Editing General admiral (section)

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General-admiral ({{langx|ru|генера́л-адмира́л}}) was the highest rank of the [[Imperial Russian Navy]] as established by the [[Table of Ranks]] and equivalent to [[Field marshal (Russian Empire)|field marshal]]. This was purely an honorific rank and for much of its existence, it was awarded only to a person on active duty, usually for the head of the naval department, and typically a descendant of the [[House of Romanov|Romanov]] royal family.

There were only ten holders of this rank:
* [[Count]] [[Franz Lefort]] (1695);
* Count [[Fyodor Alexeyevich Golovin|Fedor Golovin]], first Russian chancellor (1700);
* Count [[Fyodor Matveyevich Apraksin]] (1708);
* Count [[Andrei Ivanovich Osterman]] or Heinrich Johann Friedrich Ostermann (1740; dismissed 1741);
* [[Knyaz|Prince]] [[Mikhail Mikhailovich Golitsyn (admiral)|Mikhail Golitsyn]] (1756);
* [[Grand Duke of Russia|Grand Duke]] ([[Emperor of Russia|Emperor]] since 1796) [[Paul I of Russia|Pavel Petrovich]] (1762);
* Count [[Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov]] (1770);
* Count [[Ivan Chernyshyov]] (1796);
* [[Grand Duke of Russia|Grand Duke]] [[Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia|Constantine Nikolayevich]] (1831);
* [[Grand Duke of Russia|Grand Duke]] [[Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia|Alexei Alexandrovich]] (1883).
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The general admiral rank was abolished with the fall of the Empire and was not revived when rank distinctions were reintroduced during 1935–40. The rank of [[Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union|admiral of the fleet of the Soviet Union]] can be considered as a modern equivalent.