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    Army commissar 1st rank Army commissar 1st rank (Russian: Армейский комиссар 1-го ранга), was a political rank in the Soviet Red Army, equivalent to the...
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  • new rank system and insignia introduced in the Soviet Army. Instead of General ranks, top officers used Commissar of Militsiya 3rd, 2nd, and 1st rank, even...
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    Army commissar 2nd rank Army commissar 2nd rank was a political rank in the Soviet Red Army, equivalent to the military rank of Komandarm 2nd rank. Appointment...
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    dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Armeysky komissar 1-go ranga (Army Commissar 1st rank) Armeysky komissar 2-go ranga (Army Commissar 2nd rank) Korpusnoy...
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    Military-Political Faculty of the Marshal of Artillery Nedelin Command and Engineer College Political commissar Commissar Order Политическое управление...
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    Staff (Russia) Cheget The committee of the People's Commissars for Military and Naval Affairs consisted of Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko, Pavel Dybenko, and Nikolai...
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  • Captain 1st rank (Russian: капитан 1-го ранга, romanized: kapitan 1-go ranga, lit. 'captain of the 1st rank') is a rank used by the Russian Navy and a...
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    Komandarm 1st rank (Russian: командарм 1-го ранга) is the abbreviation to commanding officer of the army 1st class (Russian: командующий армией 1-го ранга...
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    Komkor (redirect from Flag Officer 1st rank)
    rank of the Red Army. It was equivalent to corps commissar (ru: корпусной комиссар) of the political staff in all military branches, flag officer 1st...
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    political officers (e.g., "Brigade Commissar", "Army Commissar 2nd Rank"), for technical corps (e.g., "Engineer 3rd Rank", "Division Engineer"), for administrative...
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  • Podpolkovnik and Battalion commissar were introduced as a result of the amendments to the rank regulations of 1935. An equivalent OF4-rank for the Soviet navy...
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  • Bai Lü (category People's Liberation Army generals from Shanxi)
    political commissar of the 1st Division of the 1st Group Army in August 2005. In April 2008, he was assigned as director of Political Department of the 12th...
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  • Volkhov Front (category Siege of Leningrad)
    command of the Army General Kirill Meretskov, with General Grigory Stelmakh (former commander of the 4th Army) as Chief of Staff and Army Commissar of 1st rank...
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  • rank was conferred on five people: People's Commissar of Defence and veteran Bolshevik Kliment Voroshilov, Chief of the General Staff of the Red Army...
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    SMERSH (category Military of the Soviet Union)
    Belyanov, Commissar State Security 3rd rank. On 25 February 1941, Viktor Abakumov became NKVD deputy Commissar in charge of supervising this and several other...
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  • Qin Shutong (category People's Liberation Army generals from Jiangsu)
    he was assigned political commissar of the 1st Group Army. He was reassigned as political commissar of the 75th Group Army in March 2017. In April 2018...
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  • Commissioner 1st rank of State Security. When Beria became People's Commissar of Internal Affairs (head of NKVD), Commissioner 3rd rank of State Security...
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    Kombrig (category Military rank stubs)
    highest military rank of the Red Army. It was equivalent to Brigade commissar (Russian: бригадный комиссар, romanized: brigadny komissar) of the political...
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    Yan Gamarnik (category Political commissars of the Soviet Army)
    Chief of the Political Department of the Red Army from 1930 to 1937, Deputy Commissar of Defense 1930—1934 and First Secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia...
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  • organization structure was: chief  – (3rd rank) commissar of state security Viktor Abakumov first deputy (3rd rank) Commissar of state security  – Solomon Milshtein...
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  • disposal of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union and the Council of People's Commissars, from September 22, 1935. The Red Army reintroduced...
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    Pyotr Smirnov (category Political commissars of the Soviet Army)
    Смирнов; 29 May 1897 – 23 February 1939) was a Soviet commissar, deputy minister of defence, and commander of the Soviet Navy. Smirnov was born in a workers...
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    Bolshevik commissars. The army grew as 35,000 soldiers of central Ukraine were joined by 50,000 Galicians. Having this force, the army of the UNR launched...
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    Georgy Blagonravov (category Candidates of the Central Committee of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks))
    for the Construction of Highways of the NKVD and on July 5 of the same year, became Commissar of State Security of the 1st rank. On 25 May 1937, Blagonravov...
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    named a Marshal of the Soviet Union and the People's Commissar for Defence. In the latter capacity, he took steps to modernise the Red Army and prepare for...
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    Komandarm 2nd rank (Russian: командарм 2-го ранга) is the abbreviation to commanding officer of the army 2nd class (Russian: командующий армией 2-го ранга...
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    Adolf Heusinger (category Recipients of the Order of the Cross of Liberty, 1st Class)
    actually a promotion from his Wehrmacht rank of Generalleutnant. Until 1945, the German Army general officer ranks of Generalmajor (major-general) and Generalleutnant...
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    Militsiya (category Law enforcement agencies of the Soviet Union)
    those of the Soviet Army, with the exception of top officers starting with 'Senior Major' who were renamed Commissar of Militsiya 3rd, 2nd, and 1st rank, although...
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    Nikolai Kuznetsov (admiral) (category Recipients of the Order of Ushakov, 1st class)
    Soviet naval officer who achieved the rank of Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union and served as People's Commissar of the Navy during the Winter War and...
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    Ivan Serov (category Commissars 2nd Class of State Security)
    Chairman of the KGB from March 1954 to December 1958 and Director of the GRU from December 1958 to February 1963. Serov was NKVD Commissar of the Ukrainian...
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