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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 ...
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 ...
' commander of the army / army commander 1st rank '), and was a military rank in the Soviet Armed Forces of the USSR in the period from 1935 to 1940. It was also the designation to military personnel appointed to command an army group or front sized formation (XXXXX). Until 1940 it was the second highest military rank of the Red Army.
' Commander of the Army / Army commander 2nd rank '), and was a military rank in the Soviet Armed Forces of the USSR in the period from 1935 to 1940. It was also the designation to military personnel appointed to command a field army sized formation (XXXX). Until 1940 it was the third highest military rank of the Red Army.
The corresponding naval rank is fleet admiral, which has been used in both the Soviet and Russian navies, although conferred much more rarely. Army general was used for the infantry and marines, but in the air force, artillery, armoured troops, engineer troops and signal troops the ranks of marshal of the branch and chief marshal of the branch ...
Chief, General Staff of the Red Army, 1940–1941. Made Hero of the Soviet Union, 1940; awarded Order of Victory, 1945. 18 Lavrentiy Beria: 9 Jul 1945 [60] Deputy Chairman, Council of People's Commissars/People's Commissar for Internal Affairs, 1941–1946. Deputy Chairman, Council of Ministers, 1946–1953.
Komdiv (Russian: комдив) is the syllabic abbreviation to commanding officer of the division (Russian: командир дивизии, romanized: komandir divizii; lit. ' commander of the division / division commander ' ), and was a military rank in the Soviet Armed Forces of the USSR in the period from 1935 to 1940.
The Soviet Armed Forces, [a] also known as the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union, [b] the Red Army (1918–1946) and the Soviet Army (1946–1991), were the armed forces of the Russian SFSR (1917–1922) and the Soviet Union (1922–1991) from their beginnings in the Russian Civil War of 1917–1923 to the collapse of the USSR in 1991.