Military of russian

Army

Main articles: Russian Field Marshals and Soviet Marshals

• Mikhail Annenkov, conqueror of Central Asia, builder of the strategical Transcaspian Railway
  

  

  Vasily Chapaev
• S. F. Apraksin, commander-in-chief at the Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf during the Seven Years’ War
• Ivan Bagramyan, Soviet Marshal, prominent in the Baltic Offensive during World War II
• Pyotr Bagration, general and hero of the Napoleonic Wars, mortally wounded in the Battle of Borodino
• Aleksandr Baryatinsky, Field Marshal, perfected the mountain warfare tactics of the Russian Army, captured Imam Shamil during the Caucasian War
• Alexander Bekovich-Cherkassky, leader of the first Russian military expeditions into Central Asia, founder of Krasnovodsk
• Vasily Blücher, one of the first five Soviet Marshals, prominent in the Russian Civil War and the Northern Expedition in China
• Maria Bochkareva, founder of the Women's Battalion of Death during World War I
• Jacob Bruce, Field Marshal, commander of artillery in the Battle of Poltava
• Aleksei Brusilov, World War I General, led the tactically innovative Brusilov Offensive, destroying the military of Austria-Hungary almost completely
  

  

  Denis Davydov
• Semyon Budyonny, Civil War commander, statesman, triple Hero of the Soviet Union
• Vasily Chapayev, legendary Civil War commander, prototype for Chapaev movie and Chapayev and Void novel, hero of many Russian jokes
• Mikhail Chernyayev, general, captured Tashkent during the conquest of Central Asia, the Governor of Russian Turkestan
• Vasily Chuikov, commander and hero in the Battle of Stalingrad, Soviet Marshal, double HSU
• Denis Davydov, general, guerilla fighter and soldier-poet of the Napoleonic Wars, invented a genre of hussar poetry noted for its hedonism and bravado
• Anton Denikin, Civil War general, one of the leaders of White Movement
• Hans Karl von Diebitsch-Zabalkansky, Field Marshal, took Adrianople during the Russo-Turkish War (1828–1829)
• Nadezhda Durova, "the Cavalry Maiden", a female hero of the Napoleonic wars
• Alexander Gorbatyi-Shuisky, voevoda of Tsar Ivan IV, hero of the Russo-Kazan Wars and the final Siege of Kazan (1552)
  

  

  Nadezhda Durova
• Leonid Govorov, World War II Soviet Marshal, led Operation Spark (1943) which broke the blockade of Leningrad
• Andrei Grechko, World War II Soviet Marshal, Soviet Defence Minister under Brezhnev
• Ivan Gudovich, Field Marshal, conquered Khadjibey and Anapa in the Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792), conquered Dagestan in the Russo-Turkish War (1806–1812)
• Iosif Gurko, commander and hero of the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878), won the battles of Shipka Pass, Gorni Dubnik and Plovdiv, liberated the Bulgarian capital Sofia
• Mikhail Frunze, revolutionary, a prominent Civil War commander
• Konstantin Kaufmann, conqueror of the Khanate of Khiva, the first governor of Russian Turkestan
• Ivan Konev, Soviet Marshal, led Red Army on the Eastern Front,
  

  

  Mikhail Kutuzov double HSU
• Lavr Kornilov, World War I general, notable for Kornilov Affair
• Nikolay Krylov, Soviet Marshal, commander of the Strategic Rocket Forces under Brezhnev, double HSU
• Mikhail Kutuzov, hero of the Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792), defeated Napoleon's Grande Armée during French invasion of Russia in 1812, turning the tide of the Napoleonic Wars
• Andrey Kurbsky, associate and then a leading political opponent of Tsar Ivan IV, hero of the Russo-Kazan Wars
• Peter Lacy, Field Marshal, led the Siege of Danzig (1734), commander-in-chief during Russo-Swedish War (1741–1743)
• Rodion Malinovsky, Soviet Marshal, prominent at the Battle of Stalingrad and the Battle of Budapest, Soviet Defense Minister under Khrushchev
• Alexander Matrosov, World War II soldier, self-sacrificed himself to win the battle, Hero of the Soviet Union
  

  

  Konstantin Rokossovsky
• Aleksandr Menshikov, associate of Peter the Great, Field Marshal in the Great Northern War, won the principal Battle of Poltava
• Kirill Meretskov, Soviet Marshal, led the Petsamo–Kirkenes Offensive which liberated the northern Norway from Nazi occupation, prominent in the Soviet invasion of Manchuria
• Mikhail Miloradovich, hero of the Napoleonic Wars, killed in attempt to pacify the Decembrist revolt
• Kuzma Minin, national hero, merchant who led Russia's struggle for independence against Poland-Lithuania during the Time of Troubles
• Burkhard Christoph von Münnich, Field Marshal, statesman, founder of the first Cadet Corps in Russia, led the Siege of Danzig (1734), commander-in-chief during Russo-Austrian-Turkish War (1735–1739)
• Rodion Oslyabya, a monk from Trinity Sergius Lavra, hero of the Battle of Kulikovo
• Fabian Gottlieb von Osten-Sacken, conquered the Duchy of Warsaw and governed Paris during the War of the Sixth Coalition
• Ivan Panfilov, World War II general, hero of the Battle of Moscow, the commander of Panfilovtsy, HSU
  

  

  Pyotr Rumyantsev-Zadunaysky
• Ivan Paskevich, hero and commander in the Russo-Persian War (1826–1828) and the Russo-Turkish War (1828–1829), crushed the Polish November Uprising and the Hungarian Revolution of 1848
• Lyudmila Pavlichenko, World War II Soviet sniper, credited with 309 kills, the most successful female sniper in history
• Alexander Peresvet, a monk from Trinity Sergius Lavra, hero of the Battle of Kulikovo, fought with the Tatar champion Chelubey in single combat where they killed each other
• Grigory Potyomkin-Tavrichesky, conqueror and coloniser of Novorossiya, reformer of the Russian Army, led the Siege of Ochakov (1788) during the Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792)
• Dmitry Pozharsky, national hero, prince who led Russia's struggle for independence against Poland-Lithuania during the Time of Troubles
• Alexander Prozorovsky, commander-in-chief during the Russo-Turkish War (1806–1812)
• Nikolay Raevsky, hero of the Napoleonic Wars and the Battle of Borodino
  

  

  Roza Shanina
• Anikita Repnin, Field Marshal in the Great Northern War, conquer and the first governor of Riga
• Nicholas Repnin, Field Marshal and diplomat, hero of the Russo-Turkish wars, key man in the Partitions of Poland, pacified the Germans in the War of the Bavarian Succession
• Konstantin Rokossovsky, Soviet and Polish Marshal, Defense Minister of Poland, double HSU, oversaw the main Soviet battle operations of the Eastern Front (World War II), commanded the Moscow Victory Parade of 1945
• Grigory Romodanovsky, leading Russian general of Tsar Alexey's reign, commander-in-chief during the Russo-Turkish War (1676–1681)
• Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich, commander-in-chief of the Russian Army at the start of World War I, then commanded the Caucasus front
• Pyotr Rumyantsev-Zadunaysky, hero of the Seven Years' War, won the battles of Larga and Kagula and concluded the Russo-Turkish War of 1768–74 by the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca, military writer
• Pyotr Saltykov, most prominent Russian commander-in-chief during the Seven Years’ War,
  

  

  Mikhail Skobelev
  won the battle of Paltzig and the battle of Kunersdorf, captured Berlin
• Igor Sergeyev, the only Marshal of the Russian Federation, Defense Minister in the late 1990s
• Roza Shanina, World War II Soviet sniper, 54 confirmed kills
• Boris Shaposhnikov, Soviet Marshal, Chief of the General Staff during the start of the German invasion, military theorist and author of The Brain of the Army
• Aleksei Shein, the first Russian Generalissimo, commander-in-chief during Azov campaigns
• Boris Sheremetev, Field Marshal in the Great Northern War, won the battle of Erastfer and the battle of Poltava
• Ivan Sidorenko, World War II Soviet sniper, over 500 confirmed kills
• Mikhail Skobelev, the "White General", conqueror of Central Asia and hero of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78
• Sergei Sokolov, Soviet Marshal, chief commander during the Soviet war in Afghanistan
  

  

  Alexander Suvorov
• Vasily Sokolovsky, Soviet Marshal, prominent in the Battle of Moscow and the Battle of Kursk, military theorist
• Alexander Suvorov, greatest Russian general of the 18th century, Generalissimo who never lost a battle, won at Kinburn, Ochakov and Focşani during the Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792), crushed Kościuszko Uprising, led an outstanding Italian and Swiss expedition, author of The Science of Victory
• Semyon Timoshenko, World War II Soviet Marshal, won the Winter War, senior professional officer of the Red Army at the start of the German invasion
• Fyodor Tolbukhin, World War II Soviet Marshal, liberated Bulgaria and Yugoslavia
• Michael Barclay de Tolly, Field Marshal, led a strategic retreat during the French invasion of Russia, led Russian Army to Paris in the War of the Sixth Coalition
• Gennady Troshev, chief general during the Second Chechen War, Hero of Russia
• Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Red Army commander during the Russian Civil War, Soviet Marshal, military theorist
  

  

  Vasily Zaytsev
• Dmitriy Ustinov, Soviet Marshal, proponent of the Soviet space program, Defence Minister in the late Brezhnev era
• Aleksandr Vasilevsky, Soviet Marshal, Chief of the Soviet General Staff during most of World War II, led the Soviet invasion of Manchuria, double HSU
• Mikhail Vorontsov, Field Marshal, hero of the Napoleonic Wars, captured Varna in the Russo-Persian War (1826–1828), led decisive campaigns of the Caucasian War
• Eduard Totleben, general and military engineer, hero of the Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855)
• Kliment Voroshilov, Civil War commander, statesman, double HSU
• Mikhail Vorotynsky, defeated the Ottoman and Crimean Khanate army in the Battle of Molodi, eliminating the threat of Ottoman expansion into Russia
• Peter Wittgenstein, Field Marshal, defended St Petersburg in 1812, hero of the War of the Sixth Coalition
• Alexander Yegorov, Civil War commander, one of the first five Soviet Marshals
• Aleksey Yermolov, hero of the Napoleonic Wars and the Battle of Borodino, military ruler of the Caucasus at the start of the Caucasian War
• Ivan Yakubovsky, Soviet Marshal, commander-in-chief of the Warsaw Pact under Brezhnev, double HSU
• Andrey Yeryomenko, World War II Soviet Marshal, prominent in the Battle of Stalingrad
• Yunus-bek Yevkurov, paratrooper, commander of Russian peacekeepers during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, President of Ingushetia, Hero of Russia
• Vasily Zaytsev, Soviet sniper, killed 412 enemy soldiers and officers, including 6 snipers, a hero of the Battle of Stalingrad
• Georgy Zhukov, Soviet Marshal, Chief of the General Staff and representative of STAVKA, four times the Hero of the Soviet Union, oversaw all the main Soviet battle operations of the Eastern Front (World War II), inspected the Moscow Victory Parade of 1945

Navy

Main article: Russian Admirals

• 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)
  

  

  Fyodor Apraksin
• Aksel Berg, Admiral and scientist, major developer of radiolocation and cybernetics
• Vasily 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
• Cornelius Cruys, Vice-Admiral, the first commander of the Russian Baltic Fleet
• Fyodor Dubasov, Admiral, placed Dalny and Port Arthur under Russian control
• Sergey Gorshkov, Admiral, led major landing operations during WII, commander-in-chief of the Soviet Navy during most of the Cold War
• Samuel Greig, Admiral, won the Battle of Chesma during the Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774) and the Battle of Hogland during the Russo-Swedish War (1788–1790)
• Ivan Grigorovich, Admiral, chief of Port Arthur's port during the Siege of Port Arthur
  

  

  Vasily Chichagov
• Ivan Isakov, Soviet Admiral during World War II, oceanographer
• Vladimir Istomin, Rear-Admiral, hero of the Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855) during the Crimean War, died in action
• Aleksandr Kolchak, Admiral, polar explorer, a leader of the White movement during the Russian Civil War
• Vladimir Konovalov, Soviet Counter Admiral, distinguished World War II submarine commander
• Vladimir Kornilov, Vice-Admiral, hero of the Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855), died in the Battle of Malakoff
• 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
• Nikolay Kuznetsov, Admiral, World War II commander-in-chief of the Soviet Navy
• Mikhail Lazarev, Admiral, three times circumnavigator and discoverer of Antarctica,
  

  

  Pavel Nakhimov
  destroyed five enemy warships as a commander of Azov in the Battle of Navarino, tutor to Nakhimov, Kornilov and Istomin
• Stepan Makarov, Vice-Admiral, inventor and explorer, performed the first ever successful torpedo attack (during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878), 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
• Pavel Nakhimov, Admiral, circumnavigated the world with Mikhail Lazarev, fought in the Battle of Navarino, annihilated the Ottoman fleet in the Battle of Sinope, commander and hero at the Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855)
• Filipp Oktyabrsky, Soviet Admiral, a leader of defence in the Siege of Sevastopol (1941–1942)
• Andrey Popov, Admiral, hero of the Crimean War, led a Russian flotilla to support the Union during the American Civil War, designed the first true Russian battleship Pyotr Velikiy
  

  

  Fyodor Ushakov
• José de Ribas, Vice-Admiral, founder of Odessa, hero of the Siege of Izmail
• Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich, General Admiral and Naval Minister during the Russo-Japanese War
• Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich, General Admiral and statesman, oversaw the rapid transition of the Russian Navy to ironclad warships
• Zinovy Rozhestvensky, Vice-Admiral, coommander during the Russo-Japanese War, wounded in the Battle of Tsushima
• Alexei Senyavin, re-established the Don Military Flotilla and played a crucial role in Russia's gaining access to the Black Sea
• Dmitry Senyavin, Admiral, won the battle of the Dardanelles (1807) and the battle of Athos against Ottomans during the Napoleonic Wars
• Naum Senyavin, Vice-Admiral, won the Battle of Osel during the Great Northern War
• Grigory Spiridov, Admiral, destroyed the Ottoman fleet in the Battle of Chesma during the Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774)
• Jean de Traversay, Admiral, commanded the Russian Black Sea Fleet and Russian Baltic Fleet, organised early Russian circumnavigations
  

  

  Vasily Zavoyko
• Vladimir Tributs, Admiral, a leading navy commander during the Siege of Leningrad, led the Soviet evacuation of Tallinn
• Fyodor Ushakov, the most illustrious Russian Admiral of the 18th century, saint, won the battles of Fidonisi, Kerch Strait, Tendra and Cape Kaliakra during the Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792), single-handedly carved out the Greek Septinsular Republic, did not lose a single ship in 43 battles
• Ivan Yumashev, Admiral, reclaimed Southern Sakhalin and Kuril Islands for the USSR during the Soviet–Japanese War (1945), commander-in-chief of the Soviet Navy in the late 1940s
• Vasily Zavoyko, fought in the Battle of Navarino, twice circumavigated the globe, explored the estuary of the Amur River, repelled the superior British-French forces in the Siege of Petropavlovsk during the Crimean War
• Matija Zmajević, Vice-Admiral, hero of the battle of Gangut and the battle of Grengam during the Great Northern War

Air Force

Main article: Russian aviators

• Yekaterina Budanova, World War II pilot, one of the world's two female fighter aces
  

  

  Valery Chkalov
• Valery Chkalov, leader of the first ultralong flight from Moscow to the Russian Far East, leader of the first transcontinental flight by airplane over the North Pole, Hero of the Soviet Union
• Mikhail Devyatayev, fighter pilot known for his incredible escape aboard a stolen bomber from a Nazi concentration camp on the Baltic island of Usedom, HSU
• Nikolai Gastello, the first Soviet pilot to direct his burning aircraft on a ground target, HSU
• Alexander Golovanov, Chief Marshal of Aviation at the end of World War II, commander of Long Range Aviation
• Sergey Gritsevets, fighter ace during the Spanish Civil War and the Battle of Khalkhin Gol, the first to become twice the Hero of the Soviet Union
• Valentina Grizodubova, one of the first Soviet female pilots and Heroes of the Soviet Union, set a record for woman's ultralong flights
• Mikhail Gromov, set a record during the transcontinental flight over the North Pole, founded the Gromov Flight Research Institute, HSU
  

  

  Gromov
• Vladimir Ilyushin, test pilot for OKB Sukhoi, HSU
• Nikolai Kamanin, polar aviator, among the first to receive the title Hero of the Soviet Union, trained the first ever cosmonauts, including Yuri Gagarin, Gherman Titov and Alexei Leonov
• Alexander Kazakov, most successful Russian flying ace of World War I, the first to perform an aerial ramming and survive
• Vladimir Kokkinaki, most famous Soviet test pilot, set twenty-two world records, a president of the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale, double HSU
• Ivan Kozhedub, top fighter ace in the aviation of the Allies of World War II, credited with 62 individual victories, thrice the Hero of the Soviet Union
• Pavel Kutakhov, World War II fighter ace, Chief Marshal of Aviation under Leonid Brezhnev, double HSU
• Sigismund Levanevsky, polar aviator, among the first to receive the title Hero of the Soviet Union, died in a transpolar flight attempt
  

  

  Ivan Kozhedub
• Anatoly Liapidevsky, polar aviator, the very first person to receive the title Hero of the Soviet Union, General Major of Aviation
• Lydia Litvyak, World War II pilot, one of the world's two female fighter aces, HSU
• Alexey Maresyev, World War II fighter ace, HSU, the prototype for The Story of a Real Man
• Ivan Nagurski, the first polar aviator, World War I flying ace
• Pyotr Nesterov, inventor and pioneer of aerobatics, the first pilot to perform the aerobatic loop, died in the world's first aerial ramming during World War I
• Alexander Novikov, Chief Marshal of Aviation during World War II, double HSU
• Yevgeny Pepelyaev, top Soviet fighter ace in the Korean War, HSU
• Viktor Pokrovsky, World War I flying ace, the first Russian pilot to capture an enemy plane and pilot
• Alexander Pokryshkin, World War II fighter ace, credited with 59 individual victories, triple Hero of the Soviet Union, Marshal of Aviation
  

  

  Lydia Litvyak
• Georgy Prokofiev, balloonist who coordinated military stratospheric balloon program in 1930s, set world record in altitude on USSR-1
• Viktor Pugachyov, test pilot and pioneer of supermaneuverability, the first to show Pugachev's Cobra maneuver of Su-27
• Endel Puusepp, long-range bomber pilot, famous for flying a Soviet delegation over the front line from Moscow to Washington, D.C. and back to negotiate the opening of the Western Front, HSU
• Marina Raskova, navigator, founder of the three female air regiments during World War II, HSU
• Yevgeniya Rudneva, World War II bomber pilot, one of the Night Witches, HSU
• Yevgeniya Shakhovskaya, the first woman military pilot
• Mark Shevelev, World War II Soviet polar aviation commander, HSU
• Lev Shestakov, top Soviet fighter ace during the Spanish Civil War, HSU
  

  

  Pyotr Nesterov
• Yakov Smushkevich, commanded the Soviet aviation in the Spanish Civil War and the Battle of Khalkhin Gol, double HSU
• Nelson Stepanyan, World War II dive bomber pilot, destroyed scores of enemy ships, tanks, cars, planes and guns, double HSU
• Amet-khan Sultan, World War II fighter ace, double HSU, test pilot, died on a crash
• Nikolay Sutyagin, top Korean War Soviet fighter ace, HSU
• Victor Talalikhin, World War II fighter ace, among the first to perform aerial ramming at night, HSU
• Andrey Vitruk, World War II fighter ace, Major General of Aviation, Hero of the Soviet Union and the Hero of Yugoslavia
• Mikhail Vodopianov, polar aviator, among the first to receive the title Hero of the Soviet Union, commanded the first World War II Soviet air raid on Berlin in 1941
• Yekaterina Zelenko, World War II pilot, the only woman ever to have performed and died in aerial ramming, HSU

Religion

Orthodox leaders

Main article: Metropolitans and Patriarchs of Moscow

• Metropolitan Alexius, saint, ruled Russia during Prince Dmitry Donskoy's minority
  

  

  Patriarch Kirill
• Patriarch Alexy I, the longest serving Patriarch in the Soviet era
• Patriarch Alexy II, the first post-Soviet Patriarch, oversaw the period of major church restoration and religious renaissanse
• Patriarch Hermogenes, saint, inspired the popular uprising against foreign occupation, putting an end to the Time of Troubles
• Metropolitan Innocent, saint, missionary in Alaska and the Russian Far East
• Metropolitan Isidore, attempted a reunion with the Roman Catholic Church, which instead led to independence of the Russian Orthodox Church
• Patriarch Joachim, founder of the Slavic Greek Latin Academy, the first higher education establishment in Russia
• Patriarch Job, the last Metropolitan and the first Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia
• Metropolitan Jonah, saint, the first independent Metropolitan of Moscow and all Russia
• Patriarch Kirill, current Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia
  

  

  Patriarch Philaret
• Metropolitan Macarius, saint, prominent iconographer
• Metropolitan Maximus, saint, Metropolitan of Kiev who moved the see of Russian metropolitans to Vladimir
• Patriarch Nikon, introduced major church reforms which eventually led to a lasting schism in the Russian Orthodox Church, known as Raskol
• Metropolitan Peter, patron saint of Moscow, moved the see of Russian metropolitans from Vladimir to Moscow
• Metropolitan Philaret, saint, the principal Russian theologician of the 19th century
• Patriarch Philaret, de facto ruler of Russia during the minority of his son, Tsar Mikhail
• Metropolitan Philip, saint and martyr in the reign of Ivan IV
• Patriarch Pimen, oversaw the end of the persecution of Christianity in the Soviet Union and the 1000th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus'
  

  

  Patriarch Tikhon
• Platon Levshin, president of the Most Holy Synod during the Age of Enlightenment, author of the first systematic course of the history of Russian Orthodox Church
• Patriarch Sergius, led the Russian Orthodox Church during World War II, when the earlier Soviet militant atheism was scaled down and the Church was re-legalised
• Stephen Yavorsky, the first president of the Most Holy Synod, which replaced the Patriarchate after Peter I's reign
• Theofan Prokopovich, the second president of the Most Holy Synod, co-founder of the Russian Academy of Sciences, religious poet and sermon writer
• Patriarch Tikhon, the first Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia after restoration of the Patriarchate in the early Soviet era