Marshal of the Soviet Union

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Marshal of the Soviet Union (Template:Langx, Template:IPA) was the second-highest military rank of the Soviet Union. It was de facto the highest rank because its superior rank, Generalissimo, was only applied to Joseph Stalin, who preferred to wear the uniform and insignia of Marshal after World War II.

The rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union was created in 1935 and abolished in 1991 when the Soviet Union dissolved. Forty-one people held this rank. The equivalent naval rank was until 1955 admiral of the fleet and from 1955 Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union.

History of the rank

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File:5marshals 01.jpg
The first five marshals of the Soviet Union from left to right: Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Semyon Budyonny, Kliment Voroshilov, Vasily Blyukher, and Alexander Yegorov. Only Budyonny and Voroshilov 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: People's Commissar of Defence and veteran Bolshevik Kliment Voroshilov, chief of the General Staff of the Red Army Alexander Yegorov, and three senior commanders, Vasily Blyukher, Semyon Budyonny, and Mikhail Tukhachevsky.

Of these, Blyukher, Tukhachevsky, and Yegorov were executed during Stalin's Great Purge of 1937–38. On 7 May 1940, three new marshals were appointed: the new People's Commissar of Defence, Semyon Timoshenko, Boris Shaposhnikov, and Grigory Kulik.

During World War II, Kulik was demoted for incompetence, and the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union was given to a number of military commanders who earned it on merit. These included Georgy Zhukov, Ivan Konev and Konstantin Rokossovsky to name a few. In 1943, Stalin himself was made a Marshal of the Soviet Union, and in 1945, he was joined by his intelligence and police chief Lavrentiy Beria. These non-military marshals were joined in 1947 by politician Nikolai Bulganin.

Two Marshals were executed in postwar purges: Kulik in 1950 and Beria in 1953, following Stalin's death. Thereafter the rank was awarded only to professional soldiers, with the exception of Leonid Brezhnev, who made himself a marshal in 1976, and Dmitry Ustinov, who was prominent in the arms industry and was appointed Minister of Defence in July 1976. The last Marshal of the Soviet Union was Dmitry Yazov, appointed in 1990, who was imprisoned after the failed coup against Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991. Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev committed suicide in 1991 during the fall of the Soviet Union.

The Marshals fell into three generational groups.

  • Those who had gained their reputations during the Russian Civil War. These included both those who were purged in 1937–38 (Blyukher, Tukhachevsky, and Yegorov), and those who held high commands in the early years of World War II (Budyonny, Kulik, Shaposhnikov, Timoshenko and Voroshilov). All of the latter except Shaposhnikov and Timoshenko proved out-of-step with modern warfare and were removed from commanding positions.
  • Those who built their reputations during World War II and assumed high commands in the latter part of the war. These included Zhukov, Vasilevsky, Konev, Rokossovsky, Malinovsky, Tolbukhin, Govorov, and Meretskov.
  • Those who assumed high command during the Cold War era. All were officers in World War II, but their higher commands were held in the Warsaw Pact or as Soviet defence ministers. These included Sokolovsky, Grechko, Yakubovsky, Kulikov, Ogarkov, Akhromeyev, and Yazov.

All marshals in the third category had been officers in World War II, except Ustinov, who had been People's Commissar for Armaments. Even Yazov, who was 20 when the war ended, had been a platoon commander. Brezhnev was not a professional soldier, but was still commissioned as a political commissar in the war.

Of the 35 Marshals who were career soldiers, the majority were of Russian origin. Timoshenko (Tymoshenko), Kulik (Kulyk), Grechko (Hrechko), Yeremenko (Yeryomenko), Moskalenko, Batitsky (Batytsʹkyy) and Koshevoy (Koshovyy) were of Ukrainian origin, while Sokolovsky (Sakaloŭski) and Yakubovsky (Jakuboŭski) had Belarusian origins. Rokossovsky (Rokossowski) was born in Congress Poland to a Polish family, while Malinovsky (Malinowsky) was born in Odessa (now in Ukraine) to a Polish father. Tukhachevsky also had Polish ancestry. Bagramyan (Baghramyan) was the sole marshal of Armenian origin.

The rank was abolished with the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991. It was succeeded in modern Russia by the rank of Marshal of the Russian Federation, which has been held by only one person, Igor Sergeyev, who was Russia's defence minister from 1997 to 2001. There have been no living marshals since Yazov's death in February 2020.

List of marshals

List of Marshals of the Soviet Union
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1 Template:Nowrap File:Kliment Voroshilov.jpg Template:Nowrap

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Template:Small 		25 (1881–1969) Resigned as head of state, 1960.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Mayor of Luhansk, 1917; People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs, 1925–1934. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1956 and 1968; Hero of Socialist Labour, 1960.
2 Semyon Budyonny File:Маршал Советского Союза Семён Михайлович Будённый.jpg Template:Nowrap

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data-sort-value="17(b)" Template:Yes
Template:Small 		Template:No Template:No 17 (1883–1973) Retired, 1954. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1958, 1963 and 1968.
3 Mikhail Tukhachevsky File:Tukhachevsky.png Template:Nowrap data-sort-value="17(b)" Template:Operational
Template:Small 		Template:No Template:No 2 (1893–1937)Template:Efn Stripped of rank, 1937. Posthumously rehabilitated.
4 Alexander Yegorov File:Александр Егоров.jpg Template:Nowrap data-sort-value="17(b)" Template:Operational
Template:Small 		Template:No Template:No 3 (1883–1939)Template:Efn Stripped of rank, 1938. Posthumously rehabilitated.
5 Vasily Blyukher File:Vasily Konstantinovich Blyukher.jpg Template:Nowrap data-sort-value="17(a)(b)" Template:Yes
Template:Small 		Template:No Template:No 3 (1889–1938)Template:Efn Retroactively stripped of rank, 1939. Posthumously rehabilitated.
6 Semyon Timoshenko File:Маршал Советского Союза Герой Советского Союза Семён Константинович Тимошенко.jpg 7 May 1940  

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data-sort-value="18(a)" Template:Yes
Template:Small 		Template:No Template:No 20 (1895–1970) Appointed to Group of Inspectors General, 1960. Chairman, State Committee for War Veterans, 1961–1970. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1940 and 1965; awarded Order of Victory, 1945.
7 Boris Shaposhnikov File:Boris Shaposhnikov 02.jpg 7 May 1940   data-sort-value="18(b)" Template:Operational
Template:Small 		Template:No Template:No 5 (1882–1945) Died in office.
8 Grigory Kulik File:Grigory Kulik.jpg 7 May 1940  
  • Deputy People's Commissar for Defence/Deputy Chief, 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, 1941.
  • Stavka Representative to the Crimean Front, 1941–1942.
 data-sort-value="18(a)" Template:Yes
Template:Small 		Template:No Template:No 2 (1890–1950)Template:Efn Stripped of rank, 1942. Posthumously rehabilitated. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1940 (rescinded 1942).<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
9 Georgy Zhukov File:Zhukov LIFE.jpg Template:Nowrap data-sort-value="18(a)(b)" Template:Yes
Template:Small 		Template:No data-sort-value="20(a)" Template:Yes
Template:Small 		14 (1896–1974)Template:Efn Dismissed as minister of defence, 1957. Chief, General Staff of the Red Army, 1941. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1940, 1944, 1945 and 1956; awarded Order of Victory, 1944 and 1945.
10 Aleksandr Vasilevsky File:Aleksandr Vasilevsky 4.jpg Template:Nowrap data-sort-value="19(a)" Template:Yes
Template:Small 		Template:No Template: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.
11 Joseph Stalin File:StalinCropped1943(b).jpg Template:Nowrap data-sort-value="6(a)" Template:Yes
Template:Small 		data-sort-value="11" Template:Yes
Template:Small 		data-sort-value="6(a)" Template:Yes
Template:Small 		2 (1878–1953) Died in office. Promoted to Generalissimo, 27 Jun 1945. Made Hero of Socialist Labour, 1939; Hero of the Soviet Union, 1945; awarded Order of Victory, 1944.
12 Ivan Konev File:Ivan Stepanovich Konev.jpg Template:Nowrap data-sort-value="18(a)(b)" Template:Yes
Template:Small 		Template:No Template:No 17 (1897–1973)Template:Efn Appointed to Group of Inspectors General, 1960; reappointed, 1962. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1944 and 1945; awarded Order of Victory, 1945.
13 Leonid Govorov File:Leonid Govorov 1.jpg Template:Nowrap data-sort-value="19(b)" Template:Operational
Template:Small 		Template:No Template:No 11 (1897–1955) Died in office. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1945; awarded Order of Victory, 1945.
14 Konstantin Rokossovsky File:Маршал Советского Союза дважды Герой Советского Союза Константин Константинович Рокоссовский.jpg Template:Nowrap data-sort-value="22(b)" Template:Operational
Template:Small 		Template:No Template:No 18 (1896–1968) Appointed to Group of Inspectors General, 1962. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1944 and 1945; awarded Order of Victory, 1945. Made Marshal of Poland, 1949.
15 Rodion Malinovsky File:Rodion Malinovsky 1.jpg Template:Nowrap data-sort-value="19(a)(b)" Template:Yes
Template:Small 		Template:No Template:No 23 (1898–1967) Died in office. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1945 and 1958; awarded Order of Victory, 1945.
16 Fyodor Tolbukhin File:Маршал Советского Союза Ф.И. Толбухин.jpg Template:Nowrap Template:No Template:No Template:No 5 (1894–1949) Died in office. Posthumously made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1965; awarded Order of Victory, 1945.
17 Kirill Meretskov File:Кирилл Афанасьевич Мерецков с сыном Владимиром (cropped).jpg Template:Nowrap data-sort-value="18(b)" Template:Operational
Template:Small 		Template:No Template:No 20 (1897–1968) Appointed to Group of Inspectors General, 1964. Chief, General Staff of the Red Army, 1940–1941. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1940; awarded Order of Victory, 1945.
18 Lavrentiy Beria File:Lavrentiy Beria portrait 2.jpg Template:Nowrap data-sort-value="17(a)" Template:Yes
Template:Small 		Template:No data-sort-value="18(b)" Template:Yes
Template:Small 		8 (1899–1953)Template:Efn Stripped of rank, 1953. First Secretary, Communist Party of Georgia, 1931–1932, 1934–1938; First Secretary, Communist Party, Transcaucasian SFSR, 1932–1938. Made Hero of Socialist Labour, 1943.
19 Vasily Sokolovsky File:Vasily Sokolovsky.jpg 3 Jul 1946   data-sort-value="19(a)" Template:Yes
Template:Small 		Template:No Template:No 14 (1897–1968) Appointed to Group of Inspectors General, 1960. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1945.
20 Nikolai Bulganin File:Nikolai Bulganin.jpg Template:Nowrap data-sort-value="17(a)(b)" Template:Yes
Template:Small 		Template:No data-sort-value="18(b)" Template:Yes
Template:Small 		11 (1895–1975)Template:Efn Stripped of rank, 1958.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Chairman, Council of People's Commissars, Russian SFSR, 1937–1938; Deputy Chairman, Council of People's Commissars, 1938–1944; Chairman, State Bank of the Soviet Union, 1938–1940, 1940–1945. Made Hero of Socialist Labour, 1955.
21 Andrei Grechko File:Andrei Grechko 3.jpg 11 Mar 1955   data-sort-value="19(a)(b)" Template:Yes
Template:Small 		Template:No data-sort-value="24(a)" Template:Yes
Template:Small 		21 (1903–1976) Died in office. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1958 and 1973.
22 Ivan Bagramyan File:Баграмян Иван Христофорович.jpg 11 Mar 1955   data-sort-value="19(a)(b)" Template:Yes
Template:Small 		Template:No Template:No 13 (1897–1982) Appointed to Group of Inspectors General, 1968. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1944 and 1977.
23 Sergey Biryuzov File:Sergey Biryuzov.jpg 11 Mar 1955   data-sort-value="20(b)" Template:Yes
Template:Small 		Template:No Template:No 9 (1904–1964) Died in office. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1958.
24 Kirill Moskalenko File:Kirill Moskalenko 01.jpg 11 Mar 1955   data-sort-value="20(a)" Template:Yes
Template:Small 		Template:No Template:No 28 (1902–1985) Appointed to Group of Inspectors General, 1983. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1943 and 1978.
25 Vasily Chuikov File:Маршал Советского Союза дважды Герой Советского Союза Василий Иванович Чуйков.jpg 11 Mar 1955   data-sort-value="20(b)" Template:Yes
Template:Small 		Template:No Template:No 17 (1900–1982) Appointed to Group of Inspectors General, 1972. Commander in Chief, Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany, 1949–1953. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1944 and 1945.
26 Andrey Yeryomenko File:Маршал Советского Союза Герой Советского Союза Андрей Иванович Ерёменко (cropped).jpg 11 Mar 1955   data-sort-value="20(b)" Template:Yes
Template:Small 		Template:No Template:No 3 (1892–1970) Appointed to Group of Inspectors General, 1958. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1944.
27 Matvei Zakharov File:Matvei Zakharov 1.jpg 8 May 1959   data-sort-value="22(a)" Template:Yes
Template:Small 		Template:No Template:No 12 (1898–1972) Appointed to Group of Inspectors General, 1971. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1945 and 1971. Director, Main Intelligence Directorate, 1949–1952.
28 Filipp Golikov File:Маршал Советского Союза Филипп Иванович Голиков.jpg 6 May 1961   data-sort-value="22(a)" Template:Yes
Template:Small 		Template:No Template:No 1 (1900–1980) Relieved and appointed to Group of Inspectors General, 1962. Director, Main Intelligence Directorate, 1940–1941.
29 Nikolay Krylov File:Nikolay Ivanovich Krylov 1.jpg 28 Apr 1962   data-sort-value="22(a)" Template:Yes
Template:Small 		Template:No Template:No 10 (1903–1972) Died in office. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, twice in 1945.
30 Ivan Yakubovsky File:Генерал-майор И.И. Якубовский на улице Москвы.jpeg 12 Apr 1967   data-sort-value="22(a)" Template:Yes
Template:Small 		Template:No Template:No 9 (1912–1976) Died in office. Commander in Chief, Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, 1960–1961; 1962–1965. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, twice in 1944.
31 Pavel Batitsky File:Batitskiy.jpg 15 Apr 1968   data-sort-value="22(a)(b)" Template:Yes
Template:Small 		Template:No Template:No 10 (1910–1984) Appointed to Group of Inspectors General, 1978. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1965.
32 Pyotr Koshevoy 15 Apr 1968   data-sort-value="22(b)" Template:Operational
Template:Small 		Template:No Template:No 1 (1904–1976) Appointed to Group of Inspectors General, 1969. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1944 and 1945.
33 Leonid Brezhnev File:Leonid Brezjnev, leider van de Sovjet-Unie, Bestanddeelnr 925-6564.jpg Template:Nowrap data-sort-value="19(a)" Template:Yes
Template:Small 		data-sort-value="19" Template:Yes
Template:Small 		data-sort-value="19(b)" Template:Yes
Template:Small 		6 (1906–1982) Died in office. First Secretary, Communist Party of Moldavia, 1950–1952; First Secretary, Communist Party of Kazakhstan, 1955–1956; Chairman, Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, 1960–1964; Second Secretary, Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1963–1964. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1966, 1976, 1978 and 1981; Hero of Socialist Labour, 1961; awarded Order of Victory, 1978 (rescinded 1989).
34 Dmitry Ustinov File:Dmitry Ustinov (colorized, full).jpg Template:Nowrap data-sort-value="19(a)" Template:Yes
Template:Small 		data-sort-value="22" Template:Yes
Template:Small 		data-sort-value="22(b)" Template:Yes
Template:Small 		8 (1908–1984)Template:Efn Died in office. Minister of the Defence Industry, 1941–1957;Template:Efn Deputy Chairman, Council of Ministers, 1957–1963; First Deputy Chairman, Council of Ministers, 1963–1965; CPSU Central Committee Secretary for Administrative Organs, 1963–1976; for the Defence Industry, 1965–1976. Made Hero of Socialist Labour, 1942 and 1961; Hero of the Soviet Union, 1978.
35 Viktor Kulikov File:Куликов Виктор Георгиевич.jpg 14 Jan 1977   data-sort-value="24(a)" Template:Yes
Template:Small 		Template:No Template:No 12 (1921–2013) Relieved, 1989. Commander in Chief, Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, 1969–1971; Chief, General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces, 1971–1977; Member of the State Duma, 2000–2003. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1981.
36 Nikolai Ogarkov File:Nikolai Ogarkov 1 (enlarged).jpg 14 Jan 1977   data-sort-value="23(b)" Template:Yes
Template:Small 		Template:No Template: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.
37 Sergei Sokolov File:Sergey Leonidovich Sokolov.jpg 17 Feb 1978   data-sort-value="23(a)(b)" Template:Yes
Template:Small 		Template:No data-sort-value="26(b)" Template:Operational
Template:Small 		9 (1911–2012) Dismissed as minister of defence, 1987. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1980.
38 Sergey Akhromeyev File:Sergey Akhromeyev (cropped).jpg 25 Mar 1983   data-sort-value="26(b)" Template:Yes
Template:Small 		Template:No Template:No 5 (1923–1991) Appointed to Group of Inspectors General, 1988. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1982.
39 Semyon Kurkotkin File:Semyon Kurkotkin 2.jpg 25 Mar 1983   data-sort-value="24(b)" Template:Yes
Template:Small 		Template:No Template:No 5 (1917–1990) Appointed to Group of Inspectors General, 1988. Commander in Chief, Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, 1971–1972. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1981.
40 Vasily Petrov File:Marshal Vasily Ivanovich Petrov.jpg 25 Mar 1983   data-sort-value="25(a)" Template:Yes
Template:Small 		Template:No Template:No 3 (1917–2014) Appointed to Group of Inspectors General, 1986. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1982.
41 Dmitry Yazov File:Marshal Dmitry Yazov.jpg 28 Apr 1990   data-sort-value="26(b)" Template:Yes
Template:Small 		Template:No data-sort-value="27(b)" Template:Operational
Template:Small 		1 (1924–2020) Dismissed as minister of defence, 1991.

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bar:konev  from:1956  till:1960.33  color:warsawgermany 
bar:konev  from:1961.67  till:1962.33  color:warsawgermany  text:"Ivan Konev"

bar:govorov  from:1944.50  till:1946.33  color:theatre
bar:govorov  from:1946.33  till:1954.42  color:other
bar:govorov  from:1954.42  till:1955.25  color:service  text:"Leonid Govorov"

bar:rokossovsky  from:1944.50  till:1949.92  color:theatre
bar:rokossovsky  from:1949.92  till:1956.92  color:political 
bar:rokossovsky  from:1956.92  till:1957.83  color:other
bar:rokossovsky  from:1957.83  till:1957.98  color:theatre
bar:rokossovsky  from:1957.98  till:1962.33  color:other   text:"Konstantin Rokossovsky"

bar:malinovsky  from:1944.75  till:1956.25  color:theatre
bar:malinovsky  from:1956.25  till:1957.83  color:service
bar:malinovsky  from:1957.83  till:1967.25  color:defence  text:"Rodion Malinovsky"

bar:tolbukhin  from:1944.75  till:1949.83  color:theatre  text:"Fyodor Tolbukhin"

bar:meretskov  from:1944.83  till:1954.42  color:theatre
bar:meretskov  from:1954.42  till:1964.33  color:other   text:"Kirill Meretskov"

bar:beria  from:1945.58  till:1946.08  color:nkvd
bar:beria  from:1946.08  till:1953.25  color:political
bar:beria  from:1953.25  till:1953.50  color:nkvd  text:"Lavrentiy Beria"

bar:sokolovsky  from:1946.58  till:1949.25  color:warsawgermany
bar:sokolovsky  from:1949.25  till:1952.50  color:other
bar:sokolovsky  from:1952.50  till:1960.33  color:genlstaff  text:"Vasily Sokolovsky"

bar:bulganin  from:1947.92  till:1949.25  color:defence
bar:bulganin  from:1949.25  till:1953.25  color:political
bar:bulganin  from:1953.25  till:1955.17  color:defence
bar:bulganin  from:1955.17  till:1958.92  color:political  text:"Nikolai Bulganin"

bar:spacer_khrushchev  from:1930  till:1999   color:category
bar:leader_khrushchev  from:1980.17  till:1980.17    color:none  text:"Malenkov–Khrushchev era (1953–1964)" 

bar:grechko  from:1955.25  till:1957.92  color:warsawgermany
bar:grechko  from:1957.92  till:1960.33  color:service
bar:grechko  from:1960.33  till:1967.33  color:warsawgermany
bar:grechko  from:1967.33  till:1976.33  color:defence  text:"Andrei Grechko"

bar:bagramyan  from:1955.25  till:1968.33  color:other  text:"Ivan Bagramyan"

bar:biryuzov  from:1955.25  till:1963.25  color:service
bar:biryuzov  from:1963.25  till:1964.83  color:genlstaff  text:"Sergey Biryuzov"

bar:moskalenko  from:1955.25  till:1960.83  color:theatre
bar:moskalenko  from:1960.83  till:1962.33  color:service
bar:moskalenko  from:1962.33  till:1983.98  color:other   text:"Kirill Moskalenko"

bar:chuikov  from:1955.25  till:1960.33  color:theatre
bar:chuikov  from:1960.33  till:1964.25  color:service
bar:chuikov  from:1964.25  till:1972.58  color:other  text:"Vasily Chuikov"

bar:yeryomenko  from:1955.25  till:1958.33  color:theatre  text:"Andrey Yeryomenko"

bar:zakharov  from:1959.42  till:1960.33  color:warsawgermany
bar:zakharov  from:1960.33  till:1963.25  color:genlstaff
bar:zakharov  from:1963.25  till:1964.92  color:other
bar:zakharov  from:1964.92  till:1971.75  color:genlstaff  text:"Matvei Zakharov"

bar:golikov  from:1961.42  till:1962.33  color:other  text:"Filipp Golikov"

bar:krylov  from:1962.33  till:1963.25  color:theatre
bar:krylov  from:1963.25  till:1972.17  color:service  text:"Nikolay Krylov"

bar:spacer_brezhnev  from:1930  till:1999   color:category
bar:leader_brezhnev  from:1986.45  till:1986.45    color:none  text:"Brezhnev era (1964–1982)"

bar:yakubovsky  from:1967.33  till:1976.92  color:warsawgermany  text:"Ivan Yakubovsky" 

bar:batitsky  from:1968.33  till:1978.58  color:service  text:"Pavel Batitsky"

bar:koshevoy  from:1968.33  till:1969.75  color:warsawgermany  text:"Pyotr Koshevoy"

bar:brezhnev  from:1976.42  till:1982.92  color:gensec  text:"Leonid Brezhnev"

bar:ustinov  from:1976.58  till:1984.98  color:defence  text:"Dmitry Ustinov"

bar:kulikov  from:1977.08  till:1989.17  color:warsawgermany  text:"Viktor Kulikov"

bar:ogarkov  from:1977.08  till:1984.75  color:genlstaff
bar:ogarkov  from:1984.75  till:1988.67  color:theatre  text:"Nikolai Ogarkov"

bar:sokolov  from:1978.17  till:1984.98  color:other
bar:sokolov  from:1984.98  till:1987.42  color:defence  text:"Sergei Sokolov"

bar:spacer_andropovchernenko  from:1930  till:1999   color:category
bar:leader_andropovchernenko  from:1980.60  till:1980.60    color:none  text:"Andropov–Chernenko era (1982–1985)"

bar:akhromeyev  from:1983.25  till:1988.92  color:genlstaff  text:"Sergey Akhromeyev"

bar:kurkotkin  from:1983.25  till:1988.42  color:other  text:"Semyon Kurkotkin"

bar:petrov  from:1983.25  till:1985.08  color:service
bar:petrov  from:1985.08  till:1986  color:other  text:"Vasily Petrov"

bar:spacer_gorbachev  from:1930  till:1999   color:category
bar:leader_gorbachev  from:1985.45  till:1985.45    color:none  text:"Gorbachev era (1985–1991)"

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

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See also

Notes

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References

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Bibliography

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