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 (1854–1855), died in the Battle of Malakoff Vladimir Ivanovich Korolev, Admiral, Commander-in-Chief Russian Navy, Commander of Northern 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 Nikolai Mikhailovich Kulakov, Vice admiral, political branch, Hero of the Soviet Union Vladimir Ivanovich Kuroyedov, Fleet admiral, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy Nikolay Gerasimovich Kuznetsov, (1902-1974), Fleet admiral of the Soviet Union (one of only three), the Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Navy during World War II (1939-1946) Alexander Ivanovich Kruz (1731-1799), 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, Rear Admiral, Deputy Commander Black Sea Fleet Semyon Mikhailovich Lobov, Fleet admiral, Commander of the Northern Fleet M Thomas Mackenzie (Foma Kalinovich Mekenzi, Фома Калинович Мекензи (Russian admiral) (1710–1766), Rear admiral, Entered Russian Navy in 1736 at Archangel. Father of Rear Admiral Thos MacKenzie founder of Sebastopol Thomas Mackenzie,(1740–1786), 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 Russo/Turkish War at Chesma 5–7