Podpolkovnik

Podpolkovnik (Russian: подполко́вник, lit. 'sub –, junior –, or lower regimentary') is a military rank in Slavic and nearby countries which corresponds to the lieutenant colonel in the English-speaking states and military.^[1]

In different languages the exact name of this rank maintains a variety of spellings.^[1] The transliteration is also in common usage for the sake of tradition dating back to the Old Slavonic word "polk" (literally: regiment sized unit), and include the following names in alphabetical order:

Belarus — падпалкоўнік (padpalkownik)
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia — потпуковник / potpukovnik (Serbo-Croatian: [pôtpukoːʋniːk])
Bulgaria — подполковник
Czech Republic — podplukovník (Czech: [ˈpotplukovɲiːk])
Georgia — ვიცე-პოლკოვნიკი (Georgian: [vitse pʼolkʼovnikʼi])
North Macedonia — потполковник (podpolkovnik)
Poland — podpułkownik (Polish: [pɔtpuwˈkɔvɲik])
Russia — подполко́вник (podpolkovnik) (Russian: [pətpɐlˈkovnʲɪk])
Slovenia — podpolkovnik
Slovakia — podplukovník
Ukraine — підполковник (pidpolkovnyk)

^ ^a ^b Sławomir Kułacz, University of Gdańsk, Poland (2012). "Conceptualization of selected army ranks in English, German, Polish and Czech". Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature. UMCS Lublin: Studies in Modern Languages and Literature, vol. 36: 27. Retrieved 12 February 2016.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

[SK-1] Sławomir Kułacz, University of Gdańsk, Poland (2012). "Conceptualization of selected army ranks in English, German, Polish and Czech". Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature. UMCS Lublin: Studies in Modern Languages and Literature, vol. 36: 27. Retrieved 12 February 2016.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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