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Thanks Willie, thats interesting...if anyone has a photo of her in her uniform of a Major General it would be great to see...DougD
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Re: Womens Rank in WWII
Here's a rather well-decorated (and well-fed) lieutenant colonel.
Additionally, I read that the first Soviet woman in space was promoted to general-major. |
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While looking at a download of the Victory Day 2008 Parade, I do recall seeing an elderly woman with colonel's rank boards and Army insignia--she looked old enough to be a veteran of the war, but I can't say for certain.
I do remember she had three stars, and was waving excitedly at the camera. I'll try and get a screencap.
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It seems that you get some well traveled news where you are hiding Valentina Tereshkova was named Airforce General-Major in 1997, as she was retiring from the Armed Forces. As of today, she remains the one and only woman to ever hold the rank of General in the Russian Army. By the way, this may explain why there are no official pictures of her wearing a general's uniform. Marc |
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Highest ranking female in history of USSR was Aleksandra Kolontay who in 1943 was promoted to the rank of "Chrezvychainiy i Polnomochniy Posol" (Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador) to some extent equal to four star general.
For few years Faina Nurina acted as state prosecutor of RSFSR, rank somewhat equal to two star general. In 1935 Aleksandra Andreeva-Gorbunova and Mariana Gerasimova both were promoted to “major of state security”, rank somewhere near one star general. Maria Costa had rank “brigade commissar” and serve in border guard troops and Maria Poppe had the same rank and serve in internal troops. “Brigade commissar” is a rank of political personnel above colonel. In 1991 right before Soviet Union collapsed Galina Smirnova head of section 12 in KGB was promoted to general-major. Technically she is only female in USSR who received rank general-major. In the army Valentina Grizodubova was first female who received rank “colonel” in 1943. Second female who was promoted to such rank was Valentina Nikolaeva-Tereshkova in 1970. Marina Popovich famous test-pilot received rank “engineer-colonel”. In 1955 Ludmila Kalinina upon retirement received honoree title “colonel of tank’s troops retired”. Four females in history of Soviet Union were promoted to the rank of colonel of medical services. In post Soviet Union Valentina Tereshkova (Указ Президента РФ №458 от 05.05.1995) received “general-major of aviation”. In modern day Russia two female generals serving now in Ministry of Internal Affairs and five others in different ministries and departments like Customs, Extreme Situation etc. |
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Vvadim,
Thank you for the detailed information, always interesting and broad encompassing Marc |
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It's a shame we don't have a service photo of her, or anything like that.
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There were general rank KGB officers; for example, I owned the uniform+photo group of General-Lieutnant V.I. Petrov of the Belarus SSR KGB for a while.
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