Marshal of the Russian Federation

{{Short description|Highest Russian military rank}}

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{{Infobox military rank

| name = Marshal of the Russian Federation

| native_name = {{lang|ru|Маршал Российской Федерации|italics=no}}

| image = Large Marshal's Star.svg

| image_size = 100px

| caption = Marshal's star – big

| image2 = Russia-Army-OF-10-2010.svg

| image_size2 = 100px

| alt2 =

| caption2 = The insignia used from 2010

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| country = {{flag|Russia}}

| service branch = {{armed forces|Russia}}

| abbreviation =

| rank group = General officer

| rank = Five-star rank

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| formation = {{start date|df=y|1993|02|11}}

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| lower rank = Army general

| equivalents = Marshal of the Soviet Union

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Marshal of the Russian Federation ({{langx|ru|Маршал Российской Федерации|Marshal Rossiyskoy Federatsii}}) is the highest military rank of Russia, created in 1993 following the dissolution of the Soviet Union.{{cite web |last1=Новости |first1=Р. И. А. |title=Воинское звание "Маршал Советского Союза". Справка |url=https://ria.ru/20100922/278036470.html |website=РИА Новости |access-date=18 March 2022 |language=ru |date=22 September 2010}}{{cite book |last1=Galeotti |first1=Mark |title=The Modern Russian Army 1992–2016 |date=23 February 2017 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-1-4728-1909-3 |page=43 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2ajbDQAAQBAJ&dq=Marshal+of+the+Russian+Federation&pg=PA43 |access-date=17 March 2022 |language=en}} It ranks immediately above Army general and Admiral of the fleet (also called Fleet Admiral in some English-language texts), and is considered the successor to the Soviet-era rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union.

A Marshal of the Russian Federation outranks Generals of the Army (four stars), Colonel-Generals (three stars), Lieutenant-Generals (two stars) and Major-Generals (one star). It is roughly equivalent to American General of the Army and the British Field Marshal.{{cite journal |title=Supreme High Command of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation |journal=Air Force Magazine |date=June 1995 |page=73 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9ir83x1DXo8C&dq=Marshal+of+the+Russian+Federation&pg=RA4-PA73 |access-date=17 March 2022 |language=en}}

The only officer so far to have held the rank was Igor Sergeyev, the former Minister of Defence, who had been elevated from the General of the Army of the Strategic Rocket Forces. Sergeyev was a Marshal of the Russian Federation from 1997 until his death in 2006.

The insignia for Marshal of the Russian Federation is similar to the one for the Marshal of the Soviet Union, with the Soviet emblem replaced by the Russian coat of arms. An officer who is given this rank would also wear the Marshal's star.