Minister of Defence (Soviet Union)

Minister of Defence (Soviet Union)

List of defence ministers

Name Portrait Took office Left office Premier
People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs (1923–1934)
Leon Trotsky Bundesarchiv Bild 183-R15068, Leo Dawidowitsch Trotzki.jpg 29 August 1919 15 January 1925 Vladimir Lenin
Alexei Rykov
Mikhail Frunze Frunze-mikhail.jpg 15 January 1925 31 October 1925 Alexei Rykov
Marshal Kliment Voroshilov Klim voroshilov.JPG 6 November 1925 20 June 1934 Alexei Rykov
Vyacheslav Molotov
People's Commissar for Defence (1934–1946)
Marshal Kliment Voroshilov Klim voroshilov.JPG 20 June 1934 7 May 1940 Vyacheslav Molotov
Marshal Semyon Timoshenko Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko (1895-1970), Soviet military commander.jpg 7 May 1940 19 July 1941 Vyacheslav Molotov
Joseph Stalin
Generalissmimus Joseph Stalin StalinPortrait.jpg 19 July 1941 25 February 1946 Vyacheslav Molotov
Joseph Stalin
People's Commissar for the Navy (1937–1946)
1st Commissar Pyotr Smirnov Pyotr Alexandrovich Smirnov.jpeg 30 December 1937 30 June 1938 Vyacheslav Molotov
1st Army Commander Mikhail Frinovsky MP-Frinovsky.jpg 8 September 1938 20 March 1939 Vyacheslav Molotov
Vice-Admiral Nikolay Kuznetsov Nikolay Kuznetsov Plaque on House 9, Tverskaya str.,Moscow.jpg 28 April 1939 25 February 1946 Vyacheslav Molotov
Joseph Stalin
People's Commissar for the Armed Forces (1946)
Generalissmimus Joseph Stalin StalinPortrait.jpg 25 February 1946 15 March 1946 Himself
Minister of the Armed Forces (1946–1950)
Generalissmimus Joseph Stalin StalinPortrait.jpg 15 March 1946 3 March 1947 Himself
Nikolai Bulganin Bundesarchiv Bild 183-29921-0001, Bulganin, Nikolai Alexandrowitsch.jpg 3 March 1947 24 March 1949 Joseph Stalin
Marshal Aleksandr Vasilevsky 24 March 1949 25 February 1950 Joseph Stalin
Minister of War (1950–1953)
Marshal Aleksandr Vasilevsky 25 February 1950 15 March 1953 Joseph Stalin
Georgy Malenkov
Minister of the Navy (1950–1953)
Admiral Ivan Yumashev IS-Yumashev.jpg 25 February 1950 20 July 1951 Joseph Stalin
Admiral Nikolay Kuznetsov Nikolay Kuznetsov Plaque on House 9, Tverskaya str.,Moscow.jpg 20 July 1951 15 March 1953 Joseph Stalin
Georgy Malenkov
Minister of Defence (1953–1991)
Marshal Nikolai Bulganin Bundesarchiv Bild 183-29921-0001, Bulganin, Nikolai Alexandrowitsch.jpg 15 March 1953 9 February 1955 Georgy Malenkov
Marshal Georgy Zhukov Georgi Zhukov in 1940.jpg 9 February 1955 26 October 1957 Nikolai Bulganin
Marshal Rodion Malinovsky Marshal of the USSR 1973 CPA 4285.jpg 26 October 1957 31 March 1967 Nikolai Bulganin
Nikita Khrushchev
Alexei Kosygin
Marshal Andrei Grechko AA Grechko.jpg 12 April 1967 26 April 1976 Alexei Kosygin
Marshal Dmitriy Ustinov Marshal of the USSR 1988 CPA 6001.jpg 30 July 1976 20 December 1984 Alexei Kosygin
Nikolai Tikhonov
Marshal Sergei Sokolev Sergey Sokolov.jpg 22 December 1984 30 May 1987 Nikolai Tikhonov
Nikolai Ryzhkov
Marshal Dmitry Yazov Dmitriy Yazov.jpg 30 May 1987 22 August 1991 Nikolai Ryzhkov
Valentin Pavlov
Marshal of Aviation Yevgeny Shaposhnikov Vladimir Putin 21 January 2002-7.jpg 23 August 1991 21 December 1991 Ivan Silayev

See also

  • Heads of military of Imperial Russia
  • Defence Ministry of the Russian Federation

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