# List of heads of government of Russia

* Top left: In 1905, Sergei Witte became the first prime minister of the Russian Empire.
* Top right: In 1917, Vladimir Lenin became the first prime minister of Soviet Russia and later the Soviet Union (1922).
* Bottom left: In 1992, Viktor Chernomyrdin became the first prime minister of post-soviet Russia.
* Bottom right: Mikhail Mishustin is the current prime minister.
Approximately 38 people have been head of the Russian government since its establishment in 1905.
The Council of Ministers of the Russian Empire, created in November 1905, was preceded by a number of cabinet-like institutions. Oldest of them was the Supreme Privy Council, created in 1726 by the empress Catherine I. Considering weakness of her and her successor's powers, the Council acted as government of the Russian Empire until 1731. Its successor departments such as the Cabinet of Her Imperial Majesty (1731–41), the Conference at the Highest Court (1756–62), the Imperial Council (1762) and finally the Council at the Highest Court (1768–1801) remained mostly advisory bodies to the monarch.
The ministerial reform of 1802 introduced the Committee of Ministers, which competence was limited to interagency issues. The committee was not responsible for the activities of individual ministries and for the coherence of their policies. Beginning with Count Aleksandr Romanovich Vorontsov, the eldest of the officers was de facto chairman of the committee. Eight years after the inauguration of the manifest, the first de jure office holder was Count Nikolay Rumyantsev. According to the tradition established over time, the chairmanship of the committee was the last honorary position, to which elderly respected officials were appointed.
The Council of Ministers was unofficially formed in October 1857, as a result of Emperor Alexander II's reforms; its first session began on 19 (31) December 1857. Before the actual formation of that body on 12 (24) November 1861, the Emperor himself was in charge. The Council of Ministers consisted of chairmen of the State Council and the Committee of Ministers, as well as high-ranking officers appointed by the Emperor. The first session ended on 11 (23) December 1882, after the number of files to the Council greatly decreased.
The imperial Council of Ministers was re-established in late 1905, as a part of the large-scale government reform caused by the First Russian Revolution. All ministries and departments became parts of a single national administration. The Committee of Ministers functioned simultaneously with the second session of the Council of Ministers for six more months; Count Sergei Witte participated on both entities until the abolition of the committee on 23 April (5 May) 1906.
By the order of Emperor Nicholas II, the second session of the Council of Ministers began on 19 October (1 November) 1905, following the formation of the State Duma. Shortly after the February Revolution and the inception of the Russian Provisional Government on 2 (15) March 1917, Georgy Lvov from the Constitutional Democratic Party became Minister-Chairman, who was succeeded by Alexander Kerensky in July.
In November 1917 the Provisional Government was overthrown by the Bolshevik faction of Russian social democrats led by Vladimir Lenin. The Council of People's Commissars of the Russian Soviet Republic became the new governmental body, which was chaired from 1917 to 1924 by Lenin. That body was renamed Council of Ministers following a decree of the Supreme Council on 23 March 1946. The same was made in other republics of the Soviet Union.
After the fall of the Soviet Union, Boris Yeltsin, as the President of the Russian Federation, was appointed as the extraordinary head of government of the Russian Federation. The latter body took the name "Council of Ministers — Government of Russia", the chairman of which became Viktor Chernomyrdin, replacing acting chairman Yegor Gaidar. According to the new constitution ratified on 25 December 1993, the "Government" (Russian: Правительство, romanized: Pravitelstvo) is the official name of the Russian cabinet. Since then, the head of that office takes the formal title "Chairmen of the Government" or colloquially "Prime Minister."
Current Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin took the office on 16 January 2020.
The youngest head of government by his accession to office was Sergey Kiriyenko (1998), at age 35, and the oldest Ivan Goremykin (1914), at age 74.

## Russian Empire (1721–1917)
### Early collegial institutions without a single leader

Since the 18th century, a modern system of public administration was going to be created in Russia, including the formation of bodies such as the Supreme Privy Council and the Committee of Ministers whose powers are similar to the powers of the modern Russian Government. In the period from 1726 to 1905 there was no official title for the leader of the government. The chief ministers (principal ministres) of certain Emperor of All Russia nonetheless led the government de facto, but de jure the head of government was a monarch.
| Portrait | Name (birth–death) | Term of office | Term of office | Monarch |
| Members of the Supreme Privy Council of the Russian Empire (1726–1730) ||||||
| | Count and Prince Alexander Danilovich Menshikov (1673–1729) | 8 February 1726 | 8 September 1727 | Catherine I (1725–1727) Peter II (1727–1730) Anna (1730–1740) |
| | Count Fyodor Matveyevich Apraksin (1661–1728) | 8 February 1726 | 10 November 1728 | Catherine I (1725–1727) Peter II (1727–1730) Anna (1730–1740) |
| | Count Gavriil Ivanovich Golovkin (1660–1734) | 8 February 1726 | 6 May 1727 | Catherine I (1725–1727) Peter II (1727–1730) Anna (1730–1740) |
| | Count Andrey Ivanovich Osterman (1686–1747) | 8 February 1726 | 6 May 1727 | Catherine I (1725–1727) Peter II (1727–1730) Anna (1730–1740) |
| | Prince Dmitry Mikhaylovich Golitsyn (1665–1737) | 8 February 1726 | 6 May 1727 | Catherine I (1725–1727) Peter II (1727–1730) Anna (1730–1740) |
| | Count Pyotr Andreyevich Tolstoy (1645–1729) | 8 February 1726 | 6 May 1727 | Catherine I (1725–1727) Peter II (1727–1730) Anna (1730–1740) |
| | Count Karl-Fridrikh Golshteyn-Gottorpsky (1700–1739) | 8 February 1726 (or March 1726) | 25 July 1727 | Catherine I (1725–1727) Peter II (1727–1730) Anna (1730–1740) |
| | Prince Alexey Grigoryevich Dolgorukov (?–1734) | 3 February 1728 | 4 March 1730 | Catherine I (1725–1727) Peter II (1727–1730) Anna (1730–1740) |
| | Prince Vasily Lukich Dolgorukov (1670–1739) | 6 April 1729 | 4 March 1730 | Catherine I (1725–1727) Peter II (1727–1730) Anna (1730–1740) |
| | Prince Vasily Vladimirovich Dolgorukov (1667–1746) | 19 January 1730 | 4 March 1730 | Catherine I (1725–1727) Peter II (1727–1730) Anna (1730–1740) |
| | Prince Mikhail Mikhailovich Golitsyn (1675–1730) | 19 January 1730 | 4 March 1730 | Catherine I (1725–1727) Peter II (1727–1730) Anna (1730–1740) |
| Cabinet ministers of the Russian Empire (1731–1741) ||||||
| | Count Gavriil Ivanovich Golovkin (1660–1734) | 10 November 1731 | 20 January 1734 | Anna (1730–1740) |
| | Count Andrey Ivanovich Osterman (1686–1747) | 20 January 1734 | 10 November 1740 | Anna (1730–1740) |
| | Count Khristofor Antonovich Minikh (1683–1767) | 10 November 1740 | 3 March 1741 | Ivan VI (1740–1741) |
| | Count Andrey Ivanovich Osterman (1686–1747) (2nd time) | 3 March 1741 | 25 November 1741 | Ivan VI (1740–1741) |
| Conferency ministers at the Highest Court of the Russian Empire (1756–1762) ||||||
| | Stepan Fyodorovich Apraksin (1702–1758) | 14 March 1756 | 1 October 1757 | Elizabeth (1741–1762) Peter III (1762) |
| | Count Mikhail Petrovich Bestuzhev-Ryumin (1688–1760) | 14 March 1756 | 2 October 1757 | Elizabeth (1741–1762) Peter III (1762) |
| | Prince Mikhail Mikhaylovich Golitsyn (1684–1764) | 14 March 1756 | 17 December 1757 | Elizabeth (1741–1762) Peter III (1762) |
| | Count Alexey Petrovich Bestuzhev-Ryumin (1693–1768) | 14 March 1756 | 14 February 1758 | Elizabeth (1741–1762) Peter III (1762) |
| | Count Alexander Borisovich Buturlin (1694–1767) | 14 March 1756 | 17 October 1760 | Elizabeth (1741–1762) Peter III (1762) |
| | Count Peter Ivanovich Shuvalov (1711–1762) | 14 March 1756 | 4 January 1762 | Elizabeth (1741–1762) Peter III (1762) |
| | Count Mikhail Illarionovich Vorontsov (1714–1767) | 14 March 1756 | 20 January 1762 | Elizabeth (1741–1762) Peter III (1762) |
| | Prince Nikita Yuryevich Trubetskoy (1699–1767) | 14 March 1756 | 20 January 1762 | Elizabeth (1741–1762) Peter III (1762) |
| | Count Alexander Ivanovich Shuvalov (1710–1771) | 14 March 1756 | 20 January 1762 | Elizabeth (1741–1762) Peter III (1762) |
| | Grand Duke Peter Fyodorovich Romanov (subsequently Emperor Peter III) (1728–1762) | 14 March 1756 | 28 January 1762 | Elizabeth (1741–1762) Peter III (1762) |
| | Prince Yakov Petrovich Shakhovskoy (1705–1777) | 16 September 1760 | 25 December 1761 | Elizabeth (1741–1762) Peter III (1762) |
| | Ivan Ivanovich Neplyuev (1693–1773) | 16 September 1760 | 20 January 1762 | Elizabeth (1741–1762) Peter III (1762) |
| | Count Roman Illarionovich Vorontsov (1707–1783) | 28 December 1761 | 20 January 1762 | Elizabeth (1741–1762) Peter III (1762) |
| Members of the Imperial Council of the Russian Empire (1762) ||||||
| | Prince Georg-Ludwig Golshteyn-Gottorpsky (1719–1763) | 28 January 1762 | 28 June 1762 | Peter III (1762) |
| | Count Pyotr August Friedrich Golshteyn-Beksky (1696–1775) | 28 January 1762 | 28 June 1762 | Peter III (1762) |
| | Count Khristofor Antonovich Minikh (1683–1767) | 28 January 1762 | 28 June 1762 | Peter III (1762) |
| | Prince Nikita Yuryevich Trubetskoy (1699–1767) | 28 January 1762 | 28 June 1762 | Peter III (1762) |
| | Count Mikhail Illarionovich Vorontsov (1714–1767) | 28 January 1762 | 28 June 1762 | Peter III (1762) |
| | Aleksandr Nikitich Vilbua (1713–1788) | 28 January 1762 | 28 June 1762 | Peter III (1762) |
| | Prince Mikhail Nikitich Volkonsky (1713–1788) | 28 January 1762 | 28 June 1762 | Peter III (1762) |
| | Aleksey Petrovich Melgunov (1722–1788) | 28 January 1762 | 28 June 1762 | Peter III (1762) |
| Heads of Council Affairs at the Highest Court (Highest Council) of the Russian Empire (1768–1801) ||||||
| | Stepan Fyodorovich Strekalov (1728–1805) | 17 November 1768 | 1776 | Catherine II (1762–1796) |
| | Count Alexander Nikolayevich Samoylov (1744–1814) | 1776 | 1787 | Catherine II (1762–1796) |
| | Ivan Andreyevich Weydemeyer (1752–1820) | 1787 | 18 November 1796 | Catherine II (1762–1796) |
| | Gavriil Romanovich Derzhavin (1743–1816) | 18 November 1796 | 22 November 1796 | Paul I (1796–1801) |
| | Ivan Andreyevich Weydemeyer (1752–1820) (2nd time) | 18 November 1796 | 26 March 1801 | Paul I (1796–1801) |

### Committee of Ministers (1802–1905)

The Committee of Ministers was established on 20 September 1802 in the course of Alexander I's ministerial reform. All the ministers were independent from each other and were responsible for the activities of their departments individually. The committee was not responsible either for the activities of individual ministries, or for the coherence of their policies. During the first years of the existence of the committee, its meetings were chaired by the Emperor, and in his absence - by the ministers alternately, starting with the senior in rank, each for 4 sessions. In 1810, the chairmanship was given to the chancellor and chairman of the State Council Count N.P. Rumyantsev.
| Portrait | Name (birth–death) | Term of office | Term of office | Monarch |
| Chairmen of the Committee of Ministers of the Russian Empire (1802–1905) ||||||
| | Count Nikolay Petrovich Rumyantsev (1754–1826) | 1810 | 1812 | Alexander I (1801–1825) |
| | Count and Prince Nikolay Ivanovich Saltykov (1736–1816) | 29 March 1812 | 9 September 1812 (disputed) 16 May 1816 | Alexander I (1801–1825) |
| | Count Sergey Kuzmich Vyazmitinov (disputed) (1744–1819) | 9 September 1812 | 15 October 1816 | Alexander I (1801–1825) |
| | Prince Pyotr Vasilyevich Lopukhin (1753–1827) | 25 May 1816 | 6 April 1827 | Alexander I (1801–1825) |
| | Prince Viktor Pavlovich Kochubey (1768–1834) | 29 April 1827 | 3 June 1834 | Nicholas I (1825–1855) |
| | Count Nikolay Nikolayevich Novosiltsev (1761–1838) | 11 July 1834 | 8 April 1838 | Nicholas I (1825–1855) |
| | Prince Illarion Vasilyevich Vasilchikov (1776–1847) | 9 April 1838 | 21 February 1847 | Nicholas I (1825–1855) |
| | Count Vasily Vasilyevich Levashov (1783–1848) | 31 December 1847 | 23 September 1848 | Nicholas I (1825–1855) |
| | Prince Alexander Ivanovich Chernyshyov (1785–1857) | 1 December 1848 | 5 April 1856 | Nicholas I (1825–1855) |
| | Prince Alexey Fyodorovich Orlov (1787–1862) | May 1857 | January 1861 | Alexander II (1855–1881) |
| | Count Dmitry Nikolayevich Bludov (1785–1864) | 12 November 1861 | 19 February 1864 | Alexander II (1855–1881) |
| | Prince Pavel Pavlovich Gagarin (1789–1872) | 24 February 1864 | 21 February 1872 | Alexander II (1855–1881) |
| | Count Pavel Nikolayevich Ignatyev (1797–1879) | 21 February 1872 | 20 December 1879 | Alexander II (1855–1881) |
| | Count Pyotr Aleksandrovich Valuyev (1815–1890) | 25 December 1879 | 4 October 1881 | Alexander II (1855–1881) |
| | Count Mikhail Khristoforovich Reytern (1820–1890) | 4 October 1881 | 30 December 1886 | Alexander III (1881–1894) |
| | Nikolay Khristianovich Bunge (1823–1895) | 1 January 1887 | 3 June 1895 | Alexander III (1881–1894) |
| | Ivan Nikolayevich Durnovo (1834–1903) | 15 October 1895 | 29 May 1903 | Nicholas II (1894–1917) |
| | Count Sergei Yulyevich Witte (1849–1915) | 16 August 1903 | 6 November 1905 | Nicholas II (1894–1917) |

### Prime Minister of the Russian Empire (1905–1917)

The modern government type in Russia came after the establishment of the Council of Ministers on 1 November 1905, created for the "management and union action principal chiefs of departments on subjects like law and senior public administration", and modelled on the relevant institutions within the constitutional states, when all the ministries and directorates have been declared part of the unified state management. The first Prime Minister was Count Sergei Witte, who was appointed on 6 November 1905.
| Portrait | Name (birth–death) | Term of office | Term of office | Term of office | Monarch |
| 1 | Count Sergei Yulyevich Witte (1849–1915) | • | 6 November 1905 | 5 May 1906 | Nicholas II (1894–1917) |
| 2 | Ivan Logginovich Goremykin (1839–1917) | 1 | 5 May 1906 | 21 July 1906 | Nicholas II (1894–1917) |
| 3 | Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin (1862–1911) | • | 21 July 1906 | 18 September 1911 (Assassinated) | Nicholas II (1894–1917) |
| 4 | Count Vladimir Nikolayevich Kokovtsov (1853–1943) | • | 22 September 1911 | 12 February 1914 | Nicholas II (1894–1917) |
| (2) | Ivan Logginovich Goremykin (1839–1917) | 2 | 12 February 1914 | 2 February 1916 | Nicholas II (1894–1917) |
| 5 | Baron Boris Vladimirovich Shtyurmer (1848–1917) | • | 2 February 1916 | 23 November 1916 | Nicholas II (1894–1917) |
| 6 | Alexander Fyodorovich Trepov (1862–1928) | • | 23 November 1916 | 20 January 1917 | Nicholas II (1894–1917) |
| 7 | Prince Nikolai Dmitriyevich Golitsyn (1850–1925) | • | 20 January 1917 | 12 March 1917 | Nicholas II (1894–1917) |

## Provisional Government/Russian Republic (1917)

After the alleged abdication of Nicholas II from the throne in favor of his brother Michael, Michael also abdicated, before the convening of the Constituent Assembly. On 14 September 1917, the Russian Republic was proclaimed. At this period, a provisional government was formed and the Prime Minister was the head of state.
| Portrait | Name (birth–death) | Term of office | Term of office | Term of office | Political party |
| 8 | Prince Georgy Yevgenyevich Lvov (1861–1925) | • | 15 March 1917 | 21 July 1917 | Constitutional Democratic Party |
| 9 | Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky (1881–1970) | 1 | 21 July 1917 | 14 September 1917 | Socialist Revolutionary Party |
| 9 | Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky (1881–1970) | 2 | 14 September 1917 | 7 November 1917 | Socialist Revolutionary Party |

## Russian State (1918–1920)

The heads of government of the Russian State during the Civil War were de facto Prime Ministers in exile.
| Name (birth–death) | Term of office | Term of office | Term of office | Political party | Head of state |
| Pyotr Vasilyevich Vologodsky (1863–1925) | I | 4 November 1918 | 18 November 1918 | Socialist Revolutionary Party | Nikolai Avksentiev (1918) |
| Pyotr Vasilyevich Vologodsky (1863–1925) | II | 18 November 1918 | 22 November 1919 | Socialist Revolutionary Party | Alexander Kolchak (1918–1920) |
| Viktor Nikolayevich Pepelyayev (1885–1920) | II | 22 November 1919 | 4 January 1920 | Independent | Alexander Kolchak (1918–1920) |

## Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1917–1991)

Since the creation of the Russian Soviet Republic its cabinet was styled as the Council of People's Commissars. Between the creation of the USSR on 30 December 1922 and the formation of its own Council of People's Commissars on 6 July 1923, the Council of People's Commissars of Russia temporarily acted as the government of the USSR. On 23 March 1946, the Council of People's Commissars was renamed into the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR.
| Portrait | Name (birth–death) | Term of office | Term of office | Term of office | Political party | Legislature (election) | Head of state |
| 10 | Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin) (1870–1924) | • | 8 November 1917 | 21 January 1924 (Died in office) | Communist Party | ARCEC | Lev Kamenev (1917) |
| 10 | Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin) (1870–1924) | • | 8 November 1917 | 21 January 1924 (Died in office) | Communist Party | ARCEC | Yakov Sverdlov (1917–1919) |
| 10 | Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin) (1870–1924) | • | 8 November 1917 | 21 January 1924 (Died in office) | Communist Party | ARCEC | Mikhail Kalinin (1919–1938) |
| 11 | Alexey Ivanovich Rykov (1881–1938) | • | 2 February 1924 | 18 May 1929 | Communist Party | ARCEC | Mikhail Kalinin (1919–1938) |
| 12 | Sergey Ivanovich Syrtsov (1883–1937) | • | 18 May 1929 | 3 November 1930 | Communist Party | ARCEC | Mikhail Kalinin (1919–1938) |
| 13 | Daniil Yegorovich Sulimov (1890–1937) | • | 3 November 1930 | 22 July 1937 | Communist Party | ARCEC | Mikhail Kalinin (1919–1938) |
| 14 | Nikolay Alexandrovich Bulganin (1895–1975) | 1 | 22 July 1937 | 19 July 1938 | Communist Party | ARCEC | Mikhail Kalinin (1919–1938) |
| 14 | Nikolay Alexandrovich Bulganin (1895–1975) | 2 | 20 July 1938 | 17 September 1938 | Communist Party | I (1938) | Aleksei Badayev (1938–1944) |
| 15 | Vasily Vasilyevich Vakhrushev (1902–1947) | • | 17 September 1938 | 2 June 1940 | Communist Party | I (1938) | Aleksei Badayev (1938–1944) |
| 16 | Ivan Sergeyevich Khokhlov (1895–1973) | • | 2 June 1940 | 23 June 1943 | Communist Party | I (1938) | Aleksei Badayev (1938–1944) |
| 17 | Alexey Nikolayevich Kosygin (1904–1980) | • | 23 June 1943 | 23 March 1946 | Communist Party | I (1938) | Aleksei Badayev (1938–1944) |
| 17 | Alexey Nikolayevich Kosygin (1904–1980) | • | 23 June 1943 | 23 March 1946 | Communist Party | I (1938) | Nikolay Shvernik (1944–1946) |
| 18 | Mikhail Ivanovich Rodionov (1907–1950) | 1 | 23 March 1946 | 25 June 1947 | Communist Party | I (1938) | Nikolay Shvernik (1944–1946) |
| 18 | Mikhail Ivanovich Rodionov (1907–1950) | 2 | 26 June 1947 | 9 March 1949 | Communist Party | II (1947) | Ivan Vlasov (1946–1950) |
| 19 | Boris Nikolayevich Chernousov (1908–1978) | 1 | 9 March 1949 | 17 April 1951 | Communist Party | II (1947) | Ivan Vlasov (1946–1950) |
| 19 | Boris Nikolayevich Chernousov (1908–1978) | 2 | 17 April 1951 | 20 October 1952 | Communist Party | III (1951) | Mikhail Tarasov (1950–1959) |
| 20 | Alexander Mikhailovich Puzanov (1906–1998) | 1 | 20 October 1952 | 26 March 1955 | Communist Party | III (1951) | Mikhail Tarasov (1950–1959) |
| 20 | Alexander Mikhailovich Puzanov (1906–1998) | 2 | 26 March 1955 | 24 January 1956 | Communist Party | IV (1955) | Mikhail Tarasov (1950–1959) |
| 21 | Mikhail Alexeyevich Yasnov (1906–1991) | • | 24 January 1956 | 19 December 1957 | Communist Party | IV (1955) | Mikhail Tarasov (1950–1959) |
| 22 | Frol Romanovich Kozlov (1908–1965) | • | 19 December 1957 | 31 March 1958 | Communist Party | IV (1955) | Mikhail Tarasov (1950–1959) |
| 23 | Dmitry Stepanovich Polyansky (1917–2001) | 1 | 31 March 1958 | 15 April 1959 | Communist Party | IV (1955) |
| 23 | Dmitry Stepanovich Polyansky (1917–2001) | 1 | 31 March 1958 | 15 April 1959 | Communist Party | IV (1955) | Nikolay Ignatov (1959) |
| 23 | Dmitry Stepanovich Polyansky (1917–2001) | 2 | 16 April 1959 | 23 November 1962 | Communist Party | V (1959) | Nikolay Organov (1959–1962) |
| 24 | Gennady Ivanovich Voronov (1910–1994) | 1 | 23 November 1962 | 5 April 1963 | Communist Party | V (1959) | Nikolay Organov (1959–1962) |
| 24 | Gennady Ivanovich Voronov (1910–1994) | 1 | 23 November 1962 | 5 April 1963 | Communist Party | V (1959) | Nikolay Ignatov (1962–1966) |
| 24 | Gennady Ivanovich Voronov (1910–1994) | 2 | 5 April 1963 | 12 April 1967 | Communist Party | VI (1963) | Nikolay Ignatov (1962–1966) |
| 24 | Gennady Ivanovich Voronov (1910–1994) | 2 | 5 April 1963 | 12 April 1967 | Communist Party | VI (1963) | Mikhail Yasnov (1966–1985) |
| 24 | Gennady Ivanovich Voronov (1910–1994) | 3 | 12 April 1967 | 23 July 1971 | Communist Party | VII (1967) | Mikhail Yasnov (1966–1985) |
| 25 | Mikhail Sergeyevich Solomentsev (1913–2008) | 1 | 28 July 1971 | 15 July 1975 | Communist Party | VIII (1971) | Mikhail Yasnov (1966–1985) |
| 25 | Mikhail Sergeyevich Solomentsev (1913–2008) | 2 | 15 July 1975 | 26 March 1980 | Communist Party | IX (1975) | Mikhail Yasnov (1966–1985) |
| 25 | Mikhail Sergeyevich Solomentsev (1913–2008) | 3 | 26 March 1980 | 24 June 1983 | Communist Party | X (1980) | Mikhail Yasnov (1966–1985) |
| 26 | Vitaly Ivanovich Vorotnikov (1926–2012) | 1 | 24 June 1983 | 26 March 1985 | Communist Party | X (1980) | Mikhail Yasnov (1966–1985) |
| 26 | Vitaly Ivanovich Vorotnikov (1926–2012) | 2 | 26 March 1985 | 3 October 1988 | Communist Party | XI (1985) | Vladimir Orlov (1985–1988) |
| 27 | Alexander Vladimirovich Vlasov (1932–2002) | • | 3 October 1988 | 15 June 1990 | Communist Party | XI (1985) | Vitaly Vorotnikov (1988–1990) |
| 27 | Alexander Vladimirovich Vlasov (1932–2002) | • | 3 October 1988 | 15 June 1990 | Communist Party | XI (1985) | Boris Yeltsin (1990–1991) |
| 28 | Ivan Stepanovich Silayev (1930–2023) | 1 | 15 June 1990 | 10 July 1991 | Communist Party | XII (1990) | Boris Yeltsin (1990–1991) |
| 28 | Ivan Stepanovich Silayev (1930–2023) | 2 | 12 July 1991 | 26 September 1991 | Communist Party | XII (1990) | Boris Yeltsin (1990–1991) |
| P | Boris Yeltsin (1931–2007) | • | 6 November 1991 | 25 December 1991 | Independent | XII (1990) | Boris Yeltsin (1990–1991) |

## Russian Federation (1991–present)

| Portrait | Name (birth–death) | Term of office | Term of office | Term of office | Political party | President |
| P | Boris Yeltsin (1931–2007) | • | 25 December 1991 | 15 June 1992 | Independent | Boris Yeltsin (1991–1999) |
| 29 | Viktor Chernomyrdin (1938–2010) | 1 | 14 December 1992 | 9 August 1996 | Our Home – Russia | Boris Yeltsin (1991–1999) |
| 29 | Viktor Chernomyrdin (1938–2010) | 2 | 10 August 1996 | 23 March 1998 | Our Home – Russia | Boris Yeltsin (1991–1999) |
| 30 | Sergey Kiriyenko (1962–) | • | 24 April 1998 | 23 August 1998 | Independent | Boris Yeltsin (1991–1999) |
| 31 | Yevgeny Primakov (1929–2015) | • | 11 September 1998 | 12 May 1999 | Independent | Boris Yeltsin (1991–1999) |
| 32 | Sergey Stepashin (1952–) | • | 19 May 1999 | 9 August 1999 | Independent | Boris Yeltsin (1991–1999) |
| 33 | Vladimir Putin (1952–) | 1 | 16 August 1999 | 7 May 2000 | Independent | Boris Yeltsin (1991–1999) |
| 34 | Mikhail Kasyanov (1957–) | • | 17 May 2000 | 24 February 2004 | Independent | Vladimir Putin (2000–2008) |
| 35 | Mikhail Fradkov (1950–) | 1 | 5 March 2004 | 7 May 2004 | Independent | Vladimir Putin (2000–2008) |
| 35 | Mikhail Fradkov (1950–) | 2 | 12 May 2004 | 12 September 2007 | Independent | Vladimir Putin (2000–2008) |
| 36 | Viktor Zubkov (1941–) | • | 14 September 2007 | 7 May 2008 | United Russia | Vladimir Putin (2000–2008) |
| (33) | Vladimir Putin (1952–) | 2 | 8 May 2008 | 7 May 2012 | United Russia | Dmitry Medvedev (2008–2012) |
| 37 | Dmitry Medvedev (1965–) | 1 | 8 May 2012 | 7 May 2018 | United Russia | Vladimir Putin (2012–) |
| 37 | Dmitry Medvedev (1965–) | 2 | 8 May 2018 | 15 January 2020 | United Russia | Vladimir Putin (2012–) |
| 38 | Mikhail Mishustin (1966–) | 1 | 16 January 2020 | 7 May 2024 | Independent | Vladimir Putin (2012–) |
| 38 | Mikhail Mishustin (1966–) | 2 | 10 May 2024 | Incumbent | Independent | Vladimir Putin (2012–) |

## Acting prime ministers

* Vladimir Kokovtsov: 18–22 September 1911
* Konstantin Pamfilov: 5 May 1942 – 2 May 1943
* Oleg Lobov: 26 September – 6 November 1991
* Yegor Gaidar: 15 June – 14 December 1992
* Sergey Kiriyenko: 23 March – 24 April 1998
* Viktor Chernomyrdin: 9–10 August 1996 and 23 August – 11 September 1998
* Sergey Stepashin: 12–19 May 1999
* Vladimir Putin: 9–16 August 1999
* Mikhail Kasyanov: 7–17 May 2000
* Viktor Khristenko: 24 February – 5 March 2004
* Mikhail Fradkov: 7–12 May 2004 and 12–14 September 2007
* Viktor Zubkov: 7–8 May 2008 and 7–8 May 2012
* Dmitry Medvedev: 7–8 May 2018 and 15–16 January 2020
* Andrey Belousov: 30 April – 19 May 2020
* Mikhail Mishustin: 7–10 May 2024