Minister of Foreign Affairs (Russia)

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia
Incumbent Sergey Lavrov since February 24, 2004
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Style	Mr. Minister
Member of	Government, Security Council
Reports to	The President
Residence	Ministry of Foreign Affairs Building
Seat	Moscow
Nominator	The Prime Minister
Appointer	The President
Term length	No fixed term
First holder	Ivan Viskovatyi
Website	www.mid.ru

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This is a list of foreign ministers of Tsardom of Russia, Russian Empire, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union, and Russian Federation.

Contents

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  1 Tsardom of Russia
  


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  2 Russian Empire
  


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  3 Provisional Government/Russian Republic
  


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  4 Soviet Union
  
  
  
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    4.1 Russian SFSR
    
  
  
  
  


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  5 Russian Federation
  


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  6 See also
  


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  7 References
  


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  8 External links
  

Tsardom of Russia

Portrait	Name	Term of office		Head of State
	Ivan Viskovatyi	January 2, 1549	August 2, 1562[1]	Ivan IV
	Andrey Vasilyev	September, 1562	July 25, 1570
	Andrey Shchelkalov	November, 1570	June 17, 1594
	Vasily Shchelkalov	June 30, 1594	May 1601	Feodor I
				Boris Godunov
	Afanasy Vlasyev	May 1601	May 8, 1605
				Feodor II
	Ivan Gramotin	August 1605	February 14, 1606	False Dmitriy I
	Vasily Telepnev	1606	March 1611	Vasili IV
				False Dmitry II
	Ivan Gramotin	November 20, 1611	September 1612
	Fedor Androsov (Acting)	September 1612	June 1613
	Pyotr Tretyakov	June 1613	May 16, 1618	Michael I
	Ivan Gramotin	May 1618	December 21, 1626
	Efim Telepnev	December 22, 1626	July 30, 1630
	Fedor Likhachov	September 21, 1630	December 25, 1631
	Ivan Gryazev	October 1, 1632	April 17, 1634
	Ivan Gramotin	May 19, 1634	July 19, 1635
	Fedor Likhachov	September 21, 1635	September 1, 1643
	Grigory Lvov	September 1, 1643	December 27, 1646
				Alexis
	Nazary Chistoy	January 6, 1647	June 2, 1648
	Mikhail Volosheninov	July 4, 1648	April 1653
	Almaz Ivanov	September 28, 1653	March 10, 1667
	Afanasy Ordin-Nashchokin	July 15, 1667	February 21, 1671
	Artamon Matveyev	February 22, 1671	July 3, 1676
	Larion Ivanov	July 4, 1676	December 21, 1680
				Feodor III
	Vasily Volynsky	December 21, 1680	May 6, 1681
	Larion Ivanov (Acting)	May 6, 1681	May 15, 1682
				Sofia Alekseyevna, Ivan V and Peter I
	Vasily Galitzine	May 17, 1682	September 6, 1689
	Emelian Ukraintsev	September 6, 1689	April 19, 1699	Ivan V and Peter I
	Lev Naryshkin	1697	1699	Peter I

Russian Empire

Portrait	Name	Term of office		Head of State
	Fyodor Golovin	February 18, 1700	August 2, 1706	Peter I
	Pyotr Shafirov	September 1706	1708
	Gavriil Golovkin	1708	January 20, 1734
				Catherine I
				Peter II
				Anna
	Andrey Osterman	1734	1740
	Aleksey Tcherkassky	November 10, 1740	November 4, 1742	Ivan VI
	Alexey Bestuzhev-Ryumin	November 4, 1742	February 15, 1758	Elizabeth
	Mikhail Vorontsov	November 23, 1758	October 27, 1763
				Peter III
	Nikita Panin	October 27, 1763	April 10, 1781	Catherine II
	Ivan Osterman	April 10, 1781	May 2, 1797
	Aleksandr Bezborodko	May 2, 1797	April 6, 1799	Paul I
	Fyodor Rostopchin	April 6, 1799	February 20, 1801
	Nikita Panin	March 23, 1801	September 30, 1801	Alexander I
	Viktor Kochubey	September 30, 1801	September 8, 1802
	Alexander Vorontsov	September 8, 1802	January 16, 1804
	Adam Jerzy Czartoryski	January 16, 1804	Juny 17, 1806
	Andreas Eberhard von Budberg	Juny 17, 1806	August 30, 1807
	Nikolay Rumiantsev	February 12, 1808	August 1, 1814
	Karl Nesselrode	1814	April 15, 1856
				Nicholas I
	Alexander Gorchakov	April 15, 1856	9 April 1882	Alexander II
	Nicholas de Giers	April 9, 1882	January 26, 1895	Alexander III
	Alexei Lobanov-Rostovsky	March 18, 1895	August 30, 1896	Nicholas II
	Nikolay Shishkin	September 1, 1896	January 13, 1897
	Mikhail Muravyov	January 13, 1897	June 21, 1900
	Vladimir Lambsdorff	January 6, 1901	May 11, 1906
	Alexander Izvolsky	May 11, 1906	October 11, 1910
	Sergey Sazonov	October 11, 1910	July 20, 1916
	Boris Stürmer	July 20, 1916	November 23, 1916
	Nikolay Pokrovsky	November 23, 1916	March 2, 1917

Provisional Government/Russian Republic

Minister			Party	Term of Office		Prime Minister
		Pavel Milyukov	Constitutional Democratic Party	March 2, 1917	May 1, 1917		George Lvov
		Mikhail Tereshchenko	Independent	May 5, 1917	October 29, 1917
							Alexander Kerensky

Soviet Union

№	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Head of State
57		Georgy Chicherin	July 6, 1923	July 21, 1930	Vladimir Lenin
					Joseph Stalin
58		Maxim Litvinov	July 21, 1930	May 3, 1939
59		Vyacheslav Molotov	May 3, 1939	March 4, 1949
60		Andrey Vyshinsky	March 4, 1949	March 5, 1953
61		Vyacheslav Molotov	March 5, 1953	June 1, 1956
					Nikita Khrushchev
62		Dmitri Shepilov	June 1, 1956	February 15, 1957
63		Andrei Gromyko	February 15, 1957	July 27, 1985
					Leonid Brezhnev
					Yuri Andropov
					Konstantin Chernenko
64		Eduard Shevardnadze	July 28, 1985	December 20, 1990	Mikhail Gorbachev
65		Aleksandr Bessmertnykh	January 15, 1991	August 28, 1991
		Boris Pankin (Acting)	August 28, 1991	November 14, 1991

Minister of External Relations of the USSR (1991-1991)

№	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Head of State
1		Eduard Shevardnadze	November 19, 1991	December 26, 1991

Russian SFSR

Minister			Party	Term of Office		Head of State
		Leon Trotsky	Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolshevik)	November 8, 1917	March 13, 1918		Lev Kamenev
		Georgy Chicherin	Communist Party	April 9, 1918	July 6, 1923
Post abolished (1923–1944)
		Anatoly Lavrentiev	Communist Party	March 8, 1944	March 13, 1946		Nikolay Shvernik
Post abolished (1946–1959)
		Mikhail Yakovlev	Communist Party	April 16, 1959	August 5, 1960		Nikolai Ignatov
							Nikolay Organov
		Sergey Lapin	Communist Party	September 5, 1960	January 20, 1962
		Mikhail Menshikov	Communist Party	February 1, 1962	September 11, 1968
							Nikolai Ignatov
							Mikhail Yasnov
		Aleksei A. Rodionov	Communist Party	September 11, 1968	May 7, 1971
		Fyodor Titov	Communist Party	May 7, 1971	May 28, 1982
		Vladimir Vinogradov	Communist Party	May 28, 1982	June 15, 1990
							Vladimir Orlov
							Vitaly Vorotnikov
		Andrey Kozyrev	Independent	October 11, 1990	May 16, 1992		Boris Yeltsin

Russian Federation

Minister			Party	Term of Office		President
		Andrey Kozyrev	Independent	May 16, 1992	January 5, 1996		Boris Yeltsin
		Yevgeny Primakov	Independent	January 10, 1996	September 11, 1998
		Igor Ivanov	Independent	September 30, 1998	February 24, 2004
							Vladimir Putin
		Sergey Lavrov	United Russia	February 24, 2004	Incumbent
							Dmitry Medvedev
							Vladimir Putin

See also

• Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia)


• List of Soviet foreign ministers


• Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Soviet Union)

References

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