List of generals of the Lithuanian Army includes people that were awarded the rank of general by the independent

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in 1918–40 or since 1990.

Interwar

There were 54 generals awarded the rank in interwar Lithuania. Seven of them earned their rank in foreign military, i.e. Imperial Russian Army, Russian White Army, and

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. Four men earned rank of general in foreign military and served in the Lithuanian Army, but were not awarded the rank of general in Lithuania and are therefore not included in the list below. On September 13, 1919, Lithuania established two ranks of generals –

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and

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. On December 11, 1936, these ranks were changed to

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, divisional general, and general. After the

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on June 15, 1940, the Lithuanian Army was reorganized into the 179th Rifle and 184th Rifle Divisions of the

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and adopted Russian ranks. Four generals of the Imperial Russian Army served in the Lithuanian Army but were not officially recognized as generals in Lithuania: # (in Lithuanian known as Vytautas Otockis or Otauskas; 1872–1923), claimed to be a general who lost his documents. He served in the Lithuanian army from May 1919 to March 1920. He later joined the

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. # Kyprian Kandratovich (1859–1932) served from 24 November to 24 December 1918 # Rapolas Okulič-Kazarinas (1857–1919) served from 28 March to 27 April 1919 # Vladas Dionizas Slaboševičius (1861–1919) served from 1 July to 28 September 1919

Anti-Soviet resistance

Three men were posthumously awarded the rank of general for their contributions to the anti-Soviet Lithuanian Freedom Army and

Lithuanian partisans The Lithuanian partisans () were partisans who waged a guerrilla warfare in Lithuania against the Soviet Union in 1944–1953. Similar anti-Soviet resistance groups, also known as Forest Brothers and cursed soldiers, fought against Soviet rule ...

in 1998. They did not serve as generals in the Lithuanian Army as it ceased to exist in 1940.

Post-Soviet

On March 11, 1990, Lithuania declared independence from the Soviet Union. The reestablished Lithuanian Army initially had two general ranks (lieutenant general and general), but the system was changed in 1998 to three ranks:

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. In the

Lithuanian Naval Force The Lithuanian Navy ( lt, Lietuvos Karinės jūrų pajėgos) is the naval arm of the Lithuanian Armed Forces. Though formally established on 1 August 1935 its roots stretch back as far as naval engagements on the Baltic Sea in the Medieval period ...

, the equivalent ranks are viceadmiral and admiral. Temporary promotions to general were given to two individuals: * Gintaras Bagdonas on 13 March 2007 to brigadier general * Artūras Leita on 23 November 2007 and 11 January 2011 to brigadier general

References

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