List of heads of the military of post-imperial Russia
This article presents the heads of the military departments of the Russian Provisional Government (Russian Republic), the Russian SFSR, the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation.
Provisional Government (1917)
| Ministers of War and Navy of the Russian Provisional Government[1] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portrait | Name | Time in office | Chairman of the Provisional Government | |
 | Alexander Guchkov | 2 March 1917 | 30 April 1917 |  |
 | Alexander Kerensky | 5 May 1917 | 1 September 1917 | |
| | ||||
Russian Republic (1917)
| Minister of War of the Russian Provisional Government[1] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portrait | Name | Time in office | Minister-Chairman | |
 | Alexander Verkhovsky | 1 September 1917 | 25 October 1917 | |
| Minister of the Navy of the Russian Provisional Government[1] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portrait | Name | Time in office | Minister-Chairman | |
 | Dmitry Verderevsky | 1 September 1917 | 25 October 1917 | |
| Minister of War and Navy of the Provisional All-Russian Government | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portrait | Name | Time in office | Prime Minister | Chairman | |
 | Alexander Kolchak | 4 November 1918 | 18 November 1918 |  | .jpg) |
Russian State (1918–1920)
| Ministers of War of the Russian State | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portrait | Name | Time in office | Prime Minister | Supreme Ruler of Russia | |
| Nikolai Stepanov | 18 November 1918 | 23 May 1919 | | | |
 | Dmitry Lebedev | 23 May 1919 | 10 August 1919 | ||
 | Mikhail Diterikhs | 10 August 1919 | 27 August 1919 | ||
.jpg) | Alexei von Budberg | 27 August 1919 | 5 October 1919 | ||
 | Mikhail Khanzhin | 5 October 1919 | 4 January 1920 | ||
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| Minister of the Navy of the Russian State | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portrait | Name | Time in office | Prime Minister | Supreme Ruler of Russia | |
 | Mikhail Smirnov | 18 November 1918 | 23 May 1919 | | |
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Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1917–1922)
| People's Commissars for Military and Naval Affairs of the RSFSR | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portrait | Name | Time in office | |||
 | Nikolai Podvoisky | 10 November 1917 | 13 March 1918 | ||
 | Leon Trotsky | 13 March 1918 | 12 November 1923 | ||
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922–1991)
| People's Commissars for Military and Naval Affairs of the USSR[2] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portrait | Name | Time in office | Rank | |
| | Leon Trotsky | 12 November 1923 | 26 January 1925 | – |
 | Mikhail Frunze | 26 January 1925 | 31 October 1925 | – |
 | Kliment Voroshilov | 6 November 1925 | 20 June 1934 | – |
| People's Commissars of Defense of the USSR[3] | ||||
| | Kliment Voroshilov | 20 June 1934 | 7 May 1940 | Marshal of the Soviet Union |
 | Semen Tymoshenko | 7 May 1940 | 19 July 1941 | Marshal of the Soviet Union |
 | Joseph Stalin | 19 July 1941 | 25 February 1946 | Generalissimo of the Soviet Union |
| People's Commissars of the Navy of the USSR | ||||
 | Pyotr Smirnov | 30 December 1937 | 30 June 1938 | Army Commissar of 1st rank |
 | Mikhail Frinovsky | 8 September 1938 | 20 March 1939 | Komandarm 1st rank |
 | Nikolai Kuznetsov | 28 April 1939 | 25 February 1946 | Admiral of the fleet |
| People's Commissar of the Armed Forces of the USSR | ||||
| | Joseph Stalin | 25 February 1946 | 15 March 1946 | Generalissimo of the Soviet Union |
| Ministers of the Armed Forces of the USSR | ||||
| | Joseph Stalin | 15 March 1946 | 3 March 1947 | Generalissimo of the Soviet Union |
.jpg) | Nikolay Bulganin | 3 March 1947 | 24 March 1949 | Marshal of the Soviet Union |
 | Alexander Vasilevsky | 24 March 1949 | 25 February 1950 | Marshal of the Soviet Union |
| Minister of War of the USSR | ||||
| | Alexander Vasilevsky | 25 February 1950 | 15 March 1953 | Marshal of the Soviet Union |
| Ministers of Navy of the USSR | ||||
 | Ivan Yumashev | 25 February 1950 | 20 July 1951 | Admiral |
| | Nikolai Kuznetsov | 20 July 1951 | 15 March 1953 | Vice admiral |
| Ministers of Defense of the USSR | ||||
| | Nikolay Bulganin | 15 March 1953 | 9 February 1955 | Marshal of the Soviet Union |
 | George Zhukov | 9 February 1955 | 26 October 1957 | Marshal of the Soviet Union |
 | Rodion Malinovsky | 26 October 1957 | 31 March 1967 | Marshal of the Soviet Union |
 | Andrey Grechko | 12 April 1967 | 26 April 1976 | Marshal of the Soviet Union |
.jpg) | Dmitry Ustinov | 29 April 1976 | 20 December 1984 | Marshal of the Soviet Union |
 | Sergey Sokolov | 22 December 1984 | 30 May 1987 | Marshal of the Soviet Union |
 | Dmitry Yazov | 30 May 1987 | 29 August 1991 | Marshal of the Soviet Union |
 | Yevgeny Shaposhnikov[4] | 29 August 1991 | 14 February 1992 | Marshal of Aviation |
Russian Federation (1991–present)
| Ministers of Defense of Russia[5] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Portrait | Name | Time in office | |
.jpg) | Boris Yeltsin | 16 March 1992 | 18 May 1992 |
 | Pavel Grachev | 18 May 1992 | 18 June 1996 |
 | Igor Rodionov | 17 July 1996 | 23 May 1997 |
 | Igor Sergeyev | 23 May 1997 | 28 March 2001 |
 | Sergei Ivanov | 28 March 2001 | 15 February 2007 |
 | Anatoly Serdyukov | 15 February 2007 | 6 November 2012 |
 | Sergei Shoigu | 6 November 2012 | 12 May 2024 |
 | Andrey Belousov | 14 May 2024 | incumbent |
See also
References
- ^ a b c Революция 1917 года в России
- ^ Борисов В. А. Высшие органы военного руководства СССР, 1923 −1991 гг.
- ^ Чернавин, В. Н. (1990). Военно-морской словарь (in Russian). Военное издательство. p. 269. ISBN 978-5-203-00174-0.
- ^ Решение Совета глав государств Содружества Независимых Государств от 14 февраля 1992 года о назначении Главнокомандующего Объединенными Вооруженными Силами Содружества
- ^ Федеральный закон от 31 мая 1996 г. № 61-ФЗ «Об обороне» Archived 2018-08-19 at the Wayback Machine See Article 13, §§ 1, 2.