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The Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union refers to the defence minister who was responsible for defence of the communist Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1919 to 1922 and the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1991.
List of defence ministers
| Name | Portrait | Took office | Left office | Premier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs (1923–1934) | ||||
| Leon Trotsky |  |
29 August 1919 | 15 January 1925 | Vladimir Lenin |
| Alexei Rykov | ||||
| Mikhail Frunze |  |
15 January 1925 | 31 October 1925 | Alexei Rykov |
| Marshal Kliment Voroshilov |  |
6 November 1925 | 20 June 1934 | Alexei Rykov |
| Vyacheslav Molotov | ||||
| People's Commissar for Defence (1934–1946) | ||||
| Marshal Kliment Voroshilov | |
20 June 1934 | 7 May 1940 | Vyacheslav Molotov |
| Marshal Semyon Timoshenko | ,_Soviet_military_commander.jpg) |
7 May 1940 | 19 July 1941 | Vyacheslav Molotov |
| Joseph Stalin | ||||
| Generalissimus Joseph Stalin |  |
19 July 1941 | 25 February 1946 | Vyacheslav Molotov |
| Joseph Stalin | ||||
| People's Commissar for the Navy (1937–1946) | ||||
| 1st Commissar Pyotr Smirnov |  |
30 December 1937 | 30 June 1938 | Vyacheslav Molotov |
| 1st Army Commander Mikhail Frinovsky |  |
8 September 1938 | 20 March 1939 | Vyacheslav Molotov |
| Vice-Admiral Nikolay Kuznetsov |  |
28 April 1939 | 25 February 1946 | Vyacheslav Molotov |
| Joseph Stalin | ||||
| People's Commissar for the Armed Forces (1946) | ||||
| Generalissimus Joseph Stalin | |
25 February 1946 | 15 March 1946 | Himself |
| Minister of the Armed Forces (1946–1950) | ||||
| Generalissimus Joseph Stalin | |
15 March 1946 | 3 March 1947 | Himself |
| Nikolai Bulganin |  |
3 March 1947 | 24 March 1949 | Joseph Stalin |
| Marshal Aleksandr Vasilevsky |  |
24 March 1949 | 25 February 1950 | Joseph Stalin |
| Minister of War (1950–1953) | ||||
| Marshal Aleksandr Vasilevsky | |
25 February 1950 | 15 March 1953 | Joseph Stalin |
| Georgy Malenkov | ||||
| Minister of the Navy (1950–1953) | ||||
| Admiral Ivan Yumashev |  |
25 February 1950 | 20 July 1951 | Joseph Stalin |
| Admiral Nikolay Kuznetsov | |
20 July 1951 | 15 March 1953 | Joseph Stalin |
| Georgy Malenkov | ||||
| Minister of Defence (1953–1991) | ||||
| Marshal Nikolai Bulganin | |
15 March 1953 | 9 February 1955 | Georgy Malenkov |
| Marshal Georgy Zhukov |  |
9 February 1955 | 26 October 1957 | Nikolai Bulganin |
| Marshal Rodion Malinovsky |  |
26 October 1957 | 31 March 1967 | Nikolai Bulganin |
| Nikita Khrushchev | ||||
| Alexei Kosygin | ||||
| Marshal Andrei Grechko |  |
12 April 1967 | 26 April 1976 | Alexei Kosygin |
| Marshal Dmitriy Ustinov |  |
30 July 1976 | 20 December 1984 | Alexei Kosygin |
| Nikolai Tikhonov | ||||
| Marshal Sergei Sokolov |  |
22 December 1984 | 30 May 1987 | Nikolai Tikhonov |
| Nikolai Ryzhkov | ||||
| Marshal Dmitry Yazov |  |
30 May 1987 | 22 August 1991 | Nikolai Ryzhkov |
| Valentin Pavlov | ||||
| Marshal of Aviation Yevgeny Shaposhnikov |  |
23 August 1991 | 21 December 1991 | Ivan Silayev |
See also
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