List of Russian admirals

Alphabetical list

A

• Pavel Sergeyevich Abankin, Admiral, Head of Naval Academy, Deputy Navy Minister for Shipbuilding and Armaments, Head of the Hydrographic Directorate
• Abdulikhat Abassov, Rear admiral,, Head of Nuclear Submarine Training Center, Chief of Navy Combat Training
• Mikhail Leopoldovich Abramov, admiral, commander of the Northern Fleet, chief of staff and first deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Navy.
• Ildar Ferdinandovich Akhmerov, Vice-Admiral, Commander of the Caspian Flotilla, first deputy commander of the Black Sea Fleet
• Vladimir Antonovich Alafuzov, Admiral, Chief of the Main Navy Staff, Soviet Navy
• Vladimir Nikolayevich Alekseyev, Admiral, First Deputy Chief of the Main Navy Staff
• Sergei Gavrilovich Alyokminsky, Vice-Admiral, Commander of the Caspian Flotilla
• Nikolay Nikolayevich Amelko, Admiral, Commander of the Pacific Fleet
• Vladimir Aleksandrovich Andreyev, admiral, commander of the 4th Fleet
• Fyodor Apraksin, General admiral, won the Battle of Gangut during the Great Northern War, led the Imperial Russian Navy in the Russo-Persian War
• Sergey Iosifovich Avakyants, Admiral, Commander of the Pacific Fleet

  B

• Nikolai Efremovich Basistiy, Admiral, Commander of the Black Sea Fleet
• Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Admiral, notable participant of the First Russian circumnavigation, leader of another Russian circumnavigation during which he and his second-in-command Mikhail Lazarev discovered the continent of Antarctica
• Aksel Ivanovich Berg, Admiral and scientist, major developer of radiolocation and cybernetics
• Vladimir Ivanovich Bogdashin, rear admiral, captain of the frigate Bezzavetnyy during the 1988 Black Sea bumping incident
• Ivan Botsis, Admiral in charge of the galley fleet under Peter the Great
• Laskarina Bouboulina, Greek naval commander, heroine of the Greek War of Independence in 1821, and posthumously an admiral of the Imperial Russian Navy.

  C

• Andrei Trofimovich Chabanenko, admiral, Commander of the Northern Fleet
• Vladimir Nikolayevich Chernavin, Fleet admiral, Commander of the Soviet Northern Fleet, the last Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Navy, first and only Commander-in-Chief of the CIS Navy
• Pavel Chichagov, admiral, in command of an army, blamed for Napoleon's escape across the Berezina.
• Vasiliy Chichagov, Admiral, polar explorer, Pavel's father, won the battles of Öland, Reval and Vyborg Bay, effectively bringing the Russo-Swedish War of 1788-90 to an end
• Viktor Viktorovich Chirkov, Admiral, Commander of the Baltic Fleet, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy
• Grigoriy Pavlovich Chukhnin, Vice admiral, commander of the Black Sea Fleet during the 1905 Russian Revolution and battleship Potemkin mutiny until his assassination in 1906.
• Cornelius Cruys, Vice admiral, the first commander of the Russian Baltic Fleet

  D

• Osip Mikhailovich Deribas, Vice admiral, founder of Odessa, hero of the siege of Izmail
• Fyodor Dubasov, Admiral, placed Port Arthur and Dalny under Russian control
• Valentin Drozd, Vice admiral, commander of Baltic Fleet Squadron 1941–1943 and Northern Fleet 1938–1940
• Nikolai Dimitrievich Dabić'''. Vice admiral, died in 1908 from wounds sustained in the Russo-Japanese War

  E

• Oskar Enqvist, Vice Admiral, Commander of the First Cruiser Division of the 2nd Pacific Squadron during the Russo-Japanese War
• Arvid Adolf Etholén, Vice Admiral, explorer, Chief Manager of the Russian American Company 1840-1845.

  F

• Aleksandr Fedotenkov, Vice admiral, Commander of the Black Sea Fleet, deputy commander of the Navy
• Baron Dmitry Gustavovich von Fölkersahm, Rear Admiral, Commander of the 2nd battle division of the 2nd Pacific Squadron. Died of cancer onboard battleship Oslyabya a few days before Battle of Tsushima
• Viktor Dmitryevich Fyodorov, admiral, commander of the Pacific Fleet

  G

• Lev Mikhailovich Galler, Admiral, Chief of the Main Navy Staff
• Mikhail Mikhailovich Golitsyn, General Admiral from 1756 to 1762
• Arseniy Grigoryevich Golovko, Admiral, Commander of the Northern Fleet
• Sergey Georgiyevich Gorshkov, Fleet admiral of the Soviet Union, led a number of landing operations in the Black Sea during World War II, the Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Navy during most of the Cold War and for almost 30 years
• Samuel Greig, Admiral, won the Battle of Chesma during the Russo-Turkish War and participated in the Battle of Hogland during the Russo-Swedish War
• Ivan Ivanovich Gren, vice-admiral, speciality in gunnery, director of naval artillery during the siege of Leningrad
• Ivan Konstantinovich Grigorovich, Admiral, chief of Port Arthur's port during the siege of Port Arthur, Russia's last Naval Minister
• Vladimir Vladimirovich Grishechkin, Rear Admiral, Chief of Staff/1st Deputy Commander of Northern Fleet
• Feliks Nikolayevich Gromov, Fleet admiral, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, previously commander of the Northern Fleet
• Thomas Gordon, Admiral, Governor and Commander-in-Chief at Kronshtadt from 1727 until his death in 1741. His granddaughter Anne Young married a Scot, Lt. Thomas MacKenzie. Two years after their marriage in 1738 they had a son also called Thomas, a Scottish-Russian rear admiral who founded the city of Sevastopol in service of the Russian Empire in 1783.

  H

• Loggin Heiden, Dutchman, Russian admiral, winner of the Battle of Navarino.

  I

• Ivan Stepanovich Isakov, Fleet admiral of the Soviet Union, served during World War II, Chief of the Main Navy Staff, oceanographer
• Vladimir Ivanovich Istomin, Rear admiral, fought in the Battle of Navarino, hero of the siege of Sevastopol during the Crimean War, died in action
• Vitaly Pavlovich Ivanov, admiral, commander of the Baltic Fleet, head of the Kuznetsov Naval Academy

  J

• John Paul Jones, Rear admiral, served in and achieved rank of Rear Admiral with the Black Sea Fleet after serving as a Captain in the American Navy during the American Revolution, fought at Ochakov

  K

• Konstantin Petrovich Kabantsov, Vice-Admiral, commander of the Northern Fleet
• Vasily Kanin, Admiral, winner of the Battle of the Gulf of Riga
• Igor Vladimirovich Kasatonov, Admiral, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy
• Vladimir Afanasyevich Kasatonov, Fleet Admiral, First Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Navy
• Vladimir Lvovich Kasatonov, Vice-Admiral, head of the N. G. Kuznetsov Naval Academy
• Mikhail Alexandrovich Kedrov, Vice admiral, who led White Russian forces, including the evacuation of Wrangel's fleet from the Crimea as the Russian Civil War came to a close
• Yuri Mikhailovich Khaliullin , Rear Admiral, engineer and academic, head of the and the
• Mikhail Nikolayevich Khronopulo, Admiral, commander of the Black Sea Fleet between 1985 and 1991
• Aleksandr Vasilyevich Kolchak, Admiral, polar explorer, commander of the Black Sea Fleet, a leader of the White movement during the Russian Civil War
• Nikolay Kolomeytsev, Vice admiral, polar explorer, a hero of the Russo-Japanese War, later led White Russian naval forces in the Baltic during the Russian Civil War
• Vladimir Konovalov, Rear admiral, distinguished submarine commander during World War II
• Vladimir Alekseyevich Kornilov, Vice admiral, fought in the Battle of Navarino, hero of the siege of Sevastopol, died in the Battle of Malakoff
• Vladimir Ivanovich Korolev, Admiral, Commander-in-Chief Russian Navy, Commander of Northern Fleet
• Anatoly Mikhailovich Kosov, vice-admiral, Commander of the Baltic Fleet
• Nikolay Krabbe, Admiral and Naval Minister, co-founded the first Russian naval bases in Primorsky Krai, oversaw the development of naval artillery and ironclad ships
• Viktor Petrovich Kravchuk, vice-admiral, commander of the Caspian Flotilla, commander of the Baltic Fleet
• Nikolai Mikhailovich Kulakov, Vice admiral, political branch, Hero of the Soviet Union
• Vladimir Ivanovich Kuroyedov, Fleet admiral, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy
• Konstantin Matveyevich Kuznetsov, rear-admiral, head of the M. V. Frunze Higher Naval School and the Higher Naval School of Submarine Navigation
• Nikolay Gerasimovich Kuznetsov,, Fleet admiral of the Soviet Union, the Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Navy during World War II
• Adam Johann von Krusenstern, Admiral, led the first Russian circumnavigation with Yuri Lisyansky
• Alexander Ivanovich Kruz, Fleet Admiral

  L

• Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev, Admiral, three times circumnavigator and discoverer of Antarctica, destroyed five enemy warships as a commander of Azov in the Battle of Navarino, tutor of Nakhimov, Kornilov and Istomin
• Viktor Nikolayevich Liina, Vice Admiral, Chief of Staff/1st Deputy Commander of Black Sea Fleet
• Sergey Vladimrovich Lipilin, Vice Admiral, Commander Baltic Fleet
• Semyon Mikhailovich Lobov, Fleet admiral, Commander of the Northern Fleet

  M

• Thomas Mackenzie, Rear admiral, entered Russian Navy in 1736 at Archangel. Father of Rear Admiral Thomas MacKenzie
• Thomas Mackenzie, Rear admiral, Founder of Sevastopol 1783, first Commander-in-Chief of the Black Sea Fleet. Awarded Knight Order of St. George IV Class for his bravery in successfully navigating a fireship into the enemy which contributed to the destruction of the Turkish Fleet in the Russian/Turkish War at Chesma 5–7 July 1770
• Konstantin Valentinovich Makarov,, Fleet Admiral, Chief of the Main Navy Staff/First Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Navy
• Stepan Osipovich Makarov, Vice admiral, inventor and explorer, performed the first ever successful torpedo attack, built the first torpedo boat tender and the first polar icebreaker, author of the insubmersibility theory, killed in the Russo-Japanese War when his ship struck a naval mine
• Nikolai Mikhailovich Maksimov, Admiral, Commander of the Northern Fleet, head of the Naval Academy
• Pavel Petrovich Maksutov, Rear admiral, hero of the Battle of Sinop and the siege of Sevastopol
• Viktor Nikolayevich Mardusin, Vice Admiral, Commander of the Baltic Fleet
• Nikolai Ilych Martynyuk, Vice Admiral, First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Pacific Fleet
• Vladimir Petrovich Maslov,, Admiral, Commander of the Pacific Fleet
• Vladimir Solveyevich Maslyuk, rear admiral
• Vladimir Vasilyevich Masorin, Fleet admiral, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy
• Aleksandr Danilovich Menshikov,, Admiral, close associate of Peter I active in early Russian naval battles
• Vladimir Vasilyevich Mikhailin, Admiral, Commander of the Baltic Fleet
• Arkadiy Petrovich Mikhailovskiy, Admiral, Commander of Northern Fleet
• Aleksandr Alekseyevich Moiseyev, Vice admiral, commander of the Black Sea Fleet
• Mikhail Vasilyevich Motsak, Vice admiral, Chief of Staff/1st Deputy Commander of the Northern Fleet
• Igor Timurbulatovich Mukhametshin, Vice Admiral, Chief of Staff/1st Deputy Commander of Baltic Fleet