Podpolkovnik
- This article is about the OF-4 rank Polkovnik in Slavophone countries. For the equivalent rank in Anglophone armed forces see Lieutenant colonel, or Oberstleutnant in Austria, Germany and Swizerland.
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Podpolkovnik or pod-polkovnik, literally sub-colonel, is a military rank in Slavic countries which corresponds to the lieutenant colonel in the English-speaking states and military, a commissioned rank that is above major and below colonel. The rank as well as the word itself translates as lieutenant colonel.[1]
In different languages the exact name of this rank maintains a variety of spellings, however the transliteration is also in common usage for the sake of its historical context:
- Bulgaria — подполковник
- Czech Republic — podplukovník
- Georgia — vitse-polkovniki
- Macedonia - потполковник (potpolkovnik)
- Poland — podpułkownik
- Russia — подполковник
- Serbia — потпуковник
- Slovenia — podpolkovnik
- Slovakia — podplukovník
- Ukraine — підполковник
| lower rank: Major |
OF-4 Podpolkovnik (Colonel lieutenant) |
higher rank: Polkovnik |
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Shoulder boards of a podpolkovnik of Imperial Russian Army
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Shoulder boards of a Soviet podpolkovnik
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Shoulder boards of a Russian podpolkovnik
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Shoulder boards of Ukrainian pidpolkovnyk
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Shoulder boards of a Polish podpułkownik
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Shoulder boards of pulkininkas leitenantas, Lithuania
See also
- Polkovnik
- Military ranks of the Soviet Union
- Military ranks of Ukraine
- History of Russian military ranks
- Army ranks and insignia of the Russian Federation
- Polish Armed Forces rank insignia
References
- ↑ Imperial Russian Army Ranks (World War I). AlexanderPalace.org
