Cabinet of Boris Yeltsin and Yegor Gaidar

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 to 23 December 1992.^[1]

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

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.

Gaidar was replaced by the cabinet of Viktor Chernomyrdin.

Ministers

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


Portfolio	Minister	Took office	Left office
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	Viktor Yaroshenko (acting)	6 November 1991	11 November 1991	Independent
Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations	Petr Aven	22 February 1992	23 December 1992	Independent
Ministry of Internal Affairs	Andrey Dunaev	6 November 1991	15 January 1992	Independent
Ministry of Internal Affairs	Viktor Yerin	15 January 1992	23 December 1992	Independent
Ministry of Health	Vyacheslav Kalinin (acting)	6 November 1991	5 December 1991	Independent
Ministry of Health	Andrey Vorobyov	14 November 1991 28 October 1992	23 October 1992 23 December 1992	Independent
Ministry of Foreign Affairs	Andrei Kozyrev	6 November 1991	23 December 1992	Independent
Ministry of Culture and Tourism	Yury Solomin (acting)	6 November 1991	5 December 1991	Independent
Ministry of Culture and Tourism	Evgeny Sidorov	5 February 1992	30 September 1992	Independent
Ministry of Forestry	Valery Shubin (acting)	6 November 1991	4 December 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
Ministry of Defence	Pavel Grachev	18 May 1992	23 December 1992	Independent
Ministry of Education	Eduard Dneprov	6 November 1991	4 December 1992	Independent
Ministry of Education	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	5 December 1991	Independent
Ministry of Industry	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
Ministry of Agriculture	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	5 December 1991	Independent
Ministry of Trade and Material Resources	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
Ministry of Labour	Gennady Melikyan	14 June 1992	23 December 1992	Independent
Ministry of Finance	Igor Lazarev	6 November 1991	11 November 1991	Independent
	Yegor Gaidar	11 November 1991	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	5 December 1991	Independent
	Yegor Gaidar	5 December 1991	19 February 1992	Independent
	Andrey Nechaev	19 February 1992	23 December 1992	Independent
Ministry of Ecology	Igor Gavrilov	6 November 1991	3 December 1991	Independent
Ministry of Ecology	Viktor Danilov-Danilyan	3 December 1991	30 September 1992	Independent
Federal Security Agency (with ministry rights)	Viktor Ivanenko	26 November 1991	15 January 1992	Independent
Federal Security Agency (with ministry rights)	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	6 November 1991	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	6 November 1991	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
State Committee for National Policy	Sergey Shakhray	11 November 1992	23 December 1992	Independent
State Committee for Defense Issues	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 (acting)	30 September 1992	23 December 1992	Independent
Central Bank	Viktor Gerashchenko	14 November 1992	23 December 1992	Independent

References

^ "Decree of the President of the RSFSR "On the organization of the Government of the RSFSR in the context of economic reform." №172". Archived from the original on 2016-11-04. Retrieved 2016-04-14.

[1] "Decree of the President of the RSFSR "On the organization of the Government of the RSFSR in the context of economic reform." №172". Archived from the original on 2016-11-04. Retrieved 2016-04-14.

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v t e Boris Yeltsin
1st President of Russia (1991–1999)
Life and politics	Birthplace Moscow City Committee of the CPSU Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR 28th Congress of the CPSU Death and state funeral
Presidency	First inauguration Second inauguration Cabinet of Yeltsin–Gaidar State Committee on the State of Emergency 1991 Soviet coup attempt Dissolution of the Soviet Union Belovezh Accords Demographic crisis 1993 Russian constitutional crisis Constitutional referendum "Circling over Shannon" diplomatic incident Elizabeth II visit Privatization First Chechen War Monetary reform (1993) Monetary reform (1998) 1998 financial crisis (1998 miners' strike) List of trips Impeachment attempts
Elections	Electoral history 1991 presidential election campaign 1996 presidential election campaign (Vote or lose)) Loans for shares scheme Semibankirschina Soskovets campaign strategy Xerox affair
Commemoration	Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia Boris Yeltsin Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University named after Boris Yeltsin Tennis Academy, named after the first President of Russia Boris Yeltsin Boris Yeltsin Peak Street of Boris Yeltsin (Yekaterinburg) Monument (Yekaterinburg) Monument (Cholpon-Ata) Boris Yeltsin Volleyball Cup
Books	Confession on a Given Theme Notes of President Presidential Marathon Boris Yeltsin: From Dawn to Dusk
Films	Yeltsin: Three Days in August Three August's Days Tsar Boris President of All Russia B.N. Boris Yeltsin. Farewell to the Era Boris Yeltsin. Life and Fate Boris Yeltsin. First Boris Yeltsin. Retreat is Impossible
Family	Nikolay Yeltsin (father) Claudia Yeltsina (mother) Naina Yeltsina (wife) Tatyana Yumasheva (daughter) Elena Okulova (daughter)
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v t e Cabinets of the Government of Russia
Council of Ministers of the Russian Empire (1905–17)	Witte (1905–06) Goremykin I (May-Jul 1906) Stolypin (1906–11) Kokovtsov (1911–14) Goremykin II (1914–16) Stürmer (Feb-Nov 1916) Trepov (1916–17) Golitsyn (Jan-Mar 1917)
Russian Provisional Government (1917)	Lvov I (Mar-Apr 1917) Lvov II (Apr-Jul 1917) Kerensky I (Jul-Sep 1917) Kerensky II (Sep-Oct 1917) Kerensky III (Oct-Nov 1917)
Governments of the Whites (1918–20)	Vologodsky (Nov 1918) Vologodsky–Pepelyayev (1918–1920) Krivoshein (Apr–Nov 1920)
Council of People's Commissars of the Russian SFSR (1917–46)	Lenin (1917–24) Rykov (1924–29) Syrtsov (1929–30) Sulimov (1930–37) Bulganin I (1937–38) Bulganin II (Jul-Sep 1938) Vakhrushev (1939–40) Khokhlov (1940–43) Kosygin (1943–46)
Council of Ministers of the Russian SFSR (1946–91)	Rodionov I (1946–47) Rodionov II (1947–49) Chernousov I (1949–51) Chernousov II (1951–52) Puzanov I (1952–55) Puzanov II (1955–56) Yasnov (1956–57) Kozlov (1957–58) Polyansky I (1958–59) Polyansky II (1959–62) Voronov I (1962–63) Voronov II (1963–67) Voronov III (1967–71) Solomentsev I (1971–75) Solomentsev II (1975–80) Solomentsev III (1980–83) Vorotnikov I (1983–85) Vorotnikov II (1985–88) Vlasov (1988–90) Silayev I (1990–91) Silayev II (Jul-Nov 1991)
Council of Ministers (1991–93) and Government of the Russian Federation (since 1993)	Yeltsin–Gaidar (1991–92) Chernomyrdin I (1992–96) Chernomyrdin II (1996–98) Kiriyenko (Apr-Aug 1998) Primakov (1998–99) Stepashin (May-Aug 1999) Putin I (1999–2000) Kasyanov (2000–04) Fradkov I (Mar-May 2004) Fradkov II (2004–07) Zubkov (2007–08) Putin II (2008–12) Medvedev I (2012–18) Medvedev II (2018–20) Mishustin I (2020–2024) Mishustin II (since 2024)
See also: Soviet Government Cabinets (1922–1991)