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词条 Marshal of the Soviet Union
释义

  1. History of the rank

  2. List of Marshals of the Soviet Union

  3. See also

  4. References

  5. External links

{{Infobox military rank
| name = Marshal of the Soviet Union
| native_name = (Marshal Sovétskogo Soyuza)
| image = Rank insignia of маршал Советского Союза.svg
| image_size = 90px
| caption = Uniform shoulder strap {{small|(1955–1990)}}
| image2 = Marshal-Star big1.jpg
| image_size2 = 100px
| caption2 = Marshal's star
| country = {{flag|USSR}}
| service branch = {{army|USSR}}
| abbreviation =
| rank = General officer
| NATO rank = OF-10
| Non-NATO rank =
| formation = 1935
| abolished = 1991
| higher rank = Generalissimus of the Soviet Union
| lower rank = Chief marshal of the branch
| equivalents = Admiral of the fleet of the Soviet Union
}}

Marshal of the Soviet Union ({{lang-ru|Маршал Советского Союза}}; {{IPA-ru|ˈmarʂəɫ sɐˈvʲɛtskəvə sɐˈjuzə}}) was the highest military rank of the Soviet Union.

The rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union was created in 1935 and abolished in 1991, and 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. Both ranks were comparable to NATO rank codes OF-10, and to the five-star rank in anglophone armed forces.

While the supreme rank of Generalissimus of the Soviet Union, which would have been senior to Marshal of the Soviet Union, was proposed for Joseph Stalin after the Second World War, it was never officially approved.

History of the rank

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1940–1943

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1943–1955

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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 Ilyich Yegorov, and three senior commanders, Vasily Blyukher, Semyon Budyonny, and Mikhail Tukhachevsky.

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

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

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

The Marshals fell into three generational groups.

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

All Marshals in the third category had been officers in World War II, except Brezhnev, who had been a commissar and Ustinov, who had been People's Commissar for Armaments. Even Yazov, who was 20 when the war ended, had been a platoon commander.

The rank was abolished with the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991. It was succeeded in the new Russia by the rank of Marshal of the Russian Federation, which has been held by only one person, Marshal Igor Sergeyev, who was Russian Defence Minister from 1997 to 2001.

Sequence of ranks
lower rank:
General of the army
{{small|(Генерал армии)}}

Marshal of the Soviet Union
{{small|(Маршал Советского Союза)}}
Higher rank:
None
(highest)
Chief marshal of the branch
{{small|(Главный ма́ршал ро́да во́йск)}}

List of Marshals of the Soviet Union

Note: All Marshals of the Soviet Union, with the exception of Non-Military Marshals, had at least started their military careers in the Army. The Service Arms listed are the services they served in during their respective tenures as Marshals of the Soviet Union.
NameLifespanPromotedService Arm or Background
Voroshilov, KlimentKliment Voroshilov 1881–1969{{dts|Nov 1935}} Political
Tukhachevsky, MikhailMikhail Tukhachevsky 1893–1937{{dts|Nov 1935}} Army
Yegorov, AlexanderAlexander Yegorov 18831025–1939{{dts|Nov 1935}} Army
Budyonny, SemyonSemyon Budyonny 18830425–1973{{dts|Nov 1935}} Army
Blyukher, VasilyVasily Blyukher 18901201–1938{{dts|Nov 1935}} Army
Timoshenko, SemyonSemyon Timoshenko 18951218–1970{{dts|May 1940}} Army
Kulik, GrigoryGrigory Kulik 18901109–1950{{dts|May 1940}} Army
Shaposhnikov, BorisBoris Shaposhnikov 1882–1945{{dts|May 1940}} Army
Zhukov, SergeiGeorgy Zhukov 18961201–1974{{dts|Jan 1943}} Army
Vasilevsky, AleksandrAleksandr Vasilevsky 18950930–1977{{dts|Feb 1943}} Army
Stalin, JosephJoseph Stalin[1] 1878–1953{{dts|Mar 1943}} Political
Konev, IvanIvan Konev 18971228–1973{{dts|Feb 1944}} Army
Govorov, LeonidLeonid Govorov 18970222–1955{{dts|18 Jun 1944|format=my}} Army
Rokossovsky, KonstantinKonstantin Rokossovsky[2] 18961220–1968{{dts|29 Jun 1944|format=my}} Army
Malinovsky, RodionRodion Malinovsky 18981123–1967{{dts|10 Sep 1944|format=my}} Army
Tolbukhin, FyodorFyodor Tolbukhin 1894–1949{{dts|12 Sep 1944|format=my}} Army
Meretskov, KirillKirill Meretskov 18970607–1968{{dts|Oct 1944}} Army
Beria, LavrentiyLavrentiy Beria 1899–1953{{dts|Jul 1945}} NKVD/MGB
Sokolovsky, VasilyVasily Sokolovsky 18970721–1968{{dts|Jul 1946}} Army
Bulganin, NikolaiNikolai Bulganin 18950530–1975{{dts|Nov 1947}} Political
Bagramyan, IvanIvan Bagramyan[3] 18971202–1982{{dts|Mar 1955}} Army
Biryuzov, SergeySergey Biryuzov 19040821–1964{{dts|Mar 1955}} Army/Air Defence/Strategic Rocket Forces
Grechko, AndreiAndrei Grechko 19030117–1976{{dts|Mar 1955}} Army
Yeremenko, AndreiAndrei Yeremenko 1892–1970{{dts|Mar 1955}} Army
Moskalenko, KirillKirill Moskalenko 1902–1985{{dts|Mar 1955}} Army/Strategic Rocket Forces
Chuikov, VasilyVasily Chuikov 19000212–1982{{dts|Mar 1955}} Army
Zakharov, MatveiMatvei Zakharov 18980817–1972{{dts|May 1959}} Army
Golikov, FilippFilipp Golikov 19000629–1980{{dts|May 1961}} Army
Krylov, Nikolay IvanovichNikolay Krylov 19030429–1972{{dts|May 1962}} Army/Strategic Rocket Forces
Yakubovsky, IvanIvan Yakubovsky 1912–1976{{dts|Apr 1967}} Army
Batitsky, PavelPavel Batitsky 1910–1984{{dts|Apr 1968}} Air Defence
Koshevoy, PyotrPyotr Koshevoy 19041221–1976{{dts|Apr 1968}} Army
Brezhnev, LeonidLeonid Brezhnev 1906–1982{{dts|May 1976}} Political
Ustinov, DmitriyDmitriy Ustinov 1908–1984{{dts|Jul 1976}} Defence Industry
Kulikov, ViktorViktor Kulikov 19211921–2013{{dts|Jan 1977}} Army
Ogarkov, NikolaiNikolai Ogarkov 19171030–1994{{dts|Jan 1977}} Army
Sokolov, SergeiSergei Sokolov 1911 1911–2012{{dts|Feb 1978}} Army
Akhromeyev, SergeiSergei Akhromeyev 19230505–1991{{dts|Mar 1983}} Army
Kurkotkin, SemyonSemyon Kurkotkin 19170213–1990{{dts|Mar 1983}} Army
Petrov, Vasily IvanovichVasily Petrov 19170115 1917–2014{{dts|Mar 1983}} Army
Yazov, DmitryDmitry Yazov 19231108born 1924{{dts|Apr 1990}} Army

See also

  • Generalissimus of the Soviet Union
  • Admiral of the fleet of the Soviet Union
  • Marshal of the Russian Federation
  • History of Russian military ranks
  • Military ranks of the Soviet Union
  • Marshal of the branch
  • Chief marshal of the branch
  • Field Marshal of Imperial Russia
  • Ranks and insignia of the Red Army and Navy 1935–1940, and 1940–1943
  • Ranks and rank insignia of the Soviet Armed Forces 1943–1955, and 1955–1991

References

1. ^Joseph Stalin was Generalissimus of the Soviet Union from 1945
2. ^Konstantin Rokossovsky was also a Marshal of Poland from 1949
3. ^also known as Hovhannes Baghramian

External links

  • Biographies of all the Marshals of the USSR
{{Marshals of the Soviet Union}}{{Lists of Russians}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Marshal Of The Soviet Union}}

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