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Marshal of the Russian Federation (Russian: Маршал Российской Федерации, romanized: Marshal Rossiyskoy Federatsii) is the highest military rank of Russia, created in 1993 following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. [1] [2] It ranks immediately above Army general and Admiral of the fleet (also called Fleet Admiral in ...
Sergey Akhromeyev. Sergey Fyodorovich Akhromeyev ( Russian: Серге́й Фёдорович Ахроме́ев; May 5, 1923 – August 24, 1991 [1]) was a Soviet military figure, Hero of the Soviet Union (1982) and Marshal of the Soviet Union (1983). When he was the first deputy chief of staff of the Soviet Army, he formulated a military plan ...
Establishment. The term "marshal of the branch" was calqued from the German General der Waffengattung (general of the branch).The ranks of marshal of aviation, artillery and armoured troops branches were established on February 4, 1943, with a large, approximately 50mm wide, shoulder board star (the same star as the at-the-time equivalent rank of marshal of the Soviet Union's shoulder board star).
Dmitry Yazov. Dmitry Timofeyevich Yazov ( Russian: Дми́трий Тимофе́евич Я́зов; 8 November 1924 – 25 February 2020) was a Marshal of the Soviet Union. A veteran of the Great Patriotic War, Yazov served as Minister of Defence from 1987 until he was arrested for his part in the 1991 August Coup, four months before the ...
By Blaine Taylor. The German Wehrmacht had just invaded the Soviet Union in the predawn hours of June 22, 1941, and the chief of the Soviet General Staff, General Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov, was calling the Kremlin in Moscow to alert dictator Josef Stalin, nicknamed “The Chief. “About three minutes later, Stalin picked up the receiver.
Overview. The rank was largely honorary and could be considered equivalent to admiral of the fleet in other nations. It was formally established by the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union on March 3, 1955, and replaced a similarly named rank, Fleet Admiral/Admiral of the Fleet (aдмирал флота) that had been equivalent to marshal of the Soviet Union since 1945.
The top military rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union was created by order of the USSR Central Executive Committee and the “Council of People's Commissars” from September 22, 1935, onward, before the new ranks were issued.
