List of interior ministers of Russia

This is a list of ministers of internal affairs of Russia.

Russian Empire

Minister		Term of office		Emperor
	Viktor Kochubey	8 September 1802	24 November 1807	Alexander I
	Prince Aleksey Kurakin	24 November 1807	31 March 1810
	Osip Kozodavlev	31 March 1810	24 June 1819
	Prince Alexander Golitsyn	24 June 1819	4 November 1819
	Viktor Kochubey	4 November 1819	28 June 1823
	Baron Balthasar von Campenhausen	28 June 1823	29 August 1823
	Vasily Stepanovich Lanskoy	29 August 1823	19 April 1828
				Nicholas I
	Count Arseny Zakrevsky	19 April 1828	19 November 1831
	Count Dmitry Bludov	12 February 1832	15 February 1839
	Count Alexander Stroganov	10 March 1839	23 September 1841
	Count Lev Perovsky	23 September 1841	30 August 1852
	Dmitry Bibikov	30 August 1852	20 August 1855
				Alexander II
	Sergey Stepanovich Lanskoy	20 August 1855	23 April 1861
	Pyotr Valuev	23 April 1861	9 March 1868
	Alexander Timashev	9 March 1868	27 November 1878
	Lev Makov	27 November 1878	6 August 1880
	Count Mikhail Loris-Melikov	6 August 1880	4 May 1881
				Alexander III
	Nikolay Ignatyev	4 May 1881	30 May 1882
	Count Dmitry Tolstoy	30 May 1882	25 April 1889
	Ivan Durnovo	28 April 1889	15 October 1895
				Nicholas II
	Ivan Goremykin	15 October 1895	20 October 1899
	Dmitry Sipyagin	20 October 1899	2 April 1902
	Vyacheslav von Plehve	4 April 1902	15 July 1904
	Prince Pyotr Sviatopolk-Mirsky	26 August 1904	18 January 1905
	Alexander Bulygin	20 January 1905	22 October 1905
	Pyotr Durnovo	23 October 1905	22 April 1906
	Pyotr Stolypin	26 April 1906	5 September 1911
	Alexander Makarov	20 September 1911	16 December 1912
	Nikolay Maklakov	16 December 1912	5 June 1915
	Prince Nikolay Shcherbatov	5 June 1915	26 September 1915
	Alexey Khvostov	26 September 1915	3 March 1916
	Boris Stürmer	3 March 1916	7 July 1916
	Alexander Khvostov	7 July 1916	16 September 1916
	Alexander Protopopov	16 September 1916	28 February 1917

Provisional Government/Russian Republic

Minister			Party	Term of office		Prime Minister
		Prince Georgy Lvov	Constitutional Democratic Party	15 March 1917	20 July 1917		Georgy Lvov
		Irakli Tsereteli	Social Democratic Labour Party (Menshevik)	23 July 1917	6 August 1917		Alexander Kerensky
		Nikolai Avksentiev	Socialist Revolutionary Party	7 August 1917	15 September 1917
		Alexey Nikitin	Social Democratic Labour Party (Menshevik)	15 September 1917	7 November 1917

Russian SFSR

1917–1930

Minister			Party	Term of Office		Head of State
		Alexei Rykov	Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolshevik)	8 November 1917	17 November 1917		Lev Kamenev
		Grigory Petrovsky	Communist Party	17 November 1917	30 March 1919
							Yakov Sverdlov
							Mikhail Vladimirsky
		Felix Dzerzhinsky	Communist Party	30 March 1919	6 July 1923		Mikhail Kalinin
		Alexander Beloborodov	Communist Party	30 August 1923	3 December 1927
		Vladimir Tolmachyov	Communist Party	2 January 1928	15 December 1930

1955–1966

Minister			Party	Term of office		Head of state
		Nikolay Stakhanov	Communist Party	22 February 1955	21 July 1961		Mikhail Tarasov
							Nikolay Ignatov
							Nikolay Organov
		Vadim Tikunov	Communist Party	21 July 1961	17 September 1966
							Nikolay Ignatov

1989–1992

Minister			Party	Term of office		Head of state
		Vasily Trushin	Communist Party	27 October 1989	September 1990		Vitaly Vorotnikov
							Boris Yeltsin
		Viktor Barannikov	Independent	8 September 1990	13 September 1991
		Andrey Dunayev	Communist Party	13 September 1991	15 January 1992

Russian Federation

Minister			Party	Term of office		President
		General of the army Viktor Yerin	Independent	15 January 1992	30 June 1995		Boris Yeltsin
		General of the army Anatoly Kulikov	Independent	7 July 1995	23 March 1998
		Colonel general Pavel Maslov (acting)	Independent	23 March 1998	30 March 1998
		Colonel general Sergei Stepashin	Independent	30 March 1998	12 May 1999
		Colonel general Vladimir Vasilyev (acting)	Independent	12 May 1999	21 May 1999
		Colonel general Vladimir Rushailo	Independent	21 May 1999	28 March 2001
							Vladimir Putin
		Boris Gryzlov	United Russia	28 March 2001	24 December 2003
		General of the army Rashid Nurgaliyev	United Russia	24 December 2003	21 May 2012
							Dmitry Medvedev
		General of the police Vladimir Kolokoltsev	United Russia	21 May 2012	Incumbent		Vladimir Putin

Timeline

See also

• Ministry of Internal Affairs
• Russian Council of Ministers
• Ministry of Police of Imperial Russia

External links

• (in Russian) Ministers of Imperial Russia