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Prikaz (Russian: приказ) was an administrative (palace, civil, military, or church) or judicial office in Muscovy and Russia of 15th-18th centuries. The term is usually translated as "ministry", "office" or "department". In modern Russian "prikaz" means administrative or military order (to do something).

"Prikaz" was also the name of streltsy regiments in 16th-17th centuries.

Most of prikazes were subordinated to Boyar Duma. Some of them (Palace Prikazes (Дворцовые приказы)) were subordinated to the Tayny Prikaz, or Prikaz of Secret Affairs (приказ тайных дел) that answered directly to Tsar. Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia had his own prikazes.

There was a large number (up to 60) of specialized prikazes. Their set varied over time.

• Subordinated to Duma:
  • Posolsky Prikaz (literally: "Ambassadorial office") was in charge of international affairs, a kind of a Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
  • Pomestny Prikaz (Estate Prikaz) was in charge of personal estate ('pomestye') and ancestral estate ('votchina') lands in . Collected fees for land transfers.
  • Razryadny Prikaz (Rank Prikaz) was in charge of military and civil administration higher personnel.
• Administrative and judicial (subordinated to Pomestny Prikaz)
  • Pechatny Prikaz (Prikaz of the Seal, Stamp Prikaz) was an office that placed the Tsar's seal on various documents that granted various things to private persons, and collected the corresponding duties.
  • Moscow Judicial Prikaz
  • Vladimir Judicial Prikaz
• Military Prikazes
  • Streletsky Prikaz
  • Pushkarsky Prikaz, in charge of artillery
  • Admiralteysky Prikaz, in charge of Navy.
• Finance Prikazes
• Regional Prikazes
  • Malorossiya Prikaz, Ministry of the Ukrainian (Malorossiya) Affairs
  • Kazan Prikaz (Казанский приказ, Приказ Казанского дворца, Kazan Palace Prikaz), Volga Region (Поволжье) Affairs (South-West of Russia, territories of Kazan Khanate)
  • Siberian Prikaz
  • Great Russia Prikaz
  • Grand Duchy of Lithuania Prikaz
  • Grand Duchy of Smolensk Prikaz
  • Prikaz of Livonia Affairs
• Palace Prikazes
  • Konyushenny Prikaz
• Patriarch Prikazes

The prikazy were abolished by Peter the Great and replaced, beginning in 1717, with administrative organs known as collegia.

• Dyak
• Podyachy

• State administration in Russia 16th-17th centuries, in Russian

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