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Military ranks of Tajikistan

Military ranks of Tajikistan

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The Military ranks of Tajikistan are the military insignia used by the Armed Forces of the Republic of Tajikistan. Being a former member of Soviet Union, Tajikistan shares a rank structure similar to that of Russia. Tajikistan is a landlocked country, and does therefore not possess a navy.

Commissioned officer ranks

The rank insignia of commissioned officers.

More information Rank group, General / flag officers ...

Other ranks

The rank insignia of non-commissioned officers and enlisted personnel.

More information Rank group, Senior NCOs ...

Name change

Guided by the principles of historicism, continuity, unification and standardization of military terminology between Persian-speaking states, the Committee on Language and Terminology, in 2018, invited the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Tajikistan to adopt the names of formations from the Iranian Armed Forces and restore the historical names of units as follows:[2]

Based on the fact that in the Persian-Tajik language military ranks traditionally come from the names of units and formations, the following military rank system for the Tajik Armed Forces was proposed:[2]

More information Units, meaning and etymology ...

The proposed system of Tajik military ranks sent to the National Security Council of Tajikistan.[2]


References

  1. "ҚОНУНИ ҶУМҲУРИИ ТОҶИКИСТОН ДАР БОРАИ ЎҲДАДОРИИ УМУМИИ ҲАРБӢ ВА ХИЗМАТИ ҲАРБӢ". majmilli.tj (in Tajik). The National Assembly of the Republic of Tajikistan. 13 April 2017. Retrieved 2 June 2021.
  2. Hasandūst, Muhammad. An Etymological Dictionary of Persian Language. Tehran: Academy of Persian Language and Literature, 1393. ISBN 978-600-6143-57-6.
  3. Лившиц В. А. Парфянская ономастика. – СПб.: - Петербургское лингвистическое общество, 2010. – 400 с., ил. – (Азиатика). ISBN 978-5-4318-0006-1.
  4. Алиев Г. Г. Персидско-русский и русско-персидский военный словарь. Москва: Воениздат, 1972.
  • "Tajikistan". uniforminsignia.org. The International Encyclopedia of Uniform Insignia. Retrieved 29 May 2022.

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