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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 ...
Soviet tankers with visible insignia of Starshy leytenant during the Nazi-Soviet joint military parade in Brest-Livosk, Poland, on September 22, 1939. In addition to individual ranks the establishment of defined rank insignia was made in December 1935 as well.
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 ...
The Soviet state – and party administration – responded to these challenges by the introduction of additional higher ranks, as well as by reintroducing the traditional Russian rank insignia. 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 ...
' 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 military rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union was established by a decree of the ... General Staff of the Red Army, 1940–1941. Made Hero of the Soviet Union ...
Army general (Russian: генерал армии, romanized: general armii) was a rank of the Soviet Union which was first established in June 1940 as a high rank for Red Army generals, inferior only to the marshal of the Soviet Union.
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.