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 President
Appointer	after consultation with Federation Council
Term length	No fixed term
First holder	Andrei Kozyrev
Website	www.mid.ru

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The Minister of Foreign Affairs is the head of Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs which is concerned with foreign affairs and is a member of the Government of Russia.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs is one of the five so-called "presidential" ministers, along with the ministers of defense, interior, emergencies and justice. Although they are members of the Cabinet, but they are directly subordinate to the President. The minister of foreign affairs, like other presidential ministers, is nominated and appointed by the President, after consultation with the Federation Council (the other ministers are nominating 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.^[1]

Tsardom of Russia[edit]

Portrait	Name	Term of office		Head of State
Heads of Ambassadorial Prikaz
	Ivan Viskovatyi	January 2, 1549	August 2, 1562^[2]	Ivan IV
	Andrey Vasilyev	September, 1562	July 25, 1570
	Andrey Shchelkalov	November, 1570	June 17, 1594
	Andrey Shchelkalov	November, 1570	June 17, 1594	Feodor I
	Vasily Shchelkalov	June 30, 1594	May 1601	Feodor I
	Vasily Shchelkalov	June 30, 1594	May 1601	Boris Godunov
	Afanasy Vlasyev	May 1601	May 8, 1605	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
	Vasily Telepnev	1606	March 1611	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
	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
	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
	Artamon Matveyev	February 22, 1671	July 3, 1676	Feodor III
	Larion Ivanov	July 4, 1676	December 21, 1680
	Vasily Volynsky	December 21, 1680	May 6, 1681
	Larion Ivanov (Acting)	May 6, 1681	May 15, 1682
	Larion Ivanov (Acting)	May 6, 1681	May 15, 1682	Sofia Alekseyevna, Ivan V and Peter I
	Vasily Golitsyn	May 17, 1682	September 6, 1689	Sofia Alekseyevna, Ivan V and Peter I
	Emelian Ukraintsev	September 6, 1689	April 19, 1699	Ivan V and Peter I
	Emelian Ukraintsev	September 6, 1689	April 19, 1699	Peter I
	Lev Naryshkin	1697	1699
	Fyodor Golovin	February 18, 1700	August 2, 1706
	Pyotr Shafirov	September 1706	1708
	Gavriil Golovkin	1708	15 December 1717

Russian Empire[edit]

Portrait	Name	Term of office		Head of State
Presidents of the Collegium of Foreign Affairs
	Gavriil Golovkin	15 December 1717	January 20, 1734	Peter I
				Catherine I
				Peter II
				Anna
	Andrey Osterman	1734	1740	Anna
	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	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	Catherine II
	Aleksandr Bezborodko	May 2, 1797	April 6, 1799	Paul I
	Fyodor Rostopchin	April 6, 1799	February 20, 1801	Paul I
	Nikita Panin	March 23, 1801	September 30, 1801	Alexander I
	Viktor Kochubey	September 30, 1801	September 8, 1802	Alexander I
Ministers of Foreign Affairs
	Alexander Vorontsov	September 8, 1802	January 16, 1804	Alexander I
	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
	Ioannis Kapodistrias (Joint with Karl Nesselrode)	January 31, 1816	August 19, 1822
	Karl Nesselrode	1814	April 15, 1856
	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[edit]

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

Russian SFSR[edit]

Minister		Party	Term of Office
People's Commissars of Foreign Affairs
	Leon Trotsky	Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolshevik)	November 7, 1917	March 13, 1918	Lev Kamenev
	Georgy Chicherin	Communist Party	April 9, 1918	July 6, 1923	Lev Kamenev
Post abolished (1923–1944). Power transferred to Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union.
	Anatoly Lavrentiev	Communist Party	March 8, 1944	March 13, 1946	Nikolay Shvernik
Post abolished
Ministers of Foreign Affairs
	Mikhail Yakovlev	Communist Party	April 16, 1959	August 5, 1960	Nikolai Ignatov
	Mikhail Yakovlev	Communist Party	April 16, 1959	August 5, 1960	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	December 25, 1991	Boris Yeltsin

Russian Federation[edit]

	Party	Term of Office		Cabinet
Andrey Kozyrev	Independent	December 25, 1991	January 5, 1996	Yeltsin–Gaigar	Boris Yeltsin
Andrey Kozyrev	Independent	December 25, 1991	January 5, 1996	Chernomyrdin I
Yevgeny Primakov	Independent	January 9, 1996	September 11, 1998	Chernomyrdin I
				Chernomyrdin II
				Kiriyenko
Igor Ivanov	Independent	September 30, 1998	February 24, 2004	Primakov
				Stepashin
				Putin I
				Kasyanov	Vladimir Putin
Sergey Lavrov	United Russia	February 24, 2004	Incumbent	Fradkov I
				Fradkov II
				Zubkov
				Putin II	Dmitry Medvedev
				Medvedev I	Vladimir Putin
				Medvedev II
				Mishustin

References[edit]

^ "Конституция Российской Федерации" (принята всенародным голосованием 12.12.1993 с изменениями, одобренными в ходе общероссийского голосования 01.07.2020) Статья 83
^ "Russia's foreign policy for 1000". Archived from the original on 2014-09-27. Retrieved 2016-02-20.

External links[edit]

Media related to Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Russia at Wikimedia Commons

[1] "Конституция Российской Федерации" (принята всенародным голосованием 12.12.1993 с изменениями, одобренными в ходе общероссийского голосования 01.07.2020) Статья 83

[2] "Russia's foreign policy for 1000". Archived from the original on 2014-09-27. Retrieved 2016-02-20.

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