• Promoted to Marshal of the Soviet Union, May 7, 1940
• Chief of the General Staff, May 5, 1928 - June 11, 1931
• Chief of the General Staff, May 11, 1937 - August 15, 1940
• Chief of the General Staff, July 30, 1941 - May 1942
• Member of the High Command, August 8, 1941 - March 26, 1945
• Commandant of the Military Academy of the General Staff (Voroshilov Military Academy) from May, 1943 - March 26, 1945
• Became ill in 1942
• Born September 20, 1882. Died March 26, 1945 

Marshal Shaposhnikov in a meeting with Stalin, early in the War. Notice that Marshal Shaposhnikov is wearing his M-1940 Parade Uniform

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M-1943 Service Uniform 
of Marshal of the Soviet Union
Boris Mikhailovich Shaposhnikov

Marshal Shaposhnikov on the cover of Time Magazine, February 16, 1942

Photo of Marshal Shaposhnikov taken shortly before his death

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