This list contains the names, period of life and professional data of all military personnel and political figures who held military posts who were awarded a personal military rank [1] , later the military rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union.
The title Marshal of the Soviet Union was introduced on September 22, 1935 by a decree of the Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR "On the introduction of personal military ranks of the commanding staff of the Red Army", introducing for the personnel of the Worker and Peasant Red Army (Red Army) and the Worker and Peasant Red Fleet (RKKF ) personal military ranks. From paragraph 3 of this resolution: "To establish the title" Marshal of the Soviet Union ", personally assigned by the Government of the USSR to outstanding and especially distinguished persons of the High Command". Chairman of the CEC and SNK of the USSR M. Kalinin. Secretary of the CEC and SNK of the USSR I. Akulov [2] .
On November 21, 1935, for the first time, the personal rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union was awarded - the highest military rank, which was awarded to the military leaders who proved themselves in the civil war : K. E. Voroshilov, A. I. Egorov, M. N. Tukhachevsky, V. K. Blucher and S. M. Budyonny.
Until 1945, it was the personal highest rank in the Red Army , in the subsequent period - the previous highest rank of the Generalissimo of the Soviet Union .
The military rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union was excluded from the list of military ranks in 1991, in connection with the collapse of the USSR . In the Russian Federation , the successor of the Soviet Union, in 1993 the military rank of Marshal of the Russian Federation was established .
The title of Marshal of the Soviet Union was awarded 41 times, of which 36 - to professional military men, 5 - to political figures. The last time the title of Marshal of the Soviet Union was awarded April 28, 1990 D.T. Yazov .
There is evidence that in February 1945 the title Marshal of the Soviet Union was to be awarded to Ivan Danilovich Chernyakhovsky , but he died a few days before the promulgation of the relevant decree [3] [4] .
Deprived of the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union without subsequent reinstatement Deprived of the title of Marshal of the Soviet Union and subsequently reinstated in the title The Living Marshal of the Soviet Union
| Portrait | First name Patronymic Last name | Years of life | Date of assignment | Position at the time of assignment | Hero [5] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Clement Efremovich Voroshilov | 1881-1969 | November 20, 1935 | People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR |   [6] |
 | Mikhail Nikolaevich Tukhachevsky | 1893-1937 | November 20, 1935 (stripped of rank June 11, 1937, restored January 31, 1957) | Deputy People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR | - |
 | Semyon Mikhailovich WAKE-UP | 1883-1973 | November 20, 1935 | Cavalry Inspector of the Red Army | [7] |
 | Alexander Ilyich Egorov | 1883-1939 | November 20, 1935 (stripped of rank March 27, 1938, restored March 14, 1956) | Chief of General Staff of the Red Army | - |
 | Vasily Konstantinovich BLUCHER | 1889-1938 | November 20, 1935 (stripped of rank March 10, 1939 (posthumous), restored March 14, 1956) | Commander of the Special Red Banner Far Eastern Army | - |
 | Semyon Konstantinovich Tymoshenko | 1895-1970 | May 7, 1940 | People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR | [eight] |
| Grigory Ivanovich SANDPIPER | 1890-1950 | May 7, 1940 (stripped of rank February 19, 1942, restored September 28, 1957) | Deputy People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR, Head of the Main Artillery Directorate of the Red Army | [9] | |
 | Boris Mikhailovich Shaposhnikov | 1882-1945 | May 7, 1940 | Chief of General Staff of the Red Army | - |
 | Georgy Konstantinovich ZHUKOV | 1896-1974 | January 18, 1943 | First Deputy People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR | [ten] |
 | Alexander Mikhailovich Vasilevsky | 1895-1977 | February 16, 1943 | Head of the General Staff of the Red Army | [eleven] |
 | Joseph Vissarionovich STALIN | 1878-1953 | March 6, 1943 (June 27, 1945 awarded the title Generalissimo of the Soviet Union ) | Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of the USSR , Chairman of the State Committee of Defense , People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR , Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU (B.) | [12] |
 | Ivan Stepanovich HORSE | 1897-1973 | February 20, 1944 | Commander of the 2nd Ukrainian Front | [13] |
 | Leonid Alexandrovich TALKS | 1897-1955 | June 18, 1944 | Commander of the Leningrad Front | [14] |
 | Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovsky | 1896-1968 | June 29, 1944 | Commander of the 1st Belorussian Front | [15] |
 | Rodion Yakovlevich Malinovsky | 1898-1967 | September 10, 1944 | Commander of the 2nd Ukrainian Front | [sixteen] |
 | Fedor Ivanovich TOLBUKHIN | 1894-1949 | September 12, 1944 | Commander of the 3rd Ukrainian Front | [17] [18] |
 | Kirill Afanasevich MERETSKOV | 1897-1968 | October 26, 1944 | Commander of the Karelian Front | [nineteen] |
 | Lavrenty Pavlovich BERIA | 1899-1953 | July 9, 1945 (stripped of rank June 26, 1953) | People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the USSR | [20] [21] |
 | Vasily Danilovich SOKOLOVSKY | 1897-1968 | July 3, 1946 | Commander-in-Chief of the Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany, Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany | [22] |
 | Nikolay Alexandrovich BULGANIN | 1895-1975 | November 3, 1947 (stripped of rank November 26, 1958) | Minister of the Armed Forces of the USSR | [23] |
 | Ivan Khristoforovich BAGRAMYAN | 1897-1982 | March 11, 1955 | Chief Inspector of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR | [24] |
 | Sergey Semenovich TURQUOISES | 1904-1964 | March 11, 1955 | Commander-in-Chief of the USSR Air Defense Forces | [25] |
 | Andrey Antonovich GRECCO | 1903-1976 | March 11, 1955 | Commander-in-Chief of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany | [26] |
 | Andrey Ivanovich YEREMENKO | 1892-1970 | March 11, 1955 | Commander of the North Caucasus Military District | [27] |
 | Kirill Semenovich MOSKALENKO | 1902-1985 | March 11, 1955 | Commander of the Moscow Military District | [28] |
 | Vasily Ivanovich CHUIKOV | 1900-1982 | March 11, 1955 | Commander of the Kiev Military District | [29] |
 | Matvey Vasilievich Zakharov | 1898-1972 | May 8, 1959 | Commander-in-Chief of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany | [thirty] |
 | Philip Ivanovich GOLIKOV | 1900-1980 | May 6, 1961 | Head of the Main Political Directorate of the Soviet Army and Navy | - |
| Nikolay Ivanovich KRYLOV | 1903-1972 | May 28, 1962 | Commander of the Moscow Military District | [31] | |
 | Ivan Ignatievich YAKUBOVSKY | 1912-1976 | April 12, 1967 | First Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR | [32] |
| Pavel Fedorovich BATITSKY | 1910-1984 | April 15, 1968 | Commander-in-Chief of the Air Defense Forces of the country - Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR, Commander of the Air Defense Forces of the United Armed Forces - Deputy Commander of the Joint Armed Forces of the States Parties to the Warsaw Treaty | [33] | |
| Peter Kirillovich CAT | 1904-1976 | April 15, 1968 | Commander-in-Chief of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany | [34] | |
 | Leonid Ilyich BREZHNEV | 1906-1982 | May 7, 1976 | General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee , Chairman of the USSR Defense Council | [35] |
 | Dmitry Fedorovich USTINOV | 1908-1984 | July 30, 1976 | USSR Minister of Defense | [36] |
 | Victor Georgievich KULIKOV | 1921-2013 | January 14, 1977 | First Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR - Commander-in-Chief of the Joint Armed Forces of the States Parties to the Warsaw Pact. | [37] |
 | Nikolay Vasilievich OGARKOV | 1917-1994 | January 14, 1977 | Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR - First Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR | [38] |
 | Sergey Leonidovich SOKOLOV | 1911-2012 | February 17, 1978 | First Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR | [39] |
 | Sergey Fedorovich AHROMEEV | 1923-1991 | March 25, 1983 | First Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR | [40] |
 | Semyon Konstantinovich KURKOTKIN | 1917-1990 | March 25, 1983 | Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR - Chief of Logistics of the Armed Forces of the USSR | [41] |
| Vasily Ivanovich PETROV | 1917—2014 | March 25, 1983 | Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR - Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces | [42] | |
 | Dmitry Timofeevich YAZOV | R. November 8, 1924 | April 28, 1990 | USSR Minister of Defense | - |
Notes
- ↑ The phrase (term) of that time, “On the introduction of personal military ranks of the commanding staff of the Red Army”
- ↑ Marshal of the Soviet Union- list of marshals (Russian) (neopr.) ? . Marshals of the USSR. Date of treatment March 20, 2019.
- ↑ Legendary General Chernyakhovsky (inaccessible link)
- ↑ A shard pierced his heart
- ↑ Number of titles awarded Hero of the Soviet Union and Hero of Socialist Labor
- ↑ Voroshilov Kliment Efremovich on the site “Heroes of the country”
- ↑ Budyonny Semyon Mikhailovich on the website “Heroes of the country”
- ↑ Timoshenko Semyon Konstantinovich on the site “Heroes of the country”
- ↑ Kulik Grigory Ivanovich on the site “Heroes of the country”
- ↑ Zhukov Georgy Konstantinovich on the site "Heroes of the country"
- ↑ Vasilevsky Alexander Mikhailovich on the site "Heroes of the country"
- ↑ Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich on the site “Heroes of the country”
- ↑ Konev Ivan Stepanovich on the website “Heroes of the country”
- ↑ Govorov Leonid Alexandrovich on the site "Heroes of the country"
- ↑ Rokossovsky Konstantin Konstantinovich on the website “Heroes of the country”
- ↑ Malinovsky Rodion Yakovlevich on the site “Heroes of the country”
- ↑ Tolbukhin Fedor Ivanovich on the site “Heroes of the country”
- ↑ Title awarded posthumously in 1965
- ↑ Meretskov Kirill Afanasevich on the site “Heroes of the country”
- ↑ Beria Lavrenty Pavlovich on the site “Heroes of the country”
- ↑ Deprived of all awards and titles (including the title “Hero of Socialist Labor”) in 1953
- ↑ Sokolovsky Vasily Danilovich on the website “Heroes of the country”
- ↑ Bulganin Nikolay Alexandrovich on the website “Heroes of the country”
- ↑ Baghramyan Ivan Khristoforovich on the site “Heroes of the country”
- ↑ Biryuzov Sergey Semenovich on the website “Heroes of the country”
- ↑ Grechko Andrey Antonovich on the website “Heroes of the country”
- ↑ Eremenko Andrei Ivanovich on the site “Heroes of the country”
- ↑ Moskalenko Kirill Semenovich on the site “Heroes of the country”
- ↑ Chuikov Vasily Ivanovich on the site "Heroes of the country"
- ↑ Zakharov Matvey Vasilievich on the site “Heroes of the country”
- ↑ Krylov Nikolay Ivanovich on the website “Heroes of the country”
- ↑ Yakubovsky Ivan Ignatievich on the website “Heroes of the country”
- ↑ Batitsky Pavel Fedorovich on the site “Heroes of the country”
- ↑ Kosheva Pyotr Kirillovich on the site “Heroes of the country”
- ↑ Brezhnev Leonid Ilyich on the site "Heroes of the country"
- ↑ Ustinov Dmitry Fedorovich on the site “Heroes of the country”
- ↑ Kulikov Victor Georgievich on the site "Heroes of the country"
- ↑ Nikolai Vasilievich Ogarkov on the Heroes of the Country website Archived on April 11, 2013.
- ↑ Sokolov Sergey Leonidovich on the site “Heroes of the country”
- ↑ Akhromeev Sergey Fedorovich on the site “Heroes of the country”
- ↑ Kurotkin Semyon Konstantinovich on the website “Heroes of the country”
- ↑ Petrov Vasily Ivanovich on the site "Heroes of the country"
Literature
- Rubtsov Yu. V. Wands on epaulettes and emblems on uniform. All Field Marshals of Russia and Marshals of the Soviet Union. - M.: Publishing. House "Belfry-MG", 2002. - 384 p. - il. - ISBN 5-88093-070-X
- Marshals of the Soviet Union. Personal affairs are told / Institute of Military and Historical and Patriotic Problems and Research. - M.: Favorite book, 1996. - 96 p., Ill. - ISBN 5-7656-0012-3
- Odessa sewing of a marshal's uniform // Rush Hour . - 2011 .-- October 2.
See also
- Military ranks in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
- Marshal of the Soviet Union