Captain 1st rank (russian: Капитан 1-го ранга, Kapitan 1-go ranga, lit=Captain of the 1st rank) is a rank used by the
Russian Navy and a number of
former communist states. The rank is the most senior rank in the staff officers' career group. The rank is equivalent to
colonel in armies and air forces. Within NATO forces, the rank is rated as OF-5 and is equivalent to
captain
Captain is a title, an appellative for the commanding officer of a military unit; the supreme leader of a navy ship, merchant ship, aeroplane, spacecraft, or other vessel; or the commander of a port, fire or police department, election precinct, e ...
in English-speaking navies.
Russia
The rank was introduced in Russia by
Peter the Great
Peter I ( – ), most commonly known as Peter the Great,) or Pyotr Alekséyevich ( rus, Пётр Алексе́евич, p=ˈpʲɵtr ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪtɕ, , group=pron was a Russian monarch who ruled the Tsardom of Russia from t ...
in 1713. By decision of the so-called ''military navy commission'' (ru: ''Воинская морскaя комиссия'') in 1732 the sequence of Kapitan ranks was abolished. However, until 1752 the grade rank ''Kapitan 1st rank'' was corresponding to ''Fleet kapitan'' (ru: флота капитан). Finally, the ''Kapitan ranks'' were reintroduced September 5 (16), 1751. The
Red Army introduced the ''Kapitan 1st rank'' rank in 1935, together with a number of other former Russian ranks, and it continues to be used in many ex-
USSR countries, including Russia.
The first OF-5 equivalent rank in the Soviet Navy (from 1918 to 1935) was ''Ship komandir 1st rank'', also ''Ship commander 1st rank'', (ru: командир корабля 1-ого ранга; literal: Commander of the ship 1st rank).
This particular rank was introduced by disposal of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union and the Council of People's Commissars, from September 22, 1935.
[Decree of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union and the Council of People's Commissars, from September 22, 1935, on introduction of individual military rank designation to commanding personnel of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army.]
The equivalent rank designation in the
Soviet Navy for warship engineers was '' Kapitan 1st rank-engineer''. Other non-seagoing naval personnel of OF-5 rank, such as in medical service, chemical defence, marines, and naval aviation, have the rank of
Polkovnik.
In the navy of the Russian Federation there are three ranks in the ''staff officer'' (until 1917:
stab-ofizer
The Table of Ranks (russian: Табель о рангах, Tabel' o rangakh) was a formal list of positions and ranks in the military, government, and court of Imperial Russia. Peter the Great introduced the system in 1722 while engaged in a s ...
, derived from German ''Stabsoffizier'') career group:
* Captain 1st rank
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Captain 2nd rank Captain 2nd rank (russian: Капитан 2-го ранга, Kapitan 2-go ranga, lit=Captain of the 2nd rank) is a rank used by the Russian Navy and a number of former communist states. The rank is the middle rank in the staff officer's career gro ...
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Captain 3rd rank
Types of rank insignia ''Kapitan 1st rank'' and naval equivalents
Captain 1st rank insignia
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( Albanian Naval Force)
( Azerbaijani Navy)
( Bulgarian Navy)
( Kazakh Naval Forces)
( Turkmen Naval Forces)
( Ukrainian Navy)
( Uzbek River Force)
See also
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Ranks and rank insignia of the Russian armed forces until 1917
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Ranks and rank insignia of the Red Army 1918–1935
Rank is the relative position, value, worth, complexity, power, importance, authority, level, etc. of a person or object within a ranking, such as:
Level or position in a hierarchical organization
* Academic rank
* Diplomatic rank
* Hierarchy
* ...
,
... 1935–1940 and
... 1940–1943
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Ranks and rank insignia of the Soviet Army 1943–1955 and
Ranks and rank insignia of the Soviet Army 1955–1991,
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Ranks and rank insignia of the Russian Federation´s armed forces 1994–2010
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Naval ranks and insignia of the Russian Federation
References
{{Military ranks by country
Military ranks of Russia
Military ranks of the Soviet Union
Military ranks of Ukraine