| Post: | Ambassador |
| Body: | the Russian Federation to the Slovak Republic |
| Insignia: | MID emblem.png |
| Incumbentsince: | 23 October 2020 |
| Department: | Ministry of Foreign Affairs Embassy of Russia in Bratislava |
| Style: | His Excellency The Honourable |
| Reports To: | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| Seat: | Bratislava |
| Appointer: | President of Russia |
| Termlength: | At the pleasure of the President |
| First: | Sergey Yastrzhembsky |
| Formation: | 1993 |
| Website: | Embassy of Russia in Slovakia |
| Insigniacaption: | Emblem of the Russian Foreign Ministry |
The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Slovak Republic is the official representative of the President and the Government of the Russian Federation to the President and the Government of Slovakia.
The ambassador and his staff work at large in the Embassy of Russia in Bratislava.[1] There is also an honorary consul based in Košice.[2] The post of Russian Ambassador to Slovakia is currently held by, incumbent since 23 October 2020.[3]
See main article: Slovakia–Russia relations and List of ambassadors of the Soviet Union to Czechoslovakia. Diplomatic exchanges between the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia began with the formal establishment of relations on 5 June 1922.[4] Relations were maintained throughout the twentieth century, with a brief break after the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1939, until the reestablishment of relations in 1941. With the repudiation of communism, the country officially became the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic in 1990. With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, a new ambassador,, was appointed as representative of the Russian Federation. He continued as ambassador until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia and its separation into the states of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Lebedev continued to as representative to the Czech Republic until 1996, while a new ambassador, Sergey Yastrzhembsky, was appointed Russian ambassador to Slovakia in June 1993.[5]
| Name | Title | Appointment | Termination | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sergey Yastrzhembsky | Ambassador | 3 June 1993 | 30 August 1996 | |
| Ambassador | 25 November 1996 | 11 September 1998 | ||
| Ambassador | 11 November 1998 | 14 August 2002 | ||
| Ambassador | 14 August 2002 | 9 April 2004 | ||
| Ambassador | 16 June 2005 | 20 April 2010 | ||
| Pavel Kuznetsov | Ambassador | 20 April 2010 | 10 September 2014 | |
| Ambassador | 10 September 2014 | 23 October 2020 | ||
| Ambassador | 23 October 2020 | |||