English translation: Captain 2nd rank (US equivalent: Lieutenant-Commander)
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Well, I would use CDR, not LCDR, as the US equivalent
Look at it this way - there's only one rank between Капитан 2 ранга/Commander and the lowest admiral rank in both systems, Капитан 1 ранга/Captain.
Maybe I wasn't clear Svetlana: what I meant to get across was that Капитан ii ранга and Commander are both two ranks below the lowest grade of admiral and thus equivalent. Lt Cdr is three ranks below the lowest admiral rank (sometimes called Commodore in other navies).
Here's a US Navy chart: http://www.navy.mil/navydata/navy_legacy_hr.asp?id=266
That's exactly about non-correspondence between American and Russian naval grades - Russian NAVY 2-nd rank Captain corresponds to Russian Army Lieutenant Colonel, while Army Major corresponds to NAVY 3-rd rank Captain
Unfortunately, I can not publish here as a reference an email sent to me sometimes by a real LCDR serving somewhere in Cairo, who was presented to me by my Embassy collegue NCOIC (CPO) as a 2-nd rank Captain
добавлаю контекст. Извините, нужно было сразу. Я не думала, что будет столько нюансов. «Капитан II ранга Г.К. Шумейко в «Навигационном анализе плавания 1741 г.» отмечает, что описания в «Судовом журнале» «… настолько обстоятельны, что почти не было случая, когда определение места можно было толковать двояко».
The (Czarist) Russian/Soviet/ (RF) Russian system of sea-based officer ranks one more rank the the US (and, I think, UK) system (I suppose it's where the капитан-лейтенант rank is added), thus making direct translations more difficult than for ground ranks
что "подполковник" переводится как "lieutenant-colonel", то все бы было классно. У меня, к сожалению, словаря подобного нет, а мультитрану я не верю. Gary, can you look it up? I know who have every military dictionary there is in your library. :-)
The translation workplace 
peer agreement (net): +4
