First Deputy Chairman of the
Government of the Russian Federation
Первый Заместитель Председателя Правительства Российской Федерации
Incumbent
Andrey Belousov
since 21 January 2020
StyleMr First Deputy Chairman
(informal)
His Excellency
(diplomatic)
NominatorPrime Minister
AppointerPresident
Term lengthNo fixed term
Inaugural holderGennady Burbulis
Formation6 November 1991 (1991-11-06)[1]

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.[2] The First Deputy is to be proposed by the Prime Minister, and approved by the President.[3] 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.[4]

List

First Deputy PM Party Term of Office Other offices held while
First Deputy PM		 Cabinet
Gennady Burbulis Independent 6 November 1991 14 April 1992 Secretary of State Yeltsin—Gaidar
Yegor Gaidar Independent 2 March 1992 15 December 1992 Minister of Finance
(to 2 April)
Acting Prime Minister
(from 15 June)
Vladimir Shumeyko Independent 2 June 1992 20 January 1994 Minister of Press
(from 5 October 1993)		 Yeltsin—Gaidar
Chernomyrdin I
Oleg Lobov Independent 15 April 1993 18 September 1993 Minister of Economy Chernomyrdin I
Yegor Gaidar Democratic Choice 18 September 1993 20 January 1994 Acting Minister of Economy
Oleg Soskovets Independent 30 April 1993 20 June 1996 none
Anatoly Chubais Democratic Choice 5 November 1994 16 January 1996 none
Vladimir Kadannikov Independent 25 January 1996 9 August 1996 none
Oleg Lobov Independent 18 June 1996 14 August 1996 Presidential Representative in Chechnya
Alexei Bolshakov Independent 14 August 1996 17 March 1997 none Chernomyrdin II
Viktor Ilyushin Independent none
Vladimir Potanin Independent none
Anatoly Chubais Democratic Choice 17 March 1997 23 March 1998 Minister of Finance
(to 20 November 1997)
Boris Nemtsov Independent 17 March 1997 18 April 1998 Minister of Energy
(24 April – 20 November 1997)		 Chernomyrdin II
Kiriyenko
Sergey Kiriyenko Independent 23 March 1998 24 April 1998 Acting Prime Minister[n 1] Kiriyenko
Yuri Maslyukov Communist Party 11 September 1998 12 May 1999 none Primakov
Vadim Gustov Independent 18 September 1998 27 April 1999 none
Sergey Stepashin Independent 27 April 1999 12 May 1999 Minister of Internal Affairs
Nikolay Aksyonenko Independent 21 May 1999 10 January 2000 Minister of Railways Stepashin
Putin I
Mikhail Zadornov Independent 25 May 1999 28 May 1999 Minister of Finance Stepashin
Viktor Khristenko Independent 31 May 1999 10 January 2000 none Stepashin
Putin I
Vladimir Putin Independent 9 August 1999 16 August 1999 Acting Prime Minister[n 1] Putin I
Mikhail Kasyanov Independent 10 January 2000 17 May 2000 Minister of Finance
Dmitry Medvedev Independent 14 November 2005 7 May 2008 none Fradkov II
Zubkov
Sergei Ivanov United Russia 15 February 2007 7 May 2008 none
Viktor Zubkov United Russia 12 May 2008 7 May 2012 Chairman of the Board of Gazprom
(from 27 June 2008)[5]		 Putin II
Igor Shuvalov Independent 12 May 2008 18 May 2018 none Putin II
Medvedev I
Anton Siluanov United Russia 18 May 2018 15 January 2020 Minister of Finance Medvedev II
Andrey Belousov Independent 21 January 2020 Incumbent Acting Prime Minister
(30 April – 19 May 2020)		 Mishustin

First Deputy Premiers of Soviet Russia

First Deputy Term of Office[6] Other offices held while
First Deputy		 Premier
Aleksandr Smirnov 20 February 1928 3 November 1929 none Rykov
Syrtsov
Dmitry Lebed 7 February 1930 August 1937 none Syrtsov
Sulimov
Georgy Perov June 1943 November 1944 none Kosygin
Vasily Pronin November 1944 23 March 1946 none
Valentin Makarov 26 June 1948 12 July 1949 none Rodionov
Chernousov
Arseny Safronov 12 July 1949 13 October 1957 none Chernousov
Puzanov
Yasnov
Pavel Lobanov 15 August 1953 28 February 1955 Minister of Agriculture
(from 20 December 1953)		 Puzanov
Dmitry Alyokhin 26 March 1955 29 August 1957 none Puzanov
Yasnov
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 Yasnov
Kozlov
Polyansky
Mikhail Yasnov 19 December 1957 23 December 1966 none Kozlov
Polyansky
Voronov
Vladimir Novikov 7 May 1958 16 April 1959 Chairman of the RSFSR State Committee for Planning Polyansky
Nikolay Smirnov 24 March 1962 18 January 1964 Minister of Agricultural Production and Procurement Voronov
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 none Voronov
Solomentsev
Nikolay Vasilyev 18 February 1971 13 April 1979 none
Vitaly Vorotnikov 10 July 1975 4 April 1979 none Solomentsev
Lev Yermin 18 April 1979 20 April 1989 Chairman of the RSFSR State Agroindustrial Committee
(from 28 November 1985)		 Solomentsev
Vorotnikov
Vlasov
Vladimir Orlov 26 March 1985 none Solomentsev
Vorotnikov
Vladimir Gusev 11 April 1985 20 June 1986 none Vorotnikov
Vlasov
Fikryat Tabeyev 27 June 1986 15 May 1990 none
Yevgeny Sizenko 21 June 1989 14 July 1990 none Vlasov
Silayev
Gennady Kulik 14 July 1990 10 July 1991 Minister of Agriculture and Food Silayev
Yury Skokov 8 September 1990 10 July 1991 none
Oleg Lobov 19 April 1991 15 November 1991 de facto Acting Premier
(from 26 September)

Timeline

Notes

  1. 1 2 A 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 leds 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.
    Статья №8 от 17 декабря 1997 «Федеральный конституционный закон № 2-ФКЗ «О Правительстве Российской Федерации»». (Article #8 of 17 December 1997 Federal Constitutional Law No. 2-FKZ "On the Government of the Russian Federation". ).

References

  1. ↑ Ministries, political parties, etc
  2. ↑ Статья №110 от 12 декабря 1993 «Глава 6. Правительство Российской Федерации». (Article #110 of 12 December 1993 Chapter 6. The Government of the Russian Federation. ).
  3. ↑ Статья №112 от 12 декабря 1993 «Глава 6. Правительство Российской Федерации». (Article #112 of 12 December 1993 Chapter 6. The Government of the Russian Federation. ).
  4. ↑ "Беспремьерная ситуация". Коммерсантъ.
  5. ↑ "Совет директоров ОАО "Газпром" — Зубков Виктор Алексеевич" (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2009-11-23.
  6. ↑ Council of People's Commissars - Council of Ministers of the RSFSR, 1st Deputy Chairmen, knowbysight.info

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