Minister of Defence (Russia)
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 Defense Minister of the RSFSR, though there was no ministry. 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.- Andrei Kokoshin ;, State Secretary
- Pavel Grachyov
- Viktor Dubynin, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces
- Mikhail Kolesnikov, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces
- Viktor Samsonov, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces
- Anatoly Kvashnin, Acting Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces;, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces
- Nikolai Mikhailov, State Secretary
- Vladimir Matyukhin
- Yury Baluyevsky, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces
- Aleksandr Belousov
- Aleksandr Kolmakov
- Nikolai Makarov, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces
- Vladimir Popovkin
- Aleksandr Sukhorukov
- Arkady Bakhin
Former Deputy Ministers of Defence
- Georgy Kondratyev
- Valery Mironov
- Vladimir Toporov
- Boris Gromov
- Konstantin Kobets, Chief Military Inspector of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
- Matvei Burlakov
- Anatoly Solomatin, Chief of Construction and Quartering of Troops
- Vladimir Churanov, Chief of Logistics of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
- Aleksandr Kosovan, Chief of Construction and Quartering of Troops
- Vladimir Isakov, Chief of Logistics of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
- Mikhail Dmitriyev
- Aleksei Moskovsky, Chief of Armament of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
- Igor Puzanov, State Secretary
- Lyubov Kudelina, 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;, Deputy Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation for Financial-Economic Work
- Nikolai Kormiltsev, Commander-in-chief of the Land Force
- Anatoly Grebenyuk, Chief of Construction and Quartering of Troops
- Nikolai Makarov, Chief of Armament of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
- Oleg Eskin
- Vladimir Popovkin, Chief of Armament of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
- Vladimir Filippov, Chief of Quartering and Accommodation
- Dmitry Chushkin
- Dmitry Bulgakov, Chief of Logistics of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
- Vera Chistova, Deputy Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation for Financial-Economic Work
- Grigory Naginsky, Chief of Quartering and Accommodation;
- Mikhail Mokretsov, Chief of Staff of the Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation;
- Yelena Kozlova
- Oleg Ostapenko
- Ruslan Tsalikov
- Aleksei Dyumin
- Anatoly Antonov
- Yury Borisov
