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| 1904 | Kuropatkin, Aleksei Nikolaevich |  |
| 2nd Oct Take up personal command of the Russian forces |
| 1904 | Nicholas II | |
| Oct Libau The Russian Baltic Fleet leaves Libau to turn the war |
| 9th Oct Orders the Baltic Fleet of 45 ships 18,000 miles to fight Japan |
| 1904 | Rozhdestvenski, Zinovi | |
| Oct Sets sail with the Baltic Fleet of 45 ships 18,000 miles to fight Japan |
| 1904 | Rozhdestvenski, Zinovy | |
| Oct Bay of Biscay British cruisers escort the Russian Fleet out of Biscay Bay |
| Oct Dogger Bank Fires on a British fishing fleet believing to be under Japanese torpedoe attack |
| 15th Oct Liepaja Sails the Russian Baltic Fleet from Liepaja & Tallin to turn the war |
| 1905 | Rozhdestvenski, Zinovy | |
| 16th Mar Madagascar The Russian Fleet departs Madagascar across the Indian Ocean |
| 14th May Vladivostock The Russian Fleet leaves Vladivostock |
| 1914 | Nicholas II | |
| 15th July 15-28 July, orders partial Russian mobilization |
| 17th July 17-30 July, orders full Russian mobilization |
| 1914 | Sukhomlinov, Vladimir | |
| Aug Moscow Responsible for Russia's mobilization plans |
| 1917 | Kerensky, Alexander Fedorovich | |
| 25th Oct Calls for support from the Russian Front |
| 1917 | Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov | |
| 28th April The Bolsheviks organize the Red Guard |
| 1918 | Alexeiev, Mikhail Vasilevich | |
| 4th Feb The White Army begins the "Ice March" |
| 1918 | Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov | |
| 8th Jan Sets up battalions for civil defense duties for digging trenches & surveillance |
| 1918 | Trotsky, Leon | |
| 29th July Sovnarkom allows Trotsky to mobilize ex-officers |
| 7th Aug Moscow A train is constructed for Trotsky to command the Red Army |
| 8th Aug Moscow Leaves Moscows in his command train, "a flying apparatus of administration" |
| 1945 | Konev, Ivan Stepanovich | |
| 10th Mar Vinnitsa Konev's units join Zhukov near Vinnitsa threatening the remains of the 1st Panzer Army |
