Cabinet of Boris Yeltsin and Yegor Gaidar

Cabinet of Boris Yeltsin and Yegor Gaidar
42nd Cabinet of Russia
Date formed	6 November 1991
Date dissolved	23 December 1992
People and organisations
Head of state	Boris Yeltsin
Head of government	Boris Yeltsin Yegor Gaidar (acting)
Head of government's history	1991–1999
Deputy head of government	Yegor Gaidar Gennady Burbulis Vladimir Shumeyko
No. of ministers	34
History
Predecessor	Silaev II
Successor	Chernomyrdin I

Cabinet of Boris Yeltsin and Yegor Gaidar – Russian Cabinet of Ministers under the leadership of President Boris Yeltsin and First Deputy Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar. Worked from 6 November 1991 to 23 December 1992.

Boris Yeltsin led the Council of Ministers to carry out radical economic reforms aimed at liberalizing the economy. He headed the Cabinet since 6 November 1991 to 15 June 1992. From 15 June to 15 December 1992, the Cabinet directed the acting Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar.

In December 1992, Boris Yeltsin proposed to the Congress of People's Deputies of Russia Yegor Gaidar's candidacy for the post of Prime Minister of Russia, however, people's deputies he was denied.

It was replaced by the cabinet of Viktor Chernomyrdin.

Ministers

Ministry (Committee)	Minister
Prime Minister	Boris Yeltsin
	Yegor Gaidar (acting)
First Deputy Prime Minister	Gennady Burbulis
First Deputy Prime Minister	Yegor Gaidar
First Deputy Prime Minister	Vladimir Shumeyko
Deputy Prime Minister	Alexander Shokhin
Deputy Prime Minister	Yegor Gaidar
Deputy Prime Minister	Viktor Chernomyrdin
Deputy Prime Minister	Sergei Shakhrai
Deputy Prime Minister	Mikhail Poltoranin
Deputy Prime Minister	Valery Makharadze
Deputy Prime Minister	Georgy Khizha
Deputy Prime Minister	Anatoly Chubais
Deputy Prime Minister	Boris Saltykov
Ministry of Atomic Energy	Viktor Mikhailov
Ministry of Security	Viktor Barannikov
Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations	Peter Aven
Ministry of Interior	Andrey Dunaev
	Viktor Yerin
Ministry of Health	Andrey Vorobiov
Ministry of Foreign Affairs	Andrei Kozyrev
Ministry of Culture	Yevgeny Sidorov
Ministry of Science, Higher Education and Technical Policy	Boris Saltykov
Ministry of Defence	Boris Yeltsin (acting)
	Pavel Grachev
Ministry of Education	Eduard Dneprov
	Yevgeny Tkachenko (acting)
Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources	Viktor Danilov-Danilyan
Ministry of Press and Information	Mikhail Poltoranin
Ministry of Railways	Gennady Fadeev
Ministry of Agriculture	Gennady Kulik
Ministry of Social Protection	Ella Pamfilova
Ministry of Communications	Vladimir Bulgak
Ministry of Fuel and Energy	Vladimir Lopukhin
Ministry of transportation	Vitaly Yefimov
Ministry of Labor	Gennady Melnikyan
Ministry of Justice	Nikolay Fyodorov
Ministry of Economics	Andrey Nechaev
Federal Centre for Land and agro-industrial reform	Vitaly Yermolenko
Central Bank	Viktor Gerashenko
State Committee for Anti-Monopoly Policy and Support of new economic structures	Leonid Bochin
State Committee for Nuclear and Radiation Safety	Yuri Vishnevsky
State Committee of Sanitary and Epidemiological Surveillance	Yevgeny Belyaev
State Committee for socio-economic development of the North	Vladimir Kuranin
State Committee for social protection of citizens and the rehabilitation of areas affected by the Chernobyl and other radiation accidents	Semen Voloshyuk
	Vasily Voznyak
State Customs Committee	Anatoly Kruglov
State Committee for Management of State Property	Anatoly Chubais
State Committee for Emergency Situations	Sergey Shoygu
State Committee for Economic Cooperation with the Member States of the Commonwealth of Independent States	Vladimir Mashits
Head of Government Staff	Alexey Golovkov