Russia
Russian Empire:
- Regent - Elena Glinskaya - 1533
- Monarch - Catherine I of Russia - 1725
Russian Republic:
- Vice Minister of State Welfare and Vice Minister of Education - Sofia Panina - 1917
Soviet Union:
- Commissar (Minister): Alexandra Kollontai - First female minister in the world - 1917
- Ambassador: Alexandra Kollontai - 1923
- Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union : Nadezhda Krupskaya - 1924
- Deputy minister (Comissar) of Education : Nadezhda Krupskaya - 1929
- Member of the Supreme Soviet : Nadezhda Krupskaya - 1931
- Member of the Politburo : Ekaterina Furtseva - 1957
Russian Federation:
- Governor:Valentina Matviyenko - 2003
- Chairwoman of the Federation Council of Russia: Valentina Matviyenko - 2011
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