Marshal of the Soviet Union

Marshal of the Soviet Union (Russian: Маршал Советского Союза, romanised Marshal Sovetskogo Soyuza) was a military rank of the Soviet Union from 1935 until the USSR's dissolution in 1991. It was the highest rank in the Red Army until 1945, when the rank of Generalissimo of the Soviet Union was created. The naval equivalent of Marshal of the Soviet Union was from 1940 to 1955 admiral of the fleet and from 1955 to 1991 Admiral of the fleet of the Soviet Union. The modern equivalent of the rank is Marshal of the Russian Federation.

Forty-one people held the rank. Most Marshals of the Soviet Union were military men, though some (e.g. Stalin and Beria) were first and foremost political leaders.

List of Marshals of the Soviet Union

Number	Name	Date of promotion	Date of removal	Date of death
1	Alexander Yegorov	20 November 1935 14 March 1956 (posthumously)	22 February 1939	23 February 1939
2	Kliment Voroshilov	20 November 1935	N/A	2 December 1969
3	Mikhail Tukhachevsky	20 November 1935 31 January 1957 (posthumously)	11 June 1937	12 June 1937
4	Semyon Budyonny	20 November 1935	N/A	26 October 1973
5	Vasily Blyukher	20 November 1935 14 March 1956 (posthumously)	10 March 1939 (posthumously)	9 November 1938
6	Boris Shaposhnikov	7 May 1940	N/A	26 March 1945
7	Grigory Kulik	7 May 1940 28 September 1957 (posthumously)	19 February 1942	24 August 1950
8	Semyon Timoshenko	7 May 1940	N/A	31 March 1970
9	Georgy Zhukov	18 January 1943	N/A	18 June 1974
10	Aleksandr Vasilevsky	16 February 1943	N/A	5 December 1977
11	Joseph Stalin	6 March 1943	27 June 1945	5 March 1953
12	Ivan Konev	20 February 1944	N/A	21 May 1973
13	Leonid Govorov	18 June 1944	N/A	19 March 1955
14	Konstantin Rokossovsky	29 June 1944	N/A	3 August 1968
15	Rodion Malinovsky	10 September 1944	N/A	31 March 1967
16	Fyodor Tolbukhin	12 September 1944	N/A	17 October 1949
17	Kirill Meretskov	26 October 1944	N/A	30 December 1968
18	Lavrentiy Beria	9 July 1945	23 December 1953	23 December 1953
19	Vasily Sokolovsky	3 July 1946	N/A	10 May 1968
20	Nikolai Bulganin	3 November 1947	26 November 1958	24 February 1975
21	Andrei Grechko	11 March 1955	N/A	26 April 1976
22	Andrey Yeryomenko	11 March 1955	N/A	19 November 1970
23	Ivan Bagramyan	11 March 1955	N/A	21 September 1982
24	Kirill Moskalenko	11 March 1955	N/A	17 June 1985
25	Sergey Biryuzov	11 March 1955	N/A	19 October 1964
26	Vasily Chuikov	11 March 1955	N/A	18 March 1982
27	Matvei Zakharov	8 May 1959	N/A	31 January 1972
28	Filipp Golikov	6 May 1961	N/A	29 July 1980
29	Nikolai Krylov	28 May 1962	N/A	9 February 1972
30	Ivan Yakubovsky	12 April 1967	N/A	30 November 1976
31	Pavel Batitsky	15 April 1968	N/A	17 February 1984
32	Pyotr Koshevoy	15 April 1968	N/A	30 August 1976
33	Leonid Brezhnev	7 May 1976	N/A	10 November 1982
34	Dmitry Ustinov	30 July 1976	N/A	20 December 1984
35	Nikolai Ogarkov	14 January 1977	N/A	23 January 1994
36	Viktor Kulikov	14 January 1977	N/A	28 May 2013
37	Sergey Sokolov	17 February 1978	N/A	31 August 2012
38	Sergey Akhromeyev	25 March 1983	N/A	24 August 1991
39	Sergey Kurkotkin	25 March 1983	N/A	16 September 1990
40	Vasily Petrov	25 March 1983	N/A	1 February 2014
41	Dmitry Yazov	28 April 1990	N/A	25 February 2020

See also

• Marshal of Poland
• Marshal of the German Democratic Republic
• Marshal of the Mongolian People's Republic
• Marshal of the Russian Federation
• Marshal of Yugoslavia