Army General (Soviet rank)
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This article is about the Soviet rank "Army general", equivalent to the Russian Federation's General army (Russia). For the equivalent OF9-rank in anglophone countries, see General.
Army general (Russian: генерал армии, romanized: general armii) was a rank of the Soviet Union which was first established in June 1940 as a high rank for Red Army generals, inferior only to the marshal of the Soviet Union. In the following 51 years the Soviet Union created 133 generals of the army, 32 of whom were later promoted to the rank of marshal of the Soviet Union. It is a direct counterpart of the Russian Federation's "Army general" rank.
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Army general генерал армии general armii | |
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Country | Soviet Union |
Service branch | Army |
Formation | June 1940 |
Abolished | December 1991 |
Next higher rank | Marshal of the Soviet Union |
Next lower rank | Colonel general |
Equivalent ranks | Marshal of the branch Chief marshal of the branch Admiral of the fleet |
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