List of ambassadors of Russia to Poland explained

Post:Ambassador
Body:the Russian Federation to the Republic of Poland
Insignia:MID emblem.png
Incumbentsince:26 August 2014
Department:Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Embassy of Russia in Warsaw
Style:His Excellency
Reports To:Minister of Foreign Affairs
Seat:Warsaw
Appointer:President of Russia
Termlength:At the pleasure of the President
Insigniacaption:Emblem of the Russian Foreign Ministry

The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to Republic of Poland is the official representative of the President and the Government of the Russian Federation to the President and the Government of Poland.

The ambassador and his staff work at large in the Embassy of Russia in Warsaw.[1] There are consulates general in Gdańsk, Kraków, and Poznań.[2] [3] [4] The post of Russian Ambassador to Poland is currently held by, incumbent since 26 August 2014.[5]

History of diplomatic relations

See main article: Poland–Russia relations. Poland and Russia have exchanged diplomatic missions for centuries. The first ambassador in the modern meaning of this word, from Poland to Russia, was Antoni Augustyn Deboli, in the late 18th century. After the period of partitions of Poland, in 1918, relations were established between the Second Polish Republic and Soviet Union. After Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939 those relations were broken, to be briefly reestablished in 1941 after the German invasion of the Soviet Union, when the Soviet Union and Polish government in exile agreed to cooperate against their common enemy, Nazi Germany. Those relations were broken in 1943 after discovery of the Katyn massacre. In 1989 the communist government of the Polish People's Republic was replaced with a democratic form that continues to the present; after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Poland recognised the Russian Federation.

List of representatives (1508 – present)

Representatives of the Tsardom of Russia to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1584–1721)

NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotes
Envoy15841598
Envoy15981606
Envoy16401648
Johann PatkulEnvoy17031703
Envoy17011706
Vasily DolgorukovEnvoy17061707
Envoy17091712
Resident17121718
Envoy17141714
Ambassador17151721

Representatives of the Russian Empire to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1721–1795)

See main article: Ambassadors and envoys from Russia to Poland (1763–1794).

NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotes
Envoy17211725
Vasily DolgorukovEnvoy17251726
Mikhail Bestuzhev-RyuminEnvoy17261731
Envoy17281729
Ambassador17301733
Hermann Karl von KeyserlingAmbassador17331744
Mikhail Bestuzhev-RyuminAmbassador17441748
Hermann Karl von KeyserlingAmbassador17491752
Ambassador17521758
Mikhail VolkonskyAmbassador17571758
Ambassador17581762
Hermann Karl von KeyserlingAmbassador17631764
Nikolai RepninAmbassador17641768
Mikhail VolkonskyAmbassador17691771
Ambassador17711772
Otto Magnus von StackelbergAmbassador17721790
Yakov BulgakovAmbassador17901792
Jacob von SieversAmbassador17931793
Iosif IgelströmAmbassador17931794
Ambassador17941795

Representatives of the Soviet Union to the Republic of Poland (1921–1943)

NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotes
Lev KarakhanDiplomatic Representative30 May 19219 October 1922
Diplomatic Representative16 October 192216 October 1924
Pyotr VoykovDiplomatic Representative16 October 19247 June 1927
Aleksandr UlyanovChargé d'affaires7 June 19271927
Diplomatic Representative17 September 19271 December 1929
Yuriy KotsiubynskyChargé d'affaires1 December 192930 January 1930
Vladimir Antonov-OvseyenkoDiplomatic Representative3 January 19305 April 1934
Yakov DavydovDiplomatic Representative5 April 193426 October 1937
Chargé d'affaires19371939
Nikolai SharonovDiplomatic Representative1 June 193925 October 1939
Invasion of Poland – Diplomatic relations interrupted (1939–1941)
Aleksandr BogomolovAmbassador21 August 194125 April 1943Representative to the Polish government-in-exile in London
Relations deteriorate over investigation of Soviet repressions of Polish citizens and Katyn massacre – Diplomatic relations interrupted (1943–1945)

Representatives of the Soviet Union to the Polish People's Republic (1945–1989)

NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotes
Ambassador6 June 19452 March 1951
Arkady SobolevAmbassador2 March 195121 June 1953
Ambassador21 June 195327 March 1954
Nikolai MikhailovAmbassador27 March 19547 May 1955
Panteleimon PonomarenkoAmbassador7 May 19553 October 1957
Peter AbrassimovAmbassador3 October 195714 February 1961
Averky AristovAmbassador14 February 196110 March 1971
Ambassador10 March 197117 May 1978
Boris AristovAmbassador17 May 197811 July 1983
Aleksandr AksyonovAmbassador11 July 19833 January 1986
Vladimir BrovikovAmbassador3 January 1986December 1989

Representatives of the Soviet Union to the Republic of Poland (1989–1991)

NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotes
Vladimir BrovikovAmbassadorDecember 19898 May 1990
Ambassador8 May 199025 December 1991

Representatives of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Poland (1991–present)

NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotes
Ambassador25 December 19912 November 1996
Leonid DrachevskyAmbassador2 November 199616 November 1998
Ambassador13 April 199923 February 2002
Nikolay AfanasevskyAmbassador23 February 200223 June 2005
Vladimir GrininAmbassador21 April 200621 June 2010
Ambassador21 June 201026 August 2014
Ambassador26 August 2014

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Посольство России в Польше. Russian. Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia). 27 October 2019.
  2. Web site: Генеральное Консульство Российский Федерации в Гданьске. Russian. Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia). 27 October 2019.
  3. Web site: Генеральное Консульство Российский Федерации в Кракове. Russian. Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia). 27 October 2019.
  4. Web site: Генеральное Консульство Российский Федерации в Познане. Russian. Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia). 27 October 2019.
  5. Web site: Посол Российской Федерации в Республике Польша Андреев Сергей Вадимович. Russian. Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia). 27 October 2019.

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