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| Subject | English | Russian |
| gen. | a colonel is over a lieutenant | полковник по чину старше лейтенанта |
| gen. | a lieutenant colonel | подполковник |
| Gruzovik, hist. | be a lieutenant colonel in the Cossack army | старшинствовать |
| hist. | be a lieutenant colonel | старшинствовать (in Cossack army) |
| Gruzovik, inf. | wife of a lieutenant colonel | подполковница |