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The Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union refers to the head of the
Ministry of Defence {{unsourced, date=February 2021 A ministry of defence or defense (see spelling differences), also known as a department of defence or defense, is an often-used name for the part of a government responsible for matters of defence, found in state ...
who was responsible for defence of the socialist
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR or RSFSR ( rus, Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика, Rossíyskaya Sovétskaya Federatívnaya Soci ...
from 1917 to 1922 and the
Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...
from 1922 to 1992.


People's Commissars for Military and Naval Affairs (1917–1934)


People's Commissar for the Armed Forces (1946)


Ministers of the Armed Forces (1946–1950)


Ministers of Defence (1953–1992)


See also

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College of War The College of War (sometimes War Collegium, or similar, but not to be confused with other institutions of the same name) was a Russian executive body (or collegium), created in the government reform of 1717. It was the only one of the six ori ...
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Ministry of War of the Russian Empire Ministry of War of the Russian Empire, (russian: Военное министерство, ''Military Ministry'') was an administrative body in the Russian Empire from 1802 to 1917. It was established in 1802 as the ''Ministry of ground armed for ...
* List of heads of the military of Imperial Russia * Ministry of Defense (Soviet Union) *
Ministry of Defense Industry (Soviet Union) The Ministry of Defense Industry (Minoboronprom; russian: Министерство оборонной промышленности СССР) was a government ministry in the Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Soc ...
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Ministry of Defence (Russia) The Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (russian: Министерство обороны Российской Федерации, Минобороны России, informally abbreviated as МО, МО РФ or Minoboron) is the govern ...
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General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation The General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (russian: Генеральный штаб Вооружённых сил Российской Федерации, General'nyy shtab Vooruzhonnykh sil Rossiyskoy Federatsii) is the mi ...
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Chief of the General Staff (Russia) The Chief of the General Staff (russian: Начальник Генерального штаба) is the head of the General Staff and the highest ranking officer of the Russian Armed Forces or is also the senior-most uniformed military officer. H ...


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{{Reflist Defence of Soviet Union Lists of government ministers of Russia