58 till:1984.98 color:defence text:"Dmitry Ustinov"
bar:kulikov from:1977.08 till:1989.17 color:warsawgermany text:"Viktor Kulikov"
bar:ogarkov from:1977.08 till:1984.75 color:genlstaff bar:ogarkov from:1984.75 till:1988.67 color:theatre text:"Nikolai Ogarkov"
bar:sokolov from:1978.17 till:1984.98 color:other bar:sokolov from:1984.98 till:1987.42 color:defence text:"Sergei Sokolov"
bar:spacer_andropovchernenko from:1930 till:1999 color:category bar:leader_andropovchernenko from:1980.60 till:1980.60 color:none text:"Andropov–Chernenko era (1982–1985)"
bar:akhromeyev from:1983.25 till:1988.92 color:genlstaff text:"Sergey Akhromeyev"
bar:kurkotkin from:1983.25 till:1988.42 color:other text:"Semyon Kurkotkin"
bar:petrov from:1983.25 till:1985.08 color:service bar:petrov from:1985.08 till:1986 color:other text:"Vasily Petrov"
bar:spacer_gorbachev from:1930 till:1999 color:category bar:leader_gorbachev from:1985.45 till:1985.45 color:none text:"Gorbachev era (1985–1991)"
bar:yazov from:1990.33 till:1991.67 color:defence text:"Dmitry Yazov"
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See alsoEdit
- Marshal of the Russian Federation
- History of Russian military ranks
- Military ranks of the Soviet Union
- Marshal of the branch
- Chief marshal of the branch
- Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union
- Field marshal (Russian Empire)
- Marshal of the People's Republic of China
- Marshal (North Korea and South Korea)
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