Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union

From MedBib.com - Medicine & Nature

People's Commissariat of Military and Sea Affairs of the USSR

People's Commissars:

• Nikolai Podvoisky 8 November 1917 – 13 March 1918
• Lev Kamenev 13 March 1918 – 28 August 1919
• Leon Trotsky 29 August 1919 – 15 January 1925
• Mikhail Frunze 15 January – 31 October 1925
• Kliment Voroshilov 6 November 1925 – 20 June 1934

Note: position under Council of People's Comissars of the RSFSR until All-union government became operational on July 6, 1923.

People's Commissariat of Defence of the USSR

People's Commissars:

• Kliment Voroshilov 20 June 1934 – 7 May 1940
• Semyon Timoshenko 7 May 1940 – 19 July 1941
• Joseph Stalin 19 July 1941 – 25 February 1946

People's Commissariat of Navy of the USSR

Separated from People's Commissariat of Defence in 1937, in 1946 joined with People's Commissariat of Defence into People's Commissariat of Armed Forces.

People's Commissars:

• Pyotr Smirnov 30 December 1937 – 30 June 1938
• Mikhail Frinovskiy 8 September 1938 – 20 March 1939
• Nikolai Kuznetsov 28 April 1939 – 25 February 1946

People's Commissariat (from 15 March 1946 Ministry) of Armed Forces of the USSR

Formed by joining of People's Commissariats of Defence and Navy.

People's Commissars: (from 15.3.1946 Ministers):

• Joseph Stalin 25 February 1946 – 3 March 1947
• Nikolai Bulganin 3 March 1947 – 24 March 1949
• Aleksandr Vasilevsky 24 March 1949 – 25 February 1950

Military Ministry of the USSR

Formed by division of Ministry of Armed Forces into Military Ministry and Ministry of Navy.

Military minister:

• Aleksandr Vasilevsky 25 February 1950 – 15 March 1953

Ministry of Navy of the USSR

Further information: Soviet_Navy#Commanders-in-Chief_of_the_Soviet_Naval_Forces

Formed by division of Ministry of Armed Forces into Ministry of War and Ministry of Navy.

Ministers of Navy:

• Ivan Yumashev 25 February 1950 – 20 July 1951
• Nikolai Kuznetsov 20 July 1951 – 15 March 1953

Ministry of Defence of the USSR

Organized by joining of Military Ministry and Ministry of Navy.

Ministers:

• Nikolai Bulganin 15 March 1953 – 9 February 1955
• Georgy Zhukov 9 February 1955 – 26 October 1957
• Rodion Malinovsky 26 October 1957 – 31 March 1967
• Andrei Grechko 12 April 1967 – 26 April 1976
• Dmitry Ustinov 29 April 1976 – 20 December 1984
• Sergei Sokolov 22 December 1984 – 30 May 1987
• Dmitry Yazov 30 May 1987 – 22 August 1991
• Yevgeny Shaposhnikov 23 August – 21 December 1991

See also

• Heads of military of Imperial Russia
• Defence Ministry of the Russian Federation