Small Marshal's Star
The small star was awarded to marshals of artillery, air marshals and marshals of armoured forces (from 27 February 1943), marshals of the corps of engineers and signal corps (from 20 March 1944), admirals of the fleet (from 5 June 1962), and army generals (from 1 November 1974). Awards continued in the modern Russian Army until 21 January 1997 for army generals and admirals of the fleet.
The decoration is a five-pointed gold star with smooth dihedral rays on the obverse. On top of the gold star there is a smaller five-pointed star made of platinum. In the center of the platinum star there is a 2.04-carat diamond. In the rays of platinum star there are twenty five 0.91-carat diamonds. The total diameter of the gold star is 42 millimetres (1.7 in) and it weighs 35.1 grams (1.24 oz). It is connected to a moire ribbon in the same way as the large star. About 370 small marshal's stars have been produced.
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