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.

Ministers of War and Navy of the Russian Provisional Government[1]
PortraitNameTime in office
Alexander GuchkovMarch 2, 1917April 30, 1917
Alexander KerenskyMay 5, 1917August 30, 1917
Aleksander VerkhovskyAugust 30, 1917October 25, 1917
People's Commissars for Military and Naval Affairs of the RSFSR
PortraitNameTime in office
Nikolai PodvoiskyNovember 10, 1917March 13, 1918
Leon TrotskyMarch 13, 1918November 12, 1923
People's Commissars for Military and Naval Affairs of the USSR[2]
PortraitNameTime in office
Leon TrotskyNovember 12, 1923January 26, 1925
Mikhail FrunzeJanuary 26, 1925October 31, 1925
Kliment VoroshilovNovember 6, 1925June 20, 1934
People's Commissars of Defense of the USSR[3]
Kliment VoroshilovJune 20, 1934May 7, 1940
Semen TymoshenkoMay 7, 1940July 19, 1941
Joseph StalinJuly 19, 1941February 25, 1946
People's Commissar of the Armed Forces of the USSR
Joseph StalinFebruary 25, 1946March 15, 1946
Ministers of the Armed Forces of the USSR
Joseph StalinMarch 15, 1946March 3, 1947
Nikolay BulganinMarch 3, 1947March 24, 1949
Alexander VasilevskyMarch 24, 1949February 25, 1950
Minister of War of the USSR
Alexander VasilevskyFebruary 25, 1950March 15, 1953
Ministers of Defense of the USSR
Nikolay BulganinMarch 15, 1953February 9, 1955
George ZhukovFebruary 9, 1955October 26, 1957
Rodion MalinovskyOctober 26, 1957March 31, 1967
Andrey GrechkoApril 12, 1967April 26, 1976
Dmitry UstinovApril 29, 1976December 20, 1984
Sergey SokolovDecember 22, 1984May 30, 1987
Dmitry YazovMay 30, 1987August 29, 1991
Yevgeny Shaposhnikov[4]August 29, 1991February 14, 1992

Russian Federation (1991–present)

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Ministers of Defense of Russia[5]
PortraitNameTime in office
Boris YeltsinMarch 16, 1992May 18, 1992
Pavel GrachevMay 18, 1992June 18, 1996
Igor RodionovJuly 17, 1996May 23, 1997
Igor SergeevMay 23, 1997March 28, 2001
Sergei IvanovMarch 28, 2001February 15, 2007
Anatoly SerdyukovFebruary 15, 2007November 6, 2012
Sergey ShoiguNovember 6, 2012Incumbent

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Революция 1917 года в России
  2. ^ Борисов В. А. Высшие органы военного руководства СССР, 1923 −1991 гг.
  3. ^ Чернавин, В. Н. (1990). Военно-морской словарь (in Russian). Военное издательство. p. 269. ISBN 978-5-203-00174-0.
  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.