21 April] 1858 — 1924) was an Imperial Russian Army general of Ossetian origin and the commander of the Petrograd military district in 1917.

In 1916, he was appointed chief officer of the Petrograd Military District, and commander in 1917.

Most of the troops refused to obey him and Khabalov fully lost control of the army units.

[2] In The Red Wheel, March 1917, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn considers him to be "incapable and overwhelmed".

[3] He was arrested on the 28th and imprisoned in the Peter and Paul fortress and in Summer questioned by the Extraordinary Commission of Inquiry for the Investigation of Illegal Acts by Ministers and Other Responsible Persons of the Czarist Regime.