List of Soviet foreign ministers

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

Portrait Name Term of office Head of State
57 Georgy Chicherin July 6, 1923 July 21, 1930 Vladimir Lenin
Joseph Stalin
58 Maxim Litvinov July 21, 1930 May 3, 1939
59 Vyacheslav Molotov May 3, 1939 March 4, 1949
60 Andrey Vyshinsky March 4, 1949 March 5, 1953
61 Vyacheslav Molotov March 5, 1953 June 1, 1956
Nikita Khrushchev
62 Dmitri Shepilov June 1, 1956 February 15, 1957
63 Andrei Gromyko February 15, 1957 July 27, 1985
Leonid Brezhnev
Yuri Andropov
Konstantin Chernenko
64 Eduard Shevardnadze July 28, 1985 December 20, 1990 Mikhail Gorbachev
65 Aleksandr Bessmertnykh January 15, 1991 August 28, 1991
Boris Pankin (Acting) August 28, 1991 November 14, 1991
Minister of External Relations of the USSR (1991-1991)
Portrait Name Term of office Head of State
1 Eduard Shevardnadze November 19, 1991 December 26, 1991

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