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Minister of Foreign Affairs
of the Russian Federation
Сергей Лавров (18-11-2022) (cropped).jpg
Incumbent
Sergey Lavrov

since February 24, 2004
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Style Mr. Minister
Member of Government, Security Council
Reports to The President
Seat Foreign Affairs Building, Moscow
Nominator The President
Appointer The President
(after consultation with the Federation Council)
Term length No fixed term
First holder Andrei Kozyrev (post-Soviet era)


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.

Tsardom of Russia

Portrait Name Term of office Head of State
Heads of Ambassadorial Prikaz
Coat of Arms of Russia 1577.png Ivan Viskovatyi January 2, 1549 August 2, 1562 Ivan IV
Coat of Arms of Russia 1577.png Andrey Vasilyev September, 1562 July 25, 1570
Coat of Arms of Russia 1577.png Andrey Shchelkalov November, 1570 June 17, 1594
Feodor I
Coat of Arms of Russia 1577.png Vasily Shchelkalov June 30, 1594 May 1601
Boris Godunov
Coat of Arms of Russia 1577.png Afanasy Vlasyev May 1601 May 8, 1605
Иван Тарасович Грамотин.gif Ivan Gramotin August 1605 February 14, 1606 False Dmitriy I
Coat of Arms of Russia 1577.png Vasily Telepnev 1606 March 1611 Vasili IV
False Dmitry II
Иван Тарасович Грамотин.gif Ivan Gramotin November 20, 1611 September 1612
Coat of Arms of Russia 1577.png Fyodor Androsov
(Acting)
September 1612 June 1613
Coat of Arms of Russia 1577.png Pyotr Tretyakov June 1613 May 16, 1618 Michael
Иван Тарасович Грамотин.gif Ivan Gramotin May 1618 December 21, 1626
Coat of Arms of Russia 1577.png Yefim Telepnyov December 22, 1626 July 30, 1630
Coat of Arms of Russia 1577.png Fyodor Likhachov September 21, 1630 December 25, 1631
Coat of Arms of Russia 1577.png Ivan Gryazev October 1, 1632 April 17, 1634
Иван Тарасович Грамотин.gif Ivan Gramotin May 19, 1634 July 19, 1635
Coat of Arms of Russia 1577.png Fyodor Likhachov September 21, 1635 September 1, 1643
Coat of Arms of Russia 1577.png Grigory Lvov September 1, 1643 December 27, 1646
Alexis
Coat of Arms of Russia 1577.png Nazary Chistoy January 6, 1647 June 2, 1648
Coat of Arms of Russia 1577.png Mikhail Volosheninov July 4, 1648 April 1653
Coat of Arms of Russia 1577.png Almaz Ivanov September 28, 1653 March 10, 1667
Ордин-Нащокин.jpg Afanasy Ordin-Nashchokin July 15, 1667 February 21, 1671
Matveyev Artamon portrait.jpg Artamon Matveyev February 22, 1671 July 3, 1676
Royal Coat of arms of Russia (17th century).svg Larion Ivanov July 4, 1676 December 21, 1680 Feodor III
Royal Coat of arms of Russia (17th century).svg Vasily Volynsky December 21, 1680 May 6, 1681
Royal Coat of arms of Russia (17th century).svg Larion Ivanov
(Acting)
May 6, 1681 May 15, 1682
Golytsin GIM.jpg Vasily Golitsyn May 17, 1682 September 6, 1689 Ivan V and Peter I
(regency of Sofia Alekseyevna)
Royal Coat of arms of Russia (17th century).svg Emelian Ukraintsev September 6, 1689 April 19, 1699 Ivan V
and Peter I
Peter I
Naryshkin Lev Kirillovich.jpg Lev Naryshkin 1697 1699
Fedor Golovin.PNG Fyodor Golovin February 18, 1700 August 2, 1706
Shafirov.jpg Pyotr Shafirov September 1706 1708
Chancelor G.I.Golovkin by I.Nikitin (1720s, Tretyakov gallery).jpg Gavriil Golovkin 1708 15 December 1717

Russian Empire

Portrait Name Term of office Head of State
Presidents of the Collegium of Foreign Affairs
Chancelor G.I.Golovkin by I.Nikitin (1720s, Tretyakov gallery).jpg Gavriil Golovkin 15 December 1717 January 20, 1734 Peter I
Catherine I
Peter II
Anna
Генрих Иоганн Фридрих (Андрей Иванович) Остерман.jpg Andrey Osterman 1734 1740
Aleksey Mikhailovich Tcherkassky.PNG Aleksey Tcherkassky November 10, 1740 November 4, 1742 Ivan VI
Chancellor bestuzhev.jpg Alexey Bestuzhev-Ryumin November 4, 1742 February 15, 1758 Elizabeth
Alexey Antropov 016.jpg Mikhail Vorontsov November 23, 1758 October 27, 1763
Peter III
Nikita Ivanovich Panin.PNG Nikita Panin October 27, 1763 April 10, 1781 Catherine II
Ivan Alexandrovich Osterman.PNG Ivan Osterman April 10, 1781 May 2, 1797
A.A.Bezborodko by Lampi (1794, Hermitage).jpg Aleksandr Bezborodko May 2, 1797 April 6, 1799 Paul I
Orest Kiprensky 006.jpeg Fyodor Rostopchin April 6, 1799 February 20, 1801
Panin Nikita Petrovich.jpg Nikita Panin March 23, 1801 September 30, 1801 Alexander I
Kochubey Viktor Pavlovich.jpg Viktor Kochubey September 30, 1801 September 8, 1802
Ministers of Foreign Affairs
AlexandrRomanovichVorontsov.jpg Alexander Vorontsov September 8, 1802 January 16, 1804 Alexander I
Adam Jerzy Czartoryski.jpg Adam Jerzy Czartoryski January 16, 1804 June 17, 1806
Andrey Yakovlevich von Budberg (Russian portraits, Vol.2, Num.164) - retouched.jpg Andreas Eberhard von Budberg June 17, 1806 August 30, 1807
Rumyan.jpg Nikolay Rumyantsev February 12, 1808 August 1, 1814
Kapodistrias2.jpg Ioannis Kapodistrias
(Joint with Karl Nesselrode)
January 31, 1816 August 19, 1822
Karl Nesselrode.png Karl Nesselrode 1814 April 15, 1856
Nicholas I
AM Gorchakov by Bogatsky crop.jpg Alexander Gorchakov April 15, 1856 9 April 1882 Alexander II
Nikolai de Giers.jpg Nicholas de Giers April 9, 1882 January 26, 1895 Alexander III
Lobanov.gif Alexei Lobanov-Rostovsky March 18, 1895 August 30, 1896 Nicholas II
Shishkin NP.jpg Nikolay Shishkin September 1, 1896 January 13, 1897
Muraviov Mikhail (1845-1900).jpg Mikhail Muravyov January 13, 1897 June 21, 1900
Lambsdorf Vladimir (1844-1907).jpg Vladimir Lambsdorff January 6, 1901 May 11, 1906
Извольский Александр Петрович, 1894.jpg Alexander Izvolsky May 11, 1906 October 11, 1910
Sergei Dmitrievich Sazonov.jpg Sergey Sazonov October 11, 1910 July 20, 1916
Штюрмер Б. (Новгородская область).jpg Boris Stürmer July 20, 1916 November 23, 1916
Nikolai Pokrovsky.jpg Nikolay Pokrovsky November 23, 1916 March 2, 1917

Provisional Government

Minister Party Term of Office Prime Minister
Ministers of Foreign Affairs
Pavel Milyukov 2.jpg Pavel Milyukov Constitutional Democratic Party March 2, 1917 May 1, 1917 George Lvov
Mikhail Ivanovich Tereshchenko.jpg Mikhail Tereshchenko Independent May 5, 1917 November 7, 1917
Alexander Kerensky

Russian SFSR (1917–1991)

Minister Party Term of Office Head of State
People's Commissars of Foreign Affairs
Lev trotsky viena.jpeg Leon Trotsky Social Democratic Labour Party
(Bolshevik)
November 7, 1917 March 13, 1918 Lev Kamenev
Georgy Chicherin 1920s.jpg Georgy Chicherin Communist Party April 9, 1918 July 6, 1923
Post abolished (1923–1944). Power transferred to Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union.
1953 Anatoly Lavrentiev cropped.jpg Anatoly Lavrentiev Communist Party March 8, 1944 March 13, 1946 Nikolay Shvernik
Post abolished
Ministers of Foreign Affairs
Coat of arms of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1956-1978).svg Mikhail Yakovlev Communist Party April 16, 1959 August 5, 1960 Nikolai Ignatov
Nikolay Organov
Sergey Georgiyevich Lapin.jpg Sergey Lapin Communist Party September 5, 1960 January 20, 1962
Coat of arms of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1956-1978).svg Mikhail Menshikov Communist Party February 1, 1962 September 11, 1968
Nikolai Ignatov
Mikhail Yasnov
Coat of arms of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1956-1978).svg Aleksei A. Rodionov Communist Party September 11, 1968 May 7, 1971
Coat of arms of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.svg Fyodor Titov Communist Party May 7, 1971 May 28, 1982
RIAN archive 62771 Vladimir Vinogradov.jpg Vladimir Vinogradov Communist Party May 28, 1982 June 15, 1990
Vladimir Orlov
Vitaly Vorotnikov
Evstafiev-Andrey Kozyrev.jpg Andrey Kozyrev Independent October 11, 1990 December 26, 1991 Boris Yeltsin

Russian Federation (1991–present)

Minister Term of Office Party Cabinet President
Ministers of Foreign Affairs
Evstafiev-Andrey Kozyrev.jpg Andrey Kozyrev December 27, 1991 January 5, 1996 Independent Yeltsin–Gaidar Boris Yeltsin
Chernomyrdin I
E Primakov 03 (cropped).jpg Yevgeny Primakov January 9, 1996 September 11, 1998 Independent
Chernomyrdin II
Kiriyenko
Igor Ivanov 2014.jpg Igor Ivanov September 30, 1998 February 24, 2004 Independent Primakov
Stepashin
Putin I
Kasyanov Vladimir Putin
Сергей Лавров (18-11-2022) (cropped).jpg Sergey Lavrov February 24, 2004 Incumbent United Russia Fradkov I
Fradkov II
Zubkov
Putin II Dmitry Medvedev
Medvedev I Vladimir Putin
Medvedev II
Mishustin I
Mishustin II

Timeline

Sergey Lavrov Igor Ivanov Yevgeny Primakov Andrey Kozyrev Vladimir Vinogradov Fyodor Titov Aleksei Rodionov Mikhail Menshikov Sergey Lapin (diplomat) Mikhail Yakovlev Anatoly Laverrntiev Georgy Chicherin Leon Trotsky Mikhail Tereshchenko Pavel Milyukov Nikolay Pokrovsky Boris Stürmer Sergey Sazonov Alexander Izvolsky Vladimir Lambsdorff Mikhail Nikolaiovich Muravyov Nikolay Shishkin Alexei Lobanov-Rostovsky Nicholas de Giers Alexander Gorchakov Ioannis Kapodistrias Karl Nesselrode Nikolay Rumyantsev Andreas Eberhard von Budberg Adam Jerzy Czartoryski Alexander Vorontsov Viktor Kochubey Nikita Panin Fyodor Rostopchin Aleksandr Bezborodko Ivan Osterman Nikita Panin Mikhail Vorontsov Alexey Bestuzhev-Ryumin Aleksey Tcherkassky Andrey Osterman Gavriil Golovkin Pyotr Shafirov Fyodor Golovin Lev Naryshkin Emelian Ukraintsev Vasily Golitsyn Vasily Volynsky Larion Ivanov Artamon Matveyev Afanasy Ordin-Nashchokin Almaz Ivanov Mikhail Volosheninov Nazary Chistoy Grigory Lvov Ivan Gryazev Fyodor Likhachov Yefim Telepnyov Pyotr Tretyakov Fyodor Androsov Vasily Telepnev Ivan Gramotin Afanasy Vlasyev Vasily Shchelkalov Andrey Shchelkalov Andrey Vasilyev Ivan Viskovatyi

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