This article presents the heads of the military departments of the Russian Provisional Government (Russian Republic), the Russian SFSR, the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation.
| Ministers of War and Navy of the Russian Provisional Government [1] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portrait | Name | Time in office | |||
 | Alexander Guchkov | March 2, 1917 | April 30, 1917 | ||
 | Alexander Kerensky | May 5, 1917 | August 30, 1917 | ||
 | Aleksander Verkhovsky | August 30, 1917 | October 25, 1917 | ||
| People's Commissars for Military and Naval Affairs of the RSFSR | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portrait | Name | Time in office | |||
 | Nikolai Podvoisky | November 10, 1917 | March 13, 1918 | ||
 | Leon Trotsky | March 13, 1918 | November 12, 1923 | ||
| People's Commissars for Military and Naval Affairs of the USSR [2] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Portrait | Name | Time in office | |
| | Leon Trotsky | November 12, 1923 | January 26, 1925 |
 | Mikhail Frunze | January 26, 1925 | October 31, 1925 |
 | Kliment Voroshilov | November 6, 1925 | June 20, 1934 |
| People's Commissars of Defense of the USSR [3] | |||
| | Kliment Voroshilov | June 20, 1934 | May 7, 1940 |
| Semen Tymoshenko | May 7, 1940 | July 19, 1941 | |
 | Joseph Stalin | July 19, 1941 | February 25, 1946 |
| People's Commissar of the Armed Forces of the USSR | |||
| | Joseph Stalin | February 25, 1946 | March 15, 1946 |
| Ministers of the Armed Forces of the USSR | |||
| | Joseph Stalin | March 15, 1946 | March 3, 1947 |
| Nikolay Bulganin | March 3, 1947 | March 24, 1949 | |
 | Alexander Vasilevsky | March 24, 1949 | February 25, 1950 |
| Minister of War of the USSR | |||
| | Alexander Vasilevsky | February 25, 1950 | March 15, 1953 |
| Ministers of Defense of the USSR | |||
| Nikolay Bulganin | March 15, 1953 | February 9, 1955 | |
 | George Zhukov | February 9, 1955 | October 26, 1957 |
 | Rodion Malinovsky | October 26, 1957 | March 31, 1967 |
 | Andrey Grechko | April 12, 1967 | April 26, 1976 |
 | Dmitry Ustinov | April 29, 1976 | December 20, 1984 |
 | Sergey Sokolov | December 22, 1984 | May 30, 1987 |
 | Dmitry Yazov | May 30, 1987 | August 29, 1991 |
 | Yevgeny Shaposhnikov [4] | August 29, 1991 | February 14, 1992 |
| Ministers of Defense of Russia [5] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Portrait | Name | Time in office | |
 | Boris Yeltsin | March 16, 1992 | May 18, 1992 |
 | Pavel Grachev | May 18, 1992 | June 18, 1996 |
 | Igor Rodionov | July 17, 1996 | May 23, 1997 |
 | Igor Sergeev | May 23, 1997 | March 28, 2001 |
 | Sergei Ivanov | March 28, 2001 | February 15, 2007 |
 | Anatoly Serdyukov | February 15, 2007 | November 6, 2012 |
 | Sergey Shoigu | November 6, 2012 | Incumbent |
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