''Podporuchik'' ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, потпоручник, potporučnik, cs, podporučík, pl, podporucznik, russian: подпору́чик, bg, подпоручик, sk, podporučík) is the most

Junior officer Junior officer, company officer or company grade officer refers to the lowest operational commissioned officer category of ranks in a military or paramilitary organization, ranking above non-commissioned officers and below senior officers. The ...

in some Slavic armed forces, and is placed below the rank of

Lieutenant A lieutenant ( , ; abbreviated Lt., Lt, LT, Lieut and similar) is a commissioned officer rank in the armed forces of many nations. The meaning of lieutenant differs in different militaries (see comparative military ranks), but it is often sub ...

, typically corresponding to rank of

second lieutenant Second lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer military rank in many armed forces, comparable to NATO OF-1 rank. Australia The rank of second lieutenant existed in the military forces of the Australian colonies and Australian Army until ...

in anglophone countries.

Russia and Russian imperial armed forces

The rank was introduced first 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 1703 as an officer rank of the so-called ober-officer rank group. It belonged to rank class XIII (infantry), class XII (artillery, and engineer troops), and class X (guards) until 1884. In line with the military reforms in 1884, became in peace time. However, in the guards and the cossacks armed forces

Cornet The cornet (, ) is a brass instrument similar to the trumpet but distinguished from it by its conical bore, more compact shape, and mellower tone quality. The most common cornet is a transposing instrument in B, though there is also a sopr ...

and

Chorąży Standard-bearer ( Polish: ''Chorąży'' ; Russian and Ukrainian: , ''khorunzhiy''; ; ) is a military rank in Poland, Ukraine and some neighboring countries. A ''chorąży'' was once a knight who bore an ensign, the emblem of an armed troops, a voi ...

remained the lowest officer rank. The equivalent to was

Michman ( rus, мичман, p=ˈmʲit͡ɕmən, ) is a rank used by the Russian Navy and a number of former communist states. The rank is a non-commissioned officer's and is equivalent to in armies and air forces. Within NATO forces, the rank is rate ...

in the Imperial Russian Navy, and governmental secretary (russian: губернский секретарь, gubernsky sekretar) in the civil administration.

Poland

In Poland, the rank of (; abbreviated "ppor.") is the lowest officer rank used within the

Polish Army The Land Forces () are the land forces of the Polish Armed Forces. They currently contain some 62,000 active personnel and form many components of the European Union and NATO deployments around the world. Poland's recorded military history stre ...

.Marian Laprus (ed.)
Leksykon wiedzy wojskowej.
Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Ministerstwa Obrony Narodowej ( MON), 1979. Internet Archive. It is roughly equivalent to the military rank of the

Second lieutenant Second lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer military rank in many armed forces, comparable to NATO OF-1 rank. Australia The rank of second lieutenant existed in the military forces of the Australian colonies and Australian Army until ...

in the armed forces of

English-speaking countries The following is a list of English-speaking population by country, including information on both native speakers and second-language speakers. List * The European Union is a supranational union composed of 27 member states. The total En ...

. Graduates of military schools are awarded the rank of by the office of the

President of Poland The president of Poland ( pl, Prezydent RP), officially the president of the Republic of Poland ( pl, Prezydent Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej), is the head of state of Poland. Their rights and obligations are determined in the Constitution of Pola ...

upon the request of the

Ministry of National Defence (Poland) Ministry of National Defense (Polish: ''Ministerstwo Obrony Narodowej, MON'') is the office of government in Poland under the Minister of National Defense. It is responsible for the organization and management of the Polish Armed Forces. During ...

. The rank may also awarded by the way of a promotion provided certain conditions. The rank of also exists in the Border Guard, , the State Protection Service,

Foreign Intelligence Agency The Foreign Intelligence Agency ( pl, Agencja Wywiadu (; or ) is a Polish intelligence agency tasked with the gathering of public and secret information abroad for the Republic of Poland. It was created in 2002 from the reform and split of , wh ...

, , the Military Counterintelligence Service, the Internal Security Agency, and in the Polish Navy. ;Variants * Prison Service: () * Navy: ()

Possible rank sequence

A possible sequence of ranks (ascending) might be as follows: * ''Podporuchik'' (sub / junior poruchik / lieutenant) * Poruchik (lieutenant) * Nadporuchik (senior poruchik / lieutenant) *

Kapitan Capitan and Kapitan are equivalents of the English Captain in other European languages. Capitan, Capitano, and Kapitan may also refer to: Places in the United States *Capitan, Louisiana, an unincorporated community * Capitan, New Mexico, a villag ...

(captain)

''Podporuchik'' insignia

Army

Bosnia and Herzegovina Lieutenant Insignia.svg,
( Bosnian Ground Forces) 09-APM-2LT.svg,

( North Macedonian Ground Forces) 10-Montenegro Army-2LT.svg,
( Montenegrin Ground Army) Army-POL-OF-01b.svg,
( Polish Land Forces) 09-Serbian Army-SLT.svg,

(

Serbian Army The Serbian Army ( sr-cyr, Копнена војска Србије, Kopnena vojska Srbije, lit=Serbian Land Army) is the land-based and the largest component of the Serbian Armed Forces. History Originally established in 1830 as the Army of Pr ...

)

Navy

File:Generic-Navy-O3.svg,
( Polish Navy) File:09-Serbian Navy-ENS.svg,

( Serbian River Flotilla) File:Generic-Navy-O1.svg,
( Slovenian Navy)

References

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