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In Russia
Polkovnik (Template:Lang-ru), universally treated as Colonel, began as a commander of a distinct group of troops, Old Slavonic polk (полк), arranged for a particular battle. In late 1600s, it became a position of a regimental commander of the Strelets Troops; this position also made it into New Regiments of the Streltsy and later into the new army of Peter the Great. The rank was legalized by Table of Ranks that placed it in the 6th grade as the second-top field officer, right under the Brigadier. A promotion to the rank of Polkovnik gave a privilege for hereditary dvoryanstvo.
Podpolkovnik, a Sub-Polkovnik, is equivalent to Lieutenant Colonel.
The Red Army reintroduced the Polkovnik rank in 1935, together with a number of other former Russian ranks, and it has been used in many ex-USSR countries, including Russian Federation, to the present day.
In Ukraine
Polkovnyk (Template:Lang-uk), began as a commander of the high military rank among the Ukrainian Cossack starshyna (nobility), a leader of the Cossack civil and military unit.
At the time when most of the territory of Ukraine was controlled by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the registered Cossacks, were part of the Commonwealth armies. Polkovnyk was the commander of a regiment (Template:Lang-uk), a Cossack military unit. After the reform of the Cossack army by hetman Mykhailo Doroshenko there were six Cossack regiments, each comprising one thousand Cossack.
In the Zaporozhian Host, the Cossack nation, polkovnyk was a commander of one or several military detachments during military actions in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. In peace time, a polkovnyk was a civil leader of the area of the Cossack regiment's deployment, as the regiments became also the units of civil territorial subdivision. Sometimes polkovnyk was also called serdiuk (Template:Lang-uk). In the eighteenth century, a polkovnyk was a leader of palanka. A palanka polkovnyk was elected by military council for one year. He represented the Koshovyi Otaman in the Palanka and had significant civil powers. At the time of liquidation of Zaporozhian Host by the Russian government in 1775 there were eight palanka polkovnyks. The attribute of the polkovnyk's power was pernach.
In modern Ukraine, Polkovnyk is a military rank inferred from the similar rank of the Soviet Army (Polkovnik). It is roughly equivalent to Colonel.
Pułkownik is a similar rank in the Polish Army.
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