A First Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation (), commonly referred to as the First Deputy Prime Minister, is a member of the Russian Government. The First Deputy is to be proposed by the Prime Minister, and approved by the President. However, this office is not provisioned by Constitution and it is not a separate office.
The Chapter 6 of the Constitution of Russia says, that "The Government of the Russian Federation consists of the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation, Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation and federal ministries". First of all, First Vice-Premier is Vice-Premier, all others are distribution of responsibilities among Vice-Premiers inside the Government. There can be more than one First Vice-Premier, therefore written distribution of responsibilities is the most important document. The Federal constitutional law "On the Government of the Russian Federation" says "in the case of temporary absence of the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation, his duties are performed by one of the Deputy Chairmen of the Government of the Russian Federation in accordance with a written distribution of responsibilities". It's automatically and President's Executive Order is not required in that moment.
List First Deputy PM PartyTerm of Office Other offices held whileFirst Deputy PMCabinet Gennady Burbulis Independent 6 November 1991 14 April 1992 Secretary of StateYeltsin—GaidarYegor GaidarIndependent2 March 199215 December 1992Minister of Finance(to 2 April)Acting Prime Minister(from 15 June to 14 December)Vladimir ShumeykoIndependent2 June 199220 January 1994Minister of Press(from 5 October 1993)Yeltsin—GaidarChernomyrdin IOleg LobovIndependent15 April 199318 September 1993Minister of EconomyChernomyrdin IYegor GaidarChoice of Russia18 September 199320 January 1994Acting Minister of EconomyOleg SoskovetsIndependent30 April 199320 June 1996noneAnatoly ChubaisDemocratic Choice5 November 199416 January 1996noneVladimir KadannikovIndependent25 January 1996 9 August 1996noneOleg LobovIndependent18 June 1996 14 August 1996Presidential Representative in ChechnyaAlexei BolshakovIndependent14 August 199617 March 1997noneChernomyrdin IIViktor IlyushinIndependentnoneVladimir PotaninIndependentnoneAnatoly ChubaisDemocratic Choice7 March 199723 March 1998Minister of Finance(to 20 November 1997)Boris NemtsovIndependent17 March 199718 April 1998Minister of Energy(24 April – 20 November 1997)Chernomyrdin IIKiriyenkoSergey KiriyenkoIndependent23 March 199824 April 1998Acting Prime MinisterA candidate for the prime minister should be a deputy prime minister in an outgoing cabinet. If he is not, he would be appointed as such shortly before the cabinet's dismissal. This led to a situation when the same person acts as interim prime minister and deputy to himself until official approval of the new PM by the State Duma.KiriyenkoYuri MaslyukovCommunist Party11 September 199812 May 1999nonePrimakovVadim GustovIndependent18 September 199827 April 1999noneSergey StepashinIndependent27 April 199912 May 1999Minister of Internal AffairsNikolay AksyonenkoIndependent21 May 199910 January 2000Minister of RailwaysStepashinPutin IMikhail ZadornovIndependent25 May 199928 May 1999Minister of FinanceStepashinViktor KhristenkoIndependent31 May 199910 January 2000noneStepashinPutin IVladimir PutinIndependent9 August 199916 August 1999Acting Prime MinisterPutin IMikhail KasyanovIndependent10 January 200017 May 2000Minister of FinanceDmitry MedvedevIndependent14 November 20057 May 2008noneFradkov IIZubkovSergei IvanovUnited Russia15 February 20077 May 2008noneViktor ZubkovUnited Russia12 May 20087 May 2012Chairman of the Board of Gazprom(from 27 June 2008)Putin IIIgor ShuvalovIndependent12 May 200818 May 2018nonePutin IIMedvedev IAnton SiluanovUnited Russia18 May 201815 January 2020Minister of FinanceMedvedev IIAndrey BelousovIndependent21 January 20207 May 2024Acting Prime Minister(30 April – 19 May 2020)Mishustin IDenis ManturovIndependent14 May 2024Incumbent noneMishustin II
First Deputy Premiers of the Russian SFSR First DeputyTerm of OfficeCouncil of People's Commissars - Council of Ministers of the RSFSR, 1st Deputy Chairmen, knowbysight.info Other offices held whileFirst Deputy Premier Aleksandr Smirnov 20 February 1928 3 November 1929 none RykovSyrtsov Dmitry Lebed 7 February 1930 August 1937 none SyrtsovSulimov Georgy Perov June 1943 November 1944 noneKosygin Vasily Pronin November 1944 23 March 1946 none Valentin Makarov 26 June 1948 12 July 1949 none RodionovChernousov Arseny Safronov 12 July 1949 13 October 1957 none ChernousovPuzanovYasnov Pavel Lobanov 15 August 1953 28 February 1955 Minister of Agriculture(from 20 December 1953) Puzanov Dmitry Alyokhin 26 March 1955 29 August 1957 nonePuzanovYasnov Ivan Lebedev 26 March 1955 24 April 1956 none Alexander Puzanov 24 January 1956 21 February 1957 none Yasnov Nikolai Baibakov 4 May 1957 7 May 1958 Chairman of the USSR State Committee for Planning YasnovKozlovPolyansky Mikhail Yasnov 19 December 1957 23 December 1966 none KozlovPolyanskyVoronov Vladimir Novikov 7 May 1958 16 April 1959 Chairman of the RSFSR State Committee for Planning Polyansky Nikolay Smirnov 24 March 1962 18 January 1964Minister of Agricultural Production and ProcurementVoronov Leonid Maximov 18 January 1964 19 December 1964 Konstantin Pysin 19 December 1964 1 February 1971 none Alexey Shkolnikov 10 November 1965 25 July 1974 noneVoronovSolomentsev Nikolay Vasilyev 18 February 1971 13 April 1979 none Vitaly Vorotnikov 10 July 1975 4 April 1979 none Solomentsev Lev Yermin18 April 1979 20 April 1989 Chairman of the RSFSR State Agroindustrial Committee (from 28 November 1985) SolomentsevVorotnikovVlasov Vladimir Orlov 26 March 1985 none SolomentsevVorotnikov Vladimir Gusev 11 April 1985 20 June 1986 noneVorotnikovVlasov Fikryat Tabeyev 27 June 1986 15 May 1990 none Yevgeny Sizenko 21 June 1989 14 July 1990 none VlasovSilayev Gennady Kulik 14 July 1990 10 July 1991 Minister of Agriculture and FoodSilayev Yury Skokov 8 September 1990 10 July 1991 none Oleg Lobov 19 April 1991 15 November 1991 de facto Acting Premier(from 26 September)
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Sources Rulers.org