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Minister of Foreign Affairs (Russia)

Cabinet-level position in the Russian government


Cabinet-level position in the Russian government

FieldValue
postMinister of Foreign Affairs
bodythe Russian Federation
native_nameМинистр иностранных дел Российской Федерации
imageСергей Лавров (18-11-2022) (cropped).jpg
incumbentSergey Lavrov
incumbentsince
departmentMinistry of Foreign Affairs
member_ofGovernment
Security Council
reports_toPresident
seatForeign Affairs Building, Moscow
appointerPresident
appointer_qualified(after consultation with the Federation Council)
termlengthNo fixed term
firstAndrei Kozyrev (post-Soviet era)
website

Security Council

The minister of foreign affairs of the Russian Federation () is a high-ranking Russian government official who heads the ministry of foreign affairs of the Russian Federation. The foreign minister is one of the five presidential ministers, along with the ministers of defence, interior, emergencies and justice. Although they are members of the Cabinet, they are directly subordinate to the President.

The foreign minister, like other presidential ministers, is nominated and appointed by the President after consultation with the Federation Council (whereas non-presidential ministers are nominated by the Prime Minister and appointed by the President after approval by the State Duma). The foreign minister is also a permanent member of the Russian Security Council.

Tsardom of Russia

PortraitNameTerm of officeHead of StateHeads of Ambassadorial Prikaz
[[File:Coat_of_Arms_of_Russia_1577.png100px]]Ivan ViskovatyiJanuary 2, 1549August 2, 1562Ivan IV
[[File:Coat_of_Arms_of_Russia_1577.png100px]]Andrey VasilyevSeptember, 1562July 25, 1570
[[File:Coat_of_Arms_of_Russia_1577.png100px]]Andrey ShchelkalovNovember, 1570June 17, 1594
Feodor I
[[File:Coat_of_Arms_of_Russia_1577.png100px]]Vasily ShchelkalovJune 30, 1594May 1601
Boris Godunov
[[File:Coat_of_Arms_of_Russia_1577.png100px]]Afanasy VlasyevMay 1601May 8, 1605
[[File:Иван Тарасович Грамотин.gif100px]]Ivan GramotinAugust 1605February 14, 1606False Dmitriy I
[[File:Coat_of_Arms_of_Russia_1577.png100px]]Vasily Telepnev1606March 1611Vasili IV
False Dmitry II
[[File:Иван Тарасович Грамотин.gif100px]]Ivan GramotinNovember 20, 1611September 1612
[[File:Coat_of_Arms_of_Russia_1577.png100px]]Fyodor Androsov
(Acting)September 1612June 1613
[[File:Coat_of_Arms_of_Russia_1577.png100px]]Pyotr TretyakovJune 1613May 16, 1618Michael
[[File:Иван Тарасович Грамотин.gif100px]]Ivan GramotinMay 1618December 21, 1626
[[File:Coat_of_Arms_of_Russia_1577.png100px]]Yefim TelepnyovDecember 22, 1626July 30, 1630
[[File:Coat_of_Arms_of_Russia_1577.png100px]]Fyodor LikhachovSeptember 21, 1630December 25, 1631
[[File:Coat_of_Arms_of_Russia_1577.png100px]]Ivan GryazevOctober 1, 1632April 17, 1634
[[File:Иван Тарасович Грамотин.gif100px]]Ivan GramotinMay 19, 1634July 19, 1635
[[File:Coat_of_Arms_of_Russia_1577.png100px]]Fyodor LikhachovSeptember 21, 1635September 1, 1643
[[File:Coat_of_Arms_of_Russia_1577.png100px]]Grigory LvovSeptember 1, 1643December 27, 1646
Alexis
[[File:Coat_of_Arms_of_Russia_1577.png100px]]Nazary ChistoyJanuary 6, 1647June 2, 1648
[[File:Coat_of_Arms_of_Russia_1577.png100px]]Mikhail VolosheninovJuly 4, 1648April 1653
[[File:Coat_of_Arms_of_Russia_1577.png100px]]Almaz IvanovSeptember 28, 1653March 10, 1667
[[File:Ордин-Нащокин.jpg100px]]Afanasy Ordin-NashchokinJuly 15, 1667February 21, 1671
[[File:Matveyev Artamon portrait.jpg100px]]Artamon MatveyevFebruary 22, 1671July 3, 1676
[[File:Royal Coat of arms of Russia (17th century).svg100px]]Larion IvanovJuly 4, 1676December 21, 1680Feodor III
[[File:Royal Coat of arms of Russia (17th century).svg100px]]Vasily VolynskyDecember 21, 1680May 6, 1681
[[File:Royal Coat of arms of Russia (17th century).svg100px]]Larion Ivanov
(Acting)May 6, 1681May 15, 1682
[[File:Golytsin GIM.jpg100px]]Vasily GolitsynMay 17, 1682September 6, 1689Ivan V and Peter I
(regency of Sofia Alekseyevna)
[[File:Royal Coat of arms of Russia (17th century).svg100px]]Emelian UkraintsevSeptember 6, 1689April 19, 1699Ivan V
and Peter I
Peter I
[[File:Naryshkin Lev Kirillovich.jpg100px]]Lev Naryshkin16971699
[[File:Fedor Golovin.PNG100px]]Fyodor GolovinFebruary 18, 1700August 2, 1706
[[File:Shafirov.jpg100px]]Pyotr ShafirovSeptember 17061708
[[File:Chancelor G.I.Golovkin by I.Nikitin (1720s, Tretyakov gallery).jpg100px]]Gavriil Golovkin170815 December 1717

Russian Empire

PortraitNameTerm of officeHead of StatePresidents of the Collegium of Foreign AffairsMinisters of Foreign Affairs
[[File:Chancelor G.I.Golovkin by I.Nikitin (1720s, Tretyakov gallery).jpg100px]]Gavriil Golovkin15 December 1717January 20, 1734Peter I
Catherine I
Peter II
Anna
[[File:Генрих Иоганн Фридрих (Андрей Иванович) Остерман.jpg100px]]Andrey Osterman17341740
[[File:Aleksey Mikhailovich Tcherkassky.PNG100px]]Aleksey TcherkasskyNovember 10, 1740November 4, 1742Ivan VI
[[File:Chancellor bestuzhev.jpg100px]]Alexey Bestuzhev-RyuminNovember 4, 1742February 15, 1758Elizabeth
[[File:Alexey Antropov 016.jpg100px]]Mikhail VorontsovNovember 23, 1758October 27, 1763
Peter III
[[File:Nikita Ivanovich Panin.PNG100px]]Nikita PaninOctober 27, 1763April 10, 1781Catherine II
[[File:Ivan Alexandrovich Osterman.PNG100px]]Ivan OstermanApril 10, 1781May 2, 1797
[[File:A.A.Bezborodko by Lampi (1794, Hermitage).jpg100px]]Aleksandr BezborodkoMay 2, 1797April 6, 1799Paul I
[[File:Orest Kiprensky 006.jpeg100px]]Fyodor RostopchinApril 6, 1799February 20, 1801
[[File:Panin Nikita Petrovich.jpg100px]]Nikita PaninMarch 23, 1801September 30, 1801Alexander I
[[File:Kochubey Viktor Pavlovich.jpg100px]]Viktor KochubeySeptember 30, 1801September 8, 1802
[[File:AlexandrRomanovichVorontsov.jpg100px]]Alexander VorontsovSeptember 8, 1802January 16, 1804Alexander I
[[File:Adam Jerzy Czartoryski.jpg100px]]Adam Jerzy CzartoryskiJanuary 16, 1804June 17, 1806
[[File:Andrey Yakovlevich von Budberg (Russian portraits, Vol.2, Num.164) - retouched.jpg100px]]Andreas Eberhard von BudbergJune 17, 1806August 30, 1807
[[File:Rumyan.jpg100px]]Nikolay RumyantsevFebruary 12, 1808August 1, 1814
[[File:Kapodistrias2.jpg100px]]Ioannis Kapodistrias
(Joint with Karl Nesselrode)August 21, 1816August 19, 1822
[[File:Karl Nesselrode.png100px]]Karl NesselrodeAugust 9, 1816April 15, 1856
Nicholas I
[[File:AM Gorchakov by Bogatsky crop.jpg100px]]Alexander GorchakovApril 15, 18569 April 1882Alexander II
[[File:Nikolai de Giers.jpg100px]]Nicholas de GiersApril 9, 1882January 26, 1895Alexander III
[[File:Lobanov.gif100px]]Alexei Lobanov-RostovskyMarch 18, 1895August 30, 1896Nicholas II
[[File:Shishkin NP.jpg100px]]Nikolay ShishkinSeptember 1, 1896January 13, 1897
[[File:Muraviov Mikhail (1845-1900).jpg100px]]Mikhail MuravyovJanuary 13, 1897June 21, 1900
[[File:Lambsdorf Vladimir (1844-1907).jpg100px]]Vladimir LambsdorffJanuary 6, 1901May 11, 1906
[[File:Извольский Александр Петрович, 1894.jpg100px]]Alexander IzvolskyMay 11, 1906October 11, 1910
[[File:Sergei Dmitrievich Sazonov.jpg100px]]Sergey SazonovOctober 11, 1910July 20, 1916
[[File:Штюрмер Б. (Новгородская область).jpg100px]]Boris StürmerJuly 20, 1916November 23, 1916
[[File:Nikolai Pokrovsky.jpg100px]]Nikolay PokrovskyNovember 23, 1916March 2, 1917

Provisional Government

MinisterPartyTerm of OfficePrime MinisterMinisters of Foreign Affairs
Constitutional Democratic Party}};"[[File:Pavel Milyukov 2.jpg100px]]Pavel MilyukovConstitutional Democratic PartyMarch 2, 1917
Independent politician}};"[[File:Mikhail Ivanovich Tereshchenko.jpg100px]]Mikhail TereshchenkoIndependentMay 5, 1917
Socialist-Revolutionary Party}};"Alexander Kerensky

Russian SFSR (1917–1991)

MinisterPartyTerm of OfficeHead of StatePeople's Commissars of Foreign AffairsMinisters of Foreign Affairs
[[File:Lev trotsky viena.jpeg100px]]Leon TrotskySocial Democratic Labour Party
(Bolshevik)November 7, 1917March 13, 1918
Communist Party of the Russian Federation}};"[[File:Georgy Chicherin 1920s.jpg100px]]Georgy ChicherinCommunist PartyApril 9, 1918July 6, 1923
Post abolished (1923–1944). Power transferred to Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union.
Communist Party of the Russian Federation}};"[[File:1953 Anatoly Lavrentiev cropped.jpg100px]]Anatoly LavrentievCommunist PartyMarch 8, 1944March 13, 1946
Post abolished
Communist Party of the Russian Federation}};"[[File:Coat of arms of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1956-1978).svg100px]]Mikhail YakovlevCommunist PartyApril 16, 1959August 5, 1960
Communist Party of the Russian Federation}};"Nikolay Organov
Communist Party of the Russian Federation}};"[[File:Sergey Georgiyevich Lapin.jpg100px]]Sergey LapinCommunist PartySeptember 5, 1960January 20, 1962
Communist Party of the Russian Federation}};"[[File:Coat of arms of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1956-1978).svg100px]]Mikhail MenshikovCommunist PartyFebruary 1, 1962September 11, 1968
Communist Party of the Russian Federation}};"Nikolai Ignatov
Communist Party of the Russian Federation}};"Mikhail Yasnov
Communist Party of the Russian Federation}};"[[File:Coat of arms of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1956-1978).svg100px]]Aleksei A. RodionovCommunist PartySeptember 11, 1968May 7, 1971
Communist Party of the Russian Federation}};"[[File:Emblem of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1978–1991), Emblem of the Russian Federation (1991–1992).svg100px]]Fyodor TitovCommunist PartyMay 7, 1971May 28, 1982
Communist Party of the Russian Federation}};"[[File:RIAN archive 62771 Vladimir Vinogradov.jpg100px]]Vladimir VinogradovCommunist PartyMay 28, 1982June 15, 1990
Communist Party of the Russian Federation}};"Vladimir Orlov
Communist Party of the Russian Federation}};"Vitaly Vorotnikov
Independent politician}};"[[File:Evstafiev-Andrey Kozyrev.jpg100px]]Andrey KozyrevIndependentOctober 11, 1990December 26, 1991

Russian Federation (1991–present)

MinisterTerm of OfficePartyCabinetPresidentMinisters of Foreign AffairsIndependent politician}};"Independent politician}};"Independent politician}};"United Russia}};"
[[File:Evstafiev-Andrey Kozyrev.jpg100px]]Andrei KozyrevDecember 27, 1991January 5, 1996IndependentYeltsin–GaidarIndependent politician}};"Boris Yeltsin
Chernomyrdin I
[[File:E Primakov 03 (cropped).jpg100px]]Yevgeny PrimakovJanuary 9, 1996September 11, 1998Independent
Chernomyrdin II
Kiriyenko
[[File:Igor Ivanov 2014.jpg100px]]Igor IvanovSeptember 30, 1998February 24, 2004IndependentPrimakov
Stepashin
Putin I
KasyanovIndependent politician}};"Vladimir Putin
[[File:Сергей Лавров (18-11-2022) (cropped).jpg100px]]Sergey LavrovFebruary 24, 2004IncumbentUnited RussiaFradkov I
Fradkov II
Zubkov
Putin IIUnited Russia}};"Dmitry Medvedev
Medvedev IUnited Russia}};"Vladimir Putin
Medvedev IIIndependent politician}};"
Mishustin I
Mishustin II

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till: 1982 color:Communist text:"Fyodor Titov" bar:Vinogradov from: 1982 till: 1990 color:Communist text:"Vladimir Vinogradov" bar:Kozyrev from: 1990 till: 1996 color:Independent text:"Andrey Kozyrev" bar:Primakov from: 1996 till: 1998 color:Independent text:"Yevgeny Primakov" bar:IIvanov from: 1998 till: 2004 color:Independent text:"Igor Ivanov" bar:Lavrov from: 2004 till: $now color:United text:"Sergey Lavrov"

References

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