Dmitry Timofeevich Yazov - the last (by date of assignment) Marshal of the Soviet Union. The life path of D.T. Yazov is the path of a soldier serving his homeland faithful oath, which, as you know, is taken only once. In V1987, D.T. Yazov was appointed to the post of Minister of Defense of the USSR and until the end defended the Soviet state, which he vowed to serve faithfully in the formidable 41st.