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List of heads of government of Russia

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| Top left: In 1905, Sergei Witte became the first prime minister of the Russian Empire. | Top right: In 1917, Vladimir Lenin became the first prime minister of Soviet Russia and later the Soviet Union (1922). | Bottom left: In 1992, Viktor Chernomyrdin became the first prime minister of post-soviet Russia. | Bottom right: Mikhail Mishustin is the current prime minister.}} Approximately 38 people have been head of the Russian government since its establishment in 1905.

The Council of Ministers of the Russian Empire, created in November 1905, was preceded by a number of cabinet-like institutions. Oldest of them was the Supreme Privy Council, created in 1726 by the empress Catherine I. Considering weakness of her and her successor's powers, the Council acted as government of the Russian Empire until 1731. Its successor departments such as the Cabinet of Her Imperial Majesty (1731–41), the Conference at the Highest Court (1756–62), the Imperial Council (1762) and finally the Council at the Highest Court (1768–1801) remained mostly advisory bodies to the monarch.

The ministerial reform of 1802 introduced the Committee of Ministers, which competence was limited to interagency issues. The committee was not responsible for the activities of individual ministries and for the coherence of their policies. Beginning with Count Aleksandr Romanovich Vorontsov, the eldest of the officers was de facto chairman of the committee. Eight years after the inauguration of the manifest, the first de jure office holder was Count Nikolay Rumyantsev. According to the tradition established over time, the chairmanship of the committee was the last honorary position, to which elderly respected officials were appointed.

The Council of Ministers was unofficially formed in October 1857, as a result of Emperor Alexander II's reforms; its first session began on 19 (31) December 1857. Before the actual formation of that body on 12 (24) November 1861, the Emperor himself was in charge. The Council of Ministers consisted of chairmen of the State Council and the Committee of Ministers, as well as high-ranking officers appointed by the Emperor. The first session ended on 11 (23) December 1882, after the number of files to the Council greatly decreased.

The imperial Council of Ministers was re-established in late 1905, as a part of the large-scale government reform caused by the First Russian Revolution. All ministries and departments became parts of a single national administration. The Committee of Ministers functioned simultaneously with the second session of the Council of Ministers for six more months; Count Sergei Witte participated on both entities until the abolition of the committee on 23 April (5 May) 1906.

By the order of Emperor Nicholas II, the second session of the Council of Ministers began on 19 October (1 November) 1905, following the formation of the State Duma. Shortly after the February Revolution and the inception of the Russian Provisional Government on 2 (15) March 1917, Georgy Lvov from the Constitutional Democratic Party became Minister-Chairman, who was succeeded by Alexander Kerensky in July.

In November 1917 the Provisional Government was overthrown by the Bolshevik faction of Russian social democrats led by Vladimir Lenin. The Council of People's Commissars of the Russian Soviet Republic became the new governmental body, which was chaired from 1917 to 1924 by Lenin. That body was renamed Council of Ministers following a decree of the Supreme Council on 23 March 1946. The same was made in other republics of the Soviet Union.

After the fall of the Soviet Union, Boris Yeltsin, as the President of the Russian Federation, was appointed as the extraordinary head of government of the Russian Federation. The latter body took the name "Council of Ministers — Government of Russia", the chairman of which became Viktor Chernomyrdin, replacing acting chairman Yegor Gaidar. According to the new constitution ratified on 25 December 1993, the "Government" () is the official name of the Russian cabinet. Since then, the head of that office takes the formal title "Chairmen of the Government" or colloquially "Prime Minister."

Current Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin took the office on 16 January 2020.

The youngest head of government by his accession to office was Sergey Kiriyenko (1998), at age 35, and the oldest Ivan Goremykin (1914), at age 74.

Russian Empire (1721–1917)

Early collegial institutions without a single leader

Since the 18th century, a modern system of public administration was going to be created in Russia, including the formation of bodies such as the Supreme Privy Council and the Committee of Ministers whose powers are similar to the powers of the modern Russian Government. In the period from 1726 to 1905 there was no official title for the leader of the government. The chief ministers (principal ministres) of certain Emperor of Russia nonetheless led the government de facto, but de jure the head of government was a monarch.

PortraitName
(birth–death)Term of officeMonarchMembers of the Supreme Privy Council of the Russian Empire (1726–1730)Count and Prince Alexander Danilovich Menshikov
(1673–1729)Count Fyodor Matveyevich Apraksin
(1661–1728)Count Gavriil Ivanovich Golovkin
(1660–1734)Count Andrey Ivanovich Osterman
(1686–1747)Prince Dmitry Mikhaylovich Golitsyn
(1665–1737)Count Pyotr Andreyevich Tolstoy
(1645–1729)Count Karl-Fridrikh Golshteyn-Gottorpsky
(1700–1739)Prince Alexey Grigoryevich Dolgorukov
(?–1734)Prince Vasily Lukich Dolgorukov
(1670–1739)Prince Vasily Vladimirovich Dolgorukov
(1667–1746)Prince Mikhail Mikhailovich Golitsyn
(1675–1730)Cabinet ministers of the Russian Empire (1731–1741)Count Gavriil Ivanovich Golovkin
(1660–1734)Count Andrey Ivanovich Osterman
(1686–1747)Count Khristofor Antonovich Minikh
(1683–1767)Count Andrey Ivanovich Osterman
(1686–1747)
(2nd time)
Conferency ministers at the Highest Court of the Russian Empire (1756–1762)Stepan Fyodorovich Apraksin
(1702–1758)Count Mikhail Petrovich Bestuzhev-Ryumin
(1688–1760)Prince Mikhail Mikhaylovich Golitsyn
(1684–1764)Count Alexey Petrovich Bestuzhev-Ryumin
(1693–1768)Count Alexander Borisovich Buturlin
(1694–1767)Count Peter Ivanovich Shuvalov
(1711–1762)Count Mikhail Illarionovich Vorontsov
(1714–1767)Prince Nikita Yuryevich Trubetskoy
(1699–1767)Count Alexander Ivanovich Shuvalov
(1710–1771)Grand Duke Peter Fyodorovich Romanov
(subsequently Emperor Peter III)
(1728–1762)Prince Yakov Petrovich Shakhovskoy
(1705–1777)Ivan Ivanovich Neplyuev
(1693–1773)Count Roman Illarionovich Vorontsov
(1707–1783)Members of the Imperial Council of the Russian Empire (1762)Prince Georg-Ludwig Golshteyn-Gottorpsky
(1719–1763)Count Pyotr August Friedrich Golshteyn-Beksky
(1696–1775)Count Khristofor Antonovich Minikh
(1683–1767)Prince Nikita Yuryevich Trubetskoy
(1699–1767)Count Mikhail Illarionovich Vorontsov
(1714–1767)Aleksandr Nikitich Vilboa
(1713–1788)Prince Mikhail Nikitich Volkonsky
(1713–1788)Aleksey Petrovich Melgunov
(1722–1788)Heads of Council Affairs at the Highest Court (Highest Council) of the Russian Empire (1768–1801)Stepan Fyodorovich Strekalov
(1728–1805)Count Alexander Nikolayevich Samoylov
(1744–1814)Ivan Andreyevich Weydemeyer
(1752–1820)Gavriil Romanovich Derzhavin
(1743–1816)Ivan Andreyevich Weydemeyer
(1752–1820)
(2nd time)
Independent (politician)}}"[[File:A. Menshikov (Kuskovo).jpg100px]]8 February
17268 September
1727Catherine I
[[File:Catherine I of Russia by Nattier.jpg80px]]
(1725–1727)Peter II
[[File:Peter II by anonymous (1800s, Hermitage).jpg80px]]
(1727–1730)Anna
[[File:Louis Caravaque, Portrait of Empress Anna Ioannovna (1730).jpg80px]]
(1730–1740)
Independent (politician)}}"[[File:Fyodor Matveyevich Apraksin.jpg100px]]8 February
172610 November
1728
Independent (politician)}}"[[File:Chancelor G.I.Golovkin by I.Nikitin (1720s, Tretyakov gallery).jpg100px]]8 February
17266 May
1727
Independent (politician)}}"[[File:Генрих Иоганн Фридрих (Андрей Иванович) Остерман.jpg100px]]8 February
17266 May
1727
Independent (politician)}}"[[File:Князь Дмитрий Михайлович Голицын (1665 — 1737).jpg100px]]8 February
17266 May
1727
Independent (politician)}}"[[File:Johann Gottfried Tannauer 05.jpg100px]]8 February
17266 May
1727
Independent (politician)}}"[[File:Charles Frederick of Holstein-Gottorp by anonymous (Kuskovo, 18th c.).jpg100px]]8 February
1726
(or March 1726)25 July
1727
Independent (politician)}}"[[File:Lesser Coat of Arms of Russian Empire.svg100px]]3 February
17284 March
1730
Independent (politician)}}"[[File:Dolgorukov Vasiliy Lukich (painted portrait).jpg100px]]6 April
17294 March
1730
Independent (politician)}}"[[File:Dolgorukov Vasily Vladimirovich.jpg100px]]19 January
17304 March
1730
Independent (politician)}}"[[File:Golitsyn M M 1675-1730.jpg100px]]19 January
17304 March
1730
Independent (politician)}}"[[File:Chancelor G.I.Golovkin by I.Nikitin (1720s, Tretyakov gallery).jpg100px]]10 November
173120 January
1734Anna
[[File:Louis Caravaque, Portrait of Empress Anna Ioannovna (1730).jpg80px]]
(1730–1740)
Independent (politician)}}"[[File:Генрих Иоганн Фридрих (Андрей Иванович) Остерман.jpg100px]]20 January
173410 November
1740
Independent (politician)}}"[[File:Portrait of Burchard Christoph Graf von Münnich (1683-1767).jpg100px]]10 November
17403 March
1741Ivan VI
[[File:Ivan VI Antonovich (Oranienbaum).jpg80px]]
(1740–1741)
Independent (politician)}}"[[File:Генрих Иоганн Фридрих (Андрей Иванович) Остерман.jpg100px]]3 March
174125 November
1741
Independent (politician)}}"[[File:Stepaapraxin.jpg100px]]14 March
17561 October
1757Elizabeth
[[File:Elizabeth of Russia by V.Eriksen.jpg80px]]
(1741–1762)Peter III
[[File:Coronation portrait of Peter III of Russia -1761.JPG80px]]
(1762)
Independent (politician)}}"[[File:Bestuzhev-Ryumin Mikhail Petrovich.jpg100px]]14 March
17562 October
1757
Independent (politician)}}"[[File:Michail Michajlovitj Golitsyn color.jpg100px]]14 March
175617 December
1757
Independent (politician)}}"[[File:Chancellor bestuzhev.jpg100px]]14 March
175614 February
1758
Independent (politician)}}"[[File:Alexandr Borisovich Buturlin.gif100px]]14 March
175617 October
1760
Independent (politician)}}"[[File:Peter Ivanovich Shuvalov (by P. A. Rotari).jpg100px]]14 March
17564 January
1762
Independent (politician)}}"[[File:Alexey Antropov 016.jpg100px]]14 March
175620 January
1762
Independent (politician)}}"[[File:Troubetskoy Nikita Yuryevich.jpg100px]]14 March
175620 January
1762
Independent (politician)}}"[[File:RusPortraits v3-063 Graf Aleksandr Ivanovich Shuvalov, 1710-1771.jpg100px]]14 March
175620 January
1762
Independent (politician)}}"[[File:Coronation portrait of Peter III of Russia -1761.JPG100px]]14 March
175628 January
1762
Independent (politician)}}"[[File:Yakov Petrovich Shakhovskoy.jpg100px]]16 September
176025 December
1761
Independent (politician)}}"[[File:Неплюев Иван Иванович 2.jpg100px]]16 September
176020 January
1762
Independent (politician)}}"[[File:Vorontsov Roman by Serdyukov.jpg100px]]28 December
176120 January
1762
Independent (politician)}}"[[File:Georg Ludwig von Holstein-Gottorp.png100px]]28 January
176228 June
1762Peter III
[[File:Coronation portrait of Peter III of Russia -1761.JPG80px]]
(1762)
Independent (politician)}}"[[File:Peter August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck.jpg100px]]28 January
176228 June
1762
Independent (politician)}}"[[File:Portrait of Burchard Christoph Graf von Münnich (1683-1767).jpg100px]]28 January
176228 June
1762
Independent (politician)}}"[[File:Troubetskoy Nikita Yuryevich.jpg100px]]28 January
176228 June
1762
Independent (politician)}}"[[File:Alexey Antropov 016.jpg100px]]28 January
176228 June
1762
Independent (politician)}}"[[File:Lesser Coat of Arms of Russian Empire.svg100px]]28 January
176228 June
1762
Independent (politician)}}"[[File:Volkonsky Mikhail Nikitich.jpg100px]]28 January
176228 June
1762
Independent (politician)}}"[[File:Alexey Petrovich Melgunov.jpg100px]]28 January
176228 June
1762
Independent (politician)}}"[[File:Lesser Coat of Arms of Russian Empire.svg100px]]17 November
17681776Catherine II
[[File:Profile portrait of Catherine II by Fedor Rokotov (1763, Tretyakov gallery).jpg80px]]
(1762–1796)
Independent (politician)}}"[[File:Samoylov Alexander Nikolaevich.jpg100px]]17761787
Independent (politician)}}"[[File:Lesser Coat of Arms of Russian Empire.svg100px]]178718 November
1796
Independent (politician)}}"[[File:Derzhavin by Borovikovsky (Russkiy Sever).jpg100px]]18 November
179622 November
1796Paul I
[[File:Borovikovskiy PtPavla1GRM.jpg80px]]
(1796–1801)
Independent (politician)}}"[[File:Lesser Coat of Arms of Russian Empire.svg100px]]18 November
179626 March
1801

Committee of Ministers (1802–1905)

The Committee of Ministers was established on 20 September 1802 in the course of Alexander I's ministerial reform. All the ministers were independent from each other and were responsible for the activities of their departments individually. The committee was not responsible either for the activities of individual ministries, or for the coherence of their policies. During the first years of the existence of the committee, its meetings were chaired by the Emperor, and in his absence - by the ministers alternately, starting with the senior in rank, each for 4 sessions. In 1810, the chairmanship was given to the chancellor and chairman of the State Council Count N.P. Rumyantsev.

PortraitName
(birth–death)Term of officeMonarchChairmen of the Committee of Ministers of the Russian Empire (1802–1905)Count
Nikolay Petrovich Rumyantsev
(1754–1826)Count and Prince
Nikolay Ivanovich Saltykov
(1736–1816)Count
Sergey Kuzmich Vyazmitinov (disputed)
(1744–1819)Prince
Pyotr Vasilyevich Lopukhin
(1753–1827)Prince
Viktor Pavlovich Kochubey
(1768–1834)Count
Nikolay Nikolayevich Novosiltsev
(1761–1838)Prince
Illarion Vasilyevich Vasilchikov
(1776–1847)Count
Vasily Vasilyevich Levashov
(1783–1848)Prince
Alexander Ivanovich Chernyshyov
(1785–1857)Prince
Alexey Fyodorovich Orlov
(1787–1862)Count
Dmitry Nikolayevich Bludov
(1785–1864)Prince
Pavel Pavlovich Gagarin
(1789–1872)Count
Pavel Nikolayevich Ignatyev
(1797–1879)Count
Pyotr Aleksandrovich Valuyev
(1815–1890)Count
Mikhail Khristoforovich Reytern
(1820–1890)Nikolay Khristianovich Bunge
(1823–1895)Ivan Nikolayevich Durnovo
(1834–1903)Count
Sergei Yulyevich Witte
(1849–1915)
Independent (politician)}}"[[File:Rumyan.jpg100px]]18101812Alexander I
[[File:Alexander I of Russia by G.Dawe (1826, Peterhof) crop.jpg80px]]
(1801–1825)
Independent (politician)}}"[[File:Saltykov Nikolay Ivanovich.jpg100px]]url = http://dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enc_biography/109759/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%82%D1%8B%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2script-title=ru:Салтыков, князь Николай Ивановичtrans-title=Prince Nikolay Ivanovich Saltykovlanguage=ruaccess-date=7 April 2014}}9 September
1812 (disputed)
16 May
1816
Independent (politician)}}"[[File:Orest Kiprensky 055.jpg100px]]9 September
181215 October
1816
Independent (politician)}}"[[File:P.V.Lopukhin by S.Shukin (1801).jpg100px]]25 May
18166 April
1827
Independent (politician)}}"[[File:Kochubey Viktor by Krüger.jpg100px]]29 April
18273 June
1834Nicholas I
[[File:Botman - Emperor Nicholas I (cropped).jpg80px]]
(1825–1855)
Independent (politician)}}"[[File:Nikolay Nikolayevich Novosiltsev.jpg100px]]11 July
18348 April
1838
Independent (politician)}}"[[File:Егор Ботман - портрет князя И.В. Васильчикова.jpg100px]]9 April
183821 February
1847
Independent (politician)}}"[[File:Levashov V V.jpg100px]]31 December
184723 September
1848
Independent (politician)}}"[[File:Chernyshov Alexander.jpg100px]]url=http://www.hrono.ru/biograf/bio_ch/chernyshov_ai.phpscript-title=ru:Александр Иванович Чернышев — Биографический указательtrans-title=Aleksandr Ivanovich Chernyshovaccess-date=5 April 2014language=ru}}5 April
1856
Independent (politician)}}"[[File:Orlov A F-by Kruger.jpg100px]]May
1857January
1861Alexander II
[[File:Zar Alexander II (cropped).jpg80px]]
(1855–1881)
Independent (politician)}}"[[File:PGRS 1 013 Bludov - crop.jpg100px]]12 November
186119 February
1864
Independent (politician)}}"[[File:Pavel Pavlovich Gagarin.jpg100px]]url=http://www.rusempire.ru/glavy-pravitelstva-rossiyskoy-imperii/gagarin-pavel-pavlovich.htmlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407100248/http://www.rusempire.ru/glavy-pravitelstva-rossiyskoy-imperii/gagarin-pavel-pavlovich.htmlarchive-date=7 April 2014script-title=ru:Павел Павлович Гагаринtrans-title=Pavel Pavlovich Gagarinpublisher=Russian Empireaccess-date=5 April 2014language=ru}}21 February
1872
Independent (politician)}}"[[File:Pavel Nikolaevich Ignatiev.jpg100px]]url=http://www.rusempire.ru/glavy-pravitelstva-rossiyskoy-imperii/ignatev-pavel-nikolaevich.htmlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407100248/http://www.rusempire.ru/glavy-pravitelstva-rossiyskoy-imperii/gagarin-pavel-pavlovich.htmlarchive-date=7 April 2014script-title=ru:Игнатьев Павел Николаевичtrans-title=Pavel Nikolayevich Ignatyevpublisher=Russian Empireaccess-date=5 April 2014language=ru}}20 December
1879
Independent (politician)}}"[[File:Valuyev.jpg100px]]url=http://www.rusempire.ru/glavy-pravitelstva-rossiyskoy-imperii/valuev-petr-aleksandrovich.htmlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407100301/http://www.rusempire.ru/glavy-pravitelstva-rossiyskoy-imperii/valuev-petr-aleksandrovich.htmlarchive-date=7 April 2014script-title=ru:Валуев Петр Александровичtrans-title=Pyotr Aleksandrovich Valuyevpublisher=Russian Empireaccess-date=5 April 2014language=ru}}4 October
1881
Independent (politician)}}"[[File:PGRS 1 079 Reitern - full.jpg100px]]url=http://www.rusempire.ru/glavy-pravitelstva-rossiyskoy-imperii/reytern-mihail-hristoforovich.htmlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407100840/http://www.rusempire.ru/glavy-pravitelstva-rossiyskoy-imperii/reytern-mihail-hristoforovich.htmlarchive-date=7 April 2014script-title=ru:Рейтерн Михаил Христофоровичtrans-title=Mikhail Khristoforovich Reyternpublisher=Russian Empireaccess-date=6 April 2014language=ru}}30 December
1886Alexander III
[[File:Tsar Alexander III c. 1885.jpg80px]]
(1881–1894)
Independent (politician)}}"[[File:Ivan Tyurin - Portrait of N.H.Bunge, 1887.jpg100px]]url=http://www.rusempire.ru/glavy-pravitelstva-rossiyskoy-imperii/bunge-nikolay-hristianovich.htmlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140408214746/http://www.rusempire.ru/glavy-pravitelstva-rossiyskoy-imperii/bunge-nikolay-hristianovich.htmlarchive-date=8 April 2014script-title=ru:Бунге Николай Христиановичtrans-title=Nikolay Khristianovich Bungepublisher=Russian Empireaccess-date=7 April 2014language=ru}}3 June
1895
Independent (politician)}}"[[File:DurnovoIN.jpg100px]]url=http://www.rusempire.ru/glavy-pravitelstva-rossiyskoy-imperii/durnovo-ivan-nikolaevich.htmlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140408220735/http://www.rusempire.ru/glavy-pravitelstva-rossiyskoy-imperii/durnovo-ivan-nikolaevich.htmlarchive-date=8 April 2014script-title=ru:Дурново Иван Николаевичtrans-title=Ivan Nikolayevich Durnovopublisher=Russian Empireaccess-date=7 April 2014language=ru}}29 May
1903Nicholas II
[[File:Mikola II (cropped)-2.jpg80px]]
(1894–1917)
Independent (politician)}}"[[File:SergeiWitte01548v.jpg100px]]url=http://www.rusempire.ru/glavy-pravitelstva-rossiyskoy-imperii/vitte-sergey-yulievich.htmlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140408220949/http://www.rusempire.ru/glavy-pravitelstva-rossiyskoy-imperii/vitte-sergey-yulievich.htmlarchive-date=8 April 2014title=Витте Сергей Юлиевич (sic!)trans-title=Sergey Yuliyevich (sic!) Wittepublisher=Russian Empireaccess-date=7 April 2014language=ru}}6 November
1905

Prime Minister of the Russian Empire (1905–1917)

The modern government type in Russia came after the establishment of the Council of Ministers on 1 November 1905, created for the "management and union action principal chiefs of departments on subjects like law and senior public administration", and modelled on the relevant institutions within the constitutional states, when all the ministries and directorates have been declared part of the unified state management. The first Prime Minister was Count Sergei Witte, who was appointed on 6 November 1905.

PortraitName
(birth–death)Term of officePolitical partyMonarch1Count
Sergei Yulyevich Witte
(1849–1915)2Ivan Logginovich Goremykin
(1839–1917)3Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin
(1862–1911)4Count
Vladimir Nikolayevich Kokovtsov
(1853–1943)(2)Ivan Logginovich Goremykin
(1839–1917)5Baron
Boris Vladimirovich Shtyurmer
(1848–1917)6Alexander Fyodorovich Trepov
(1862–1928)7Prince
Nikolai Dmitriyevich Golitsyn
(1850–1925)
[[File:Sergei Witte ppmsca.08799 (cropped).jpg100px]]6 November 19055 May 1906IndependentNicholas II
[[File:Nicholas II, att. Vsevolod Strekalovskiy (1910s, Hillwood museum).jpg80px]]
(1894–1917)
[[File:Ivan Logginovitch Goremykin, c. 1906 (cropped).jpg100px]]15 May 190621 July 1906Independent
[[File:Stolypin.jpg100px]]21 July 190618 September 1911
(Assassinated)Independent
[[File:Vladimir Nikolayevich Kokovtsov.jpg100px]]22 September 191112 February 1914Independent
[[File:Ivan Logginovitch Goremykin, c. 1906 (cropped).jpg100px]]212 February 19142 February 1916Independent
[[File:Штюрмер Б. (Новгородская область).jpg100px]]2 February 191623 November 1916Russian Assembly
[[File:Alexander Trepov.jpg100px]]23 November 19169 January 1917Russian Assembly
[[File:Nikolai Dimitrievitch Golitsyn.jpg100px]]9 January 191712 March 1917Independent

Provisional Government/Russian Republic (1917)

After the abdication of Nicholas II from the throne in favor of his brother Michael, Michael also abdicated, before the convening of the Constituent Assembly. On 14 September 1917, the Russian Republic was proclaimed. At this period, a provisional government was formed and the Prime Minister was the head of state.

PortraitName
(birth–death)Term of officePolitical partyConstitutional Democratic Party}};"8Prince
Georgy Yevgenyevich Lvov
(1861–1925)Socialist-Revolutionary Party}}; color:white"9Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky
(1881–1970)
[[File:Georgy Lvov, 1919 LOC cropped.jpg100px]]115 March 191718 May 1917Constitutional Democratic Party
218 May 191721 July 1917
[[File:Karenskiy AF 1917.jpg100px]]21 July 19176 August 1917Socialist Revolutionary Party
16 August 191714 September 1917
214 September 19178 October 1917
38 October 19177 November 1917

Governments of the Whites (1918–1920)

The heads of Russian governments formed by representatives of the White movement during the Civil War. In fact, the white movement formed two parallel governments at that moment - the Russian State and the governments of the Armed Forces of South Russia, which controlled the separated parts of the country.

Russian State

PortraitName
(birth–death)Term of officePolitical partyHead of stateSocialist-Revolutionary Party}}; color:white"Pyotr Vasilyevich Vologodsky
(1863–1925)Socialist-Revolutionary Party}}"Military rule}}"Independent politician}};"Viktor Nikolayevich Pepelyayev
(1885–1920)
[[File:Пётр Васильевич Вологодский.jpg100px]]4 November 191818 November 1918Socialist Revolutionary PartyNikolai Avksentiev
[[File:Nikolay Avksentyev.jpg80px]]
(1918)
18 November 191822 November 1919Alexander Kolchak
[[File:Aleksandr Kolchak.jpg80px]]
(1918–1920)
[[File:V.N.Pepeliajev.jpg100px]]22 November 19194 January 1920Independent

South Russia

Heads of military government structures formed by the command of the Armed Forces of the South of Russia.

PortraitName
(birth–death)Term of officePolitical partyHead of stateMilitary rule}}; color:white"Abram Mikhailovich Dragomirov
(1868–1955)Military rule}}"Military rule}};"Alexander Sergeyevich Lukomsky
(1868–1939)Independent politician}}; color:white"
(1882–1972)Independent politician}}; color:white"Alexander Vasilyevich Krivoshein
(1857–1921)Military rule}}"
[[File:Dragomirov A.M. (1868—1955).jpg100px]]October 1918September 1919MilitaryAnton Denikin
[[File:Anton Denikin 1917 (est).png80px]]
(1918–1920)
[[File:Alexander Lukomsky.jpg100px]]September 191930 December 1919Military
30 December 1919March 1920
[[File:Dv 1918 29 1 melnikov.jpg100px]]March 192030 March 1920Independent
[[File:Krivoshein Alexandr Vasilevich.jpg100px]]19 August 192011 November 1920IndependentPyotr Wrangel
[[File:Wrangel Pyotr 5.jpg80px]]
(1920)

Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1917–1991)

Since the creation of the Russian Soviet Republic its cabinet was styled as the Council of People's Commissars. Between the creation of the USSR on 30 December 1922 and the formation of its own Council of People's Commissars on 6 July 1923, the Council of People's Commissars of Russia temporarily acted as the government of the USSR. On 23 March 1946, the Council of People's Commissars was renamed into the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR.

PortraitName
(birth–death)Term of officePolitical partyLegislature
(election)Head of stateCommunist Party of the Soviet Union}};"Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin)
(1870–1924)Communist Party of the Soviet Union}};"Alexey Ivanovich Rykov
(1881–1938)Communist Party of the Soviet Union}};"Sergey Ivanovich Syrtsov
(1893–1937)Communist Party of the Soviet Union}};"Daniil Yegorovich Sulimov
(1890–1937)Communist Party of the Soviet Union}};"Nikolay Alexandrovich Bulganin
(1895–1975)Communist Party of the Soviet Union}};"Vasily Vasilyevich Vakhrushev
(1902–1947)Communist Party of the Soviet Union}};"Ivan Sergeyevich Khokhlov
(1895–1973)Communist Party of the Soviet Union}};"Alexey Nikolayevich Kosygin
(1904–1980)Communist Party of the Soviet Union}};"Mikhail Ivanovich Rodionov
(1907–1950)Communist Party of the Soviet Union}};"Boris Nikolayevich Chernousov
(1908–1978)Communist Party of the Soviet Union}};"Alexander Mikhailovich Puzanov
(1906–1998)Communist Party of the Soviet Union}};"Mikhail Alexeyevich Yasnov
(1906–1991)Communist Party of the Soviet Union}};"Frol Romanovich Kozlov
(1908–1965)Communist Party of the Soviet Union}};"Dmitry Stepanovich Polyansky
(1917–2001)Communist Party of the Soviet Union}};"Gennady Ivanovich Voronov
(1910–1994)Communist Party of the Soviet Union}};"Mikhail Sergeyevich Solomentsev
(1913–2008)Communist Party of the Soviet Union}};"Vitaly Ivanovich Vorotnikov
(1926–2012)Communist Party of the Soviet Union}};"Alexander Vladimirovich Vlasov
(1932–2002)Communist Party of the Soviet Union}};"Ivan Stepanovich Silayev
(1930–2023)Independent (politician)}};"P
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin
(1931–2007)
[[File:Vladimir Lenin in July 1920 by Pavel Zhukov.jpg100px]]8 November 191721 January 1924
(Died in office)Communist PartyARCECCommunist Party of the Soviet Union}};"Lev Kamenev
[[File:Lev Kamenev 1920s.jpg80px]]
(1917)
Communist Party of the Soviet Union}};"Yakov Sverdlov
[[File:Yakov Sverdlov crop.jpg80px]]
(1917–1919)
Communist Party of the Soviet Union}};"Mikhail Kalinin
[[File:Калинин М. И. (1920).jpg80px]]
(1919–1938)
[[File:AlexeiRikov1924(cropped)(c).jpg100px]]2 February 192418 May 1929Communist Party
[[File:1929-sergey syrtsov.jpg100px]]18 May 19293 November 1930Communist Party
[[File:Даниил Егорович Сулимов.jpg100px]]3 November 193022 July 1937Communist Party
[[File:Булганин, Николай Александрович 001.jpg100px]]122 July 193719 July 1938Communist Party
220 July 193817 September 1938I
(1938)Communist Party of the Soviet Union}};"Alexei Badayev
[[File:Алексей Егорович Бадаев.jpg80px]]
(1938–1944)
[[File:Vasily Vakhrushev (minpromtorg.gov.ru).jpg100px]]29 July 19392 June 1940Communist Party
[[File:Khokhlov IS.jpg100px]]2 June 194023 June 1943Communist Party
[[File:Aleksei Kosyguin 1946.jpg100px]]23 June 194323 March 1946Communist PartyCommunist Party of the Soviet Union}};"Nikolay Shvernik
[[File:Николай Михайлович Шверник.jpg80px]]
(1944–1946)
[[File:Emblem of the Russian SFSR (1920-1978).svg100px]]123 March 194625 June 1947Communist Party
226 June 19479 March 1949II
(1947)Communist Party of the Soviet Union}};"Ivan Vlasov
[[File:Emblem of the Russian SFSR (1920-1978).svg80px]]
(1946–1950)
[[File:Emblem of the Russian SFSR (1920-1978).svg100px]]19 March 194917 April 1951Communist Party
217 April 195120 October 1952III
(1951)Communist Party of the Soviet Union}};"Mikhail Tarasov
[[File:Тарасов М. П.png80px]]
(1950–1959)
[[File:Emblem of the Russian SFSR (1920-1978).svg100px]]120 October 195226 March 1955Communist Party
226 March 195524 January 1956IV
(1955)
[[File:Emblem of the Russian SFSR (1920-1978).svg100px]]24 January 195619 December 1957Communist Party
[[File:1959 Press Photo Frol R. Kozlov, former First Deputy Premier of Russia (cropped).jpg100px]]19 December 195731 March 1958Communist Party
[[File:Dmitry Polyansky (cropped).jpg100px]]131 March 195815 April 1959Communist Party
216 April 195923 November 1962V
(1959)Communist Party of the Soviet Union}};"Nikolay Ignatov
[[File:Emblem of the Russian SFSR (1920-1978).svg80px]]
(1959)
Communist Party of the Soviet Union}};"Nikolay Organov
[[File:Emblem of the Russian SFSR (1920-1978).svg80px]]
(1959–1962)
[[File:Gennadi Voronov.jpg100px]]123 November 19625 April 1963Communist PartyCommunist Party of the Soviet Union}};"Nikolay Ignatov
[[File:Emblem of the Russian SFSR (1920-1978).svg80px]]
(1962–1966)
25 April 196312 April 1967VI
(1963)
312 April 196723 July 1971VII
(1967)Communist Party of the Soviet Union}};"Mikhail Yasnov
[[File:Emblem of the Russian SFSR.svg80px]]
(1966–1985)
[[File:Mikhail Sergeyevich Solomentsev (3x4 cropped).jpg100px]]128 July 197115 July 1975Communist PartyVIII
(1971)
215 July 197526 March 1980IX
(1975)
326 March 198024 June 1983X
(1980)
[[File:Emblem of the Russian SFSR.svg100px]]124 June 198326 March 1985Communist Party
226 March 19853 October 1988XI
(1985)Communist Party of the Soviet Union}};"Vladimir Orlov
[[File:Emblem of the Russian SFSR.svg80px]]
(1985–1988)
[[File:Emblem of the Russian SFSR.svg100px]]3 October 198815 June 1990Communist PartyCommunist Party of the Soviet Union}};"Vitaly Vorotnikov
[[File:Emblem of the Russian SFSR.svg80px]]
(1988–1990)
Independent politician}};"Boris Yeltsin
[[File:Борис Николаевич Ельцин.jpg80px]]
(1990–1991)
[[File:Ivan Silayev (1991) (3x4 cropped).jpg100px]]115 June 199010 July 1991Communist PartyXII
(1990)
212 July 199126 September 1991
[[File:RIAN archive 52076 Boris Yeltsin (cropped).jpg100px]]6 November 199125 December 1991Independent

Russian Federation (1991–present)

PortraitName
(birth–death)Term of officePolitical partyPresidentIndependent (politician)}};"PBoris Nikolayevich Yeltsin
(1931–2007)Our Home – Russia}};"Viktor Stepanovich Chernomyrdin
(1938–2010)Independent (politician)}};"30Sergey Vladilenovich Kiriyenko
(1962–)Independent (politician)}}"31Yevgeny Maksimovich Primakov
(1929–2015)Independent (politician)}};"32Sergey Vadimovich Stepashin
(1952–)Independent (politician)}};"33Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
(1952–)Independent (politician)}};"34Mikhail Mikhailovich Kasyanov
(1957–)Independent (politician)}};"35Mikhail Yefimovich Fradkov
(1950–)United Russia}};"Viktor Alekseyevich Zubkov
(1941–)United Russia}};"Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
(1952–)United Russia}};"Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev
(1965–)Independent politician}};"38Mikhail Vladimirovich Mishustin
(1966–)
[[File:RIAN archive 52076 Boris Yeltsin (cropped).jpg100px]]25 December 199115 June 1992IndependentIndependent (politician)}};"Boris Yeltsin
[[File:Boris Yeltsin (3x4 cropped).jpg80px]]
(1991–1999)
[[File:Viktor Chernomyrdin in EC July 1997 (cropped).jpg100px]]114 December 19929 August 1996Our Home – Russia
210 August 199623 March 1998
[[File:Sergei Kirienko - World Economic Forum Annual Meeting Davos 2000 (cropped).jpg100px]]24 April 199823 August 1998Independent
[[File:E Primakov 03 (cropped).jpg100px]]11 September 199812 May 1999Independent
[[File:SStepashin.jpg100px]]19 May 19999 August 1999Independent
[[File:Vladimir Putin 4 January 2000.jpg100px]]116 August 19997 May 2000Independent
[[File:Mikhail Kasyanov (2007) (cropped).jpg100px]]17 May 200024 February 2004IndependentIndependent politician}};"Vladimir Putin
[[File:Vladimir Putin official portrait (1) (cropped).jpg80px]]
(2000–2008)
[[File:Mikhail Fradkov (Brasília, 04 April 2006).jpeg100px]]15 March 20047 May 2004Independent
212 May 200412 September 2007
[[File:Viktor Zubkov official portrait (cropped).jpg100px]]14 September 20077 May 2008United Russia
[[File:2008-08-29 Владимир Путин (4).jpeg100px]]28 May 20087 May 2012United RussiaUnited Russia}};"Dmitry Medvedev
[[File:Dmitry Medvedev official large photo -1 (cropped).jpg80px]]
(2008–2012)
[[File:Dmitry Medvedev official portrait (05) (cropped).jpg100px]]18 May 20127 May 2018United RussiaUnited Russia}};"Vladimir Putin
[[File:Владимир Путин (08-03-2024) (cropped) (higher res).jpg80px]]
(2012–)
28 May 201815 January 2020Independent politician}};"
[[File:Михаил Мишустин (18-11-2025).jpg100px]]116 January 20207 May 2024Independent
210 May 2024Incumbent

Acting prime ministers

  • Vladimir Kokovtsov: 18–22 September 1911
  • Vasily Vakhrushev: 17 September 1938 – 29 July 1939
  • Konstantin Pamfilov: 5 May 1942 – 2 May 1943
  • Ivan Silayev: 10–12 July 1991
  • Oleg Lobov: 26 September – 6 November 1991
  • Yegor Gaidar: 15 June – 14 December 1992
  • Sergey Kiriyenko: 23 March – 24 April 1998
  • Viktor Chernomyrdin: 9–10 August 1996 and 23 August – 11 September 1998
  • Sergey Stepashin: 12–19 May 1999
  • Vladimir Putin: 9–16 August 1999
  • Mikhail Kasyanov: 7–17 May 2000
  • Viktor Khristenko: 24 February – 5 March 2004
  • Mikhail Fradkov: 7–12 May 2004 and 12–14 September 2007
  • Viktor Zubkov: 7–8 May 2008 and 7–8 May 2012
  • Dmitry Medvedev: 7–8 May 2018 and 15–16 January 2020
  • Andrey Belousov: 30 April – 19 May 2020
  • Mikhail Mishustin: 7–10 May 2024

Timeline

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Notes

References

Citations

Sources

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