Chief Marshal
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The ranks of Chief Marshal of an arm (Russian: Главный Маршал рода войск) and Marshal of an arm (Russian: Маршал рода войск) were senior military ranks of the Soviet Army. They were established in 1943 and were both equivalent to General of the Army, although they maintained precedence between each other.
The ranks was created as an analog to Air Marshal and Marshal of the Royal Air Force. They were used in five Soviet military branches - the Air Force, Artillery, Armoured Troops, Engineer Troops, and Signal Troops.
Chief Marshal ranks were largely restricted to the artillery and Air Force, and by 1984 had ceased to be conferred in these branches as well. The ranks of Chief Marshal of Engineer Troops and of Chief Marshal of Signals, established both in 1943 and abolished both in 1984, were never conferred on anybody.
[edit] List of Chief Marshals
- Chief Marshals of Aviation
- Alexander Alexandrovich Novikov (19.11.1900-3.12.1976) Appointed 21.02.1944
- Alexander Evgenievich Golovanov (7.08.1904-22.09.1975) Appointed 19.08.1944
- Pavel Fedorovich Zhigarev (19.01.1900-2.10.1963) Appointed 11.3.1955
- Konstantin Andreevich Vershinin (3.06.1900-30.12.1973) Appointed 8.05.1959
- Pavel Stepanovich Kutakhov (16.08.1914-3.12.1984) Appointed 03.1972
- Boris Pavlovich Bugaev (29.07.1923- ) Appointed 1977. Served as Minister of Civil Aviation 1972-1987
- Alexander Ivanovich Koldunov (20.09.1923-9.06.1992) Appointed 1984. Served as commander of air defense from 1978 to 1987
- Evgeni Ivanovich Shaposhnikov (3.2.1942- ) Appointed 09.1991. In August- December 1991 last Minister of Defense OF THE USSR. In 1991-93 served as commander-in-chief of the United Armed Forces of the CIS.
- Chief Marshals of Artillery
- Nikolai Nikolaevich Voronov (5.05.1899-28.02.1968) Appointed 21.02.1944
- Mitrofan Ivanovich Nedelin (9.11.1902-24.10.1960) Appointed 8.05.1959
- Sergei Sergeevich Varentsov (10.08.1901-1.03.1971) Appointed 6.05.1961
- Vladimir Fedorovich Tolubko (25.11.1914-17.06.1989) Appointed 1983
- Chief Marshals of Armoured Troops
- Pavel Alexeevich Rotmistrov (6.07.1901-16.04.1982) Appointed 28.04.1962
- Amazasp Khachaturovich Babadzhanian (18.2.1906-1.11.1977) Appointed 05.1975
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