Combat (military rank)
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Combat or Kombat abbreviated from Командир батальона ("Commander of a battalion
") was a military rank in the Red Army
until the end of the 1930s. At that time it was roughly equivalent to the rank of Captain.
Battalion
A battalion is a military unit of around 300–1,200 soldiers usually consisting of between two and seven companies and typically commanded by either a Lieutenant Colonel or a Colonel...
") was a military rank in the Red Army
Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army started out as the Soviet Union's revolutionary communist combat groups during the Russian Civil War of 1918-1922. It grew into the national army of the Soviet Union. By the 1930s the Red Army was among the largest armies in history.The "Red Army" name refers to...
until the end of the 1930s. At that time it was roughly equivalent to the rank of Captain.