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Captain 1st rank; Rear admiral; Vice-admiral; Admiral; Admiral of the fleet (became Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union in 1955, reinstated in 1962 as a junior rank equivalent to General of the Army) Ranks in the shore services mirrored the changes in the Red Army save that Colonel-General became the highest rank for troops in those services.
When the duties of Admiral of the Fleet were separated from Red squadron in 1805, the Admiral of the Red was created, and until 1864 this rank was the second highest rank in order of precedence. In 1864 it was abolished as a promotional rank (pictured opposite is the command flag for an Admiral of the Red).
The ranks and rank insignia of the Red Army and Red Navy between 1940 and 1943 were characterised by continuing reforms to the Soviet armed forces in the period immediately before Operation Barbarossa and the war of national survival following it. The Soviet suspicion of rank and rank badges as a bourgeois institution remained, but the ...
From this time military staff, including political commissars, military administration, commissariat, medical service, veterinarian service, and military legal service of the Red Army wore rank insignia as follows: Rank insignia chevron: on both sleeves (short above the cuff) Rank insignia big: on both collar-edges of the uniform coat
Equated rank of admiral in the Continental Navy to general in the Continental Army. CN: Act of March 3, 1799 1 Stat. 752: Authorized commander of the army of the United States to be commissioned General of the Armies of the United States, replacing the office of lieutenant general [intended for George Washington]. USA: Act of March 16, 1802
The ranks were abolished following the Russian Revolution, with the Red Army adopting an entirely different system. ... Ranks Адмирал Admiral:
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]
The command flags flown by an Admiral changed a number of times during this period, there was no Admiral of the Red rank until that post was introduced in 1805 prior to this the highest rank an admiral could attain to was Admiral of the White who then flew the Cross of St George. The next promotion step up from that was to Admiral of the Fleet ...