- Minister of Defence (Soviet Union)
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List of defence ministers
Name Portrait Took office Left office Premier People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs (1923–1934) Leon Trotsky 29 August 1919 15 January 1925 Vladimir Lenin Alexei Rykov Mikhail Frunze 15 January 1925 31 October 1925 Alexei Rykov Marshal Kliment Voroshilov 6 November 1925 20 June 1934 Alexei Rykov Vyacheslav Molotov People's Commissar for Defence (1934–1946) Marshal Kliment Voroshilov 20 June 1934 7 May 1940 Vyacheslav Molotov Marshal Semyon Timoshenko 7 May 1940 19 July 1941 Vyacheslav Molotov Joseph Stalin Generalissmimus Joseph Stalin 19 July 1941 25 February 1946 Vyacheslav Molotov Joseph Stalin People's Commissar for the Navy (1937–1946) 1st Commissar Pyotr Smirnov 30 December 1937 30 June 1938 Vyacheslav Molotov 1st Army Commander Mikhail Frinovsky 8 September 1938 20 March 1939 Vyacheslav Molotov Vice-Admiral Nikolay Kuznetsov 28 April 1939 25 February 1946 Vyacheslav Molotov Joseph Stalin People's Commissar for the Armed Forces (1946) Generalissmimus Joseph Stalin 25 February 1946 15 March 1946 Himself Minister of the Armed Forces (1946–1950) Generalissmimus Joseph Stalin 15 March 1946 3 March 1947 Himself Nikolai Bulganin 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 25 February 1950 20 July 1951 Joseph Stalin Admiral Nikolay Kuznetsov 20 July 1951 15 March 1953 Joseph Stalin Georgy Malenkov Minister of Defence (1953–1991) Marshal Nikolai Bulganin 15 March 1953 9 February 1955 Georgy Malenkov Marshal Georgy Zhukov 9 February 1955 26 October 1957 Nikolai Bulganin Marshal Rodion Malinovsky 26 October 1957 31 March 1967 Nikolai Bulganin Nikita Khrushchev Alexei Kosygin Marshal Andrei Grechko 12 April 1967 26 April 1976 Alexei Kosygin Marshal Dmitriy Ustinov 30 July 1976 20 December 1984 Alexei Kosygin Nikolai Tikhonov Marshal Sergei Sokolev 22 December 1984 30 May 1987 Nikolai Tikhonov Nikolai Ryzhkov Marshal Dmitry Yazov 30 May 1987 22 August 1991 Nikolai Ryzhkov Valentin Pavlov Marshal of Aviation Yevgeny Shaposhnikov 23 August 1991 21 December 1991 Ivan Silayev See also
- Heads of military of Imperial Russia
- Defence Ministry of the Russian Federation
Categories:- Soviet Ministers of Defence
- Lists of government ministers
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