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The post of deputy prime minister of Russia in charge of provisional administration in North Ossetia and Ingushetia was established on November 2, 1992. It was held by six people within three years, including Viktor Polyanichko, who was appointed on June 26, 1993 and killed on August 1 of the same year, while on his way to talks with Ingush rebel leaders.
In 1994-1999, deputy prime ministers in charge of nationalities policy Sergei Shakhrai, Nikolai Yegorov, Vyacheslav Mikhailov and Ramazan Abdulatipov were responsible for the situation in the Caucasus, mainly in Chechnya, but often had no means of influencing it.
On October 15, 1999, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin appointed Deputy Transport Minister Nikolai Koshman as his deputy and envoy to Chechnya. In July 2000 the post was terminated.
On November 28, 2000, then President Vladimir Putin introduced the post of minister in charge of coordinating the operation of federal executive bodies in Chechnya, and gave it to Vladimir Yelagin, deputy chairman of the state construction committee. Stanislav Ilyasov, former Prime Minister of Chechnya, succeeded Yelagin on November 7, 2002.
The post was terminated during the spring 2004 government reshuffle.
In August 2004, an interdepartmental commission for the social and economic reconstruction of Chechnya, headed by Economic Development Minister German Gref, was set up by Vladimir Putin's directive. In the next three years, Gref held several meetings of the commission during visits to the capital of Chechnya, Grozny.