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The ranks and insignia used by Russian Ground Forces are inherited from the military ranks of the Soviet Union, although the insignia and uniform have been altered slightly. Civil service insignia may be confused with military insignia. Civil servants within the Russian Ministry of Defense may carry green or black service uniforms.
Special ranks of Police are used by: Russian Police (under Ministry of Internal Affairs) Main Directorate for Drugs Control (Ministry of Internal Affairs) Special ranks of justice are used by: Investigative Committee of Russia (not to be confused with military ranks of military prosecutors and military judges) Special ranks of internal service ...
Modern Russian military ranks trace their roots to the Table of Ranks established by Peter the Great.Most of the rank names were borrowed from existing German/Prussian, French, English, Dutch, and Polish ranks upon the formation of the Russian regular army in the late 17th century.
The Table of Ranks (Russian: Табель о рангах, romanized: Tabel' o rangakh) was a formal list of positions and ranks in the military, government, and court of Imperial Russia. Peter the Great introduced the system in 1722 while engaged in a struggle with the existing hereditary nobility , or boyars .
World War II German Army ranks and insignia; Military ranks of the Luftwaffe (1935–45) Corps colours of the Luftwaffe (1935–45) Uniforms and insignia of the Kriegsmarine; Japan - army ranks of the Japanese Empire during World War II; Japan - naval ranks of the Japanese Empire during World War II; United States Army enlisted rank insignia of ...
These ranks also became the basic ranks for the Soviet Air Forces in 1918 and the Soviet Air Defense Forces (from 1932 to 1949 part of the Soviet Air Force and the Red Army, 1949 independent branch, and from 1954 a full-service arm of the Soviet Armed Forces), and from 1991 onward became the basis for the present ranks of the Russian Air Force ...
Army ranks and insignia of the Russian Federation; Naval ranks and insignia of Russia; Ranks and insignia of the Imperial Russian Armed Forces; Ranks and insignia of the Russian Armed Forces (1994–2010) Ranks and insignia of the White Movement; Aerospace Forces ranks and insignia of the Russian Federation *
A new rank group at OF-9 level (equivalent to the general of the branch in the Wehrmacht and the Imperial Russian Army) was introduced, named marshal of the branch or chief marshal of the branch. In January 1943 the ranks of marshal of the air force, marshal of the artillery and marshal of the armoured corps came into existence. [1]