Starshina 1st stage

Glavny starshina in the Russian navy
(shoulder board) (sleeve insignia)
Rank insignia	Russian Navy
Introduction	1940
Rank group	Petty officer
Army / Air Force	Sershant
NATO equivalent	OR-5[1]

Starshina 1st stage (Russian: Старшина́ пе́рвой статьи́; literal: petty officer first stage) is in the Navy of the Russian Federation the designation to the second lowest rank in the patty officer´s career group. The rank is equivalent to Starshij sershant in Army and Air Force. According to NATO-ranksystem the rank might be comparable to OR-5 in Anglophone armed forces.

The rank was introduced to the Soviet Navy November 2, 1940.

Sequence of ranks in Russian Federation´s navy

junior rank: Starshina 2nd stage	Starshina 1st stage	senior rank: Glavny starshina

In the navy of the Russian Federation there are four ranks in the patty officer´s career group, which means:

• Glavny starshina of the ship (OR-8)
• Glavny starshina (OR-7)
• Starshina 1st stage (OR-5)
• Starshina 2nd staghe (OR-4)

Rank insignia Starshina 1st stage

rank insignia
	sleeve 1940-1963 after 1963 to Glavny starshina of the ship	sleeve from 1963	shoulder 1955-1991	shoulder 1991-2010

Rank designation in other countries

In the countries below, spelling is similar and classivication to a separate rank group is equivalent.

• ⇒ Azerbaijani: Birinci dərəcəli starşina
• ⇒ Belarusian: Старшына першай стацці
• ⇒ Lithuanian: Pirmo laipsnio viršila
• ⇒ Ukrainian: Старшина I статті

See also

• Ranks and rank insignia of the Red Army 1940–1943
• Ranks and rank insignia of the Soviet Army 1943–1955, ... 1955–1991
• Ranks and rank insignia of the Russian Federation´s armed forces 1994–2010
• Army ranks and insignia of the Russian Federation

References

This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the Russian Wikipedia.