This is a list of ministers of culture of Russia.
| Minister | Political party | Term of office | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tatyana Zuyeva | Communist Party | 1 April 1953 | 24 May 1958 | |||
| Alexey Popov | Communist Party | 24 May 1958 | 17 November 1965 | |||
| Nikolay Kuznetsov | Communist Party | 17 November 1965 | 28 February 1974 | |||
| Yury Melentyev | Communist Party | 28 February 1974 | 14 July 1990 | |||
| Yury Solomin | Independent | 8 September 1990 | 5 December 1991 | |||
| Yevgeny Sidorov | Independent | 5 February 1992 | 27 March 1992[1] | |||
| Minister | Political party | Term of office | Cabinet | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yevgeny Sidorov | Independent | 23 December 1992 | 28 August 1997 | Chernomyrdin I | ||
| Chernomyrdin II | ||||||
| Natalia Dementieva | Independent | 28 August 1997 | 30 September 1998 | |||
| Kiriyenko | ||||||
| Independent | 30 September 1998 | 8 February 2000 | Primakov | |||
| Stepashin | ||||||
| Putin I | ||||||
| Mikhail Shvydkoy | Independent | 8 February 2000 | 9 March 2004 | |||
| Kasyanov | ||||||
| Minister | Political party | Term of office | Cabinet | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander Sokolov | Independent | 9 March 2004 | 12 May 2008 | Fradkov I | ||
| Fradkov II | ||||||
| Zubkov | ||||||
| Minister | Political party | Term of office | Cabinet | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander Avdeyev | Independent | 12 May 2008 | 21 May 2012 | Putin II | |||
| Vladimir Medinsky | United Russia | 21 May 2012 | 21 January 2020 | Medvedev I | |||
| Medvedev II | |||||||
| Olga Lyubimova | Independent | 21 January 2020 | Incumbent | Mishustin | |||