Marshal of the Soviet Union

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 Lavrenti 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 Defence Minister 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 Akhromeev 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 made their reputations in World War II and assumed high commands in the latter part of the war. These included Zhukov, Vasilievsky, Konev, Rokossovsky, Malinovsky, Tolbukhin, Govorov, and Meretskov.
• Those who assumed high command in the Cold War era. All of these 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, Akhromeev, 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 the new Russia by the rank of Marshal of the Russian Federation, which has been held by only one person, Marshal Igor Sergeyev, who was Russian Defence Minister from 1997 to 2001.

After the death of Marshal Yazov in 2020 there were no living Marshals of the Soviet Union.

List of Marshals of the Soviet Union

No.	Name	Photo	Date of rank	Positions held[a]	Central Committee member	Secretariat member	Politburo member	Years[b]	Additional Notes[c]
1	Kliment Voroshilov		20 Nov 1935[1]	People's Commissar for Defence, 1934–1940. Deputy Chairman, Council of People's Commissars, 1940–1946. Commander-in-Chief, Northwestern Direction, 1941. Commander, Leningrad Front, 1941. Chairman, Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, 1953–1960.	Yes	No	Yes	34	(1881–1969)[d] 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		20 Nov 1935	Inspector of Cavalry, Red Army, 1923–1937. Commander, Moscow Military District, 1937–1939. Deputy People's Commissar for Defence, 1939–1940. First Deputy People's Commissar for Defence, 1940–1941. Commander-in-Chief, Southwestern Direction, 1941. Commander, Reserve Front, 1941. Commander-in-Chief, North Caucasus Direction, 1942. Commander, North Caucasus Front, 1942. Inspector of Cavalry, Red Army, 1943–1945. Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food, 1945–1954. Inspector of Cavalry, Soviet Army, 1953–1954.	Yes	No	No	19	(1883–1973)[e] Retired, 1954. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1958, 1963 and 1968.
3	Alexander Yegorov		20 Nov 1935	Deputy People's Commissar for Defence/Chief of the General Staff, 1935–1937. Commander, Transcaucasian Military District, 1937–1938.	Yes (as candidate)	No	No	3	(1883–1939)[f][g] Stripped of rank, 1938. Posthumously rehabilitated.
4	Vasily Blyukher		20 Nov 1935	Commander, Special Red Banner Far Eastern Army, 1935–1938. Commander, Far Eastern Front, 1938.	Yes (as candidate)	No	No	3	(1889–1938)[f][h] Retroactively stripped of rank, 1939. Posthumously rehabilitated.
5	Mikhail Tukhachevsky		20 Nov 1935	Technology and Armament Chief, Red Army/Deputy People's Commissar for War, 1931–1936. First Deputy People's Commissar for Defence/Inspector of Military Training, 1936–1937. Commander, Volga Military District, 1937.	Yes (as candidate)	No	No	2	(1893–1937)[f][i] Stripped of rank, 1937. Posthumously rehabilitated.
6	Semyon Timoshenko		7 May 1940	People's Commissar for Defence, 1940–1941. People's Commissar for Defence/Chairman, Stavka of the Soviet Armed Forces, 1941. Commander, Western Front, 1941. Commander-in-Chief, Southwestern Direction, 1941. Commander, Stalingrad Front, 1942. Commander, Southwestern Front, 1942. Commander, Northwestern Front, 1942–1943. Chairman, Stavka of the Supreme Main Command, 1943–1945. Commander, Baranovich Military District, 1946. Commander, Belorussian Military District, 1946. Commander, South Ural Military District, 1946–1949. Commander, Belorussian Military District, 1949–1960.	Yes	No	No	20	(1895–1970) Appointed to Group of Inspectors General, 1960. Chairman, State Committee for War Veterans, 1961–1970. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1940 and 1965; awarded Order of Victory, 1945.
7	Boris Shaposhnikov		7 May 1940	Chief of the General Staff, 1937–1940. Deputy People's Commissar for Defence/Chief of the General Staff, 1941–1942. Deputy People's Commissar for Defence, 1942–1943. Commandant, Kliment E. Voroshilov Higher Military Academy, 1943–1945.	Yes (as candidate)	No	No	5	(1882–1945) Died in office.
8	Grigory Kulik		7 May 1940	Chief, Main Artillery Directorate, Red Army, 1937–1941. Deputy Chief of the General Staff, 1939–1941. Deputy People's Commissar for Defence, 1939–1942. Stavka Representative to the Crimean Front, 1941–1942. Head, Main Formation and Training Directorate, Red Army, 1941. Commander, 54th Army, 1941.	Yes	No	No	2	(1890–1950)[j] Demoted, 1942. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1940 (rescinded 1942). Posthumously rehabilitated.
9	Georgy Zhukov		18 Jan 1943	Deputy People's Commissar for Defence/Deputy Commander-in-Chief, Soviet Armed Forces, 1942–1944. Commander, 1st Ukrainian Front, 1944. Commander, 1st Belorussian Front, 1944–1945. Commander-in-Chief, Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany, 1945. Military Governor, Soviet Military Administration in Germany/Commander-in-Chief, Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany, 1945–1946. Deputy Minister of the Armed Forces/Commander-in-Chief, Soviet Ground Forces, 1946. Commander, Odessa Military District, 1946–1948. Commander, Ural Military District, 1948–1953. First Deputy Minister of Defence, 1953–1955. Minister of Defence, 1955–1957.	Yes	No	Yes	14	(1896–1974) Dismissed as minister of defence, 1957. Chief of the General Staff, 1941. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1940, 1944, 1945 and 1956; awarded Order of Victory, 1944 and 1945.
10	Aleksandr Vasilevsky		16 Feb 1943	Deputy People's Commissar for Defence/Chief of the General Staff, 1942–1945. Chief of the General Staff, 1945. Commander-in-Chief, Far East Command, 1945–1946. Chief of the General Staff, 1946–1948. Minister of the Armed Forces, 1949–1950. Minister of War, 1950–1953. Deputy Minister of Defence, 1953–1956. Deputy Minister of Defence for Military Science, 1956–1957.	Yes	No	No	16	(1895–1977) Appointed to Group of Inspectors General, 1959. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1944 and 1945; awarded Order of Victory, 1944 and 1945.
11	Joseph Stalin		6 Mar 1943[2]	General Secretary, Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party, 1922–1952. Chairman, Council of People's Commissars, 1941–1946. Chairman, Council of Ministers, 1946–1953. Supreme Commander, Soviet Armed Forces, 1941–1953. Chairman, State Defense Committee, 1941–1945. People's Commissar for Defence, 1941–1946. People's Commissar for the Armed Forces, 1946. Minister of the Armed Forces, 1946–1947.	Yes	Yes	Yes	10	(1878–1953) Died in office. Promoted to generalissimus, 27 Jun 1945. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1945; Hero of Socialist Labour, 1939; awarded Order of Victory, 1944.
12	Ivan Konev		20 Feb 1944[3]	Commander, 2nd Ukrainian Front, 1943–1944. Commander, 1st Ukrainian Front, 1944–1945. Commander, Soviet Occupation Forces, Eastern Germany/Allied High Commissioner for Austria, 1945–1946. First Deputy Minister of the Armed Forces/Commander-in-Chief, Soviet Ground Forces, 1946–1950. Chief Inspector, Soviet Ground Forces, 1950–1951. Commander, Carpathian Military District, 1951–1955. First Deputy Minister of Defence/Supreme Commander, Unified Armed Forces of the Warsaw Treaty Organization, 1955–1960. Commander-in-Chief, Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, 1961–1962.	Yes	No	No	18	(1897–1973) Appointed to Group of Inspectors General, 1962. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1944 and 1945; awarded Order of Victory, 1945.
13	Leonid Govorov		18 Jun 1944	Commander, Leningrad Front, 1942–1945. Commander, Leningrad Military District, 1945–1946. Chief Inspector, Soviet Ground Forces, 1946–1948. Commander-in-Chief, National Air Defence Forces, 1948–1952. Deputy Minister of War/Commander-in-Chief, National Air Defence Forces, 1952–1954. Deputy Minister of Defence/Commander-in-Chief, Soviet Air Defence Forces, 1954–1955.	Yes (as candidate)	No	No	11	(1897–1955) Died in office. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1945; awarded Order of Victory, 1945.
14	Konstantin Rokossovsky		29 Jun 1944	Commander, 1st Belorussian Front, 1943–1944. Commander, 2nd Belorussian Front, 1944–1945. Commander, Northern Group of Forces, 1945–1949. Minister of National Defence, People's Republic of Poland, 1949–1952. Deputy Chairman, Council of Ministers, People's Republic of Poland, 1952–1957. Deputy Minister of Defence/Commander, Transcaucasian Military District, 1957–1958. Deputy Minister of Defence/Chief Inspector, Ministry of Defence, 1958–1962.	Yes (as candidate)	No	No	18	(1896–1968) Retired, 1962. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1944 and 1945; awarded Order of Victory, 1945. Made Marshal of Poland, 1949. Candidate member, 22nd–23rd Central Committee, 1962–1968.
15	Rodion Malinovsky		10 Sep 1944	Commander, 2nd Ukrainian Front, 1944–1945. Head, Allied Commission for Hungary, 1944–1947. Commander, Transbaikal Front, 1945. Commander, Transbaikal-Amur Military District, 1945–1947. Commander-in-Chief, Soviet Far East High Command, 1947–1953. Commander, Far Eastern Military District, 1953–1956. First Deputy Minister of Defence/Commander-in-Chief, Soviet Ground Forces, 1956–1957. Minister of Defence, 1957–1967.	Yes	No	No	23	(1898–1967) Died in office. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1945 and 1958; awarded Order of Victory, 1945.
16	Fyodor Tolbukhin		12 Sep 1944	Commander, 3rd Ukrainian Front, 1944–1945. Commander-in-Chief, Southern Group of Forces, 1945–1947. Commander, Transcaucasus Military District, 1947–1949.	No	No	No	5	(1894–1949) Died in office. Posthumously made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1965; awarded Order of Victory, 1945.
17	Kirill Meretskov		26 Oct 1944	Commander, Karelian Front, 1944–1945. Commander, 1st Far Eastern Front, 1945. Commander-in-Chief, Soviet Occupation Forces in Northern Korea, 1945–1947. Commander, Moscow Military District, 1947–1949. Commander, Belomorsky Military District, 1949–1951. Commander, Northern Military District, 1951–1954. Assistant Minister of Defence, 1955–1964.	Yes (as candidate)	No	No	20	(1897–1968) Appointed to Group of Inspectors General, 1964. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1940; awarded Order of Victory, 1945.
18	Lavrentiy Beria		9 Jul 1945[4]	People's Commissar of the Interior, 1938–1946. Deputy Chairman, Council of Ministers, 1946–1953. Minister of Internal Affairs, 1953. First Deputy Chairman, Council of Ministers, 1953.	Yes	No	Yes	8	(1899–1953)[k] Made Hero of Socialist Labour, 1943. Stripped of rank and executed, 1953.
19	Vasily Sokolovsky		3 Jul 1946	Military Governor, Soviet Military Administration in Germany/Commander-in-Chief, Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany, 1946–1949. First Deputy Minister of Defence, 1949–1952. First Deputy Minister of Defence/Chief of the General Staff, 1952–1960.	Yes	No	No	14	(1897–1968)[l] Appointed to Group of Inspectors General, 1960. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1945.
20	Nikolai Bulganin		3 Nov 1947[5]	Minister of the Armed Forces, 1947–1949. First Deputy Chairman, Council of Ministers, 1950–1955. Minister of Defence, 1953–1955. Chairman, Council of Ministers, 1955–1958. Chairman, Soviet State Bank, 1958. Chairman, Regional Economic Council, 1958.	Yes	No	Yes	11	(1895–1975)[m] Chairman, Council of People's Commissars, Russian SFSR, 1937–1938. Made Hero of Socialist Labour, 1955. Stripped of rank, 1958.
21	Andrei Grechko		11 Mar 1955	Commander-in-Chief, Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, 1954–1957. First Deputy Minister of Defence/Commander-in-Chief, Soviet Ground Forces, 1957–1960. First Deputy Minister of Defence/Supreme Commander, Unified Armed Forces of the Warsaw Treaty Organization, 1960–1967. Minister of Defence, 1967–1976.	Yes	No	Yes	21	(1903–1976) Died in office. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1958 and 1973.
22	Kirill Moskalenko		11 Mar 1955	Commander, Moscow Military District, 1953–1960. Deputy Minister of Defence/Commander-in-Chief, Strategic Missile Forces, 1960–1962. Deputy Minister of Defence/Chief Inspector, Ministry of Defence, 1962–1983.	Yes	No	No	28	(1902–1985) Appointed to Group of Inspectors General, 1983. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1943 and 1978.
23	Vasily Chuikov		11 Mar 1955	Commander, Kiev Military District, 1953–1960. Deputy Minister of Defence/Commander-in-Chief, Soviet Ground Forces, 1960–1961. Deputy Minister of Defence/Commander-in-Chief, Soviet Ground Forces/Chief, Civil Defence, 1961–1964. Deputy Minister of Defence/Chief, Civil Defence, 1964–1972.	Yes	No	No	17	(1900–1982) Retired, 1972. Commander-in-Chief, Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany, 1949–1953. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1944 and 1945.
24	Ivan Bagramyan		11 Mar 1955[6]	Deputy Minister of Defence, 1955–1956. Deputy Minister of Defence/Commandant, Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union, 1956–1958. Deputy Minister of Defence, 1958–1968.	Yes	No	No	13	(1897–1982) Retired, 1968. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1944 and 1977. Last surviving Marshal of the Soviet Union to hold high command during World War II.
25	Sergey Biryuzov		11 Mar 1955	Deputy Minister of Defence/Commander-in-Chief, Soviet Air Defence Forces, 1955–1962. Deputy Minister of Defence/Commander-in-Chief, Strategic Missile Forces, 1962–1963. Chief of the General Staff, 1963–1964.	Yes	No	No	9	(1904–1964) Died in office. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1958.
26	Andrey Yeryomenko		11 Mar 1955	Commander, North Caucasus Military District, 1953–1958.	Yes (as candidate)	No	No	3	(1892–1970) Appointed to Group of Inspectors General, 1958. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1944.
27	Matvei Zakharov		8 May 1959	Commander-in-Chief, Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, 1957–1960. Deputy Minister of Defence/Chief of the General Staff, 1960–1963. Commandant, Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union, 1963–1964. Deputy Minister of Defence/Chief of the General Staff, 1964–1971.	Yes	No	No	12	(1898–1972) Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1945 and 1971. Director, Main Intelligence Directorate, 1949–1952.
28	Filipp Golikov		8 May 1961	Chief, Main Political Administration of the Soviet Armed Forces, 1958–1962.	Yes	No	No	1	(1900–1980) Relieved and appointed to Group of Inspectors General, 1962. Director, Main Intelligence Directorate, 1940–1941.
29	Nikolay Krylov		28 Apr 1962	Commander, Moscow Military District, 1960–1963. Deputy Minister of Defence/Commander-in-Chief, Strategic Missile Forces, 1963–1972.	Yes	No	No	10	(1903–1972) Died in office. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, twice in 1945.
30	Ivan Yakubovsky		12 Apr 1967	First Deputy Minister of Defence, 1967. First Deputy Minister of Defence/Supreme Commander of the Unified Armed Forces of the Warsaw Treaty Organization, 1967–1976.	Yes	No	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	Pyotr Koshevoy		15 Apr 1968	Commander-in-Chief, Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, 1965–1969.	Yes (as candidate)	No	No	1	(1904–1976) Appointed to Group of Inspectors General, 1969. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1944 and 1945.
32	Pavel Batitsky		15 Apr 1968[7]	Commander-in-Chief, Soviet Air Defence Forces, 1966–1978.	Yes	No	No	10	(1910–1984) Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1965.
33	Leonid Brezhnev		7 May 1976[8][9]	General Secretary, Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1964–1982.[n] Chairman, Defence Council of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1964–1982. Chairman, Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, 1977–1982.	Yes	Yes	Yes	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		30 Jul 1976	Minister of Defence, 1976–1984.	Yes	Yes	Yes	8	(1908–1984) Died in office. People's Commissar of Armaments, 1941–1946; Minister of Armaments, 1946–1953; Minister of the Defence Industry, 1953–1957; Deputy Chairman, Council of Ministers/Chairman, Military-Industrial Commission, 1957–1963; First Deputy Chairman, Council of Ministers, 1963–1965. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1978; Hero of Socialist Labour, 1942 and 1961.
35	Viktor Kulikov		14 Jan 1977	First Deputy Minister of Defence/Supreme Commander, Unified Armed Forces of the Warsaw Treaty Organization, 1977–1989.	Yes	No	No	12	(1921–2013) Relieved, 1989. Commander-in-Chief, Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, 1969–1971; Chief of the General Staff, 1971–1977; Member, 3rd State Duma of the Russian Federation, 1999–2003. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1981.
36	Nikolai Ogarkov		14 Jan 1977	First Deputy Minister of Defence/Chief of the General Staff, 1977–1984. Commander-in-Chief, Soviet Western Theatre of Military Operations, 1984–1988.	Yes	No	No	11	(1917–1994) Relieved as chief of general staff, 1984; appointed to Group of Inspectors General, 1988. Military Advisor to the Russian Minister of Defence, 1992–1994. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1977.
37	Sergey Sokolov		17 Feb 1978	First Deputy Minister of Defence, 1966–1984. Commander-in-Chief, Soviet forces in Afghanistan, 1979–1980. Minister of Defence, 1984–1987.	Yes	No	Yes (as candidate)	9	(1911–2012) Dismissed as minister of defence, 1987. Military Advisor to the Russian Minister of Defence, 1992–2012. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1980. Longest-lived Marshal of the Soviet Union.
38	Sergey Akhromeyev		25 Mar 1983	First Deputy Chief of the General Staff, 1979–1984. First Deputy Minister of Defence/Chief of the General Staff, 1984–1988.	Yes	No	No	5	(1923–1991) Appointed to Group of Inspectors General, 1988. Advisor for Military Affairs to the President of the Soviet Union, 1990–1991; Member, State Committee on the State of Emergency, 1991.[o] Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1982.
39	Semyon Kurkotkin		25 Mar 1983	Deputy Minister of Defence/Chief, Rear Services of the Soviet Armed Forces, 1972–1988.	Yes	No	No	5	(1917–1990) Appointed to Group of Inspectors General, 1988. Commander-in-Chief, Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, 1971–1972. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1981.
40	Vasily Petrov		25 Mar 1983	Deputy Minister of Defence/Commander-in-Chief, Soviet Ground Forces, 1980–1985. First Deputy Minister of Defence, 1985–1986.	Yes	No	No	3	(1917–2014) Military Advisor to the Russian Minister of Defence, 1992–2014. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1982.
41	Dmitry Yazov		28 Apr 1990	Minister of Defence, 1987–1991. Member, State Committee on the State of Emergency, 1991.[o]	Yes	No	Yes (as candidate)	1	(1924–2020) Dismissed as minister of defence, 1991. Last Marshal of the Soviet Union to die.

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• Field marshal (Russian Empire)
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• Biographies of all the Marshals of the USSR