List of Ministers of Justice of Russia

This is a list of Ministers of Justice of Russia.

Russian Empire[]

Minister		Term of Office		Emperor
	Gavriil Derzhavin	8 September 1802	7 October 1803	Alexander I
	Pyotr Lopukhin	8 October 1803	1 January 1810
	Ivan Dmitriev	1 January 1810	30 August 1814
	Dmitry Troshchinsky	30 August 1814	25 August 1817
	Prince Dmitry Lobanov-Rostovsky	25 August 1817	18 October 1827
				Nicholas I
	Prince Alexey Dolgorukov	18 October 1827	20 September 1829
	Dmitry Dashkov	20 September 1829	14 February 1839
	Count Dmitry Bludov	14 February 1839	31 December 1839
	Count Viktor Panin	31 December 1839	21 October 1862
				Alexander II
		21 October 1862	18 April 1867
	Prince	18 April 1867	15 October 1867
	Count	18 April 1867	30 May 1878
		30 May 1878	6 November 1885
				Alexander III
		6 November 1885	1 January 1894
	Nikolay Muraviev	1 January 1894	14 January 1905
				Nicholas II
	Sergey Manukhin	21 January 1905	16 December 1905
	Mikhail Akimov	16 December 1905	24 April 1906
	Ivan Shcheglovitov	24 April 1906	6 July 1915
	Aleksandr Khvostov	6 July 1915	7 July 1916
	Alexander Makarov	7 July 1916	20 December 1916
		20 December 1916	28 February 1917

Provisional Government/Russian Republic[]

Minister			Party	Term of Office		Prime Minister
		Alexander Kerensky	Socialist Revolutionary Party	15 March 1917	18 May 1917		Georgy Lvov
			Labour Group	18 May 1917	19 July 1917
			Progressive Party	23 July 1917	6 August 1917		Alexander Kerensky
		Alexander Zarudny	Popular Socialist Party	6 August 1917	15 September 1917
			Popular Socialist Party	15 September 1917	8 October 1917
		Pavel Malyantovich	Social Democratic Labour Party (Menshevik)	8 October 1917	7 November 1917

Russian SFSR[]

Minister			Party	Term of Office		Head of State
		Georgy Oppokov	Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolshevik)	8 November 1917	29 November 1917		Lev Kamenev
		Pyotr Stuchka	Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolshevik)	29 November 1917	22 December 1917		Yakov Sverdlov
		Isaac Steinberg	Party of Left Socialist-Revolutionaries	22 December 1917	18 March 1918
		Pyotr Stuchka	Communist Party	18 March 1918	14 September 1918
		Dmitry Kursky	Communist Party	14 September 1918	16 January 1928
							Mikhail Vladimirsky
							Mikhail Kalinin
		Nikolai Janson	Communist Party	16 January 1928	6 March 1931
		Nikolai Krylenko	Communist Party	5 May 1931	20 July 1936
			Communist Party	20 July 1936	31 August 1937
		Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko	Communist Party	15 September 1937	11 October 1937
			Communist Party	17 October 1937	25 January 1940
							Aleksei Badayev
		Konstantin Gorshenin	Communist Party	25 January 1940	12 November 1943
			Communist Party	5 January 1944	5 October 1949
							Nikolai Shvernik
							Ivan Vlasov
			Communist Party	5 October 1949	11 June 1953
			Communist Party	11 June 1953	27 March 1957
			Communist Party	11 May 1957	13 April 1963
							Nikolai Ignatov
							Nikolai Ignatov
			Communist Party	13 April 1963	24 September 1970
							Mikhail Yasnov
			Communist Party	24 September 1970	15 February 1984
			Communist Party	15 March 1984	25 February 1988
							Vladimir Orlov
			Communist Party	5 April 1988	14 July 1990
							Vitaly Vorotnikov
							Boris Yeltsin
		Nikolay Fyodorov	Communist Party	14 July 1990	25 December 1991

Russian Federation[]

Minister			Party	Term of Office		President
		Nikolay Fyodorov	Independent	25 December 1991	24 March 1993		Boris Yeltsin
			Independent	24 March 1993	7 December 1994
		Valentin Kovalev	Independent	5 January 1995	2 July 1997
		Sergei Stepashin	Independent	2 July 1997	29 March 1998
		Pavel Krasheninnikov	Independent	29 March 1998	17 August 1999
		Yury Chaika	Independent	17 August 1999	23 June 2006
							Vladimir Putin
		Vladimir Ustinov	Independent	23 June 2006	12 May 2008
		Alexander Konovalov	United Russia	12 May 2008	21 January 2020		Dmitry Medvedev
							Vladimir Putin
		Konstantin Chuychenko	United Russia	21 January 2020	Incumbent

See also[]

• Justice Minister
• Russian Council of Ministers
• Prosecutor General of Russia

External links[]

• (in Russian) List of Ministers of Imperial Russia (1802-1917)
• (in Russian) Official site of the Public Prosecutor