List of Soviet foreign ministers
This is a list of foreign ministers of the Soviet Union.
| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term | Cabinet | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Duration | ||||
| 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 | |