Editing List of Russian people (section)

===Navy===
{{main|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)]][[File:Apraxin.jpg|thumb|90px|[[Fyodor Apraksin]]]]
*[[Aksel Berg]], admiral and scientist, major developer of [[radiolocation]] and [[cybernetics]]
*[[Vasily Chichagov]], [[admiral]], polar explorer, won the battles of [[Battle of Öland (1789)|Öland]], [[Battle of Reval|Reval]] and [[Battle of Vyborg Bay (1790)|Vyborg Bay]], effectively bringing the [[Russo-Swedish War (1788–1790)]] to an end
*[[Cornelius Cruys]], vice-admiral, the first commander of the [[Russian Baltic Fleet]]
*[[Fyodor Dubasov]], admiral, placed [[Dalny]] and [[Lüshunkou|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]][[File:Chichagov.jpg|thumb|90px|[[Vasily Chichagov]]]]
*[[Lodewijk van Heiden]], admiral who won the [[Battle of Navarino]]
*[[Ivan Isakov]], admiral, held the rank [[Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union]], served during World War II
*[[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 Alexeyevich Kornilov|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
*[[N. G. Kuznetsov|Nikolay Kuznetsov]], admiral, World War II commander-in-chief of the [[Soviet Navy]]
*[[Mikhail Lazarev]], admiral, three times [[circumnavigator]] and discoverer of Antarctica,[[File:Pavel Nakhimov.jpg|thumb|90px|[[Pavel Nakhimov]]]] destroyed five enemy warships as a commander of ''[[Russian ship Azov (1826)|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)]]
*[[Andrei Alexandrovich Popov|Andrey Popov]], admiral, hero of the Crimean War, led a Russian flotilla to support the [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] during the [[American Civil War]], designed the first true Russian battleship ''[[Russian battleship Petr Velikyy (1872)|Pyotr Velikiy]]''[[File:Petr Nikolaevich Bazhanov - Fyodor Fyodorovich Ushakov, 1912.jpg|thumb|90px|[[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 warship]]s
*[[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]][[File:Василий Степанович Завойко.jpg|thumb|90px|[[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 [[Battle of Fidonisi|Fidonisi]], [[Battle of Kerch Strait (1790)|Kerch Strait]], [[Battle of Tendra|Tendra]] and [[Battle of Cape Kaliakra|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]], commander-in-chief of the Soviet Navy in the late 1940s
*[[Vasily Zavoyko]], fought in the Battle of Navarino, twice circumnavigated 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