podpolkovnik
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Key facts
- Military rank.name
- Lieutenant colonel
- Military rank.caption
- Army and air force insignia
- Military rank.formation
- Early 16th century
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- military rank
- Subclass of
- Lieutenant Colonel
- Country
- Russia
- Country of origin
- Russia
- Military branch
- Russian Air Force
- Said to be same as
- Lieutenant Colonel
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- short name
- ppłk
- next lower rank
- Major
- next higher rank
- colonel
- topic's main category
- Category:Lieutenant colonels
- Commons category
- Podpolkovnik
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Russia
- Russian Empire
- USSR
- Russian Federation
- Lieutenant colonel's insignia
- See also
- References
thumb|Countries which use the Eastern European variant
A podpolkovnik () is a military rank in Slavic and nearby countries which corresponds to the lieutenant colonel in the English-speaking states and military.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “podpolkovnik” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.