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| 1787 | Potemkin |  |
| Appointed Commander-in-Chief against the Turkish Army |
| 1800 | Suvorov, Alexander Vasilyevich | |
| Appointed Commander-in-Chief |
| 1811 | Kutuzov | |
| Appointed Commander-in-Chief |
| Appointed Commander-in-Chief against the Turks |
| 1812 | Kutuzov | |
| Appointed Commander-in-Chief against France |
| 1855 | Dmitrievich, Mikhail | |
| Appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Russian forces in the Crimea in place of the disgraced Prince Menshikov |
| 1855 | Gorchakov | |
| Appointed Commander of the Russian forces, replaces Menshikov |
| Kars Russia besieges and occupies the Turkish fortress of Kars |
| Sevatopol is captured after about a year-long siege |
| 17th Feb Eupatoria Defeated by the Turks & the Allied siege line draw closer |
| 7th June Part of the Russian outer defences are seized, there are 8,500 Russian casualties |
| 16th Aug Traktir Ridge Ends in Russian defeat & the last hope for relieving Sevastopol |
| 1897 | Makarov, Stepan Osipovich | |
| Appointed Commander of the Baltic Fleet |
| 1904 | Makarov, Stepan Osipovich | |
| Appointed Commander of the Naval forces in the Far East |
| 1914 | Rennenkampf, Paul Karlovitch | |
| Vilna Appointed Commander of the Vilna District |
| 1914 | Yanushkevich, Nikolai | |
| Aug Appointed Deputy Commander-in-Chief at Stavka to Duke Nicholas |
| 1915 | Alekseyev, Mikhail Vasilyevich | |
| Appointed Commander of the Northwestern Front |
| Mar Appointed Comander of the Nth West Army Group |
| Mar Appointed Commander of the Nth West Army Group |
| 1915 | Nicholas II | |
| Appointed Commander of the Eastern Front to hold the Caucasus against the Turks |
| 22nd Aug Mogilev Appointed Commander of the Russian armed forces |
| 5th Sep Mogilev Appointed Commander of the Russian armed forces |
| 1915 | Yudenich, Nikolai Nikolaevich | |
| Appointed Commander-in-Chief, Caucasian Army |
| 1916 | Kolchak, Alexander | |
| Appointed Commander of the Black Sea Fleet |
| 1917 | Alekseyev, Mikhail Vasilyevich | |
| Mar Appointed Comander-in-Chief of the Russian Army |
| 1917 | Alexeiev, Mikhail Vasilevich | |
| 25th Mar Appointed Commander-in-Chief by the Provisional Government |
| 1st Sep Appointed as Commander-in-Chief, 2nd term, recalled |
| 1917 | Brusilov, Alexy | |
| 22nd May Appointed Commander-in-Chief by the provisional government |
| 1917 | Danilov, Yuri | |
| Appointed Commander of the 5th Army |
| 1917 | Denikin, Anton Ivanovich | |
| Appointed Commander of the Western Front |
| 1917 | Dukhonin, Nikolai Nikolayevich | |
| Appointed Commander-in-Chief |
| 1917 | Kornilov, Lavr Georgevich | |
| 18th July Appointed Commander-in-Chief |
| 1917 | Krylenko, Nikolai Vasilevich | |
| 25th Nov Appointed Commander-in-Chief |
| 1917 | Trotsky, Leon | |
| 21st Nov Appointed Commander-in-Chief |
| 1917 | Yudenich, Nikolai Nikolaevich | |
| April Dimissed by the provisional government |
| 1918 | Denikin, Anton Ivanovich | |
| 13th April Appointed Commander of the Volunteer Army |
| 13th April Kornilov is killed by a stray bullet & Denikin assumes command of the volunteer army |
| 1919 | Ikin, Anton Ivanovich de | |
| Appointed Commander of the White Russian Army after death of Kornilov |
| 1919 | Yudenich, Nikolai Nikolaevich | |
| Sep Baltic Sea Appointed Commander of the White Army in the Baltic |
| 1920 | Budenny, Semyon Mikhaylovich | |
| Oct Appointed Commander of the 1st Cavalry Army |
| 1920 | Wrangel, Pyotr Nikolayevich | |
| Appointed Commander-in-Chief |
| 1921 | Blucher, Vasily Konstantinovich | |
| Appointed Commander of the Russian Far East |
| 1922 | Blucher, Vasily Konstantinovich | |
| Vladivostok Drives the Japanese out of Vladivostok |
| 1924 | Voroshilov, Klimenty Efremovich | |
| Aug Moscow Appointed Commander of the Moscow Military District |
| 1929 | Blucher, Vasily Konstantinovich | |
| Siberia Appointed Commander of Eastern Siberia |
| 1929 | Blyukher, Vasily Konstantinovich | |
| Appointed Commander of the Far Eastern Red Army |
| 1936 | Vatutin, Nikolai Fyodorovich | |
| Appointed Commander of the Ukraine |
| 1937 | Budenny, Semyon Mikhaylovich | |
| Aug Moscow Appointed Commander of the Moscow Military District |
| 1937 | Konev, Ivan Stepanovich | |
| Moscow Appointed Commander of the Trans baikal Military District |
| 1939 | Zhukov, Georgi Konstantinovich | |
| Appointed Commander-in-Chief |
| 1940 | Zhukov, Georgi Konstantinovich | |
| 11th Sep Replaces Marshal Voroshilov on the Northern Front |
| 1941 | Budenny, Semyon Mikhaylovich | |
| Appointed Commander-in-Chief, Southwestern Front |
| Appointed Commander-in-Chief, Southwestern Front after the German invasion of Russia |
| 1941 | Stalin, Joseph | |
| 22nd June Moscow Appointed Supreme Commander of the Soviet Armed Forces |
| 1941 | Vlassov, Andrei | |
| Appointed Commander of 20th Army |
| 1941 | Voroshilov, Klimenty Efremovich | |
| Aug Appointed Commander of the Armies in the Northwest Front |
| 1941 | Zhukov, Georgi Konstantinovich | |
| Appointed Deputy Supreme Commander-in-Chief |
| 1942 | Abramov, Konstantin Kirkovich | |
| 16th July River Don Appointed Commander of the 64th Army |
| 1942 | Chuikov, Vassili | |
| Stalingrad Appointed Commander of Stalingrad |
| 16th July River Don Appointed Commander of the 62nd Army |
| 16th July River Don Appointed Commander of the 62nd Army to hold the Germans west of the River Don |
| 1942 | Petrov, Ivan Efimovich | |
| Appointed Commander of the Black Sea Front |
| 1942 | Rokossovsky, Konstantin Konstantinovich | |
| Appointed Commander of Russian forces opposing the German 6th Army |
| 1942 | Voroshilov, Klimenty Efremovich | |
| Aug Appointed Commander-in-Chief, NKVD |
| 1942 | Yeremenko, Andrei | |
| Aug Stalingrad Appointedmand the front from Stalingrad to Kalmyk in the sth west |
| 9th Aug Stalingrad Appointed Commander of the Stalingrad front by Stalin |
| 9th Aug Stalingrad Yeremenko is appointed to command the entire Stalingrad front by Stalin |
| 1942 | Zhukov, Georgi Konstantinovich | |
| Stalingrad Appointed Deputy Supreme Commander-in-Chief by Stalin |
| 1943 | Malinowsky, Rodion Yakovlevich | |
| Appointed Commander of the Southwestern Front |
| 1943 | Popov, Markian | |
| Appointed Commander at the Bryansk Front |
| 1944 | Konev, Ivan Stepanovich | |
| Appointed Commander of the 2nd Ukranian Front |
| 1944 | Petrov, Ivan Efimovich | |
| Appointed Commander of the 2nd Belorussian Front |
| Aug Appointed Commander of the 4th Ukranian Front |
| 1944 | Popov, Markian | |
| Appointed Commander of the Second Baltic Front |
| 1945 | Akhromeev, Sergei Fedorovich | |
| Appointed Commander of a tank battalion |
| Ukraine Appointed Commander of a tank battalion on the 4th Ukrainian front |
| 1945 | Chuikov, Vassili | |
| Appointed Deputy Commander of the Soviet forces of occupation in East Germany |
| 1946 | Konev, Ivan Stepanovich | |
| Moscow Appointed Commander-in-Chief, Land Forces |
| 1949 | Chuikov, Vassili | |
| Appointed Commander of the Soviet forces og occupation in East Germany |
| 1953 | Biryuzov, Sergei Semenovich | |
| Appointed Commander of the Soviet forces in Hungary |
| 1953 | Chuikov, Vassili | |
| Kiev Appointed Commander of the Kiev Military District |
| 1953 | Grechko, Andrei Antonovich | |
| Moscow Appointed Commander-in-Chief in East Germany |
| 1955 | Biryuzov, Sergei Semenovich | |
| Appointed Commander of the Anti-Aircraft Defence Forces |
| 1955 | Petrov, Ivan Efimovich | |
| Appointed Deputy Commander of the land forces |
| 1956 | Gorshkov, Sergey Georgyvich | |
| Appointed Commander-in-Chief, Navy |
| 1956 | Popov, Markian | |
| Appointed First Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Land Forces |
| 1960 | Chuikov, Vassili | |
| Appointed Commander-in-Chief of the land forces |
| 1961 | Chuikov, Vassili | |
| Appointed Commander-in-Chief of the USSR civil defence forces |
| 1962 | Biryuzov, Sergei Semenovich | |
| Appointed Commander of the rocket forces |
| 1964 | Akhromeev, Sergei Fedorovich | |
| Appointed Commander of a division |
| 1983 | Baltin, Eduard Dmitrievich | |
| Appointed Commander of a nuclear submarine flotilla in the Pacific Fleet |
| 1987 | Baltin, Eduard Dmitrievich | |
| Appointed Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Fleet |
| 1993 | Baltin, Eduard Dmitrievich | |
| Appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Baltic Fleet |
