Minister of Foreign Affairs (Russia)

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."Конституция Российской Федерации" (принята всенародным голосованием 12.12.1993 с изменениями, одобренными в ходе общероссийского голосования 01.07.2020) Статья 83

Tsardom of Russia PortraitNameTerm of officeHead of State Heads of Ambassadorial PrikazIvan ViskovatyiJanuary 2, 1549August 2, 1562Ivan IVAndrey VasilyevSeptember, 1562July 25, 1570Andrey ShchelkalovNovember, 1570June 17, 1594Feodor IVasily ShchelkalovJune 30, 1594May 1601Boris GodunovAfanasy VlasyevMay 1601May 8, 1605Ivan GramotinAugust 1605February 14, 1606False Dmitriy IVasily Telepnev 1606 March 1611Vasili IVFalse Dmitry IIIvan GramotinNovember 20, 1611September 1612Fyodor Androsov(Acting)September 1612June 1613Pyotr TretyakovJune 1613May 16, 1618MichaelIvan GramotinMay 1618December 21, 1626Yefim TelepnyovDecember 22, 1626July 30, 1630Fyodor LikhachovSeptember 21, 1630December 25, 1631Ivan GryazevOctober 1, 1632April 17, 1634Ivan GramotinMay 19, 1634July 19, 1635Fyodor LikhachovSeptember 21, 1635September 1, 1643Grigory LvovSeptember 1, 1643December 27, 1646AlexisNazary ChistoyJanuary 6, 1647June 2, 1648Mikhail VolosheninovJuly 4, 1648April 1653Almaz IvanovSeptember 28, 1653March 10, 1667Afanasy Ordin-NashchokinJuly 15, 1667February 21, 1671Artamon MatveyevFebruary 22, 1671July 3, 1676Larion IvanovJuly 4, 1676December 21, 1680Feodor IIIVasily VolynskyDecember 21, 1680May 6, 1681Larion Ivanov(Acting)May 6, 1681May 15, 1682Vasily GolitsynMay 17, 1682September 6, 1689Ivan V and Peter I(regency of Sofia Alekseyevna)Emelian UkraintsevSeptember 6, 1689April 19, 1699Ivan Vand Peter IPeter ILev Naryshkin16971699Fyodor GolovinFebruary 18, 1700August 2, 1706Pyotr ShafirovSeptember 17061708Gavriil Golovkin170815 December 1717

Russian Empire

PortraitNameTerm of officeHead of State Presidents of the Collegium of Foreign AffairsGavriil Golovkin15 December 1717January 20, 1734Peter ICatherine IPeter IIAnnaAndrey Osterman17341740Aleksey TcherkasskyNovember 10, 1740November 4, 1742Ivan VIAlexey Bestuzhev-RyuminNovember 4, 1742February 15, 1758ElizabethMikhail VorontsovNovember 23, 1758October 27, 1763Peter IIINikita PaninOctober 27, 1763April 10, 1781Catherine IIIvan OstermanApril 10, 1781May 2, 1797Aleksandr BezborodkoMay 2, 1797April 6, 1799Paul IFyodor RostopchinApril 6, 1799February 20, 1801Nikita PaninMarch 23, 1801September 30, 1801Alexander IViktor KochubeySeptember 30, 1801September 8, 1802 Ministers of Foreign AffairsAlexander VorontsovSeptember 8, 1802January 16, 1804Alexander IAdam Jerzy CzartoryskiJanuary 16, 1804June 17, 1806Andreas Eberhard von BudbergJune 17, 1806August 30, 1807Nikolay RumyantsevFebruary 12, 1808August 1, 1814Ioannis Kapodistrias(Joint with Karl Nesselrode)August 21, 1816August 19, 1822Karl NesselrodeAugust 9, 1816April 15, 1856Nicholas IAlexander GorchakovApril 15, 18569 April 1882Alexander IINicholas de GiersApril 9, 1882January 26, 1895Alexander IIIAlexei Lobanov-RostovskyMarch 18, 1895August 30, 1896Nicholas IINikolay ShishkinSeptember 1, 1896January 13, 1897Mikhail MuravyovJanuary 13, 1897June 21, 1900Vladimir LambsdorffJanuary 6, 1901May 11, 1906Alexander IzvolskyMay 11, 1906October 11, 1910Sergey SazonovOctober 11, 1910July 20, 1916Boris StürmerJuly 20, 1916November 23, 1916Nikolay PokrovskyNovember 23, 1916March 2, 1917

Provisional Government Minister PartyTerm of OfficePrime Minister Ministers of Foreign Affairs Pavel MilyukovConstitutional Democratic PartyMarch 2, 1917May 1, 1917 George Lvov Mikhail TereshchenkoIndependentMay 5, 1917November 7, 1917 Alexander Kerensky

Russian SFSR (1917–1991) Minister PartyTerm of OfficeHead of State People's Commissars of Foreign Affairs Leon Trotsky Social Democratic Labour Party(Bolshevik) November 7, 1917 March 13, 1918Lev KamenevGeorgy ChicherinCommunist PartyApril 9, 1918July 6, 1923Post abolished (1923–1944). Power transferred to Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union.Anatoly LavrentievCommunist PartyMarch 8, 1944 March 13, 1946Nikolay ShvernikPost abolished Ministers of Foreign AffairsMikhail YakovlevCommunist PartyApril 16, 1959August 5, 1960Nikolai IgnatovNikolay OrganovSergey LapinCommunist PartySeptember 5, 1960January 20, 1962Mikhail MenshikovCommunist PartyFebruary 1, 1962September 11, 1968Nikolai IgnatovMikhail YasnovAleksei A. RodionovCommunist PartySeptember 11, 1968May 7, 1971Fyodor TitovCommunist PartyMay 7, 1971May 28, 1982Vladimir VinogradovCommunist PartyMay 28, 1982June 15, 1990Vladimir OrlovVitaly VorotnikovAndrey KozyrevIndependentOctober 11, 1990December 26, 1991Boris Yeltsin

Russian Federation (1991–present) MinisterTerm of Office Party CabinetPresident Ministers of Foreign AffairsAndrei KozyrevDecember 27, 1991January 5, 1996IndependentYeltsin–GaidarBoris YeltsinChernomyrdin IYevgeny PrimakovJanuary 9, 1996September 11, 1998IndependentChernomyrdin IIKiriyenkoIgor IvanovSeptember 30, 1998February 24, 2004IndependentPrimakovStepashinPutin IKasyanovVladimir PutinSergey LavrovFebruary 24, 2004IncumbentUnited RussiaFradkov IFradkov IIZubkovPutin IIDmitry MedvedevMedvedev IVladimir PutinMedvedev IIMishustin IMishustin II Timeline

See also Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia) List of Soviet foreign ministers Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Soviet Union)

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