The changes affect the deputy prime minister bloc, the cabinet's staff apparatus and the Ministry of Transport, according to the decrees.
Trutnev was relieved of his post as deputy prime minister and presidential envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District and appointed a presidential aide. Former Primorye Governor Oleg Kozhemyako took his seat in the cabinet.
Siluanov was appointed deputy prime minister while retaining the post of finance minister, which he has held since 2011. The government explained the expansion of his powers by the "need to ensure financial stability" and the "efficiency of state spending" under "conditions of increasing external pressure."
Dmitry Grigorenko is leaving the posts of deputy prime minister and head of the government apparatus. Sberbank intends to nominate him as a deputy chairman of its board, where he is expected to oversee the bank's interaction with the government and regional authorities. First Deputy Finance Minister Irina Okladnikova will take his place.
Andrei Nikitin is leaving the post of transport minister and becoming a deputy prime minister. Dmitry Yadrov, head of the Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsiya), was appointed transport minister.
RBC sources said that after moving to the presidential administration, Trutnev will handle military-patriotic education, for example overseeing the Yunarmiya youth movement.