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{{Short description|Highest Soviet military rank}}
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{{Infobox military rank
| name           = Marshal of the Soviet Union
| native_name    = {{nobold|{{lang|ru|Маршал Советского Союза|italic=no}}}}
| image          = Large Marshal's Star.svg
| image_size     = 100px
| caption        = [[Marshal's star]] – big
| image2         = Rank insignia of маршал Советского Союза.svg
| image_size2    = 90px
| caption2       = Uniform shoulder strap {{small|(1955–1991)}}
| country        = {{flag|USSR}}
| service branch = [[Red Army]] (1922–1946)<br />[[Soviet Army]] (1946–1991)
| abbreviation   = 
| rank           = [[General officer]]
| NATO rank      = 
| Non-NATO rank  = 
| formation      = {{Start date and age|22 September 1935}}
| abolished      = {{End date and age|1991|12|}} 
| higher rank    = [[Generalissimo of the Soviet Union|Generalissimo]]
| lower rank     = [[Army General (Soviet rank)|Army General]]<br />[[Marshal of the branch]]
| equivalents    = [[Admiral of the fleet of the Soviet Union|Admiral of the Fleet]]<br />[[Chief marshal of the branch]]
}}
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| caption1          = Gorget patch<br />1935–1940
| image2            = RKKA 1940 collar OF10 marshal.svg
| caption2          = Gorget patch<br />1940–1943
| image3            = RKKA 1940 chevron OF10 marshal.svg
| caption3          = Sleeve chevron<br />1940–1943
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'''Marshal of the Soviet Union''' ({{langx|ru|Маршал Советского Союза|Marshal sovetskogo soyuza}}, {{IPA|ru|ˈmarʂəl sɐˈvʲetskəvə sɐˈjuzə|pron}}) was the second-highest [[military rank]] of the [[Soviet Union]]. It was ''de facto'' the highest rank because its superior rank, [[Generalissimo of the Soviet Union|Generalissimo]], was only applied to [[Joseph Stalin]], who preferred to wear the uniform and insignia of a Marshal after World War II.

The rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union was created in 1935 and abolished in 1991 when [[Dissolution of the Soviet Union|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 rank==
{{see also|List of Field Marshals of the Russian Empire}}
[[File:5marshals 01.jpg|thumb|The first five marshals of the Soviet Union from left to right: [[Mikhail Tukhachevsky]], [[Semyon Budyonny]], [[Kliment Voroshilov]], [[Vasily Blyukher]], and [[Alexander Yegorov (soldier)|Alexander Yegorov]]. Only Budyonny and Voroshilov survived 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: [[Minister of Defence (Soviet Union)|People's Commissar of Defence]] and veteran [[Bolshevik]] [[Kliment Voroshilov]], [[Chief of the General Staff (Russia)|chief of the General Staff of the Red Army]] [[Alexander Yegorov (soldier)|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 [[1991 Soviet coup attempt|failed coup]] against [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] in 1991. Marshal [[Sergei Akhromeyev]] committed suicide in 1991 during the [[Dissolution of the Soviet Union|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, [[Ivan Yakubovsky|Yakubovsky]], Kulikov, [[Nikolai Ogarkov|Ogarkov]], [[Sergey Akhromeyev|Akhromeyev]], and [[Dmitry Yazov|Yazov]].

All marshals in the third category had been officers in World War II, except Ustinov, who had been [[Ministry of Armaments (Soviet Union)|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 marshals==
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
|+ List of Marshals of the Soviet Union
! scope="col" data-sort-type=number | {{Abbr|No.|Number}}
! scope="col" style="width: 7em;" | Name
! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Photo
! scope="col" width="85" data-sort-type=isoDate | Date of rank
! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Positions held{{efn|name=positions|Positions held during active service as a marshal, within the [[Red Army]]/[[Soviet Armed Forces]], [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Communist Party]], or [[Government of the Soviet Union|non-CPSU governmental apparatus]]. Selected minor positions are hidden.}}
! scope="col" | Central<br />Committee<br />member
! scope="col" | Secretariat<br />member
! scope="col" | Politburo<br />member
! scope="col" class="sortable" | Yrs{{efn|name=years|Years spent in active service as a marshal. Soviet marshals, with a few exceptions, typically held prominent positions—including full or candidate membership of the [[Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|CPSU's Central Committee]] and [[Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Politburo/Presidium]]—without explicitly retiring. [[Interregnum|Interregna]] between the holding of such positions are not counted. Retirement for the purposes of counting years on this list are:
* Appointment as a member of the [[Group of Inspectors General]], a [[sinecure]] for superannuated senior officers (e.g. [[Semyon Timoshenko|Timoshenko]], [[Aleksandr Vasilevsky|Vasilevsky]], [[Ivan Konev|Konev]]).
* Demotion in rank (e.g. [[Grigory Kulik|Kulik]]).
* Resignation or dismissal from office or as a member of ruling Communist Party or state organs (e.g. [[Kliment Voroshilov|Voroshilov]], [[Georgy Zhukov|Zhukov]], [[Sergei Sokolov (marshal)|Sokolov]]).
* Death in office (e.g. [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]], [[Leonid Brezhnev|Brezhnev]], [[Dmitry Ustinov|Ustinov]]).
* Arrest and/or execution, with summary dismissal from all offices (e.g. [[Vasily Blyukher|Blyukher]], [[Mikhail Tukhachevsky|Tukhachevsky]], [[Lavrentiy Beria|Beria]]).
}}
! scope="col" class="unsortable" width="150" | Notes{{efn|name=notes|Includes lifespan; awards of the [[Hero of the Soviet Union]], [[Hero of Socialist Labour]], and [[Order of Victory]]; major appointments before promotion to and after retirement as a marshal; and unusual career events such as demotion, removal from office, and purges by Communist Party leadership.}}
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" | 1
| data-sort-value="voroshilov" | {{nowrap|[[Kliment Voroshilov]]}}
| [[File:Kliment Voroshilov.jpg|75px]]
| style="text-align: right;" data-sort-value="1935-11-20-00" | {{nowrap|20 Nov 1935<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.prlib.ru/en/history/619005|title=Birthday Anniversary of Kliment Ye. Voroshilov, Statesman and Military Figure, Marshal of the Soviet Union|access-date=2021-09-27|website=[[Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library]]}}</ref>}} 
|
* [[Minister of Defence (Soviet Union)#People's Commissars for Defence (1934–1946)|People's Commissar for Defence]], 1934–1938.
* [[Minister of Defence (Soviet Union)#People's Commissars for Defence (1934–1946)|People's Commissar for Defence]]/Chairman, Main Military Council of the [[Red Army]], 1938–1940.{{sfn|Spahr|1972|p=55}}
* [[Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union|Deputy Chairman, Council of Ministers]], 1940–1953.{{efn|as [[Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union|Deputy Chairman, Council of People's Commissars]] (1940–1946){{sfn|Huskey|1992|p=25}}}}<ref name="presidium_1940-05-08">{{cite web|url=https://docs.historyrussia.org/ru/nodes/140878|title=Приказ с объявлением Указов Президиума Верховного Совета СССР о назначении К. Е. Ворошилова заместителем Председателя СНК СССР и председателем Комитета Обороны при СНК СССР, С. К. Тимошенко|trans-title=Announcement of Decrees of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on the appointment of K.E. Voroshilov as Deputy Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars and S.K. Timoshenko as People's Commissar for Defence|date=1940-05-08|access-date=2024-12-07|publisher=[[Presidium of the Supreme Soviet]]|language=ru|website=Electronic Library of [Russian and Soviet] Historical Documents}}</ref>
* Chairman, [[Allied Commission#Hungary|Allied Control Commission in Hungary]], 1945–1947.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Hollósi|first=Dániel József|title=The Economic Policy of the Hungarian Communist Party between 1945 and 1946|journal=Studia|volume=36|issue=2|pages=57–58|year=2020|doi=10.48261/PIS203604}}</ref>
* [[List of heads of state of the Soviet Union|Chairman, Presidium of the Supreme Soviet]], 1953–1960.<ref name="minutes_1953-03-05">{{cite web|url=https://docs.historyrussia.org/ru/nodes/363076|title=Из протокола совместного заседания пленума ЦК КПСС, Совета Министров СССР и Президиума Верховного Совета СССР|trans-title=From the minutes of the joint meeting of the plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU, the Council of Ministers of the USSR and the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the USSR (5 March 1953)|date=1953-03-05|access-date=2024-12-14|publisher=[[Government of the Soviet Union]]|language=ru|website=Electronic Library of [Russian and Soviet] Historical Documents}}</ref>
{{show|Other positions (1939–1942)
|
* Commander in Chief, [[Winter War|Soviet Forces in Finland]], 1939–1940.{{sfn|Manninen|2004|p=111}}
* Chairman, Defence Committee, [[Council of People's Commissars]], 1940.<ref name="presidium_1940-05-08"/>{{sfn|Karlsson|1988|p=72}}
* Commander in Chief, Northwestern Direction, 1941.<ref name="directions_(1)">{{cite web|url=https://docs.historyrussia.org/ru/nodes/261067-postanovlenie-gko-locale-nil-83-ss-locale-nil-o-naznachenii-glavnokomanduyuschih-voyskami-severo-zapadnogo-zapadnogo-i-yugo-zapadnogo-napravleniy-i-preobrazovanii-stavki-glavnogo-komandovaniya-v-stavku-verhovnogo-komandovaniya-10-iyulya-1941-g|title=Постановление ГКО № 83 сс «О назначении главнокомандующих войсками Северо-западного, Западного и Юго-Западного направлений и преобразовании Ставки Главного Командования в Ставку Верховного Командования»|trans-title=GKO Decree No. 83 "On the appointment of commander-in-chief of troops of the North-West, West and South-West directions and the transformation of the Headquarters of the Main Command into the Headquarters of the Supreme Command"|date=1941-07-10|access-date=2024-12-07|publisher=State Defence Committee|language=ru|website=Electronic Library of [Russian and Soviet] Historical Documents}}</ref> 
* Commander in Chief, [[Leningrad Front]], 1941.{{sfn|Shukman|1997|pp=318–319}}
* [[Stavka of the Supreme High Command|Stavka]] Representative to the [[Volkhov Front]], 1942.{{sfn|Shukman|1997|pp=318–319}}
* Commander in Chief, [[Central Headquarters of the Partisan Movement]], 1942.{{sfn|Shukman|1997|pp=318–319}}
}}
| data-sort-value="10(a)" {{yes}}<br />{{small|([[Central Committee of the 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)|10th]]–[[Central Committee of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|20th]], [[Central Committee of the 23rd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|23rd]])}}
| {{no}}
| data-sort-value="14(a)" {{yes}}<br />{{small|([[Politburo of the 14th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)|14th]]–[[Presidium of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|20th]])}}
| 25
| (1881–1969) Resigned as head of state, 1960.<ref>{{cite news|last=Frankel|first=Max|author-link=Max Frankel|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1960/05/08/archives/voroshilov-quits-as-chief-of-state-brezhnev-khrushchev-aide-rising.html|title=Voroshilov Quits as Chief of State; Brezhnev, Khrushchev Aide, Rising in Party Councils, Succeeds Marshal, 79|date=1960-05-08|access-date=2024-12-02|newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref> [[List of mayors of Luhansk|Mayor of Luhansk]], 1917; [[Minister of Defence (Soviet Union)#People's Commissars for Military and Naval Affairs (1917–1934)|People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs]], 1925–1934. Made [[Hero of the Soviet Union]], 1956 and 1968; [[Hero of Socialist Labour]], 1960.
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" | 2
| data-sort-value="budyonny" | [[Semyon Budyonny]]
| [[File:Маршал Советского Союза Семён Михайлович Будённый.jpg|75px]]
| style="text-align: right;" data-sort-value="1935-11-20-01" | {{nowrap|20 Nov 1935{{sfn|Tyushkevich|1978|p=209}}}}
|
* Inspector of Cavalry, [[Red Army]], 1924–1937.
* Commander, [[Moscow Military District]], 1937–1940.
* First Deputy People's Commissar for Defence, 1940–1942.<ref name="politburo_1942-08-27">{{cite web|url=https://docs.historyrussia.org/ru/nodes/327949|title=Постановление Политбюро ЦК ВКП(б) «О первом заместителе народного комиссара обороны»|trans-title=Decree of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) "On the First Deputy People's Commissar for Defence"|date=1942-08-27|access-date=2024-12-07|publisher=Politburo of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)|language=ru|website=Electronic Library of [Russian and Soviet] Historical Documents}}</ref>
* Deputy People's Commissar for Defence, 1942–1943.
* Inspector of Cavalry, [[Red Army]], 1943–1945.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://docs.historyrussia.org/ru/nodes/187514-prikaz-o-naznachenii-marshala-sovetskogo-soyuza-budennogo-s-m-komanduyuschim-kavaleriey-krasnoy-armii-i-general-polkovnika-gorodovikova-o-i-ego-zamestitelem-25-yanvarya-1943-g|title=Приказ о назначении Маршала Советского Союза Буденного С.М. командующим кавалерией Красной Армии и генерал-полковника Городовикова О.И. - его заместителем|trans-title=People's Commissar of Defence of the USSR, Order No. 057 "Order on the appointment of Marshal of the Soviet Union S.M. Budenny as commander of the cavalry of the Red Army and Colonel General O.I. Gorodovikov as his deputy"|date=1943-01-25|access-date=2024-12-07|publisher=[[People's Commissariat of Defense of the Soviet Union|People's Commissariat of Defence of the Soviet Union]]|language=ru|website=Electronic Library of [Russian and Soviet] Historical Documents}}</ref> 
* Deputy Minister of Agriculture, 1947–1953.
* Deputy Minister of Agriculture/Inspector of Cavalry, [[Soviet Army|Soviet Ground Forces]], 1953–1954.

{{show|Field commands (1940–1942)
|
* Commander, [[21st Army (Soviet Union)|21st Army]], 1941.
* Commander in Chief, Southwestern Direction, 1941.<ref name="directions_(1)"/>
* Commander in Chief, [[Reserve Front]], 1941.<ref name="directions_(2)">{{cite web|url=https://docs.historyrussia.org/ru/nodes/198591|title=Директива Ставки ВГК № 001863 главнокомандующим войсками Юго-Западного и Западного направлений, командующим войсками Резервного и Западного фронтов о назначениях высшего командного состава|trans-title=Stavka Headquarters Directive No. 001863 by the Commander-in-Chief of the South-West and Western Forces "On the appointment of senior command personnel for the Reserve and Western Fronts"|date=1941-09-11|access-date=2024-12-07|publisher=Stavka of the Supreme High Command|language=ru|website=Electronic Library of [Russian and Soviet] Historical Documents}}</ref> 
* Commander in Chief, North Caucasus Direction, 1942.
* Commander in Chief, [[North Caucasus Front]], 1942.
}}
| data-sort-value="17(b)" {{yes}}<br />{{small|(Candidate: [[Central Committee of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)|17th]], [[Central Committee of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|19th]]–[[Central Committee of the 24th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|24th]]; Full: [[Central Committee of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)|18th]])}}
| {{no}}
| {{no}}
| 17
| (1883–1973) Retired, 1954. Made [[Hero of the Soviet Union]], 1958, 1963 and 1968.
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" | 3
| data-sort-value="tukhachevsky" | [[Mikhail Tukhachevsky]]
| [[File:Tukhachevsky.png|75px]]
| style="text-align: right;" data-sort-value="1935-11-20-02" | {{nowrap|20 Nov 1935{{sfn|Tyushkevich|1978|p=209}}}}
|
* First Deputy People's Commissar for Defence/Chief of Ordnance, [[Red Army]], 1931–1936.<ref>{{cite journal|last=McGranahan|first=William|url=https://press.armywarcollege.edu/parameters/vol8/iss1/18/|title=The Rise and Fall of Marshal Tukhachevsky|journal=Parameters|volume=8|number=1|page=63|date=1978-07-04|access-date=2024-12-05|doi=10.55540/0031-1723.1146|publisher=USAWC Press}}</ref>
* Deputy People's Commissar for Defence/Inspector of Military Training, [[Red Army]], 1936–1937.<ref>{{cite web|last=McFadden|first=Christopher Paul|url=https://www.ausa.org/sites/default/files/LWP-56-Mikhail-Nikolayevich-Tukhachevsky-1893-1937-Practitioner-and-Theorist-of-War.pdf|title=Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky (1893–1937): Practitioner and Theorist of War|page=6|date=August 2006|access-date=2024-12-05|publisher=The Institute of Land Warfare|website=Association of the United States Army}}</ref>
<!--Appointed, but arrested before assuming command.
* Commander, [[Volga Military District]], 1937.-->
| data-sort-value="17(b)" {{operational|Candidate}}<br />{{small|([[Central Committee of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)|17th]])}}
| {{no}}
| {{no}}
| 2
| (1893–1937){{efn|Arrested and stripped of rank, 22 May 1937; executed, 12 June 1937; rehabilitated and posthumously restored as marshal, 31 January 1957.}} Stripped of rank, 1937. Posthumously rehabilitated.
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" | 4
| data-sort-value="yegorov" | [[Alexander Yegorov (soldier)|Alexander Yegorov]]
| [[File:Александр Егоров.jpg|75px]]
| style="text-align: right;" data-sort-value="1935-11-20-03" | {{nowrap|20 Nov 1935{{sfn|Tyushkevich|1978|p=209}}}}
|
* Deputy People's Commissar for Defence/[[Chief of the General Staff (Russia)#Chief of the General Staff|Chief, General Staff of the Red Army]], 1935–1937.
* First Deputy People's Commissar for Defence, 1937–1938.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://docs.historyrussia.org/ru/nodes/402225|title=Об утверждении Маршала Советского Союза т. Егорова А.И. первым заместителем Народного Комиссара Обороны СССР|trans-title=On approval of Marshal of the Soviet Union A.I. Yegorov as First Deputy People's Commissar of Defence of the USSR|date=1937-05-10|access-date=2024-12-07|publisher=[[Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union]]|language=ru|website=Electronic Library of [Russian and Soviet] Historical Documents}}</ref>
* Commander, [[Transcaucasian Military District]], 1938.
| data-sort-value="17(b)" {{operational|Candidate}}<br />{{small|([[Central Committee of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)|17th]])}}
| {{no}}
| {{no}}
| 3
| (1883–1939){{efn|Arrested and stripped of rank, February 1938; executed, 23 February 1939; rehabilitated and posthumously restored as marshal, March 1956.}} Stripped of rank, 1938. Posthumously rehabilitated.
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" | 5
| data-sort-value="blyukher" | [[Vasily Blyukher]]
| [[File:Vasily Konstantinovich Blyukher.jpg|75px]]
| style="text-align: right;" data-sort-value="1935-11-20-04" | {{nowrap|20 Nov 1935{{sfn|Tyushkevich|1978|p=209}}}}
|
* Commander, [[Special Red Banner Far Eastern Army]], 1935–1938.
* Commander in Chief, [[Far Eastern Front]], 1938.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rkka.ru/handbook/doc/okdva-280638.htm|title=Приказ Народного Комиссара Обороны СССР, No. 0107|trans-title=People's Commissar of Defence of the USSR, Order No. 107 "On the reorganization of the Special Red Banner Far Eastern Army"|date=1938-06-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160203223542/http://rkka.ru/handbook/doc/okdva-280638.htm|archive-date=2016-02-03|language=ru}}</ref>
| data-sort-value="17(a)(b)" {{yes}}<br />{{small|([[Central Committee of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)|17th]]){{efn|Candidate member of the [[Central Committee of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)|17th Central Committee]] until promotion at the 12th Plenary Session (12 October 1937)<ref name="cc_membership_1937">{{cite web|url=http://www.knowbysight.info/2_KPSS/07186.asp|title=Центральный Комитет, избранный XVII-м съездом ВКП(б) 10.2.1934, члены|trans-title=Central Committee elected by the XVII Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) on 10.2.1934, members|access-date=2024-12-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220727103431/http://www.knowbysight.info/2_KPSS/07186.asp|archive-date=2022-07-27|publisher=Knowbysight.info}}</ref>}}}}
| {{no}}
| {{no}}
| 3
| (1889–1938){{efn|Arrested, 22 October 1938; died in captivity, 9 November 1938; retroactively stripped of rank, March 1939; rehabilitated and posthumously restored as marshal, 1956.}} Retroactively stripped of rank, 1939. Posthumously rehabilitated.
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" | 6
| data-sort-value="timoshenko" | [[Semyon Timoshenko]]
| [[File:Маршал Советского Союза Герой Советского Союза Семён Константинович Тимошенко.jpg|75px]]
| style="text-align: right;" data-sort-value="1940-05-07-00" | 7 May 1940 &nbsp;
|
* [[Minister of Defence (Soviet Union)|People's Commissar for Defence]]/Chairman, Main Military Council of the [[Red Army]], 1940–1941.<ref name="presidium_1940-05-08"/>
* [[Minister of Defence (Soviet Union)|People's Commissar for Defence]]/Chairman, [[Stavka of the Supreme High Command|Headquarters of the Main Command of the Red Army]], 1941.{{sfn|Ziemke|Bauer|1987|pp=7–8, 30}}
* Deputy People's Commissar for Defence, 1941–1943.
* Chairman, [[Stavka of the Supreme High Command]], 1943–1945.
* Commander, [[Byelorussian Military District|Baranovich Military District]], 1945–1946.
* Commander, [[Byelorussian Military District]], 1946.
* Commander, [[South Ural Military District]], 1946–1949.
* Commander, [[Byelorussian Military District]], 1949–1960.

{{show|Field commands (1941–1943)
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* Commander in Chief, [[Western Front (Soviet Union)|Western Front]], 1941.<ref name="directions_(1)"/>
* Commander in Chief, Western Direction/Commander in Chief, [[Western Front (Soviet Union)|Western Front]], 1941.{{sfnmp|Sadykiewicz|1987|1p=55|Shukman|1997|2p=247}}
* Commander in Chief, Southwestern Direction, 1941.<ref name="directions_(2)"/>
* Commander in Chief, Southwestern Direction/Commander in Chief, [[Southwestern Front (Soviet Union)|Southwestern Front]], 1941.{{sfn|Sadykiewicz|1987|p=55}}
* Commander in Chief, Southwestern Direction, 1941–1942.
* Commander in Chief, Southwestern Direction/Commander in Chief, [[Southwestern Front (Soviet Union)|Southwestern Front]], 1942.
* Commander in Chief, [[Stalingrad Front]], 1942.
* Commander in Chief, [[Northwestern Front]], 1942–1943.
}}
| data-sort-value="18(a)" {{yes}}<br />{{small|(Full: [[Central Committee of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)|18th]]; Candidate: [[Central Committee of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|19th]]–[[Central Committee of the 23rd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|23rd]])}}
| {{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.
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" | 7
| data-sort-value="shaposhnikov" | [[Boris Shaposhnikov]]
| [[File:Boris Shaposhnikov 02.jpg|75px]]
| style="text-align: right;" data-sort-value="1940-05-07-01" | 7 May 1940 &nbsp; 
|
* [[Chief of the General Staff (Russia)#Chief of the General Staff|Chief, General Staff of the Red Army]], 1937–1940.
* Deputy People's Commissar for Defence, 1940–1941.
* Deputy People's Commissar for Defence/[[Chief of the General Staff (Russia)#Chief of the General Staff|Chief, General Staff of the Red Army]], 1941–1942.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://docs.historyrussia.org/ru/nodes/187216-prikaz-ob-osvobozhdenii-g-k-zhukova-ot-dolzhnosti-nachalnika-generalnogo-shtaba-i-naznachenii-na-etu-dolzhnost-b-m-shaposhnikova-10-avgusta-1941-g|title=Приказ об освобождении Г.К. Жукова от должности начальника Генерального Штаба и назначении на эту должность Б.М. Шапошникова|trans-title=People's Commissar of Defence of the USSR, Order No. 0270 "Order for the release of G.K. Zhukov from the post of Chief of the General Staff and the appointment of B.M. Shaposhnikov"|date=1941-08-10|access-date=2024-12-07|publisher=People's Commissariat of Defence of the Soviet Union|language=ru|website=Electronic Library of [Russian and Soviet] Historical Documents}}</ref>
* Chief of Staff, [[Western Front (Soviet Union)|Western Front]], 1941.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://docs.historyrussia.org/ru/nodes/178397|title=Постановление Политбюро ЦК ВКП(б) о назначении руководителей Наркомата обороны, Западного направления и Западного фронта|trans-title=Decree of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) "On the appointment of the leaders of the People's Commissariat of Defence, the Western Region and the Western Front"|date=1941-07-19|access-date=2024-12-07|publisher=Politburo of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)|language=ru|website=Electronic Library of [Russian and Soviet] Historical Documents}}</ref> 
* Deputy People's Commissar for Defence, 1942–1943.
* Commandant, [[Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia|Kliment E. Voroshilov Higher Military Academy]], 1943–1945.
| data-sort-value="18(b)" {{operational|Candidate}}<br />{{small|([[Central Committee of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)|18th]])}}
| {{no}}
| {{no}}
| 5
| (1882–1945) Died in office.
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" | 8
| data-sort-value="kulik" | [[Grigory Kulik]]
| [[File:Grigory Kulik.jpg|75px]]
| style="text-align: right;" data-sort-value="1940-05-07-02" | 7 May 1940 &nbsp; 
|
* Deputy People's Commissar for Defence/Deputy Chief, [[General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation|General Staff of the Red Army]]/Head, Main Artillery Directorate, [[Red Army]], 1937–1941.
* Deputy People's Commissar for Defence/Head, Main Formation and Training Directorate, [[Red Army]], 1941.
* Deputy People's Commissar for Defence, 1941–1942.
* Commander, [[54th Army (Soviet Union)|54th Army]], 1941.
* [[Stavka of the Supreme High Command|Stavka]] Representative to the [[Crimean Front]], 1941–1942.
| data-sort-value="18(a)" {{yes}}<br />{{small|([[Central Committee of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)|18th]])}}
| {{no}}
| {{no}}
| 2
| (1890–1950){{efn|Stripped of rank and honours, 16 February 1942; dismissed as deputy people's commissar for defence and expelled from [[Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Central Committee]], 19 February 1942; appointed as [[major general]], 17 March 1942; promoted to [[lieutenant general]], 15 April 1943; demoted to major general, 9 July 1945; arrested and stripped of rank, 11 January 1947; executed, 24 August 1950; rehabilitated and posthumously restored as marshal, 28 September 1957.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://docs.historyrussia.org/ru/nodes/328098|title=Постановление Политбюро ЦК ВКП(б) о маршале Г. И. Кулике|trans-title=Decree of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) "On the Matter of Marshal G.I. Kulik"|date=1942-02-19|access-date=2024-12-09|publisher=Politburo of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)|language=ru|website=Electronic Library of [Russian and Soviet] Historical Documents}}</ref>}} Stripped of rank, 1942. Posthumously rehabilitated. Made [[Hero of the Soviet Union]], 1940 (rescinded 1942).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://docs.historyrussia.org/ru/nodes/187318-prikaz-o-kulike-g-i-2-marta-1942-g|title=Приказ о Кулике Г.И.|trans-title=People's Commissar of Defence of the USSR, Order No. 0041 "On the Matter of Marshal G.I. Kulik"|date=1942-03-02|access-date=2024-12-07|publisher=People's Commissariat of Defence of the Soviet Union|language=ru|website=Electronic Library of [Russian and Soviet] Historical Documents}}</ref> 
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" | 9
| data-sort-value="zhukov" | [[Georgy Zhukov]]
| [[File:Zhukov LIFE.jpg|75px]]
| style="text-align: right;" data-sort-value="1943-01-18" | {{nowrap|18 Jan 1943<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.prlib.ru/en/item/1954868|title=Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR "On awarding Army General G.K. Zhukov the military rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union"|date=1943-01-18|access-date=2024-12-07|publisher=Presidium of the Supreme Soviet|language=ru|website=Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library}}</ref>}} 
|
* First Deputy People's Commissar for Defence/Deputy Commander in Chief, [[Red Army]]/Deputy Chairman, [[Stavka of the Supreme High Command]], 1942–1945.<ref name="politburo_1942-08-27"/>
* Commander in Chief, [[1st Ukrainian Front]], 1944.
* Commander in Chief, [[1st Belorussian Front|1st Byelorussian Front]], 1944–1945.
* Commander in Chief, [[Soviet Military Administration in Germany]]/Commander in Chief, [[Group of Soviet Forces in Germany|Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany]], 1945–1946.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://docs.historyrussia.org/ru/nodes/308016|title=Приказ главноначальствующего Советской военной администрации в Германии относительно организации военной администрации по управлению Советской зоной оккупации в Германии|trans-title=Order of the Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany regarding the organization of a military administration to manage the Soviet occupation zone in Germany|date=1945-06-09|access-date=2024-12-09|publisher=Soviet Military Administration in Germany|language=ru|website=Electronic Library of [Russian and Soviet] Historical Documents}}</ref>
* Deputy Minister of the Armed Forces/[[Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Ground Forces#Soviet Ground Forces (1946–1992)|Commander in Chief, Soviet Ground Forces]], 1946.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://docs.historyrussia.org/ru/nodes/387521|title=Постановление Совета Министров СССР. О назначении заместителей Министра вооруженных сил СССР, Начальника Генерального Штаба, Главнокомандующих сухопутными войсками, военно-морскими, военно-воздушными силами и Начальника тыла вооруженных|trans-title=Decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR "On the appointment of deputies of the Minister of the Armed Forces of the USSR, the Chief of the General Staff, the Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces, Navy, and Air Force and the Chief of the Rear of the Armed Forces"|date=1946-03-21|access-date=2024-12-07|publisher=[[Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union]]|language=ru|website=Electronic Library of [Russian and Soviet] Historical Documents}}</ref> 
* Commander, [[Odessa Military District]], 1946–1948.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://docs.historyrussia.org/ru/nodes/308025|title=Приказ министра Вооруженных Сил СССР И.В. Сталина об освобождении Г.К. Жукова от должности главнокомандующего Сухопутными войсками. 9 июня 1946 г.|trans-title=Order of the Minister of Armed Forces of the USSR I.V. Stalin on the termination of G.K. Zhukov from the post of commander in chief of the Ground Forces|date=1946-06-09|access-date=2024-12-07|publisher=Ministry of the Armed Forces|language=ru|website=Electronic Library of [Russian and Soviet] Historical Documents}}</ref> 
* Commander, [[Ural Military District]], 1948–1953.
* First Deputy Minister of Defence, 1953–1955.{{efn|as First Deputy Minister of War (5–15 March 1953)<ref name="minutes_1953-03-05"/>}}
* [[Minister of Defence (Soviet Union)#Ministers of Defence (1953–1992)|Minister of Defence]], 1955–1957.
| data-sort-value="18(a)(b)" {{yes}}<br />{{small|(Candidate: [[Central Committee of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)|18th]]; Full: [[Central Committee of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|19th]]–[[Central Committee of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|20th]])}}
| {{no}}
| data-sort-value="20(a)" {{yes}}<br />{{small|([[Presidium of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|20th]])}}
| 14
| (1896–1974){{efn|Dismissed as minister of defence, 26 October 1957; terminated from active military service, 27 February 1958.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://docs.historyrussia.org/ru/nodes/416536|title=Протокол № 141 от 27 февраля. Приложение. Проект. Постановление Совета Министров СССР «Об увольнении в отставку и материальном обеспечении Маршала Советского Союза Жукова Г.К.»|trans-title=Decree No. 141 of the Council of Ministers of the USSR "On the dismissal of Marshal of the Soviet Union G.K. Zhukov"|date=1958-02-27|access-date=2024-12-09|publisher=Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union|language=ru|website=Electronic Library of [Russian and Soviet] Historical Documents}}</ref>}} Dismissed as minister of defence, 1957. [[Chief of the General Staff (Russia)|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.
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" | 10
| data-sort-value="vasilevsky" | [[Aleksandr Vasilevsky]]
| [[File:Aleksandr Vasilevsky 4.jpg|75px]]
| style="text-align: right;" data-sort-value="1943-02-16" | {{nowrap|16 Feb 1943<ref>{{cite web|url=https://docs.historyrussia.org/ru/nodes/187550-prikaz-s-obyavleniem-ukaza-prezidiuma-verhovnogo-soveta-sssr-locale-nil-o-prisvoenii-generalu-armii-vasilevskomu-a-m-voennogo-zvaniya-marshala-sovetskogo-soyuza-locale-nil-18-fevralya-1943-g|title=Приказ с объявлением Указа Президиума Верховного Совета СССР «О присвоении генералу армии Василевскому А.М. военного звания Маршала Советского Союза»|trans-title=Order with the announcement of the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR "On awarding Army General A.M. Vasilevsky the military rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union"|date=1943-02-18|access-date=2024-12-07|publisher=People's Commissariat of Defence of the Soviet Union|language=ru|website=Electronic Library of [Russian and Soviet] Historical Documents}}</ref>}}
|
* Deputy People's Commissar for Defence/[[Chief of the General Staff (Russia)#Chief of the General Staff|Chief, General Staff of the Red Army]], 1942–1945.<ref name="GKO_1942-05-11">{{cite web|url=https://docs.historyrussia.org/ru/nodes/327948|title=Постановление ГКО СССР № 1723 об освобождении Б. М. Шапошникова от должности начальника Генштаба Красной армии и возложении на А.М. Василевского исполнения обязанностей начальника Генштаба Красной армии|trans-title=GKO Decree No. 1723 "On the relief of B.M. Shaposhnikov from the post of chief of the General Staff of the Red Army and granting A.M. Vasilevsky interim authority as chief of the General Staff of the Red Army|date=1942-05-11|access-date=2024-12-09|publisher=State Defence Committee|language=ru|website=Electronic Library of [Russian and Soviet] Historical Documents}}</ref><ref name="GKO_1945-02-17">{{cite web|url=https://docs.historyrussia.org/ru/nodes/327952|title=Постановление ГКО СССР № 7549с об освобождении А. М. Василевского от обязанностей начальника Генштаба Красной армии и назначении начальником Генштаба А. И. Антонова. Секретно|trans-title=GKO Decree No. 7549(c) "On the relief of A.M. Vasilevsky from the duties of the chief of the General Staff of the Red Army and the appointment of A.I. Antonov as chief of the General Staff|date=1945-02-17|access-date=2024-12-08|publisher=State Defence Committee|language=ru|website=Electronic Library of [Russian and Soviet] Historical Documents}}</ref>
* Commander in Chief, [[3rd Belorussian Front|3rd Byelorussian Front]], 1945.
* Commander in Chief, [[Far East Command (Soviet Union)|Soviet Forces in the Far East]], 1945.<ref name="stavka_1945-06-30">{{cite web|url=https://docs.historyrussia.org/ru/nodes/227584|title=Приказ Ставки Верховного Главнокомандования о назначении маршала Советского Союза А. М. Василевского Главнокомандующим советскими войсками на Дальнем Востоке|trans-title=Order of the Headquarters of the Supreme Command on the appointment of Marshal of the Soviet Union A. M. Vasilevsky as Commander-in-Chief of Soviet Forces in the Far East|date=1945-06-30|access-date=2024-12-07|publisher=Stavka of the Supreme High Command|language=ru|website=Electronic Library of [Russian and Soviet] Historical Documents}}</ref>
* Deputy Minister of the Armed Forces/[[Chief of the General Staff (Russia)#Soviet Armed Forces (1946–1991)|Chief, General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces]], 1946–1947.
* First Deputy Minister of the Armed Forces/[[Chief of the General Staff (Russia)#Soviet Armed Forces (1946–1991)|Chief, General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces]], 1947–1948.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://docs.historyrussia.org/ru/nodes/376841|title=Постановление Совета Министров СССР. О назначении Маршала Советского Союза Василевского А. М. первым заместителем Министра вооруженных сил СССР|trans-title=Decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR "On the appointment of Marshal of the Soviet Union A.M. Vasilevsky as First Deputy Minister of the Armed Forces of the USSR"|date=1947-03-06|access-date=2024-12-07|publisher=Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union|language=ru|website=Electronic Library of [Russian and Soviet] Historical Documents}}</ref>
* First Deputy Minister of the Armed Forces, 1948–1949.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://docs.historyrussia.org/ru/nodes/387833|title=Постановление Совета Министров СССР. О первом заместителе Министра вооруженных сил СССР и Начальнике Генерального штаба вооруженных сил СССР|trans-title=Decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR "On the First Deputy Minister of the Armed Forces of the USSR and the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR"|date=1948-11-12|access-date=2024-12-07|publisher=Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union|language=ru|website=Electronic Library of [Russian and Soviet] Historical Documents}}</ref>
* [[Minister of Defence (Soviet Union)#Minister of War (1950–1953)|Minister of War]], 1949–1953.{{efn|as [[Minister of Defence (Soviet Union)#Ministers of the Armed Forces (1946–1950)|Minister of the Armed Forces]] (1949–1950){{sfn|Karlsson|1988|pp=72–73}}}}<ref name="politburo_1949-03-24">{{cite web|url=https://docs.historyrussia.org/ru/nodes/363031|title=Постановление Политбюро о кадровых перестановках в руководстве Министерства вооруженных сил СССР (Протокол № 68)|trans-title=Decree No. 68 of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU "On personnel shifts in the leadership of the Ministry of Armed Forces of the USSR"|date=1949-03-24|access-date=2024-12-09|publisher=Politburo of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)|language=ru|website=Electronic Library of [Russian and Soviet] Historical Documents}}</ref>
* First Deputy Minister of War, 1953.<ref name="minutes_1953-03-05"/>
* Deputy Minister of Defence, 1953–1956.
* Deputy Minister of Defence for Military Science, 1956–1957.
| data-sort-value="19(a)" {{yes}}<br />{{small|([[Central Committee of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|19th]]–[[Central Committee of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|20th]])}}
| {{no}}
| {{no}}
| 14
| (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.
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" | 11
| data-sort-value="stalin" | [[Joseph Stalin]]
| [[File:StalinCropped1943(b).jpg|75px]]
| style="text-align: right;" data-sort-value="1943-03-06" | {{nowrap|6 Mar 1943<ref>{{cite web|url=https://docs.historyrussia.org/ru/nodes/243800-ukaz-prezidiuma-verhovnogo-soveta-sssr-o-prisvoenii-verhovnomu-glavnokomanduyuschemu-vooruzhennymi-silami-sssr-stalinu-i-v-voennogo-zvaniya-marshala-sovetskogo-soyuza-6-marta-1943-g|title=Указ Президиума Верховного Совета СССР о присвоении Верховному Главнокомандующему вооруженными силами СССР Сталину И. В. военного звания Маршала Советского Союза|trans-title=Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR "On awarding the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of the USSR, I.V. Stalin, the military rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union"|date=1943-03-06|access-date=2024-12-07|publisher=Presidium of the Supreme Soviet|language=ru|website=Electronic Library of [Russian and Soviet] Historical Documents}}</ref>}}
|
* [[General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|General Secretary, Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)]], 1922–1952.
* Supreme Commander in Chief, [[Soviet Armed Forces]], 1941–1953.{{efn|as Supreme Commander in Chief, [[Red Army]] (1941–1946)}}
* [[Premier of the Soviet Union|Chairman, Council of Ministers]], 1941–1953.{{efn|as [[Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union|Chairman, Council of People's Commissars]] (1941–1946){{sfn|Huskey|1992|p=25}}}}
* [[Minister of Defence (Soviet Union)#Ministers of the Armed Forces (1946–1950)|Minister of the Armed Forces]], 1941–1947.{{efn|as [[Minister of Defence (Soviet Union)#People's Commissars for Defence (1934–1946)|People's Commissar for Defence]] (1941–1946); [[Minister of Defence (Soviet Union)#People's Commissar for the Armed Forces (1946)|People's Commissar for the Armed Forces]] (February–March 1946){{sfnmp|Tyushkevich|1978|1p=387|Karlsson|1988|2pp=72–73}}}}
* Chairman, [[State Defense Committee|State Defence Committee]], 1941–1945.
| data-sort-value="6(a)" {{yes}}<br />{{small|([[Central Committee of the 6th Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks)|6th Conf.]]–[[Central Committee of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|19th]])}}
| data-sort-value="11" {{yes}}<br />{{small|([[Secretariat of the 11th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)|11th]]–[[Secretariat of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|19th]])}}
| data-sort-value="6(a)" {{yes}}<br />{{small|([[Inner-composition of the 6th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks)|6th Comp.]]–[[Presidium of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|19th]])}}
| 2
| (1878–1953) Died in office. Promoted to [[Generalissimo of the Soviet Union|Generalissimo]], 27 Jun 1945. Made [[Hero of Socialist Labour]], 1939; [[Hero of the Soviet Union]], 1945; awarded [[Order of Victory]], 1944.
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" | 12
| data-sort-value="konev" | [[Ivan Konev]]
| [[File:Ivan Stepanovich Konev.jpg|75px]]
| style="text-align: right;" data-sort-value="1944-02-20" | {{nowrap|20 Feb 1944<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.prlib.ru/en/item/1954984|title=Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR "On awarding Army General I.S. Konev the military rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union"|date=1944-02-20|access-date=2024-12-07|publisher=Presidium of the Supreme Soviet|language=ru|website=Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library}}</ref>}}
|
* Commander in Chief, [[2nd Ukrainian Front]], 1943–1944.
* Commander in Chief, [[1st Ukrainian Front]], 1944–1945.
* Commander in Chief, [[Central Group of Forces]], 1945–1946.
* [[Allied Commission#Austria|Allied High Commissioner for Austria]], 1945–1946.
* Deputy Minister of the Armed Forces/[[Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Ground Forces#Soviet Ground Forces (1946–1992)|Commander in Chief, Soviet Ground Forces]], 1946–1950.{{sfn|Tyushkevich|1978|p=388}}
* Deputy Minister of War/Chief Inspector, [[Ministry of Defense (Soviet Union)|Ministry of War]], 1950–1951.
* Commander, [[Carpathian Military District]], 1951–1955.
* First Deputy Minister of Defence/[[Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Ground Forces#Soviet Ground Forces (1946–1992)|Commander in Chief, Soviet Ground Forces]], 1955–1956.
* First Deputy Minister of Defence/[[Supreme Commander of the Unified Armed Forces of the Warsaw Treaty Organization|Supreme Commander, Unified Armed Forces of the Warsaw Treaty Organization]], 1956–1960.
* Commander in Chief, [[Group of Soviet Forces in Germany]], 1961–1962.
| data-sort-value="18(a)(b)" {{yes}}<br />{{small|(Candidate: [[Central Committee of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)|18th]]; Full: [[Central Committee of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|19th]]–[[Central Committee of the 24th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|24th]])}}
| {{no}}
| {{no}}
| 17
| (1897–1973){{efn|Appointed to [[Group of Inspectors General]], July 1960; recalled as marshal to command [[Group of Soviet Forces in Germany]], 13 August 1961; reappointed to [[Group of Inspectors General]], April 1962.}} Appointed to [[Group of Inspectors General]], 1960; reappointed, 1962. Made [[Hero of the Soviet Union]], 1944 and 1945; awarded [[Order of Victory]], 1945.
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" | 13
| data-sort-value="govorov" | [[Leonid Govorov]]
| [[File:Leonid Govorov 1.jpg|75px]]
| style="text-align: right;" data-sort-value="1944-06-18" | {{nowrap|18 Jun 1944<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.prlib.ru/en/item/1955032|title=Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR "On awarding Army General L.A. Govorov the military rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union"|date=1944-06-18|access-date=2024-12-07|publisher=Presidium of the Supreme Soviet|language=ru|website=Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library}}</ref>}}
|
* Commander in Chief, [[Leningrad Front]], 1942–1945.
* Commander in Chief, [[2nd Baltic Front]], 1945.
* Commander, [[Leningrad Military District]], 1945–1946.
* Deputy Minister of the Armed Forces/Chief Inspector, [[Ministry of Defense (Soviet Union)|Ministry of the Armed Forces]], 1946–1948.
* Deputy Minister of War/Commander, [[Soviet Air Defence Forces|Air Defence Forces]], 1948–1952.{{efn|as Deputy Minister of the Armed Forces (until February 1950){{sfn|Karlsson|1988|pp=72–73}}}}
* Deputy Minister of War for Combat Training, 1952–1953.
* Deputy Minister of Defence/Chief Inspector, [[Ministry of Defense (Soviet Union)|Ministry of Defence]], 1953–1954.
* Deputy Minister of Defence/Commander in Chief, [[Soviet Air Defence Forces]], 1954–1955.{{sfn|Tyushkevich|1978|p=420}}
| data-sort-value="19(b)" {{operational|Candidate}}<br />{{small|([[Central Committee of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|19th]])}}
| {{no}}
| {{no}}
| 11
| (1897–1955) Died in office. Made [[Hero of the Soviet Union]], 1945; awarded [[Order of Victory]], 1945.
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" | 14
| data-sort-value="rokossovsky" | [[Konstantin Rokossovsky]]
| [[File:Маршал Советского Союза дважды Герой Советского Союза Константин Константинович Рокоссовский.jpg|75px]]
| style="text-align: right;" data-sort-value="1944-06-29" | {{nowrap|29 Jun 1944<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.prlib.ru/en/item/1955036|title=Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR "On awarding Army General K.K. Rokossovsky the military rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union"|date=1944-06-29|access-date=2024-12-07|publisher=Presidium of the Supreme Soviet|language=ru|website=Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library}}</ref>}}
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* Commander in Chief, [[1st Belorussian Front|1st Byelorussian Front]], 1943–1944.
* Commander in Chief, [[2nd Belorussian Front|2nd Byelorussian Front]], 1944–1945.
* Commander in Chief, [[Northern Group of Forces]], 1945–1949.{{sfn|Shukman|1997|p=194}}
* [[Ministry of National Defence (Poland)|Minister of National Defence, Republic of Poland]], 1949–1952.
* Deputy Chairman, Council of Ministers, [[Polish People's Republic]]/[[Ministry of National Defence (Poland)#Ministers|Minister of National Defence, Polish People's Republic]], 1952–1956.
* Deputy Minister of Defence/Chief Inspector, [[Ministry of Defence (Soviet Union)|Ministry of Defence]], 1956–1957.{{sfn|Shukman|1997|pp=195–196}}
* Deputy Minister of Defence/Commander, [[Transcaucasian Military District]], 1957–1958.{{sfn|Shukman|1997|pp=195–196}}
* Deputy Minister of Defence/Chief Inspector, [[Ministry of Defence (Soviet Union)|Ministry of Defence]], 1958–1962.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://docs.historyrussia.org/ru/nodes/412939|title=Постановление Совета Министров СССР. Об освобождении Маршала Советского Союза Рокоссовского К. К. от обязанностей заместителя Министра и члена коллегии Министерства обороны СССР. № 379|trans-title=Decree No. 379 of the Council of Ministers of the USSR "On the termination of Marshal of the Soviet Union K.K. Rokossovsky from the duties of Deputy Minister of Defence of the USSR"|date=1962-04-24|access-date=2024-12-07|publisher=Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union|language=ru|website=Electronic Library of [Russian and Soviet] Historical Documents}}</ref>
| data-sort-value="22(b)" {{operational|Candidate}}<br />{{small|([[Central Committee of the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|22nd]]–[[Central Committee of the 23rd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|23rd]])}}
| {{no}}
| {{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. 
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" | 15
| data-sort-value="malinovsky" | [[Rodion Malinovsky]]
| [[File:Rodion Malinovsky 1.jpg|75px]]
| style="text-align: right;" data-sort-value="1944-09-10" | {{nowrap|10 Sep 1944<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.prlib.ru/en/item/1955067?mode=archive|title=Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR "On awarding Army General R.Ya. Malinovsky the military rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union"|date=1944-09-10|access-date=2024-12-02|publisher=Presidium of the Supreme Soviet|language=ru|website=Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library}}</ref>}}
|
* Commander in Chief, [[2nd Ukrainian Front]], 1944–1945.
* Chairman, [[Allied Commission#Romania|Allied Control Commission for Romania]], 1944–1947.
* Commander in Chief, [[Transbaikal Front]], 1945.
* Commander, [[Transbaikal Military District|Transbaikal-Amur Military District]], 1945–1947.{{sfn|Tyushkevich|1978|pp=386–387}}
* Commander in Chief, [[Far East Command (Soviet Union)|Soviet Forces in the Far East]], 1947–1953.
* Commander, [[Far Eastern Military District]], 1953–1956.
* First Deputy Minister of Defence/[[Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Ground Forces#Soviet Ground Forces (1946–1992)|Commander in Chief, Soviet Ground Forces]], 1956–1957.
* [[Minister of Defence (Soviet Union)|Minister of Defence]], 1957–1967.
| data-sort-value="19(a)(b)" {{yes}}<br />{{small|(Candidate: [[Central Committee of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|19th]]; Full: [[Central Committee of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|20th]]–[[Central Committee of the 23rd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|23rd]])}}
| {{no}}
| {{no}}
| 23
| (1898–1967) Died in office. Made [[Hero of the Soviet Union]], 1945 and 1958; awarded [[Order of Victory]], 1945.
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" | 16
| data-sort-value="tolbukhin" | [[Fyodor Tolbukhin]]
| [[File:Маршал Советского Союза Ф.И. Толбухин.jpg|75px]]
| style="text-align: right;" data-sort-value="1944-09-12" | {{nowrap|12 Sep 1944<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.prlib.ru/en/item/1955068|title=Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR "On awarding Army General F.I. Tolbukhin the military rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union"|date=1944-09-12|access-date=2024-12-07|publisher=Presidium of the Supreme Soviet|language=ru|website=Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library}}</ref>}}
|
* Commander in Chief, [[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.
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" | 17
| data-sort-value="meretskov" | [[Kirill Meretskov]]
| [[File:Кирилл Афанасьевич Мерецков с сыном Владимиром (cropped).jpg|75px]]
| style="text-align: right;" data-sort-value="1944-10-26" | {{nowrap|26 Oct 1944<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.prlib.ru/en/item/1955082|title=Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR "On awarding Army General K.A. Meretskov the military rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union"|date=1944-10-26|access-date=2024-12-07|publisher=Presidium of the Supreme Soviet|language=ru|website=Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library}}</ref>}}
|
* Commander in Chief, [[Karelian Front]], 1944–1945.{{sfn|Tyushkevich|1978|pp=131, 133}}
* Commander, [[Primorsky Group of Forces|Maritime Group of Forces]], 1945.{{sfnmp|Sadykiewicz|1982|1p=64|Tyushkevich|1978|2p=133}}
* Commander in Chief, [[Far Eastern Front#War against Japan|1st Far Eastern Front]], 1945.{{sfn|Tyushkevich|1978|p=133}}
* Commander, [[Primorsky Military District]], 1945–1947.
* Commander, [[Moscow Military District]], 1947–1949.
* Commander, [[Belomorsky Military District]], 1949–1951.
* Commander, [[Northern Military District (Soviet Union)|Northern Military District]], 1951–1954.
* Commander, [[Vystrel course|Infantry Commanders Advanced Training Course "Vystrel"]], 1954–1955.{{sfn|Grachev|1994|p=323}}
* Assistant Minister of Defence for Higher Military-Academic Institutions, 1955–1964.{{sfn|Gebhardt|1989|p=128}}
| data-sort-value="18(b)" {{operational|Candidate}}<br />{{small|([[Central Committee of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)|18th]]–[[Central Committee of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|19th]])}}
| {{no}}
| {{no}}
| 20
| (1897–1968) Appointed to [[Group of Inspectors General]], 1964. [[Chief of the General Staff (Russia)#Chief of the General Staff|Chief, General Staff of the Red Army]], 1940–1941. Made [[Hero of the Soviet Union]], 1940; awarded [[Order of Victory]], 1945.
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" | 18
| data-sort-value="beria" | [[Lavrentiy Beria]]
| [[File:Lavrentiy Beria portrait 2.jpg|75px]]
| style="text-align: right;" data-sort-value="1945-07-09" | {{nowrap|9 Jul 1945<ref>{{cite book|last=Birstein|first=Vadim|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kg2uAwAAQBAJ|title=SMERSH: Stalin's Secret Weapon|page=28|date=2013-06-18|access-date=2021-09-29|publisher=Biteback Publishing|isbn=978-1849545679|via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref>}}
|
* [[Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union|Deputy Chairman, Council of People's Commissars]]/[[NKVD#People's Commissars|People's Commissar for Internal Affairs]], 1941–1946.
* [[Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union|Deputy Chairman, Council of Ministers]], 1946–1953.
* [[First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union|First Deputy Chairman, Council of Ministers]]/[[Ministry of Internal Affairs (Soviet Union)#List of ministers|Minister of Internal Affairs]], 1953.<ref name="minutes_1953-03-05"/>
| data-sort-value="17(a)" {{yes}}<br />{{small|([[Central Committee of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)|17th]]–[[Central Committee of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|19th]])}}
| {{no}}
| data-sort-value="18(b)" {{yes}}<br />{{small|([[Politburo of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)|18th]]–[[Presidium of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|19th]]){{efn|Candidate member of the [[Politburo of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)|18th Politburo]] until promotion at the 8th Plenary Session (18 March 1946)<ref name="politburo_membership">{{cite web|url=http://www.knowbysight.info/2_KPSS/07177.asp|title=Узкий состав ЦК РСДРП(б) - Политическое бюро ЦК РСДРП(б) - Бюро ЦК РСДРП(б) - РКП(б) - Политическое бюро ЦК РКП(б) - ВКП(б) - Президиум - Политическое бюро ЦК КПСС|trans-title=Narrow composition of the Central Committee of the RSDLP(b) - Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the RSDLP (b) - Bureau of the Central Committee of the RSDLP (b) - RCP (b) - Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the RCP (b) - CPSU (b) - Presidium - Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the CPSU|access-date=2024-12-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220528161017/http://www.knowbysight.info/2_KPSS/07177.asp|archive-date=2022-05-28|publisher=Knowbysight.info}}</ref>}}}}
| 8
| (1899–1953){{efn|Unofficial rank of Commissar General of State Security converted to Marshal of the Soviet Union, 9 July 1945; arrested and removed from all offices, 26 June 1953; stripped of rank, 18 December 1953; executed, 23 December 1953.}} Stripped of rank, 1953. [[First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party|First Secretary, Communist Party of Georgia]], 1931–1932, 1934–1938; First Secretary, [[Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic|Communist Party, Transcaucasian SFSR]], 1932–1938. Made [[Hero of Socialist Labour]], 1943. 
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" | 19
| data-sort-value="sokolovsky" | [[Vasily Sokolovsky]]
| [[File:Vasily Sokolovsky.jpg|75px]]
| style="text-align: right;" data-sort-value="1946-07-03" | 3 Jul 1946 &nbsp;
|
* Commander in Chief, [[Soviet Military Administration in Germany]]/Commander in Chief, [[Group of Soviet Forces in Germany|Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany]], 1946–1949.
* First Deputy Minister of War, 1949–1952.{{efn|as First Deputy Minister of the Armed Forces (1949–1950){{sfn|Karlsson|1988|pp=72–73}}}}<ref name="politburo_1949-03-24"/>
* First Deputy Minister of Defence/[[Chief of the General Staff (Russia)|Chief, General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces]], 1952–1960.{{efn|as First Deputy Minister of War (1952–1953){{sfn|Tyushkevich|1978|p=387}}}}
| data-sort-value="19(a)" {{yes}}<br />{{small|(Full: [[Central Committee of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|19th]]–[[Central Committee of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|20th]]; Candidate: [[Central Committee of the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|22nd]]–[[Central Committee of the 23rd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|23rd]])}}
| {{no}}
| {{no}}
| 14
| (1897–1968) Appointed to [[Group of Inspectors General]], 1960. Made [[Hero of the Soviet Union]], 1945.
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" | 20
| data-sort-value="bulganin" | [[Nikolai Bulganin]]
| [[File:Nikolai Bulganin.jpg|75px]]
| style="text-align: right;" data-sort-value="1947-11-03" | {{nowrap|3 Nov 1947{{sfn|Pierre|1955|p=93}}}}
|
* [[Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union|Deputy Chairman, Council of Ministers]]/[[Minister of Defence (Soviet Union)#Ministers of the Armed Forces (1946–1950)|Minister of the Armed Forces]], 1947–1949.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://docs.historyrussia.org/ru/nodes/362997|title=Постановление Политбюро о назначении Н.А. Булганина заместителем председателя Совета Министров СССР (Протокол № 57)|trans-title=Decree No. 57 of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) "On the Appointment of N.A. Bulganin as Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR"|date=1947-03-05|access-date=2024-12-14|publisher=Politburo of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)|language=ru|website=Electronic Library of [Russian and Soviet] Historical Documents}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://docs.historyrussia.org/ru/nodes/362992|title=Постановление пленума ЦК ВКП(б) об освобождении И.В. Сталина и назначении Н.А. Булганина министром вооруженных сил СССР (Протокол № 9)|trans-title=Resolution No. 9 of the Plenary of the Central Committee of the CPSU "On the release of I.V. Stalin and the appointment of N.A. Bulganin as Minister of Armed Forces of the USSR"|date=1947-02-26|access-date=2024-12-14|publisher=Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)|language=ru|website=Electronic Library of [Russian and Soviet] Historical Documents}}</ref>
* [[Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union|Deputy Chairman, Council of Ministers]], 1949–1950.<ref name="politburo_1949-03-24"/>
* [[First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union|First Deputy Chairman, Council of Ministers]], 1950–1953.
* [[First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union|First Deputy Chairman, Council of Ministers]]/[[Minister of Defence (Soviet Union)#Ministers of Defence (1953–1992)|Minister of Defence]], 1953–1955.{{efn|as Minister of War (5–15 March 1953)<ref name="minutes_1953-03-05"/>}}
* [[Premier of the Soviet Union|Chairman, Council of Ministers]], 1955–1958.
* Chairman, [[State Bank of the USSR|State Bank of the Soviet Union]], 1958.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://docs.historyrussia.org/ru/nodes/416547|title=Протокол № 145 от 25 марта. Постановление Президиума ЦК КПСС «О Председателе Совета Министров СССР»|trans-title=Resolution No. 145 of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the CPSU "On the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR"|date=1958-03-25|access-date=2024-12-14|publisher=Presidium of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|language=ru|website=Electronic Library of [Russian and Soviet] Historical Documents}}</ref>
* Chairman, [[Sovnarkhoz|Regional Economic Council]], 1958.
| data-sort-value="17(a)(b)" {{yes}}<br />{{small|([[Central Committee of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)|17th]]–[[Central Committee of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|20th]]){{efn|Candidate member of the [[Central Committee of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)|17th Central Committee]] until promotion at the 12th Plenary Session (12 October 1937)<ref name="cc_membership_1937"/>}}}}
| {{no}}
| data-sort-value="18(b)" {{yes}}<br />{{small|([[Politburo of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)|18th]]–[[Presidium of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|20th]]){{efn|Candidate member of the [[Politburo of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)|18th Politburo]] until promotion by poll (18 February 1948)<ref name="politburo_membership"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://docs.historyrussia.org/ru/nodes/363007|title=Постановление Политбюро об избрании Н.А. Булганина членом Политбюро (Протокол № 61)|trans-title=Resolution No. 61 of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) "On the election of N.A. Bulganin as a member of the Politburo"|date=1948-02-16|access-date=2024-12-14|publisher=Politburo of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)|language=ru|website=Electronic Library of [Russian and Soviet] Historical Documents}}</ref>}}}}
| 11
| (1895–1975){{efn|Resigned as premier, 27 March 1958; expelled from Presidium, 5 September 1958; stripped of rank, 20 November 1958; retired, 14 October 1961.}} Stripped of rank, 1958.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://docs.historyrussia.org/ru/nodes/416609|title=Протокол № 191 от 20 ноября. Постановление Президиума ЦК КПСС «Об отмене постановления Политбюро ЦК о присвоении т. Булганину Н.А. воинского звания Маршала Советского Союза»|trans-title=Resolution No. 191 of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the CPSU "On nullifying the decision of the Politburo to award N.A. Bulganin the military rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union"|date=1958-11-20|access-date=2024-12-07|publisher=Presidium of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|language=ru|website=Electronic Library of [Russian and Soviet] Historical Documents}}</ref> [[List of heads of government of Russia#Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1917–1991)|Chairman, Council of People's Commissars, Russian SFSR]], 1937–1938; [[Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union|Deputy Chairman, Council of People's Commissars]], 1938–1944; Chairman, [[State Bank of the USSR|State Bank of the Soviet Union]], 1938–1940, 1940–1945. Made [[Hero of Socialist Labour]], 1955. 
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" | 21
| data-sort-value="grechko" | [[Andrei Grechko]]
| [[File:Andrei Grechko 3.jpg|75px]]
| style="text-align: right;" data-sort-value="1955-03-11-00" | 11 Mar 1955 &nbsp;
|
* Commander in Chief, [[Group of Soviet Forces in Germany]], 1954–1957.
* First Deputy Minister of Defence/[[Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Ground Forces#Soviet Ground Forces (1946–1992)|Commander in Chief, Soviet Ground Forces]], 1957–1960.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP74B00415R000200140133-4.pdf|title=Appearances of Soviet Leaders – Biographical Sketch of Andrey Antonovich GRECHKO|date=1969-01-22|access-date=2024-12-07|publisher=[[Central Intelligence Agency]]}}</ref>
* First Deputy Minister of Defence/[[Supreme Commander of the Unified Armed Forces of the Warsaw Treaty Organization|Supreme Commander, Unified Armed Forces of the Warsaw Treaty Organization]], 1960–1967.
* [[Minister of Defence (Soviet Union)|Minister of Defence]], 1967–1976.
| data-sort-value="19(a)(b)" {{yes}}<br />{{small|(Candidate: [[Central Committee of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|19th]]–[[Central Committee of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|20th]]; Full: [[Central Committee of the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|22nd]]–[[Central Committee of the 25th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|25th]])}}
| {{no}}
| data-sort-value="24(a)" {{yes}}<br />{{small|([[Politburo of the 24th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|24th]]–[[Politburo of the 25th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|25th]])}}
| 21
| (1903–1976) Died in office. Made [[Hero of the Soviet Union]], 1958 and 1973.
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" | 22
| data-sort-value="bagramyan" | [[Ivan Bagramyan]]
| [[File:Баграмян Иван Христофорович.jpg|75px]]
| style="text-align: right;" data-sort-value="1955-03-11-01" | 11 Mar 1955 &nbsp;
|
* Deputy Minister of Defence/Chief Inspector, [[Ministry of Defence (Soviet Union)|Ministry of Defence]], 1954–1955.
* Commandant, [[Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia#Soviet General Staff Academy|Military Academy of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces]], 1956–1958.
* Deputy Minister of Defence/Chief, [[Rear services|Rear Services of the Soviet Armed Forces]], 1958–1968.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://docs.historyrussia.org/ru/nodes/414171|title=Постановление Совета Министров СССР. О заместителе Министра обороны СССР|trans-title=Decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR "On the Deputy Minister of Defence of the USSR"|date=1968-04-23|access-date=2024-12-09|publisher=Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union|language=ru|website=Electronic Library of [Russian and Soviet] Historical Documents}}</ref>
| data-sort-value="19(a)(b)" {{yes}}<br />{{small|(Candidate: [[Central Committee of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|19th]]–[[Central Committee of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|20th]]; Full: [[Central Committee of the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|22nd]]–[[Central Committee of the 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|26th]])}}
| {{no}}
| {{no}}
| 13
| (1897–1982) Appointed to [[Group of Inspectors General]], 1968. Made [[Hero of the Soviet Union]], 1944 and 1977. 
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" | 23
| data-sort-value="biryuzov" | [[Sergey Biryuzov]]
| [[File:Sergey Biryuzov.jpg|75px]]
| style="text-align: right;" data-sort-value="1955-03-11-02" | 11 Mar 1955 &nbsp; 
|
* Deputy Minister of Defence/Commander in Chief, [[Soviet Air Defence Forces]], 1955–1962.{{sfn|Tyushkevich|1978|p=420}}
* Deputy Minister of Defence/Commander in Chief, [[Strategic Rocket Forces]], 1962–1963.
* First Deputy Minister of Defence/[[Chief of the General Staff (Russia)|Chief, General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces]], 1963–1964.
| data-sort-value="20(b)" {{yes}}<br />{{small|(Candidate: [[Central Committee of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|20th]]; Full: [[Central Committee of the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|22nd]])}}
| {{no}}
| {{no}}
| 9
| (1904–1964) Died in office. Made [[Hero of the Soviet Union]], 1958.
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" | 24
| data-sort-value="moskalenko" | [[Kirill Moskalenko]]
| [[File:Kirill Moskalenko 01.jpg|75px]]
| style="text-align: right;" data-sort-value="1955-03-11-03" | 11 Mar 1955 &nbsp; 
|
* Commander, [[Moscow Military District]], 1953–1960.
* Deputy Minister of Defence/Commander in Chief, [[Strategic Rocket Forces]], 1960–1962.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://docs.historyrussia.org/ru/nodes/409616|title=Постановление Совета Министров СССР. Об утверждении т. Москаленко К. С. Главнокомандующим Ракетными войсками — заместителем Министра обороны СССР и членом коллегии Министерства обороны СССР|trans-title=Decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR "On approval of K.S. Moskalenko as Deputy Minister of Defence of the USSR, Commander-in-Chief of the Missile Forces, and member of the Defence Collegium"|date=1960-10-25|access-date=2024-12-09|publisher=Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union|language=ru|website=Electronic Library of [Russian and Soviet] Historical Documents}}</ref>
* Deputy Minister of Defence/Chief Inspector, [[Ministry of Defence (Soviet Union)|Ministry of Defence]], 1962–1983.
| data-sort-value="20(a)" {{yes}}<br />{{small|([[Central Committee of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|20th]]–[[Central Committee of the 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|26th]])}}
| {{no}}
| {{no}}
| 28
| (1902–1985) Appointed to [[Group of Inspectors General]], 1983. Made [[Hero of the Soviet Union]], 1943 and 1978.
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" | 25
| data-sort-value="chuikov" | [[Vasily Chuikov]]
| [[File:Маршал Советского Союза дважды Герой Советского Союза Василий Иванович Чуйков.jpg|75px]]
| style="text-align: right;" data-sort-value="1955-03-11-04" | 11 Mar 1955 &nbsp; 
|
* Commander, [[Kiev Military District]], 1953–1960.
* Deputy Minister of Defence/[[Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Ground Forces#Soviet Ground Forces (1946–1992)|Commander in Chief, Soviet Ground Forces]], 1960–1961.
* Deputy Minister of Defence/[[Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Ground Forces#Soviet Ground Forces (1946–1992)|Commander in Chief, Soviet Ground Forces]]/Chief, [[Civil defense in Russia|Civil Defence]], 1961–1964.
* Deputy Minister of Defence/Chief, [[Civil defense in Russia|Civil Defence]], 1964–1972.
| data-sort-value="20(b)" {{yes}}<br />{{small|(Candidate: [[Central Committee of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|20th]]; Full: [[Central Committee of the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|22nd]]–[[Central Committee of the 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|26th]])}}
| {{no}}
| {{no}}
| 17
| (1900–1982) Appointed to [[Group of Inspectors General]], 1972. Commander in Chief, [[Group of Soviet Forces in Germany|Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany]], 1949–1953. Made [[Hero of the Soviet Union]], 1944 and 1945.
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" | 26
| data-sort-value="yeryomenko" | [[Andrey Yeryomenko]]
| [[File:Маршал Советского Союза Герой Советского Союза Андрей Иванович Ерёменко (cropped).jpg|75px]]
| style="text-align: right;" data-sort-value="1955-03-11-05" | 11 Mar 1955 &nbsp; 
|
* Commander, [[North Caucasus Military District]], 1953–1958.
| data-sort-value="20(b)" {{yes}}<br />{{small|(Candidate: [[Central Committee of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|20th]], [[Central Committee of the 23rd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|23rd]]; Full: [[Central Committee of the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|22nd]])}}
| {{no}}
| {{no}}
| 3
| (1892–1970) Appointed to [[Group of Inspectors General]], 1958. Made [[Hero of the Soviet Union]], 1944.
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" | 27
| data-sort-value="zakharov" | [[Matvei Zakharov]]
| [[File:Matvei Zakharov 1.jpg|75px]]
| style="text-align: right;" data-sort-value="1959-05-08" | 8 May 1959 &nbsp; 
|
* Commander in Chief, [[Group of Soviet Forces in Germany]], 1957–1960.
* First Deputy Minister of Defence/[[Chief of the General Staff (Russia)#Chief of the General Staff|Chief, General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces]], 1960–1963.
* Commandant, [[Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia#Soviet General Staff Academy|Military Academy of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces]], 1963–1964.
* First Deputy Minister of Defence/[[Chief of the General Staff (Russia)#Chief of the General Staff|Chief, General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces]], 1964–1971.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://docs.historyrussia.org/ru/nodes/413433|title=Постановление Совета Министров СССР. О Начальнике Генерального Штаба Вооруженных Сил СССР. № 947|trans-title=Decree No. 947 of the Council of Ministers of the USSR "On the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR"|date=1964-11-21|access-date=2024-12-09|publisher=Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union|language=ru|website=Electronic Library of [Russian and Soviet] Historical Documents}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://docs.historyrussia.org/ru/nodes/414731|title=Постановление Совета Министров СССР. О Начальнике Генерального штаба Вооруженных Сил СССР. № 680|trans-title=Decree No. 680 of the Council of Ministers of the USSR "On the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR"|date=1971-09-21|access-date=2024-12-09|publisher=Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union|language=ru|website=Electronic Library of [Russian and Soviet] Historical Documents}}</ref>
| data-sort-value="22(a)" {{yes}}<br />{{small|([[Central Committee of the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|22nd]]–[[Central Committee of the 24th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|24th]])}}
| {{no}}
| {{no}}
| 12
| (1898–1972) Appointed to [[Group of Inspectors General]], 1971. Made [[Hero of the Soviet Union]], 1945 and 1971. Director, [[GRU (Soviet Union)|Main Intelligence Directorate]], 1949–1952.
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" | 28
| data-sort-value="golikov" | [[Filipp Golikov]]
| [[File:Маршал Советского Союза Филипп Иванович Голиков.jpg|75px]]
| style="text-align: right;" data-sort-value="1961-05-06" | 6 May 1961 &nbsp; 
|
* Chief, [[Main Political Directorate of the Soviet Army and Soviet Navy]], 1958–1962.
| data-sort-value="22(a)" {{yes}}<br />{{small|([[Central Committee of the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|22nd]])}}
| {{no}}
| {{no}}
| 1
| (1900–1980) Relieved and appointed to [[Group of Inspectors General]], 1962. Director, [[GRU (Soviet Union)|Main Intelligence Directorate]], 1940–1941.
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" | 29
| data-sort-value="krylov" | [[Nikolay Krylov (marshal)|Nikolay Krylov]]
| [[File:Nikolay Ivanovich Krylov 1.jpg|75px]]
| style="text-align: right;" data-sort-value="1962-04-28" | 28 Apr 1962 &nbsp; 
|
* Commander, [[Moscow Military District]], 1960–1963.
* Deputy Minister of Defence/Commander in Chief, [[Strategic Rocket Forces]], 1963–1972.
| data-sort-value="22(a)" {{yes}}<br />{{small|([[Central Committee of the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|22nd]]–[[Central Committee of the 24th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|24th]])}}
| {{no}}
| {{no}}
| 10
| (1903–1972) Died in office. Made [[Hero of the Soviet Union]], twice in 1945.
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" | 30
| data-sort-value="yakubovsky" | [[Ivan Yakubovsky]]
| [[File:Генерал-майор И.И. Якубовский на улице Москвы.jpeg|75px]]
| style="text-align: right;" data-sort-value="1967-04-12" | 12 Apr 1967 &nbsp; 
|
* First Deputy Minister of Defence/[[Supreme Commander of the Unified Armed Forces of the Warsaw Treaty Organization]], 1967–1976.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://docs.historyrussia.org/ru/nodes/413960|title=Постановление Совета Министров СССР. О назначении т. Якубовского И. И. первым заместителем Министра обороны СССР (Протокол № 308)|trans-title=Decree No. 308 of the Council of Ministers of the USSR "On the appointment of I.I Yakubovsky as First Deputy Minister of Defence of the USSR"|date=1967-04-12|access-date=2024-12-14|publisher=Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union|language=ru|website=Electronic Library of [Russian and Soviet] Historical Documents}}</ref>
| data-sort-value="22(a)" {{yes}}<br />{{small|([[Central Committee of the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|22nd]]–[[Central Committee of the 25th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|25th]])}}
| {{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. 
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" | 31
| data-sort-value="batitsky" | [[Pavel Batitsky]]
| [[File:Batitskiy.jpg|75px]]
| style="text-align: right;" data-sort-value="1968-04-15-00" | 15 Apr 1968 &nbsp;
|
* Deputy Minister of Defence/Commander in Chief, [[Soviet Air Defence Forces]], 1966–1978.
| data-sort-value="22(a)(b)" {{yes}}<br />{{small|(Candidate: [[Central Committee of the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|22nd]]; Full: [[Central Committee of the 23rd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|23rd]]–[[Central Committee of the 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|26th]])}}
| {{no}}
| {{no}}
| 10
| (1910–1984) Appointed to [[Group of Inspectors General]], 1978. Made [[Hero of the Soviet Union]], 1965.
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" | 32
| data-sort-value="koshevoy" | [[Pyotr Koshevoy]]
| [[File:Blank.svg|75px]]<!-- Do not use placeholder images per WP:IPH -->
| style="text-align: right;" data-sort-value="1968-04-15-01" | 15 Apr 1968 &nbsp; 
|
* Commander in Chief, [[Group of Soviet Forces in Germany]], 1965–1969.
| data-sort-value="22(b)" {{operational|Candidate}}<br />{{small|([[Central Committee of the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|22nd]]–[[Central Committee of the 23rd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|23rd]])}}
| {{no}}
| {{no}}
| 1
| (1904–1976) Appointed to [[Group of Inspectors General]], 1969. Made [[Hero of the Soviet Union]], 1944 and 1945.
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" | 33
| data-sort-value="brezhnev" | [[Leonid Brezhnev]]
| [[File:Leonid Brezjnev, leider van de Sovjet-Unie, Bestanddeelnr 925-6564.jpg|75px]]
| style="text-align: right;" data-sort-value="1976-05-07" | {{nowrap|7 May 1976{{sfn|Karlsson|1988|p=70}}}}
|
* [[General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|General Secretary, Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union]], 1964–1982.{{efn|as [[General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|First Secretary, Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union]] (1964–1966)}}
* Chairman, [[Defense Council (Soviet Union)|Defence Council of the Soviet Union]], 1964–1982.
* [[List of heads of state of the Soviet Union|Chairman, Presidium of the Supreme Soviet]], 1977–1982.
| data-sort-value="19(a)" {{yes}}<br />{{small|([[Central Committee of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|19th]]–[[Central Committee of the 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|26th]])}}
| data-sort-value="19" {{yes}}<br />{{small|([[Secretariat of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|19th]]–[[Secretariat of the 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|26th]])}}
| data-sort-value="19(b)" {{yes}}<br />{{small|(Candidate: [[Presidium of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|19th]]; Full: [[Presidium of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|20th]]–[[Politburo of the 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|26th]])}}
| 6
| (1906–1982) Died in office. First Secretary, [[Communist Party of Moldavia]], 1950–1952; First Secretary, [[Communist Party of Kazakhstan (Soviet Union)|Communist Party of Kazakhstan]], 1955–1956; [[List of heads of state of the Soviet Union|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).
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" | 34
| data-sort-value="ustinov" | [[Dmitry Ustinov]]
| [[File:Dmitry Ustinov (colorized, full).jpg|75px]]
| style="text-align: right;" data-sort-value="1976-07-30" | {{nowrap|30 Jul 1976<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/jprs-report_jprs-uma-84-003/page/4/mode/2up?q=marshal|title=USSR Report: Military Affairs — Military History Journal No. 10, October 1983|page=4|date=1984-01-06|access-date=2024-12-04|via=Internet Archive}}</ref>}}
|
* [[Minister of Defence (Soviet Union)|Minister of Defence]], 1976–1984.
| data-sort-value="19(a)" {{yes}}<br />{{small|([[Central Committee of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|19th]]–[[Central Committee of the 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|26th]])}}
| data-sort-value="22" {{yes}}<br />{{small|([[Secretariat of the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|22nd]]–[[Secretariat of the 25th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|25th]])}}
| data-sort-value="22(b)" {{yes}}<br />{{small|(Candidate: [[Presidium of the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|22nd]]–[[Politburo of the 24th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|24th]]; Full: [[Politburo of the 25th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|25th]]–[[Politburo of the 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|26th]])}}
| 8
| (1908–1984){{efn|Directly appointed as [[Army General (Soviet rank)|General of the Army]], 29 April 1976; promoted to Marshal of the Soviet Union, 30 July 1976.}} Died in office. Minister of the Defence Industry, 1941–1957;{{efn|as People's Commissar for Armaments (1941–1946); Minister of Armaments (1946–1953){{sfn|Karlsson|1988|pp=72–73}}}} [[Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union|Deputy Chairman, Council of Ministers]], 1957–1963; [[First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union|First Deputy Chairman, Council of Ministers]], 1963–1965; [[Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|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. 
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" | 35
| data-sort-value="kulikov" | [[Viktor Kulikov]]
| [[File:Куликов Виктор Георгиевич.jpg|75px]]
| style="text-align: right;" data-sort-value="1977-01-14-00" | 14 Jan 1977 &nbsp; 
|
* First Deputy Minister of Defence/[[Supreme Commander of the Unified Armed Forces of the Warsaw Treaty Organization|Supreme Commander, Unified Armed Forces of the Warsaw Treaty Organization]], 1977–1989.
| data-sort-value="24(a)" {{yes}}<br />{{small|([[Central Committee of the 24th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|24th]]–[[Central Committee of the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|27th]])}}
| {{no}}
| {{no}}
| 12
| (1921–2013) Relieved, 1989. Commander in Chief, [[Group of Soviet Forces in Germany]], 1969–1971; [[Chief of the General Staff (Russia)|Chief, General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces]], 1971–1977; [[3rd State Duma|Member of the State Duma]], 2000–2003. Made [[Hero of the Soviet Union]], 1981.
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" | 36
| data-sort-value="ogarkov" | [[Nikolai Ogarkov]]
| [[File:Nikolai Ogarkov 1 (enlarged).jpg|75px]]
| style="text-align: right;" data-sort-value="1977-01-14-01" | 14 Jan 1977 &nbsp; 
|
* First Deputy Minister of Defence/[[Chief of the General Staff (Russia)|Chief, General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces]], 1977–1984.
* Commander in Chief, Western Theatre of Military Operations, 1984–1988.
| data-sort-value="23(b)" {{yes}}<br />{{small|(Candidate: [[Central Committee of the 23rd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|23rd]]; Full: [[Central Committee of the 24th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|24th]]–[[Central Committee of the 28th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|28th]])}}
| {{no}}
| {{no}}
| 11
| (1917–1994) Relieved as chief of the general staff, 1984; appointed to [[Group of Inspectors General]], 1988. Made [[Hero of the Soviet Union]], 1977. 
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" | 37
| data-sort-value="sokolov" | [[Sergei Sokolov (marshal)|Sergei Sokolov]]
| [[File:Sergey Leonidovich Sokolov.jpg|75px]]
| style="text-align: right;" data-sort-value="1978-02-17" | 17 Feb 1978 &nbsp; 
|
* First Deputy Minister of Defence, 1966–1984.
* [[Minister of Defence (Soviet Union)|Minister of Defence]], 1984–1987.
| data-sort-value="23(a)(b)" {{yes}}<br />{{small|([[Central Committee of the 23rd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|23rd]]–[[Central Committee of the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|27th]]){{efn|Candidate member of the [[Central Committee of the 23rd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|23rd Central Committee]] until promotion at the 7th Plenary Session (9–10 April 1968)<ref name="cc_membership_1966">{{cite web|url=http://www.knowbysight.info/2_KPSS/05803.asp|title=XXIII-й съезд Коммунистической партии Советского Союза 29.3 - 8.4.1966|trans-title=XXIII Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 29.3 - 8.4.1966|access-date=2022-05-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220416064014/http://www.knowbysight.info/2_KPSS/05803.asp|archive-date=2022-04-16|publisher=Knowbysight.info}}</ref>}}}}
| {{no}}
| data-sort-value="26(b)" {{operational|Candidate}}<br />{{small|([[Politburo of the 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|26th]]–[[Politburo of the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|27th]])}}
| 9
| (1911–2012) Dismissed as minister of defence, 1987. Made [[Hero of the Soviet Union]], 1980. 
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" | 38
| data-sort-value="akhromeyev" | [[Sergey Akhromeyev]]
| [[File:Sergey Akhromeyev (cropped).jpg|75px]]
| style="text-align: right;" data-sort-value="1983-03-25-00" | 25 Mar 1983 &nbsp; 
|
* First Deputy Chief, [[General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation|General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces]], 1979–1984.
* First Deputy Minister of Defence/[[Chief of the General Staff (Russia)|Chief, General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces]], 1984–1988.
| data-sort-value="26(b)" {{yes}}<br />{{small|([[Central Committee of the 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|26th]]–[[Central Committee of the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|27th]]){{efn|Candidate member of the [[Central Committee of the 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|26th Central Committee]] until promotion at the 6th Plenary Session (14–15 June 1983)<ref name="cc_membership_1981">{{cite web|url=http://www.knowbysight.info/2_KPSS/05805.asp|title=Центральный Комитет, избранный XXVI съездом КПСС 3.3.1981, члены|trans-title=Central Committee elected by the XXVI Congress of the CPSU 3.3.1981, members|access-date=2022-05-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220425043055/http://www.knowbysight.info/2_KPSS/05802.asp|archive-date=2022-04-25|publisher=Knowbysight.info}}</ref>}}}}
| {{no}}
| {{no}}
| 5
| (1923–1991) Appointed to [[Group of Inspectors General]], 1988. Made [[Hero of the Soviet Union]], 1982.
|-
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" | 39
| data-sort-value="kurkotkin" | [[Semyon Kurkotkin]]
|  [[File:Semyon Kurkotkin 2.jpg|75px]]
| style="text-align: right;" data-sort-value="1983-03-25-01" | 25 Mar 1983 &nbsp; 
|
* Deputy Minister of Defence/Chief, [[Rear services|Rear Services of the Soviet Armed Forces]], 1972–1988.
| data-sort-value="24(b)" {{yes}}<br />{{small|(Candidate: [[Central Committee of the 24th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|24th]]; Full: [[Central Committee of the 25th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|25th]]–[[Central Committee of the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|27th]])}}
| {{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.
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" | 40
| data-sort-value="petrov" | [[Vasily Petrov (marshal)|Vasily Petrov]]
| [[File:Marshal Vasily Ivanovich Petrov.jpg|75px]]
| style="text-align: right;" data-sort-value="1983-03-25-02" | 25 Mar 1983 &nbsp; 
|
* Deputy Minister of Defence/[[Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Ground Forces#Soviet Ground Forces (1946–1992)|Commander in Chief, Soviet Ground Forces]], 1980–1985.
* First Deputy Minister of Defence, 1985–1986.
| data-sort-value="25(a)" {{yes}}<br />{{small|([[Central Committee of the 25th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|25th]]–[[Central Committee of the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|27th]])}}
| {{no}}
| {{no}}
| 3
| (1917–2014) Appointed to [[Group of Inspectors General]], 1986. Made [[Hero of the Soviet Union]], 1982.
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! scope="row" | 41
| data-sort-value="yazov" | [[Dmitry Yazov]]
| [[File:Marshal Dmitry Yazov.jpg|75px]]
| style="text-align: right;" data-sort-value="1990-04-28" | 28 Apr 1990 &nbsp; 
|
* [[Minister of Defence (Soviet Union)|Minister of Defence]], 1987–1991.
* Member, [[State Committee on the State of Emergency]], 1991.
| data-sort-value="26(b)" {{yes}}<br />{{small|(Candidate: [[Central Committee of the 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|26th]]; Full: [[Central Committee of the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|27th]]–[[Central Committee of the 28th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|28th]]){{efn|Candidate member of the [[Central Committee of the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|27th Central Committee]] until promotion at the 4th Plenary Session (26 June 1987)<ref name="cc_membership_1986">{{cite web|url=http://www.knowbysight.info/2_KPSS/05805.asp|title=Центральный Комитет, избранный XXVII съездом КПСС 6.3.1986, члены|trans-title=Central Committee elected by the XXVII Congress of the CPSU 6.3.1986, members|access-date=2022-05-21|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220416063020/http://www.knowbysight.info/2_KPSS/05805.asp|archive-date=2022-04-16|publisher=Knowbysight.info}}</ref>}}}}
| {{no}}
| data-sort-value="27(b)" {{operational|Candidate}}<br />{{small|([[Politburo of the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|27th]])}}
| 1
| (1924–2020) Dismissed as minister of defence, 1991. 
|}

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 bar:shaposhnikov  from:1940.67  till:1941.58  color:other
 bar:shaposhnikov  from:1941.58  till:1942.42  color:genlstaff
 bar:shaposhnikov  from:1942.42  till:1945.25  color:other   text:"[[Boris Shaposhnikov]]"

 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:1945.50  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:"[[History of the Soviet Union (1953–1964)|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 (marshal)|Nikolay Krylov]]"

 bar:spacer_brezhnev  from:1930  till:1999   color:category
 bar:leader_brezhnev  from:1986.45  till:1986.45    color:none  text:"[[History of the Soviet Union (1964–1982)|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 (marshal)|Sergei Sokolov]]"

 bar:spacer_andropovchernenko  from:1930  till:1999   color:category
 bar:leader_andropovchernenko  from:1980.60  till:1980.60    color:none  text:"[[History of the Soviet Union (1982–1991)|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 (marshal)|Vasily Petrov]]"

 bar:spacer_gorbachev  from:1930  till:1999   color:category
 bar:leader_gorbachev  from:1985.45  till:1985.45    color:none  text:"[[History of the Soviet Union (1982–1991)|Gorbachev era (1985–1991)]]"

 bar:yazov  from:1990.33  till:1991.67  color:defence  text:"[[Dmitry Yazov]]"

}}

==See also==
* [[Marshal of the Russian Federation]]
* [[History of Russian military ranks]]
* [[Military ranks of the Soviet Union]]
** [[Military ranks of the Soviet Union (1935–1940)|1935–1940]] and [[Military ranks of the Soviet Union (1940–1943)|1940–1943]]
** [[Military ranks of the Soviet Union (1943–1955)|1943–1955]] and [[Military ranks of the Soviet Union (1955–1991)|1955–1991]]
* [[Marshal of the branch]]
* [[Chief marshal of the branch]]
* [[Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union]]
* [[Field marshal (Russian Empire)]]
* [[Yuanshuai#People's Republic of China|Marshal of the People's Republic of China]]
* [[Wonsu|Marshal (North Korea and South Korea)]]

==Notes==
{{notelist}}

== References ==
{{reflist}}

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|last=Naab
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|last=Pierre
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|last=Sadykiewicz
|first=Michael
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==External links==
* {{cite web
|url=http://www.marshals.su/
|title=Biographies of all the Marshals and Admirals of the Fleet of the USSR
|access-date=2024-12-05
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090331075551/http://www.marshals.su/
|archive-date=2009-03-31
}}

* {{cite web
|last=Ammentorp 
|first=Steen
|url=https://generals.dk/nation/Soviet_Union.html
|title=Soviet Generals
|year=2000
|access-date=2024-12-05
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240515185928/https://generals.dk/nation/Soviet_Union.html
|archive-date=2024-05-15
|website=The Generals of WWII (database)
}}

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