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This term used standalone has almost entirely been displaced by the Hungarian borrowing шор(šor), even in several calques containing Serbo-Croatianред / red as a component. It is chiefly only found in compounds.
сиде́тьвпере́днемряду́ ― sidétʹ v perédnem rjadú ― to sit in the front row
1790, Александр Радищев, “Новгород”, in Путешествие из Петербурга в Москву; English translation from Leo Wiener, transl., A Journey From St. Petersburg to Moscow, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1958:
Время с острым рядом зубов смеётся вашему кичению.
Vremja s ostrym rjadom zubov smejótsja vašemu kičeniju.
Time with its sharp rows of teeth laughs at your presumption.
(figuratively, in the plural)ranks(the body or membership of an organization; the soldiers of an army)
вна́шихряда́хпополне́ние ― v nášix rjadáx popolnénije ― we have a new member in our ranks
* Used with the numbers 1.5, 2, 3, 4 and higher numbers after 20 ending in 2, 3, and 4. 1 Only in the idiom из ря́ду во́н выходя́щий(iz rjádu vón vyxodjáščij, “uncommon, out of the ordinary”), a variant of the more common из ря́да во́н выходя́щий(iz rjáda vón vyxodjáščij). 2 In the literal sense "in a row", but not in the expression в ря́де случа́ев(v rjáde slučájev, “in a number of cases”), which uses the prepositional case.