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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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 1920 | Wrangel, Pyotr Nikolayevich | |
| Appointed Commander-in-Chief |
| 1939 | Zhukov, Georgi Konstantinovich | |
| Appointed Commander-in-Chief |
| 1941 | Budenny, Semyon Mikhaylovich | |
| Appointed Commander-in-Chief, Southwestern Front |
| Appointed Commander-in-Chief, Southwestern Front after the German invasion of Russia |
| 1942 | Voroshilov, Klimenty Efremovich | |
| Aug Appointed Commander-in-Chief, NKVD |
| 1946 | Konev, Ivan Stepanovich | |
| Moscow Appointed Commander-in-Chief, Land Forces |
| 1953 | Grechko, Andrei Antonovich | |
| Moscow Appointed Commander-in-Chief in East Germany |
| 1956 | Gorshkov, Sergey Georgyvich | |
| Appointed Commander-in-Chief, Navy |
| 1960 | Chuikov, Vassili | |
| Appointed Commander-in-Chief of the land forces |
| 1961 | Chuikov, Vassili | |
| Appointed Commander-in-Chief of the USSR civil defence forces |
| 1993 | Baltin, Eduard Dmitrievich | |
| Appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Baltic Fleet |
