The Generals of WWII
Generals from Soviet Union
Shaposhnikov, Boris Mikhailovich
Marshal of Soviet Union
* 20th of September 1882
† 26th of March 1945
(Борис Михайлович Шапошников)
Promotions
| 1917-08-15 | Colonel |
| 1935-11-20 | Komandarm 1st Rank |
| 1940-05-07 | Marshal of Soviet Union |
Service
| 1915-01-XX | – | 1915-06-XX | Acting Assistant Senior Adjutant, Operations Section, 12th Army |
| 1915-06-XX | – | 1915-08-XX | Acting Staff Officer for Special Assignments, Quartermaster Section, Northwestern Front |
| 1915-08-XX | – | 1915-12-06 | Acting Staff Officer for Special Assignments, Quartermaster Section, Western Front |
| 1915-12-06 | – | 1916-05-09 | Chief of Staff, Independent Mixed Cossack Brigade |
| 1916-05-09 | – | 1917-02-XX | Acting Chief of Staff, 2nd Turkestan Cossack Division |
| 1917-02-XX | – | 1917-09-30 | Acting Chief of Staff, X Army Corps |
| 1917-09-30 | – | 1917-12-XX | Commanding Officer 16th Mingrelian Grenadier Regiment |
| 1917-12-XX | – | 1918-01-XX | Commanding Officer Caucasian Grenadier Division |
| 1918-01-XX | – | 1918-02-XX | Hospitalised |
| 1918-05-22 | – | 1918-09-XX | Assistant Head of Operations Directorate, Supreme Military Council |
| 1918-09-XX | – | 1918-11-XX | Chief of Intelligence Section, Field Staff, Revolutionary Military Council |
| 1918-11-XX | – | 1919-08-XX | Senior Assistant Chief of Special Secretariat, Military Council, Supreme Military Inspection of Russian SFSR |
| 1919-08-XX | – | 1919-10-XX | Chief of Intelligence Section, Field Staff, Revolutionary Military Council |
| 1919-10-XX | – | 1921-02-XX | Head of Operations Directorate, Field Staff, Revolutionary Military Council |
| 1921-02-XX | – | 1925-05-XX | First Deputy Chief of the General Staff |
| 1924-09-XX | – | 1925-05-XX | Acting Chief of the General Staff |
| 1925-05-14 | – | 1925-10-20 | Deputy Commander in Chief Leningrad Military District |
| 1925-10-20 | – | 1927-05-05 | Commander in Chief Leningrad Military District |
| 1927-05-05 | – | 1928-05-05 | Commander in Chief Moscow Military District |
| 1928-05-05 | – | 1931-02-01 | Chief of the General Staff |
| 1931-02-01 | – | 1932-03-25 | Commander in Chief Volga Military District |
| 1932-05-25 | – | 1935-09-29 | Commandant of Frunze Military Academy |
| 1932-05-25 | – | 1935-09-29 | Military Commissar, Frunze Military Academy |
| 1935-09-29 | – | 1937-06-05 | Commander in Chief Leningrad Military District |
| 1937-05-11 | – | 1940-08-15 | Chief of the General Staff |
| 1938-03-13 | – | 1941-06-23 | Member of the Supreme Military Council |
| 1939-12-09 | – | 1940-03-12 | Member of the High Command |
| 1940-08-15 | – | 1943-06-23 | Deputy People’s Commissar of Defence |
| 1941-06-21 | – | 1941-06-30 | Chief of Staff, Western Front |
| 1941-07-10 | – | 1941-08-08 | Member of the High Command |
| 1941-07-21 | – | 1941-07-29 | Chief of Staff, Western Theatre |
| 1941-07-30 | – | 1942-05-XX | Chief of the General Staff |
| 1941-08-08 | – | 1945-03-26 | Member of the High Command |
| 1943-05-XX | – | 1945-03-26 | Commandant of Military Academy of the General Staff |
| 1945-03-26 | Died of illness |
Picture source: Courtesy of Auke de Vlieger