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
Alexander Guchkov March 2, 1917 April 30, 1917
Alexander Kerensky May 5, 1917 August 30, 1917
Aleksander Verkhovsky August 30, 1917 October 25, 1917

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 November 10, 1917 March 13, 1918
Leon Trotsky March 13, 1918 November 12, 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
Leon Trotsky November 12, 1923 January 26, 1925
Mikhail Frunze January 26, 1925 October 31, 1925
Kliment Voroshilov November 6, 1925 June 20, 1934
People's Commissars of Defense of the USSR[3]
Kliment Voroshilov June 20, 1934 May 7, 1940
Semen Tymoshenko May 7, 1940 July 19, 1941
Joseph Stalin July 19, 1941 February 25, 1946
People's Commissar of the Armed Forces of the USSR
Joseph Stalin February 25, 1946 March 15, 1946
Ministers of the Armed Forces of the USSR
Joseph Stalin March 15, 1946 March 3, 1947
Nikolay Bulganin March 3, 1947 March 24, 1949
Alexander Vasilevsky March 24, 1949 February 25, 1950
Minister of War of the USSR
Alexander Vasilevsky February 25, 1950 March 15, 1953
Ministers of Defense of the USSR
Nikolay Bulganin March 15, 1953 February 9, 1955
George Zhukov February 9, 1955 October 26, 1957
Rodion Malinovsky October 26, 1957 March 31, 1967
Andrey Grechko April 12, 1967 April 26, 1976
Dmitry Ustinov April 29, 1976 December 20, 1984
Sergey Sokolov December 22, 1984 May 30, 1987
Dmitry Yazov May 30, 1987 August 29, 1991
Yevgeny Shaposhnikov[4] August 29, 1991 February 14, 1992

Russian Federation (1991–present)
Ministers of Defense of Russia[5]
Portrait Name Time in office
Boris Yeltsin March 16, 1992 May 18, 1992
Pavel Grachev May 18, 1992 June 18, 1996
Igor Rodionov July 17, 1996 May 23, 1997
Igor Sergeev May 23, 1997 March 28, 2001
Sergei Ivanov March 28, 2001 February 15, 2007
Anatoly Serdyukov February 15, 2007 November 6, 2012
Sergey Shoigu November 6, 2012 Incumbent

See also

References
  1. Революция 1917 года в России
  2. Борисов В. А. Высшие органы военного руководства СССР, 1923 −1991 гг.
  3. Военно-морской словарь 1990, p. 269.
  4. Решение Совета глав государств Содружества Независимых Государств от 14 февраля 1992 года о назначении Главнокомандующего Объединенными Вооруженными Силами Содружества
  5. Федеральный закон от 31 мая 1996 г. № 61-ФЗ «Об обороне» Archived 2018-08-19 at the Wayback Machine See Article 13, §§ 1, 2.
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