This list of Russian admirals includes the admirals of all ranks, serving in the Russian Imperial Navy, the Soviet Navy and the modern Russian Navy. See also the categories :Category:Imperial Russian Navy admirals and :Category:Soviet admirals. Alphabetical list A Pavel Sergeyevich Abankin, Admiral, Head of Naval Academy (1944), Deputy Navy Minister for Shipbuilding and Armaments, Head of the Hydrographic Directorate (1952-1958) Abdulikhat Abassov, Rear admiral, (1929-1996), Head of Nuclear Submarine Training Center, Chief of Navy Combat Training Vladimir Antonovich Alafuzov, Admiral, Chief of the Main Navy Staff, Soviet Navy Vladimir Nikolayevich Alekseyev, Admiral, First Deputy Chief of the Main Navy Staff Nikolay Nikolayevich Amelko, Admiral, Commander of the Pacific Fleet Fyodor Apraksin, General admiral, won the Battle of Gangut during the Great Northern War, led the Russian Navy in the Russo-Persian War (1722–1723) 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 Vasiliy Chichagov, Admiral, polar explorer, 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 (2009-2012), Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy (2012-2016) 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 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