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

• List of heads of the military of Imperial Russia

References

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.