Deputy Chairman of the Government explained

Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation (Russian: Заместитель председателя Правительства Российской Федерации) is a member of the Government of Russia. The post is commonly referred to as "vice premier" both in and outside of Russia. According to the Chapter 6, Article 110 of the Constitution of Russia, "The Government of the Russian Federation consists of the chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation, Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation and federal ministries". Article 112 states that the Chairman of the Government (Prime Minister) recommends candidates for the post of deputy chairmen to the President of Russia.[1] The role of deputy chairmen of government of the Russian Federation is to coordinate the activities of federal government bodies and carry out other tasks in response to particular issues or events. The most senior of them is the First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia.

Current deputy prime ministers

Dmitry GrigorenkoDmitry PatrushevVitaly SavelyevMarat KhusnullinYury TrutnevAlexey OverchukTatyana GolikovaDmitry ChernyshenkoAlexander Novak
Deputy Prime Minister –
Chief of Staff of the Government
Deputy Prime MinisterDeputy Prime MinisterDeputy Prime MinisterDeputy Prime Minister –
Presidential Envoy
to the Far Eastern Federal District
Deputy Prime MinisterDeputy Prime MinisterDeputy Prime MinisterDeputy Prime Minister -
for Fuel Energy complex

Complete list of deputy prime ministers

The following is a list of all individuals who have held the office of Deputy Chairman of Government in the Russian Federation since 1991, as well as the cabinets that they were part of.[2] [3]

NameEntered officeLeft officeNotesCabinet
Gennady Burbulis6 November 199114 April 1992First deputyGaidar–Yeltsin
Alexander Shokhin6 November 199120 January 1994Gaidar–Yeltsin
Chernomyrdin I
Yegor Gaidar6 November 199115 December 1992First deputy – from 2 March 1992
interim Prime Minister – from 15 June
Gaidar–Yeltsin
Sergey Shakhray12 December 199120 April 1992Gaidar–Yeltsin
Mikhail Poltoranin22 February 199225 November 1992Gaidar–Yeltsin
Valery Makharadze2 March 199223 December 1992Gaidar–Yeltsin
Georgy Khizha20 May 199211 May 1993Gaidar–Yeltsin
Chernomyrdin I
Victor Chernomyrdin30 May 199214 December 1992Gaidar–Yeltsin
Anatoly Chubais1 June 199216 November 1996First deputy – from 5 November 1994Gaidar–Yeltsin
Chernomyrdin I
Vladimir Shumeyko2 June 199220 January 1994First deputyGaidar–Yeltsin
Chernomyrdin I
Boris Saltykov4 June 199225 March 1993Gaidar–Yeltsin
Chernomyrdin I
Serg Shakhrai11 November 199220 January 1994Gaidar–Yeltsin
Chernomyrdin I
Yury Yarov23 December 199224 July 1996Gaidar–Yeltsin
Chernomyrdin I
Boris Fyodorov23 December 199220 January 1994Chernomyrdin I
Alexander Zaveryukha10 February 199317 March 1997Chernomyrdin I
Chernomyrdin II
Oleg Lobov25 April 199318 September 1993First deputyChernomyrdin I
Oleg Soskovets30 April 199320 June 1996First deputyChernomyrdin I
Yegor Gaidar18 September 199320 January 1994First deputyChernomyrdin I
Alexander Shokhin23 March 19946 November 1994Chernomyrdin I
Sergei Shakhrai7 April 19945 January 1996Chernomyrdin I
Oleg Davydov9 November 199417 March 1997Chernomyrdin I
Chernomyrdin II
Alexei Bolshakov9 November 199417 March 1997First deputy – from 14 August 1996 Chernomyrdin I
Chernomyrdin II
Vladimir Polevanov25 November 199424 January 1995Chernomyrdin I
Nikolai Yegorov7 December 199430 June 1995Chernomyrdin I
Vitaly Ignatenko31 May 199517 March 1997Chernomyrdin I
Chernomyrdin II
Vladimir Kinelyov6 January 199614 August 1996Chernomyrdin I
Vladimir Kadannikov25 January 199614 August 1996First deputyChernomyrdin I
Alexander Kazakov25 January 199619 July 1996Chernomyrdin I
Oleg Lobov18 June 199617 March 1997First deputy – until 14 August 1996Chernomyrdin I
Chernomyrdin II
Victor Ilyushin14 August 199617 March 1997First deputyChernomyrdin II
Vladimir Potanin14 August 199617 March 1997First deputyChernomyrdin II
Vladimir Babichev14 August 199617 March 1997Chernomyrdin II
Alexander Livshits14 August 199617 March 1997Chernomyrdin II
Valery Serov14 August 199628 February 1998Chernomyrdin II
Vladimir Fortov17 August 199617 March 1997Chernomyrdin II
Anatoly Kulikov4 February 199723 March 1998simultaneously Minister of Internal AffairsChernomyrdin II
Anatoly Chubais7 March 199723 March 1998First deputyChernomyrdin II
Oleg Sysuyev17 March 199716 September 1998Chernomyrdin II
Kiriyenko
Alfred Koch17 March 199713 August 1997Chernomyrdin II
Yakov Urinson17 March 199730 April 1998Chernomyrdin II
Boris Nemtsov17 March 199728 August 1998First deputy – until 28 April 1998Chernomyrdin II
Kiriyenko
Vladimir Bulgak17 March 199730 April 1998Chernomyrdin II
Victor Khlystun19 May 199724 April 1998Chernomyrdin II
Ramazan Abdulatipov1 August 199724 April 1998Chernomyrdin II
Maxim Boycko13 August 199715 November 1997Chernomyrdin II
Farit Gazizullin20 December 199724 April 1998Chernomyrdin II
Ivan Rybkin2 March 199824 April 1998Chernomyrdin II
Sergei Kiriyenko23 March 199824 April 1998First deputy
interim Prime Minister
Chernomyrdin II
Viktor Khristenko28 April 199828 September 1998Kiriyenko
Boris Fyodorov17 August 199828 September 1998Primakov
Yury Maslyukov11 September 199819 May 1999First deputyPrimakov
Vladimir Bulgak16 September 199819 May 1999Primakov
Vladimir Ryzhkov16 September 199821 September 1998declined his post after five daysPrimakov
Alexander Shokhin26 September 199830 September 1998Primakov
Vadim Gustov18 September 199827 April 1999First deputyPrimakov
Gennady Kulik21 September 199819 May 1999Primakov
Valentina Matviyenko24 September 199811 March 2003WelfarePrimakov
Stepashin
Putin I
Kasyanov
Sergei Stepashin27 April 199919 May 1999First deputy
interim Prime Minister – from May 12
Primakov
Nikolai Aksyonenko21 May 199910 January 2000First deputyStepashin
Putin I
Mikhail Zadornov25 May 199928 May 1999First deputyStepashin
Vladimir Shcherbak25 May 19997 May 2000Stepashin
Putin I
Viktor Khristenko31 May 19999 March 2004First deputy – until 10 January 2000Stepashin
Putin I
Kasyanov
Ilya Klebanov31 May 199918 February 2002Stepashin
Putin I
Kasyanov
Vladimir Putin9 August 199916 August 1999First deputy
interim Prime Minister
Stepashin
Mikhail Kasyanov10 January 200017 May 2000First deputy
interim Prime Minister – from 7 May 2000
Putin I
Sergey Shoigu10 January 200018 May 2000simultaneously Minister of Emergency SituationsPutin I
Alexei Kudrin18 May 20009 March 2004simultaneously Minister of FinanceKasyanov
Alexei Gordeyev20 May 20009 March 2004Kasyanov
Boris Alyoshin24 April 20039 March 2004Kasyanov
24 April 20039 March 2004Kasyanov
Alexander Zhukov9 March 200420 December 2011Frakov I
Fradkov II
Zubkov
Putin II
Dmitry Medvedev9 March 20047 May 2008Fradkov I
Fradkov II
Zubkov
Sergei Ivanov14 November 200522 December 2011simultaneously Minister of Defense
First deputy (2007–2008)
Fradkov II
Zubkov
Putin II
Sergei Naryshkin25 February 200712 May 2008Fradkov II
Zubkov
Alexei Kudrin24 September 200726 September 2011simultaneously Minister of FinanceZubkov
Putin II
Viktor Zubkov12 May 200821 May 2012First deputyPutin II
Igor Shuvalov12 May 200818 May 2018First deputyPutin II
Medvedev I
Igor Sechin12 May 200821 May 2012Putin II
Sergei Sobyanin12 May 200821 October 2010Putin II
Dmitry Kozak14 October 200821 January 2020Putin II
Medvedev I
Medvedev II
Alexander Khloponin19 January 201018 May 2018simultaneously Presidential Envoy to the North Caucasian Federal District – until 12 May 2014Putin II
Medvedev I
Vyacheslav Volodin21 October 201027 December 2011Putin II
Dmitry Rogozin23 December 201118 May 2018Putin II
Medvedev I
Vladislav Surkov27 December 20118 May 2013Putin II
Medvedev I
Arkady Dvorkovich21 May 201218 May 2018Medvedev I
Olga Golodets21 May 201221 January 2020Medvedev I
Medvedev II
Sergei Prikhodko22 May 201318 May 2018Medvedev I
Yury Trutnev31 August 2013simultaneously Presidential Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal DistrictMedvedev I
Medvedev II
Mishustin
Vitaly Mutko30 October 201621 January 2020Medvedev I
Medvedev II
Anton Siluanov18 May 201821 January 2020First deputyMedvedev II
Alexey Gordeyev18 May 201821 January 2020Medvedev II
Konstantin Chuychenko18 May 201821 January 2020Medvedev II
Yury Borisov18 May 201815 July 2022Medvedev II
Mishustin
Tatyana Golikova18 May 2018Medvedev II
MishustinMishustin II
Maxim Akimov18 May 201821 January 2020Medvedev II
Andrey Belousov21 January 20207 May 2024First deputyMishustin
Dmitry Grigorenko21 January 2020MishustinMishustin II
Viktoria Abramchenko21 January 20207 May 2024Mishustin
Marat Khusnullin21 January 2020MishustinMishustin II
Alexey Overchuk21 January 2020MishustinMishustin II
Dmitry Chernyshenko21 January 2020MishustinMishustin II
Alexander Novak10 November 2020MishustinMishustin II
Denis Manturov15 July 2022[4] First DeputyMishustinMishustin II
Dmitry Patrushev14 May 2024Mishustin II
Vitaly Savelyev14 May 2024Mishustin II

See also

Notes and References

  1. http://www.constitution.ru/en/10003000-07.htm Chapter 6. The Government of the Russian Federation
  2. https://www.rulers.org/russgov.html Russian ministries, political parties, etc.
  3. Web site: 2024-05-13 . Депутаты утвердили кандидатуры на должности заместителей Председателя Правительства РФ . 2024-05-13 . Государственная Дума . ru.
  4. Web site: 2022-07-15 . Путин утвердил назначение Дениса Мантурова вице-премьером . 2024-05-13 . www.kommersant.ru . ru.