() is the abbreviation for Corps commander (; ), and was a military rank in the Soviet Armed Forces of the USSR in the period from 1935 to 1940. It was also the designation for officers appointed to command a corps sized formation. Until 1940 it was the fourth highest military rank of the Red Army. It was equivalent to Corps commissar (ru: корпусной комиссар) of the political staff in all military branches, Flag Officer 1st rank (ru: Флагман 1 ранга) in the Soviet navy, or to Commissar of state security 3rd rank (ru: комиссар государственной безопасности 3-ого ранга). With the reintroduction of regular general ranks in 1940, the designation Komkor was abolished, and replaced by Colonel general. History This particular rank was introduced by disposal of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union and the Council of People's Commissars, from September 22, 1935. The new rank structure was as follows: Command level Brigade X: (Brigadier) Command level Division XX: (Division commander) Command level Corps XXX: (Corps commander) Command level Field army XXXX: Komandarm 2nd rank (Army commander 2nd rank – Commander Army) Command level Army group, Front XXXXX: Komandarm 1st rank (Army commander 1st rank – Front commander) Marshal of the Soviet Union A total number of 146 military personnel were promoted to Komkor. However, 59 were purged during the Great Purge. As a result of the reintroduction of the regular military rank system in 1940, one Komkor was promoted to General of the Army (Georgy Zhukov), 51 to Lieutenant general (OF-7), and six to Major general (OF-6). Finally, Komkor Leonid Grigorevich Petrovsky was promoted to Lieutenant general in 1941. Rank insignia Assignments and Promotions 1935 The following officers were assigned the rank of Komkor by Order No. 2395 of the People's Commissar of Defence dated November 11, 1935, pertaining to the “personnel of the Army”: Mikhail Ivanovich Alafusov, executed 1937; Maksim Andreevich Antonyuk, promoted to Lieutenant general 1940; Iosif Rodionovich Apanasenko, promoted to Komandarm 2nd rank, converted to Colonel general, promoted to General of the army; Ernest Fritzevich Appoga, executed 1937; Mikhail Alexandrovich Batorsky, executed 1938; Georgy Dmitrievich Bazilevich, executed 1939; Stepan Nikolaevich Bogomyagkov, arrested 1938, sent to prison 1941; Matvei Ivanovich Vasilenko, executed 1937; Mikhail Dmitrievich Velikanov, promoted to Komandarm 2nd rank, executed 1938; Yan Petrovich Gaylit, executed 1938; Ilya Ivanovich Garkavyi, executed 1938; Marcian Yakovlevich Germanovich, executed 1937; Vladimir Mikhailovich Gittis, executed 1938; Boris Sergeevich