List of ambassadors of Russia to Iran explained

Post:Ambassador
Body:the Russian Federation to the Islamic Republic of Iran
Incumbent:Alexey Dedov
Insignia:MID emblem.png
Incumbentsince:8 September 2022
Department:Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Embassy of Russia in Tehran
Style:His Excellency
Reports To:Minister of Foreign Affairs
Seat:Tehran
Appointer:President of Russia
Termlength:At the pleasure of the President
Website:Embassy of the Russian Federation in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Insigniacaption:Emblem of the Russian Foreign Ministry
Native Name:سفیر فدراسیون روسیه در جمهوری اسلامی ایران

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

The ambassador and his staff work at large in the Embassy of Russia in Tehran.[1] There are consulates general in Isfahan and Rasht.[2] [3] The post of Russian Ambassador to Iran is currently held by Alexey Dedov, incumbent since 8 September 2022.[4]

History of diplomatic relations

See main article: Iran–Russia relations. Diplomatic relations between Russia and Iran date back to the medieval period, with the first visit of an envoy from Persia to the Grand Duchy of Moscow being recorded in 1592. The first Russian ambassador, Artemy Volynsky, was appointed in 1715, during the reign of Peter the Great. Following the Russian Revolution in 1917, diplomatic relations were briefly broken off, but were soon re-established, between Persia and at first the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, and later the Soviet Union.[5] Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the incumbent Soviet ambassador, Vladimir Gudev, continued as representative of the Russian Federation until 1993.[5]

List of representatives (1715 – present)

Representatives of the Tsardom of Russia to Persia (1715 – 1721)

NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotes
Artemy VolynskyEnvoy17151719
Semyon AvramovConsul, Resident17171721

Representatives of the Russian Empire to Persia (1721 – 1917)

NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotes
Semyon AvramovConsul, Resident17211732
Ambassador17341735
Ivan KalushkinResident17371742
Vasily BratishchevResident17421748
Mikhail GolitsynConsul17451748
Ivan DanilovConsul17481751
Petr ChekalevskyConsul18 December 175525 May 1760
Ilya IgumnovConsul17631769
Gavriil BogolyubovConsul17691772
Vasily YablonskyConsul17721775
Ivan TumanovskyConsul17801785
Dmitri SkilichiConsul17821790
Sergey LashkarevAppointed chargé d'affaires17861786Did not take up position
Mikhail SkibinevskyChargé d'affairesc. 17871804
Russo-Persian War - Diplomatic relations interrupted (10 June 1804 - 24 October 1813)
Alexey YermolovAmbassador29 June 181710 October 1817
Chargé d'affaires6 July 1818July 1826
Russo-Persian War - Diplomatic relations interrupted (16 July 1826 - 10 February 1828)
assigned as diplomatic agent between 4 April 1827 and 21 April 1828 to negotiate the Treaty of Turkmenchay
Alexander GriboyedovMinister Plenipotentiary25 April 182830 January 1829
Special representative1 April 182930 June 1830
Minister Plenipotentiary5 January 183230 April 1838
Minister Plenipotentiary30 April 18389 August 1841
Alexander von MedemMinister Plenipotentiary9 August 184111 June 1845
Dmitry DolgorukovMinister Plenipotentiary11 June 184520 March 1854
Chargé d'affaires (before 5 April 1858)
Envoy (after 5 April 1858)		20 March 185415 January 1863
Nikolay GirsEnvoy1 August 18636 January 1869
Envoy7 January 1869 24 February 1876
Envoy20 April 187625 February 1883
Envoy25 February 188322 October 1886
Envoy25 October 188612 November 1889
Envoy5 October 18891 July 1897
Kimon ArgyropouloEnvoy1 July 18978 August 1902
Pyotr VlasovEnvoy8 August 19021905
Alexey ShpeyerEnvoy19051906
Nicholas HartwigEnvoy19061908
Envoy19091913
Envoy19131915
Envoy19153 March 1917

Representatives of the Russian Provisional Government to Persia (March 1917 - unaccredited after October 1917)

NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotes
Chief of missionJuly 1917November 1918
Consul GeneralSeptember 19181919
Chief of mission28 June 191927 August 1919

Representatives of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic to Persia (1921 - 1923)

NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotes
Theodore RothsteinPlenipotentiary Representative27 February 192119 March 1923
Boris ShumyatskyPlenipotentiary Representative19 March 192319 July 1923

Representatives of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to Persia/Iran (1923 - 1991)

NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotes
Boris ShumyatskyPlenipotentiary Representative19 July 192314 April 1925
Konstantin YurenevPlenipotentiary Representative24 April 19255 August 1927
Yakov DavydovPlenipotentiary Representative5 August 19271 October 1930
Adolf PetrovskyPlenipotentiary Representative21 December 19301 April 1933
Plenipotentiary Representative29 May 19331 April 1935
Plenipotentiary Representative 1 April 193514 January 1939
Matvey FilimonovPlenipotentiary Representative (before 9 May 1941)
Ambassador (after 9 May 1941)		11 September 193928 June 1941
Andrey SmirnovAmbassador28 June 19411 September 1943
Ambassador1 September 194321 May 1944
Ambassador28 June 194426 February 1946
Ambassador26 February 194617 July 1953
Anatoly LavrentievAmbassador17 July 195319 August 1956
Nikolai PegovAmbassador19 August 19564 June 1963
Ambassador4 June 19633 January 1968
Vladimir YerofeyevAmbassador3 January 196829 January 1977
Vladimir VinogradovAmbassador29 January 19772 June 1982
Ambassador2 June 198223 September 1987
Vladimir GudevAmbassador23 September 198725 December 1991

Representatives of the Russian Federation to Iran (1991 - present)

NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotes
Vladimir GudevAmbassador25 December 19916 April 1993
Ambassador6 April 19936 June 1997
Ambassador6 June 19978 February 2001
Ambassador8 February 200130 May 2005
Ambassador30 May 200517 October 2011
Ambassador17 October 20118 September 2022
Alexey DedovAmbassador8 September 2022

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Embassy of the Russian Federation in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia). 20 October 2019.
  2. Web site: Consulate General in Isfahan. Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia). 20 October 2019.
  3. Web site: Consulate General in Rasht. Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia). 20 October 2019.
  4. Web site: Ambassador. Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia). 3 February 2022.
  5. Web site: Полномочное представительство РСФСР - СССР в Персии, с 1935 - Иране - Посольство СССР в Иране. Справочник по истории Коммунистической партии и Советского Союза 1898 - 1991. 20 October 2019. ru. https://web.archive.org/web/20120429141047/http://www.knowbysight.info/6_MID/00258.asp. 29 April 2012. dead.

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