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Minister of Defence (Russia)

Russian government minister

Field	Value
post	Minister of Defence
body	the Russian Federation
native_name	Министр обороны Российской Федерации
insignia	Emblem of the Minister of Defence.svg
insigniacaption	Emblem of the Minister of Defence
flag	Standart of the Russian Minister of Defence.svg
flagborder	yes
flagcaption	Ensign of the Minister of Defence
image	Belousov-HR.jpg
incumbent	Andrey Belousov
incumbentsince	14 May 2024
department	Flag of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation.svg Ministry of Defence
member_of	Government
Security Council
CIS Defence Ministers Council
reports_to	President
seat	Defence Ministry Building, Moscow
appointer	President
appointer_qualified	after consultation with Federation Council
precursor	Minister of Defence (Soviet Union)
formation
first	Konstantin Kobets
deputy	First Deputy Minister of Defence
website

Security Council CIS Defence Ministers Council

The minister of defence of the Russian Federation () is the minister responsible for the Russian Armed Forces. Marshal of Aviation Yevgeny Shaposhnikov was the last minister of defence of the Soviet Union. General Colonel Konstantin Kobets supported then President of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Boris Yeltsin during the August coup of 1991. From 19 August until 9 September 1991, Konstantin Kobets was defence minister of the RSFSR, though there was no ministry.Vladimir Orlov, Roland Timerbaev, and Anton Khlopkov, Nuclear Nonproliferation in U.S.-Russian Relations: Challenges and opportunities, PIR Library Series, 2002, p. 24. Accessed at 7 June 2010. This post was then abolished.

The first minister of defence of the Russian Federation was Boris Yeltsin, who appointed himself to the position by a decree of mid March 1992.

In May 1992, President of Russia Boris Yeltsin appointed General of the Army Pavel Grachev to the post of minister of defence. Grachev's decision to side with Yeltsin in the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993, when the president called up tanks to shell the Russian White House to blast his opponents out of parliament, effectively deprived the Supreme Soviet of Russia of its nominal an opportunity to overturn the president's authority. At least partly for that reason, Yeltsin retained his defence minister despite intense criticism of Grachev's management of the First Chechen War and the Russian military establishment in general. Finally, Yeltsin's victory in the first round of the 1996 Russian presidential election spurred Yeltsin to dismiss Grachev.

In March 2001, Sergei Ivanov, previously secretary of the Security Council of Russia, was appointed defence minister by President Vladimir Putin, becoming Russia's first non-uniformed civilian defence minister. Putin called the personnel changes in Russia's security structures coinciding with Ivanov's appointment as defence minister "a step toward demilitarizing public life." Putin also stressed Ivanov's responsibility for overseeing military reform as defence minister. What Putin did not emphasise was Ivanov's long service within the KGB and FSB and his then rank of General-Lieutenant within the FSB. Such military and security agency associated men are known as siloviki.

As of 2002 there were four living Marshals of the Soviet Union. Such men were automatically advisors to the defence minister. The Marshals alive at that time were Viktor Kulikov, Vasily Petrov, Sergei Sokolov, a former minister of defence of the Soviet Union, and Dmitri Yazov. Yazov was listed by the American analysts Scott and Scott in 2002 as a consultant to the (former 10th) Directorate for International Military Cooperation. The last of the four, Yazov, died in February 2020.

Perhaps the first 'real' non-uniformed defence minister was Anatoliy Serdyukov, appointed in February 2007. Serdyukov was a former Tax Minister with little siloviki or military associations beyond his two years' military service.

List of ministers of defence

No.	Portrait	Name
(born-died)	Term of office	Political party	Defence branch	Government	Took office	Left office	Time in office
order = 1	image =	General of the Army]]	officeholder = Konstantin Kobets	officeholder_sort = Kobets, Konstantin	officeholder_note =	born_year = 1939	died_year = 2012	term_start = 20 August 1991	term_end = 9 September 1991
Between 9 September 1991 and 7 May 1992 the Russian Federation de jure did not have its own minister of defence. During this period its armed forces were under control of Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union Yevgeny Shaposhnikov.	order = –	image = Russian President Boris Yeltsin 1993 (42-WHPO-P02262-10).jpg	Colonel]]	officeholder = Boris Yeltsin	officeholder_sort = Yeltsin, Boris	acting = y	born_year = 1931	died_year = 2007	term_start = 16 March 1992

Timeline

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Former first deputy ministers of defence

Andrei Kokoshin (3 April 1992 – 25 January 1996); (25 January 1996 – 28 August 1997), State Secretary
Pavel Grachyov (3 April 1992 – 18 May 1992)
Viktor Dubynin (10 June 1992 – 22 November 1992), Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces
Mikhail Kolesnikov (23 December 1992 – 18 October 1996), Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces
Viktor Samsonov (18 October 1996 – 22 May 1997), Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces
Anatoly Kvashnin (23 May 1997 – 19 June 1997), Acting Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces; (19 June 1997 – 19 July 2004), Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces
(11 September 1997 – 28 March 2000), State Secretary
Vladimir Matyukhin (11 March 2003 – 21 May 2004)
Yury Baluyevsky (19 July 2004 – 3 June 2008), Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces
Aleksandr Belousov (19 July 2004 – 25 September 2007)
Alexander Kolmakov (25 September 2007 – 21 June 2010)
Nikolai Makarov (3 June 2008 – 9 November 2012), Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces
Vladimir Popovkin (21 June 2010 – 29 April 2011)
Aleksandr Sukhorukov (1 September 2011 – 9 November 2012)
Arkady Bakhin (9 November 2012 – 17 November 2015)
Ruslan Tsalikov (24 December 2015 – 29 May 2024)

Former deputy ministers of defence

(10 June 1992 – 9 February 1995)
(10 June 1992 – 9 February 1995)
(10 June 1992 – 28 March 2001)
Boris Gromov (24 June 1992 – 16 March 1995)
(19 August 1992 – October 1996), Chief of the Main Directorate of Personnel
Konstantin Kobets (?? June 1993 – 18 May 1997), Chief Military Inspector of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
Matvey Burlakov (23 August 1994 – 9 February 1995)
Anatoly Solomatin (9 February 1995 – ?? April 1997), Chief of Construction and Quartering of Troops
(17 January 1995 – 16 June 1997), Chief of Logistics of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
Aleksandr Kosovan (?? April 1997 – 6 March 2003), Chief of Construction and Quartering of Troops
Vladimir Isakov (30 June 1997 – 2 December 2008), Chief of Logistics of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
(13 November 2000 – 8 April 2004)
(28 March 2001 – 19 April 2007), Chief of Armament of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
Igor Puzanov (28 March 2001 – 18 October 2004), State Secretary
(28 March 2001 – 18 October 2004), Chief of the Main Financial-Economic Administration of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation and Deputy Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation for Financial-Economic Work; (1 September 2007 – 14 April 2009), Deputy Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation for Financial-Economic Work
Nikolai Kormiltsev (28 April 2001 – 29 September 2004), Commander-in-chief of the Land Force
Anatoly Grebenyuk (4 March 2003 – 18 October 2004), Chief of Construction and Quartering of Troops
Nikolay Pankov (13 September 2005 — 17 June 2024)
Nikolai Makarov (19 April 2007 – 3 June 2008), Chief of Armament of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
Oleg Eskin (19 November 2007 – 20 November 2008)
Vladimir Popovkin (?? July 2008 – 21 June 2010), Chief of Armament of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
(17 September 2008 – 12 January 2010), Chief of Quartering and Accommodation
Dmitry Chushkin (20 November 2008 – 15 November 2012)
Dmitry Bulgakov (2 December 2008 – 27 July 2010), Chief of Logistics of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
(14 April 2009 – 4 November 2010), Deputy Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation for Financial-Economic Work
Grigory Naginsky (12 January 2010 – 6 July 2010), Chief of Quartering and Accommodation; (6 July 2010 – 22 April 2011)
Mikhail Mokretsov (27 July 2010 – 5 July 2011), Chief of Staff of the Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation; (5 July 2011 – 10 December 2011)
Tatiana Shevtsova (4 August 2010 — 17 June 2024)
Yelena Kozlova (25 June 2012 – 15 November 2012)
Oleg Ostapenko (9 November 2012 – 9 October 2013)
Ruslan Tsalikov (15 November 2012 – 24 December 2015)
Pavel Popov (7 November 2013 — 17 June 2024)
Aleksei Dyumin (24 December 2015 – 2 February 2016)
Anatoly Antonov (2 February 2011 – 29 December 2016)
Yury Borisov (15 November 2012 – 18 May 2018)
Yuriy Sadovenko (7 January 2013 – 20 May 2024)
Timur Ivanov (11 November 2016 – 24 April 2024)
Andrey Kartapolov (30 July 2018 — 5 October 2021), Head of the Main Military-Political Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces
Gennady Zhidko (12 November 2021 — 28 July 2022), Head of the Main Military-Political Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces
Mikhail Mizintsev (24 September 2022 – 27 April 2023)
Alexey Kuzmenkov (30 April 2023 — 11 March 2024)

References

[[William Eldridge Odom]], 'The Collapse of the Soviet Military,' Yale University Press, 1998, {{ISBN. 0-300-08271-1, p. 385.
Peter Finn, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/15/AR2007021501526_pf.html Russian Leader Expands Powers of a Possible Successor] {{Webarchive. link. (2017-10-18 , [[Washington Post]], 16 February 2007.)
Harriet F. Scott and William Scott, Russian Military Directory 2002, p. 341, citing DS2002-0802.

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