| Cabinet Name: | Second cabinet of Viktor Chernomyrdin |
| Cabinet Number: | 44th |
| Jurisdiction: | Russia |
| Flag: | Flag of Russia.svg |
| Flag Border: | true |
| Date Formed: | 10 August 1996 |
| Date Dissolved: | 23 March 1998 |
| Government Head: | Viktor Chernomyrdin Sergey Kiriyenko (acting) |
| Deputy Government Head: | Anatoly Chubais |
| State Head: | Boris Yeltsin |
| Current Number: | 27 |
| Political Party: | Our Home - Russia Democratic Choice of Russia Socialistic Party Congress of Russian Communities[1] |
| Legislature Status: | Coalition |
| Opposition Party: | Communist Party |
| Opposition Leader: | Gennady Zuganov |
| Previous: | Chernomyrdin I |
| Successor: | Kiriyenko |
Viktor Chernomyrdin's Second Cabinet acted under President Boris Yeltsin from August 10, 1996, until March 23, 1998. The State Duma overwhelmingly confirmed reappointment of Chernomyrdin as head of the Cabinet, with 314 deputies voting in favor, far more than the simple majority of 216 needed for approval and 85 deputies were opposed.[2]
| Post | Image | Name | Party | Period | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prime Minister | Viktor Chernomyrdin | 10 August 1996 – 23 March 1998 | ||||
| Deputy Prime Ministers | ||||||
| First Deputy Prime Minister | Alexei Bolshakov | Independent | 14 August 1996 – 17 March 1997 | |||
| First Deputy Prime Minister | Viktor Ilyushin | Independent | 14 August 1996 – 17 March 1997 | |||
| First Deputy Prime Minister | Vladimir Potanin | Independent | 14 August 1996 – 17 March 1997 | |||
| First Deputy Prime Minister | Anatoly Chubais | Democratic Choice of Russia | 17 March 1997 – 23 March 1998 | |||
| First Deputy Prime Minister | Boris Nemtsov | Independent | 17 March 1997 – 23 March 1998 | |||
| Deputy Prime Minister — Chief of Staff of the Government | Vladimir Babichev | 10 August 1996 – 17 March 1997 | ||||
| Deputy Prime Minister | Oleg Davydov | 10 August 1996 – 17 March 1997 | ||||
| Deputy Prime Minister | Alexei Bolshakov | 10 August 1996 – 17 March 1997 | ||||
| Deputy Prime Minister | Vitaly Ignatenko | 10 August 1996 – 17 March 1997 | ||||
| Deputy Prime Minister | Alexander Zaveryukha | 10 August 1996 – 17 March 1997 | ||||
| Deputy Prime Minister | Oleg Lobov | 14 August 1996 – 17 March 1997 | ||||
| Deputy Prime Minister | Alexander Livshits | 14 August 1996 – 17 March 1997 | ||||
| Deputy Prime Minister | Valery Serov | 17 March 1997 – 28 February 1998 | ||||
| Deputy Prime Minister | Vladimir Fortov | 17 August 1996 – 17 March 1997 | ||||
| Deputy Prime Minister | Anatoly Kulikov | 4 February 1997 – 23 March 1998 | ||||
| Deputy Prime Minister | Oleg Sysuyev | 17 March 1997 – 13 March 1998 | ||||
| Deputy Prime Minister | Alfred Koch | 17 March 1997 – 13 August 1997 | ||||
| Deputy Prime Minister | Yakov Urinson | 17 March 1997 – 23 March 1998 | ||||
| Deputy Prime Minister | Vladimir Bulgak | 17 March 1997 – 23 March 1998 | ||||
| Deputy Prime Minister | Viktor Khlystun | 19 May 1997 – 23 March 1998 | ||||
| Deputy Prime Minister | Ramazan Abdulatipov | Party of Russian Unity and Accord | 1 August 1997 – 23 March 1998 | |||
| Deputy Prime Minister | Maxim Boyko | 13 August 1997 – 15 November 1997 | ||||
| Deputy Prime Minister | Farit Gazizullin | 20 December 1997 – 23 March 1998 | ||||
| Deputy Prime Minister | Ivan Rybkin | 2 March 1998 – 23 March 1998 | ||||
| Federal Ministers | ||||||
| Minister of Agriculture | Viktor Khlystun | 10 August 1996 — 23 March 1998 | ||||
| Minister of Defence | 10 August 1996 – 22 May 1997 | |||||
| 22 May 1997 – 23 March 1998 | ||||||
| Minister of Economy | Yevgeny Yasin | 10 August 1996 – 17 March 1997 | ||||
| Yakov Urinson | 17 March 1997 – 23 March 1998 | |||||
| Minister of Education | Vladimir Kinelyov | 14 August 1996 – 28 February 1998 | ||||
| Alexander Tikhonov | 2 – 23 March 1998 | |||||
| Minister of Emergency Situations | Sergey Shoygu | Our Home – Russia | 10 August 1996 — 23 March 1998 | |||
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | Yevgeny Primakov | Independent (1996–98) | 10 August 1996 — 23 March 1998 | |||
| Fatherland – All Russia (1998) | ||||||
| Minister of Health and Social Development | Tatyana Dmitrieva | 22 August 1996 — 23 March 1998 | ||||
| Minister of Industry, Science and Technologies | Yuri Bespalov | 10 August 1996 – 17 March 1997 | ||||
| Minister of Internal Affairs | Anatoly Kulikov | Independent | 10 August 1996 — 23 March 1998 | |||
| Minister of Justice | Valentin Alekseevich Kovalyov | 10 August 1996 — 2 July 1997 | ||||
| Sergey Stepashin | 2 July 1997 — 23 March 1998 | |||||
| Minister of Transport | Nikolai Tsakh | 10 August 1996 – 28 February 1998 | ||||
| Sergei Frank | 28 February 1998 – 23 March 1998 | |||||
| Chief of Staff of the Government — Minister of the Russian Federation | Vladimir Babichev | 17 March 1997 — 23 March 1998 | ||||