Sergei Yulyevich Witte19 October 1905
Becomes chairman of the Council of Ministers.
Russia · Government / Government of Russia. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Becomes chairman of the Council of Ministers.
Appointed Russia's first chairman of the Council of Ministers.
Heads the new Council of Ministers after the manifesto.
Appointed Chairman of the Council of Minister's
Appointed Prime Minister of Russia, after the assassination of Stolypin
Appointed Prime Minister of Russia
Appointed Chairman of the Council of peoples Commissars
Appointed Prime Minister of the Russian Republic
Appointed Prime Minister of Russia
Appointed Prime Minister of Russia
Appointed Chairman of the Council of Minister's, Prime Minister
Appointed Prime Minister of the RFSR
Appointed Prime Minister of the Soviet Union
Appointed Prime Minister of Russia
Appointed Prime Minister of Russia
Appointed Prime Minister of Russia, Chairman of the Council of Minister
Appointed Prime Minister of Russia
Appointed Prime Minister of Russia
Yeltsin names Yegor Gaidar acting Prime Minister of Russia, Gaidar is never confirmed by Parliament
Appointed Prime Minister of Russia, 1st term
Yeltsin sacks his entire cabinet, including Chernomyrdin, he names liberal former Energy Minister Sergei Kiriyenko acting Prime Minister
President Yeltsin yields to pressure from the communist-dominated Duma to appoint Yevgeny Primakov as Prime Minister
Appointed Prime Minister of Russia, 2nd term
The Duma twice rejects Kiriyenkos nomination, but confirms him, under the threat of dissolution, in a third vote
The nomination of Interior Minister Sergei Stepashin, a Yeltsin loyalist, as Primakovs replacement suggests to many that Primakov had become too powerful for the Presidents comfort. Stepashin is easily confirmed by the Duma
Yeltsin elevates the obscure Putin to the position of Prime Minister, and shortly thereafter designates him as his successor
Putin is inaugurated, he names Mikhail Kasyanof as Prime Minister and pledges to restore the country to world-power status
Appointed Prime Minister of Russia
Appointed Prime Minister of Adygeya
Elected Prime Minister of Russia. Due to constitutionally mandated term limits, Putin was ineligible to run for a third consecutive Presidential term, his successor, Dmitry Medvedev nominates Putin to be Russian Prime Minister
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