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Part of the offices of the Presidential Administration are located in an Art Nouveau building at Moscow's 8 Staraya Square (next to the former seat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union).

The Presidential Administration of Russia (also known as Staff of Russia’s president, Presidential Executive Office, in Russian: Администрация Президента Российской Федерации) is the executive office of Russia's president created by a decree of Boris Yeltsin on 19 July 1991 as an institution supporting the activity of the president (then Yeltsin) and vice-president (then Aleksandr Rutskoy, in 1993 the position was abolished) of Russian SFSR (now Russian Federation), as well as deliberative bodies attached to the president, including the Security Council.

The chief of the presidential administration, his deputies, heads of main directorates and services and their deputies are appointed by the President of Russia and don't need to be approved by any other government body. Other staff is appointed by the chief of the presidential administration.

History

On 25 March 2004, Vladimir Putin undertook a major reorganisation of this institution by a decree.^[1] Only two deputy chiefs remained out of seven. The Press Office and the Information Office were merged into the Press and Information Office, the Pardon Directorate and the Citizenship Directorate were merged into the Directorate for Protecting Citizens' Constitutional Rights. The Personnel Directorate and the State Decorations Directorate were merged into the Personnel and State Decorations Directorate, the Protocol Directorate and the Organisation Directorate were merged into the Protocol and Organization Directorate. The Territorial Directorate was included in the Domestic policy Directorate. The Economic Directorate was abolished, the Civil Service Directorate was created.

The Presidential Administration of Russia is situated in Moscow where it holds offices in several buildings of Kitay-gorod and inside the Kremlin.^[2]^[3]

Current staff of the presidential administration

Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office:

Sergei Ivanov

First Deputy Chiefs of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office:

Deputy Chiefs of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office:

Deputy Chief of the Presidential Executive Office and Presidential Press Secretary:

Dmitry Peskov

Aides to the President:^[4]

Andrej Belousov
Larisa Brychyova (Head of the Presidential State-Legal Directorate)
Vladislav Surkov
Igor Levitin
Vladimir Kozhin
Yuri Ushakov
Andrei Fursenko
Konstantin Chuychenko
Evgeny Shkolov
Igor Shchegolev

Chief of the Presidential Protocol:

Vladimir Ostrovenko

Advisers to the President:

Alexander Bedritsky (Special Presidential Representative on Climate Issues)
Sergey Glazyev
Sergei Grigorov
Anton Kobyakov
Alexandra Levitskaya
Vladimir Tolstoy
Anton Ustinov
Mikhail Fedotov (Chairman of the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights)
Veniamin Yakovlev

Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights:

Pavel Astakhov (since December 2009)^[5]

Presidential Commissioner for Entrepreneurs’ Rights:

Boris Titov (since June 2012)^[6]

Presidential Envoys to Federal districts of Russia

The Federal districts of Russia are a level of administration for the convenience of the federal government and have been organised in 2000. They are not the constituent units of Russia (which are the federal subjects). Each district includes several federal subjects and each federal district has a presidential envoy (whose official title is Plenipotentiary Representative). The official task of the Plenipotentiary Representative is simply to oversee the work of federal agencies in the regions, although in practice this oversight is extensive and of considerable consequence. Federal districts' envoys serve as liaisons between the federal subjects and the federal government and are primarily responsible for overseeing the compliance of the federal subjects with the federal laws.

This institution is organised as followed:^[7]

Central Federal District
- Georgy Poltavchenko (18 May 2000 — 6 September 2011)
- Oleg Govorun (6 September 2011 – 23 May 2012)^[8]
- Alexander Beglov (since 23 May 2012)
Southern Federal District
- Viktor Kazantsev (18 May 2000 — 9 March 2004)
- Vladimir Yakovlev (9 March 2004 — 13 September 2004)
- Dmitry Kozak (13 September 2004 — 24 September 2007)
- Grigory Rapota (24 September 2007 — 12 May 2008)
- Vladimir Ustinov (since 12 May 2008)
Northwestern Federal District
- Viktor Cherkesov (18 May 2000 — 11 March 2003)
- Valentina Matviyenko (11 March 2003 — 15 October 2003)
- Ilya Klebanov (1 November 2003 — 8 December 2008)
- Nikolay Vinnichenko (since 6 September 2011)^[8]
- Vladimir Bulavin (since March 2013)
Far Eastern Federal District
- Konstantin Pulikovsky (18 May 2000 — 14 November 2005)
- Kamil Iskhakov (14 November 2005 — 2 October 2007)
- Oleg Safonov (30 November 2007 — 30 April 2009)
- Viktor Ishayev (30 April 2009 — 31 August 2013)
- Yury Trutnev (since 31 August 2013)^[9]
Siberian Federal District
- Leonid Drachevsky (18 May 2000 — 9 September 2004)
- Anatoly Kvashnin (9 September 2004 — 9 September 2010)
- Viktor Tolokonsky (9 September 2010 — 12 May 2014)
- Nikolay Rogozhkin (since 12 May 2014)^[10]
Ural Federal District
- Pyotr Latyshev (18 May 2000 — 2 December 2008)
- Nikolay Vinnichenko (8 December 2008 — 6 September 2011)
- Yevgeny Kuyvashev (6 September 2011 — 14 May 2012)^[8]
- Igor Kholmanskikh (since 18 May 2012)^[11]
Volga Federal District
- Sergei Kiriyenko (18 May 2000 — 14 November 2005)
- Alexandr Konovalov (14 November 2005 — 12 May 2008)
- Grigory Rapota (12 May 2008 — 15 December 2011)
- Mikhail Babich (since 15 December 2011)
North Caucasian Federal District
- Alexander Khloponin (19 January 2010 — 12 May 2014)
- Sergey Melikov (since 12 May 2014)^[10]
Crimean Federal District
- Oleg Belaventsev (since March 2014)^[12]

Presidential Envoys to Branches of Federal Power

The Presidential Plenipotentiary to the Federation Council of Russia:

Anatoly Sliva (10 February 1996 — 27 October 1998)
Yury Yarov (7 December 1998 — 13 April 1999)
Vyacheslav Khizhnyakov (12 May 1999 — 5 April 2004)
Alexander Kotenkov (since 5 April 2004 — )
Arthur Muravyov (since 29 October 2013)^[13]

The Presidential Plenipotentiary to the State Duma:

Alexander Yakovlev (18 February 1994 — 10 February 1996)
Alexander Kotenkov (10 February 1996 — 5 April 2004)
Alexander Kosopkin (since 5 April 2004 — )
Garry Minkh (since 12 February 2009)^[14]

The Presidential Plenipotentiary to the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation:

Valery Savitsky (24 April 1995 — 5 February 1996)
Mikhail Mityukov (5 February — 7 December 1996)
Sergey Shakhray (7 December 1996 — 29 June 1998)
Mikhail Mityukov (29 June 1998 — 7 November 2005)
Mikhail Krotov (since 7 November 2005)^[15]

Subdivisions

Security Council Office
Offices of the Plenipotentiary Envoys to the Federal Districts
Presidential Advisers' Office
State-Legal Directorate
Presidential Chancellery
Control Directorate (Chiefs: Yuri Boldyrev (1992 — 1993), Aleksey Ilyushenko (19 March 1993 — ), Vladimir Zaytsev (1995 — 1996), Alexei Kudrin (1 August 1996 — 26 March 1997), Vladimir Putin (26 March 1997 — May 1998), Nikolai Patrushev (31 May 1998 — October 1998), Yevgeny Lisov (October 1998 — 13 January 2004), Valery Nazarov (13 January 2004 — 12 March 2004), Alexander Beglov (27 May 2004 — ), Konstantin Chuychenko (at least since 2009)^[16]
Presidential Speechwriters' Directorate
Secretariat of the Chief of the Presidential Administration
Domestic Policy Directorate
Foreign Policy Directorate
Personnel and State Decorations Directorate (since 25 March 2004)
Personnel Directorate (until 25 March 2004)
State Decorations Directorate (until 25 March 2004)
Civil Service Directorate (since 25 March 2004)
Directorate for Protecting Citizens' Constitutional Rights (since 25 March 2004)
Pardon Directorate
Citizenship Directorate (until 25 March 2004)
Document Processing Directorate
Directorate for Communication and Public Feedback
Press and Information Office (since 25 March 2004)
Press Office (until 25 March 2004)
Information Office (until 25 March 2004)
Protocol and Organization Directorate (since 25 March 2004)
Protocol Directorate (until 25 March 2004)
Organization Directorate (until 25 March 2004)
Experts' Directorate
Directorate for Interregional Relations and Cultural Contacts with Foreign Countries
Territorial Directorate (until 25 March 2004)
Economic Directorate (until 25 March 2004)
Cossacks Directorate (7 August 1998 – 25 February 2003)
Archive of the President of the Russian Federation (since 1998)^[17]

Former members of the presidential administration

First Deputy Chiefs of Presidential Administration:

Dmitry Medvedev (3 June 2000 — 30 October 2003)
Dmitry Kozak (30 October 2003 — March 2004)

Deputy Chiefs of Presidential Administration:

Sergey Yastrzhembsky (1997 — 1998)
Dzhakhan Pollyeva (1998 — March 2004)
Sergei Prikhodko (1998 — March 2004)
Dmitry Kozak (May 1999 — August 1999, 4 June 2000 — 30 October 2003)
Alexander Abramov (1999 — March 2004)
Vladislav Surkov (August 1999 — December 2011)
Yevgeny Lisov (until 12 January 2004)
Viktor Ivanov (2000 — March 2004)
Igor Shuvalov (October 2003 — March 2004)

Aides to the President:

Sergei Prikhodko (1997 1998, March 2004 —)
Igor Shuvalov (June — October 2003, March 2004 — )
Igor Sergeyev (28 March 2001 — 30 March 2004)
Yevgeny Shaposhnikov (March 1997 — 30 March 2004)
Aslambek Aslakhanov (October 2003 — March 2004)
Igor Sechin (March 2004 — May 2008)
Vladislav Surkov (March 2004 — December 2011)

Press Attaches for the President:

Natalya Timakova

Chiefs of the Presidential Protocol:

Igor Schyogolev