Podporuchik

Podporuchik (Serbo-Croatian: потпоручник, potporučnik, Czech: podporučík, Polish: podporucznik, Russian: подпору́чик, Macedonian: потпоручник, Slovak: podporučík) is the most junior officer in some Slavic armed forces, and is placed below the rank of lieutenant, typically corresponding to rank of second lieutenant in English-speaking countries.

However, in the guards and the cossacks armed forces Cornet and Chorąży remained the lowest officer rank.

[citation needed] The equivalent to podpraporshik was Michman in the Imperial Russian Navy, and governmental secretary (Russian: губернский секретарь, romanized: gubernsky sekretar) in the civil administration.

[citation needed] In Poland, the rank of Podporucznik (lit.

[2] It is roughly equivalent to the military rank of the Second lieutenant in the armed forces of English-speaking countries.