Army commissar 1st rank (russian: Армейский комиссар 1-го ранга), was a political rank in the

Soviet Red Army The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, after ...

, equivalent to the military rank of

Komandarm 1st rank 1st rank (russian: Командарм 1-го ранга) is the abbreviation to Commanding officer of the Army 1st class (russian: Командующий армией 1-го ранга, Komanduyushchiy armiyey 1-go ranga; ), and was a military ...

, and comparable to NATO

OF-9 A four-star rank is the rank of any four-star officer described by the NATO OF-9 code. Four-star officers are often the most senior commanders in the armed services, having ranks such as (full) admiral, (full) general, colonel general, army gen ...

Appointment

1935

Appointment to Army Comissar 1st rank as to the disposal of the

Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union The All-Union Central Executive Committee (russian: Всесоюзный Центральный исполнительный комитет, Vsesoyuznyy Tsentral'nyy ispolnitel'nyy komitet) was the most authoritative governing body of the USSR d ...

and the

Council of People's Commissars The Councils of People's Commissars (SNK; russian: Совет народных комиссаров (СНК), ''Sovet narodnykh kommissarov''), commonly known as the ''Sovnarkom'' (Совнарком), were the highest executive authorities of ...

(CPC) from November 20, 1935: *

Yan Gamarnik Yan Gamarnik (birth name Jakov Tzudikovich Gamarnik (russian: Я́ков Цу́дикович Гама́рник), sometimes known as Yakov Gamarnik (russian: Я́ков Гама́рник; – 31 May 1937), was the Chief of the Political Depa ...

(1894–1937), committed suicide to avoid arrest

1937

Pyotr Smirnov Pyotr Alexandrovich Smirnov (russian: Пётр Александрович Смирнов; 29 May 1897 – 23 February 1939) was a Soviet commissar, deputy minister of defence, and commander of the Soviet Navy. Biography Smirnov was born in a wo ...

(1897–1939), as to CPC disposal December 20, 1937; arrested June 1938 and later executed

1939

Lev Mekhlis Lev Zakharovich Mekhlis (russian: Лев Заха́рович Ме́хлис; January 13, 1889 – February 13, 1953) was a Soviet politician and a prominent officer in the Red Army from 1937 to 1940. As a senior political commissar, he became ...

(1889–1953), as to CPC disposal February 8, 1939 *

Efim Shchadenko , birth_date = 27 September 1885 , death_date = , image = , image_size = 200px , caption = , birth_place = Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Don Host Oblast, Russian Empire , death_place = Moscow, USSR , placeofburial = N ...

(1885–1951)

1941

Alexander Zaporozhets (1899–1959) Military ranks of the Soviet Union {{soviet-stub