Cabinet of Boris Yeltsin and Yegor Gaidar

Cabinet of Boris Yeltsin and Yegor Gaidar
42nd Cabinet of Russia
Date formed	6 November 1991
Date dissolved	23 December 1992
People and organisations
Head of state	Boris Yeltsin
Head of government	Boris Yeltsin Yegor Gaidar (acting)
Head of government's history	1991–1999
Deputy head of government	Yegor Gaidar Gennady Burbulis Vladimir Shumeyko
No. of ministers	34
Member party	Independent
Status in legislature	Majority 920 / 1,068
History
Predecessor	Silayev II
Successor	Chernomyrdin I

Cabinet of Boris Yeltsin and Yegor Gaidar was Russian Cabinet of Ministers under the leadership of President Boris Yeltsin and First Deputy Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar, which was in office from 6 November 1991 ^{[1] [2]} to 23 December 1992.

Yeltsin led the Council of Ministers to carry out radical economic reforms aimed at liberalizing the Russian economy. He headed the Cabinet since 6 November 1991 to 15 June 1992. ^[2] From 15 June to 14 December 1992, the Cabinet was directed by the acting Prime Minister Gaidar. ^[3]

In December 1992, Boris Yeltsin proposed to the Congress of People's Deputies of Russia Gaidar's candidacy for the post of Prime Minister of Russia, however, he was denied by the people's deputies. ^[3]

23 December Gaidar was replaced by the cabinet of Viktor Chernomyrdin. ^{[4] [5]}

Ministers

Ministries and committees in italics have been renamed, merged or abolished.

Portfolio	Minister	Took office	Left office	Party
Chairman of the Government	Boris Yeltsin	6 November 1991	15 June 1992		Independent
	Yegor Gaidar (acting)	15 June 1992	14 December 1992		Independent
	Viktor Chernomyrdin	14 December 1992	23 December 1992		Independent
First Deputy Chairman of the Government	Gennady Burbulis	6 November 1991	14 April 1992		Independent
First Deputy Chairman of the Government	Yegor Gaidar	2 March 1992	15 December 1992		Independent
First Deputy Chairman of the Government	Vladimir Shumeyko	2 June 1992	23 December 1992		Independent
Deputy Chairman of the Government on Social Policy	Alexander Shokhin	6 November 1991	23 December 1992		Independent
Deputy Chairman of the Government on Economic Policy	Yegor Gaidar	6 November 1991	2 March 1992		Independent
Deputy Chairman of the Government on the Fuel and Energy Complex	Viktor Chernomyrdin	30 May 1992	14 December 1992		Independent
Deputy Chairman of the Government	Sergey Shakhray	12 December 1991 11 November 1992	20 April 1992 23 December 1992		Independent
Deputy Chairman of the Government	Mikhail Poltoranin	22 February 1992	25 November 1992		Independent
Deputy Chairman of the Government	Valery Makharadze	2 March 1992	23 December 1992		Independent
Deputy Chairman of the Government	Georgy Khizha	20 May 1992	23 December 1992		Independent
Deputy Chairman of the Government	Anatoly Chubais	1 June 1992	23 December 1992		Independent
Deputy Chairman of the Government	Boris Saltykov	4 June 1992	23 December 1992		Independent
Ministry of Architecture, Construction and Housing and Communal Services	Boris Furmanov	27 November 1991	30 September 1992		Independent
Ministry of Security and Interior	Viktor Barannikov	19 December 1991	14 January 1992		Independent
Ministry of Security	Viktor Barannikov	24 January 1992	23 December 1992		Independent
Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations	Gennady Filshin (acting)	6 November 1991	11 November 1991		Independent
	Petr Aven	22 February 1992	23 December 1992		Independent
Ministry of Internal Affairs	Andrey Dunaev	14 November 1991 [6]	15 January 1992		Independent
	Viktor Yerin	15 January 1992	23 December 1992		Independent
Ministry of Health	Vyacheslav Kalinin (acting)	6 November 1991	14 November 1991		Independent
	Andrey Vorobyov	14 November 1991 28 October 1992	23 October 1992 23 December 1992		Independent
Ministry of Foreign Affairs	Andrei Kozyrev	14 November 1991 [7]	23 December 1992		Independent
Ministry of Culture and Tourism	Yury Solomin (acting)	6 November 1991	5 December 1991		Independent
	Evgeny Sidorov	5 February 1992	30 September 1992		Independent
Ministry of Forestry	Valery Shubin (acting)	6 November 1991	10 November 1991		Independent
Ministry of Science, Higher Education and Technical Policy	Boris Saltykov	11 November 1991	23 December 1992		Independent
Ministry of Defence	Boris Yeltsin (acting)	16 March 1992	18 May 1992		Independent
	Pavel Grachev	18 May 1992 [8]	23 December 1992		Independent
Ministry of Education	Eduard Dneprov	6 November 1991	4 December 1992		Independent
	Evgeny Tkachenko (acting)	5 December 1992	23 December 1992		Independent
Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources	Viktor Danilov-Danilyan	12 November 1992	23 December 1992		Independent
Ministry of Press and Information	Mikhail Poltoranin	6 November 1991	25 November 1992		Independent
Ministry of Atomic Energy	Viktor Mikhaylov	2 March 1992	23 December 1992		Independent
Ministry of Industry	Viktor Kisin (acting)	6 November 1991	15 November 1991		Independent
	Alexander Titkin	15 November 1991	30 September 1992		Independent
Ministry of Railways	Gennady Fadeev	20 January 1992	23 December 1992		Independent
Ministry of Agriculture	Gennady Kulik (acting)	6 November 1991	15 November 1991		Independent
	Viktor Khlystun	15 November 1991	30 September 1992		Independent
Ministry of Social Protection	Ella Pamfilova	15 November 1991	23 December 1992		Independent
Ministry of Communications	Vladimir Bulgak	10 November 1991	23 December 1992		Independent
Ministry of Fuel and Energy	Vladimir Lopukhin	10 November 1991	30 May 1992		Independent
Ministry of Trade and Material Resources	Alexander Khlystov (acting)	6 November 1991	10 November 1991		Independent
	Stanislav Anisimov	10 November 1991	16 September 1992		Independent
Ministry of Transport	Vitaly Efimov	6 November 1991	23 December 1992		Independent
Ministry of Labour	Alexander Shokhin	10 November 1991	14 June 1992		Independent
	Gennady Melikyan	14 June 1992	23 December 1992		Independent
Ministry of Finance	Igor Lazarev (acting)	6 November 1991	11 November 1991		Independent
	Yegor Gaidar	19 February 1992 [9]	2 April 1992		Independent
	Vasily Barchuk	2 April 1992	23 December 1992		Independent
Ministry of Justice	Nikolay Fyodorov	6 November 1991	23 December 1992		Independent
Ministry of Economics	Evgeny Saburov (acting)	6 November 1991	11 November 1991		Independent
	Andrey Nechaev	19 February 1992 [10]	23 December 1992		Independent
Ministry of Economy and Finance	Yegor Gaidar	11 November 1991 [11]	19 February 1992		Independent
Ministry of Ecology	Igor Gavrilov (acting)	6 November 1991	10 November 1991		Independent
	Viktor Danilov-Danilyan	10 November 1991	30 September 1992		Independent
Federal Security Agency (with ministry rights)	Viktor Ivanenko	26 November 1991 [12]	15 January 1992		Independent
	Viktor Barannikov	15 January 1992	24 January 1992		Independent
Federal Center for Land and Agro-Industrial Reform (with ministry rights)	Vitaly Ermolenko	1 August 1992	23 December 1992		Independent
Committee for State Security	Viktor Ivanenko	14 November 1991 [13]	26 November 1991		Independent
State Committee for Antimonopoly Policy and Support for New Economic Structures	Leonid Bochin	30 September 1992	23 December 1992		Independent
SC for Civil Defense, Emergency Situations and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters	Sergei Shoigu	24 October 1992 [14]	23 December 1992		Independent
State Committee for Conversion Affairs	Mikhail Bazhanov	19 November 1991	24 February 1992		Independent
State Committee for National Policy	Valery Tishkov	27 February 1992	15 October 1992		Independent
	Sergey Shakhray	11 November 1992	23 December 1992		Independent
State Committee for Defense Issues [15]	Pavel Grachev (acting)	13 November 1991	26 March 1992		Independent
State Committee for Social Protection of Citizens and Rehabilitation of Territories Affected by Chernobyl and Other Radiation Disasters	Semyon Voloshchuk	20 November 1991	5 May 1992		Independent
	Vasily Vozniak	20 November 1991	23 December 1992		Independent
State Committee for the Socio-Economic Development of the North	Vladimir Kuramin	25 February 1992	23 December 1992		Independent
State Committee for State Property Management	Anatoly Chubais	10 November 1991	23 December 1992		Independent
State Committee for Economic Cooperation with the CIS Member States	Vladimir Mashits	27 December 1991	23 December 1992		Independent
State Customs Committee	Anatoly Kruglov	30 September 1992	23 December 1992		Independent
Central Bank	Viktor Gerashchenko	14 November 1992	23 December 1992		Independent

References

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8. Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of 18.05.1992 No. 512
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14. Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of 24.10.1992 No. 1295
15. Resolution of the Government of the RSFSR of 13.11.1991 No. 3

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