serviceyears link branch children allegiance nationality birth_date signature term_end alma_mater term_start spouse rank image name deputy predecessor birth_place president awards party office successor primeminister article_title birth_name
1991 -- present hero the russian federation 50 px of the russian federation 50 px hero of military russian federation , the ministry of defence of the russian council federation of the civil defense troops of the yuliya kseniya soviet union russia russian 21 may 1955 signature of sergey shoygu.png november nbsp ; 15 , 2005 may & nbsp ; 11 & , 2012 nbsp ; 6 , 2012 april & krasnoyarsk polytechnical institute november nbsp ; 11 , 2012 december & nbsp ; 1 & 2001 april & nbsp ; 17 , 1991 nbsp ; 6 , 2012 may & irina shoygu general of the army official portrait of sergey shoigu.jpg sergey shoygu Сергей Шойгу ruslan tsalikov anatoliy serdyukov boris gromov position established position established chadan , soviet union -lrb- now russia -rrb- vladimir putin 20 px communist -rrb- independent -lrb- 1991 -- 1995 -rrb- our home-russia -lrb- party 1995 -- 1999 -rrb- unity -lrb- 1999 -- 2001 -rrb- of united russia -lrb- 2001 -- present -rrb- the soviet union -lrb- before 1991 minister united russia minister of emergency situations of defense governor of moscow oblast leader of andrey puchkov yuryevich vorobyov -lrb- acting -rrb- boris gryzlov vladimir dmitry viktor chernomyrdin sergei kiriyenko viktor chernomyrdin -lrb- acting -rrb- yevgeny medvedev primakov sergei stepashin vladimir putin mikhail kasyanov viktor khristenko -lrb- boris acting -rrb- mikhail fradkov viktor zubkov vladimir putin viktor zubkov yeltsin -lrb- acting -rrb- dmitry medvedev yegor gaidar -lrb- acting -rrb- sergey shoygu
 sergey kuzhugetovich shoygu
sergey shoygu

sergey kuzhugetovich shoygu -lrb- , ; born may 21 , 1955 -rrb- is a russian politician who has served in the government of russia as minister of defence since 2012 .
previously he was minister of emergency situations from 1991 to 2012 and briefly served as governor of moscow oblast in 2012 .
he holds the military rank of general of the army .
he is also the president of the international sport federation of firefighters and rescuers .
