SAF Commanders

The Soviet Armed Forces (or SAF) was a massive army tasked with guarding the Soviet Union and defeating her enemies. How many of her Army Generals and Marshals do you know?

To help, the years in which each general was in service is provided.

Any non-General ranks is marked with an *

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Service Years	Soviet Army Commander
1918 - 1954	Ivan Ivanovich Maslennikov
1967 - est. 1980	Ivan Grigorievich Pavlovsky
1921 - 1962	Aleksei Innokentievich Antonov
1939 - 1989	Alexander Terentyevich Altunin
unknown	Anatoly Ivanovich Gribkov
1955 - 1992	Vladimir Mikhailovich Shuralyov
1930 - 1938/1943 - 1946/1962 - 1985	Alexei Alexeyevich Yepishev
1912 - 1937/1938 - 1958	Alexander Vasilyevich Gorbatov
1928 - 1990	Vasily Filippovich Margelov
1919 - 1964	Dmitry Danilovich Lelyushenko
1919 - 1965	Ivan Ivanovich Fedyuninsky
1935 - 1991	Ivan Nikolaevich Shkadov
1948 - 1992/1993	Stanislav Postnikov
1919 - 1964	Alexander Alexandrovich Luchinsky
1901 - 1945*	Boris Mikhaylovich Shaposhnikov
1918 - 1958	Ivan Yefimovich Petrov
1921 - 1969	Yakov Grigorevich Kreizer
1924 - 1987	Andrei Lavrentyevich Getman
unknown	Andrei Vasilyevich Khrulyov
1916 - 1955*	Leonid Aleksandrovich Govorov
unknown	Konstantin Ivanovich Kobets
1942 - 1992	Boris Vasilievich Snetkov
1936 - 1991	Yevgeni F. Ivanovski
1914 - 1970*	Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky
1917 - 1961	Vladimir Yakovlevich Kolpakchi
1926 - 1976	Sergei Matveevich Shtemenko
1914 - 1957*	Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov
1935 - 1992	Gennady Ivanovich Obaturov
1915–1962*	Vasily Danilovich Sokolovsky
1914 - 1970*	Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko
1917 - 1964*	Kirill Afanasievich Meretskov
1920 - 1963	Stanislav Gilyarovich Poplavsky
1926 - 1992	Semyon Pavlovich Ivanov
1911 - 1917/1918 - 1943	Iosif Rodionovich Apanasenko
1941 - 1992	Pyotr Georgievich Lushev
1915 - 1917/1918 -1953	Maksim Alexeyevich Purkayev
1926 - 1968	Issa Alexandrovich Pliyev
1920 - 1968	Mikhail Ilyich Kazakov
1917–1972*	Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov
1920 - 1971	Georgy Ivanovich Khetagurov

Service Years	Soviet Army Commander
1916 - 1941	Dmitry Grigoryevich Pavlov
1924 - 1945	Ivan Danilovich Chernyakhovsky
1919 - 1969	Aleksey Semenovich Zhadov
1915 - 1965	Pavel Ivanovich Batov
1941 - 1991	Valentin Ivanovich Varennikov
1915–1973*	Ivan Stepanovich Konev
1920 - 1969	Markian Mikhaylovich Popov
1981 - 1991	Mikhail Alekseyevich Moiseyev
1917–1969*	Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov
1915 - 1917/1918 - 1973	Vladimir Vasilyevich Kurasov
1954 - 1992	Vladimir Nikolayevich Lobov
1952 - 1991	Vladimir Mikhailovich Arkhipov
1920 - 1985*	Kirill Semyonovich Moskalenko
1954 - 1991 (USSR)/1997 (Russia)	Igor Nikolayevich Rodionov
1915–1970*	Ivan Khristoforovich Bagramyan
1942 - 1992	Filipp Denisovich Bobkov
1941–1958*	Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin
1915 - 1959*	Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Vasilevsky
1941 - 1992	Makhmut Akhmetovich Gareyev
1919 - 1920/1923 - 1968	Afanasy Pavlantyevich Beloborodov
1941 - 1992	Mikhail Mitrofanovich Zaitsev
1963 - 1977	Nikolai Grigorevich Lyashchenko
1939 - 1992	Dmitri Semyonovich Sukhorukov
1917 - 1962	Kuzma Nikitovich Galitsky
unknown	Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kryuchkov
1914 - 1967	Rodion Yakovlevich Malinovsky
1903 - 1954*	Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny
1916 - 1917/1918 - 1921/1941 - 1953*	Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin
1929 - 1978	Alexei Ivanovich Radzievsky
1966 - 1992	Ivan Aleksandrovych Gerasymov
1941 - 1982*	Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (yes apparently)
1915 - 1950	Alexander Ivanovitch Ryzhov
1942 - 1992	Vladimir Leonidovich Govorov
1919 - 1960	Mikhail Sergeevich Malinin
1939–1986*	Vasiliy Ivanovich Petrov
1988 - unknown	Anatoly Vladimirovich Betekhin
1920 - 1944	Nikolai Fyodorovich Vatutin
1914 - 1937/1940 - 1962*	Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovsky
1913 - 1958	Ivan Vladimirovich Tyulenev
1928 - 1937/1941 - 1992	Iosif Iraklievich Gusakovsky