List of Soviet foreign ministers

This is a list of foreign ministers of the Soviet Union.

No.	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Term			Cabinet
No.	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Took office	Left office	Duration	Cabinet
People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the USSR
1		Georgy Chicherin (1872–1936)	6 July 1923	21 July 1930	7 years, 15 days	Lenin II Rykov I–II–III–IV–V
2		Maxim Litvinov (1876–1951)	21 July 1930	3 May 1939	8 years, 286 days	Molotov I–II–III–IV
3		Vyacheslav Molotov (1890–1986)	3 May 1939	15 March 1946	6 years, 305 days	Molotov IV Stalin I–II
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR
(3)		Vyacheslav Molotov (1890–1986)	19 March 1946	4 March 1949	2 years, 350 days	Stalin II
4		Andrey Vyshinsky (1883–1954)	4 March 1949	5 March 1953	4 years, 1 day	Stalin II
(3)		Vyacheslav Molotov (1890–1986)	5 March 1953	1 June 1956	3 years, 88 days	Malenkov I–II Bulganin
5		Dmitri Shepilov (1905–1995)	1 June 1956	15 February 1957	259 days	Bulganin Khrushchev I
6		Andrei Gromyko (1909–1989)	15 February 1957	2 July 1985	28 years, 137 days	Khrushchev I–II Kosygin I–II–III–IV–V Tikhonov I–II
7		Eduard Shevardnadze (1928–2014)	2 July 1985	15 January 1991	5 years, 197 days	Tikhonov II Ryzhkov I–II
8		Alexander Bessmertnykh (born 1933)	15 January 1991	28 August 1991	225 days	Pavlov
(acting)		Boris Pankin (born 1931)	28 August 1991	18 November 1991	82 days	Silayev
Minister of External Relations of the USSR
(7)		Eduard Shevardnadze (1928–2014)	19 November 1991	25 December 1991	36 days	Silayev

See also