| - Name Start End Notable offices held before or after | |
| 1 General Kerim Kerimov 1964 1965 - | |
| 2 General Andrei Karas 1965 1979 - | |
| 3 General Aleksandr Maksimov [ru] 1979 1989 - | |
| 4 General Vladimir Ivanov 1989 1996 - | |
| 5 General Anatoly Perminov 2001 2004 Director of Federal Space Agency (2004—2011) | |
| 6 General Vladimir Popovkin 2004 2008 Head of Roscosmos (2011–2013) | |
| 7 General Oleg Ostapenko 2008 2011 Director of Russian Federal Space Agency (2013–2015) | |
| 8 General Vladimir Ivanov 2012 2012 - | |
| 9 General Aleksandr Golovko 2015 - Commander of Russian Aerospace Defence Forces (2011–2015) | |