Agrément/Diplomatic accreditation | ambassador | Observations | List of heads of government of Yemen | List of heads of government of Russia | Term end |
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| | The Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen and the Soviet Union signed a friendship and cooperation treaty. | Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din | Alexei Rykov | |
| | Yemen and the Soviet Union signed an agreement on economic cooperation, the Soviet-Yemeni Friendship treaty in Cairo by Ahmad bin Yahya and the Soviet Ambassador in Cairo, Daniel Solod. | Ahmad bin Yahya | Nikolai Bulganin | |
| Abdurraham Ibn Abdussamed Abu-Taleb | A legation opened in Prague, to which the Yemenite Ambassador to Egypt, 'Abd al-Rahman 'Abd al-Samad Abu Talib, was appointed as the first minister plenipotentiary. He was to 1953 Chargé d'affaires Yemenite Ambassador to the United States and deputy foreign minister.[1] | Ahmad bin Yahya | Nikolai Bulganin | |
| Ahmed Ibn Abdullah Al-Amri |
| Ahmad bin Yahya | Alexei Kosygin | |
| | The Soviet Union became the first government to recognize the Yemen Arab Republic. | Abdullah al-Sallal | Nikita Khrushchev | |
| | The Yemen Arab Republic and the Soviet Union signed a friendship in addition to strengthening economic and military relations between the two governments. | Hamoud al-Gayifi | Nikita Khrushchev | |
| Ali Saif Al-Khawlani | Ali Saif Al-Khawlani, Alī Ṣayf al-Khawlānī, Appointed November 1962 | Abdul Rahman al-Iryani | Alexei Kosygin | |
| Hussein al-Dafai | Hussein al-Dafa'i | Hamoud al-Gayifi | Alexei Kosygin | |
| Abdallah as-Sallal | [3] | Hamoud al-Gayifi | Alexei Kosygin | |
| Mohsin Ahmad al-Aini | - former Ambassador to the UN
| Hassan al-Amri | Alexei Kosygin | |
| Hussein al-Dafai | Hussein Mohammed Al Dafai, Husayn Muhammad ad-Dafai[4] | Hassan al-Amri | Alexei Kosygin | |
| | On 10 August 1978, Ali Abdullah Saleh ordered the execution of 30 officers who were charged with being part of a conspiracy against his rule. The YAR Foreign Minister, Abdullah al Asnag, later indicated that the PDRY regime had again been responsible for the planning. The executions gave rise to a brief protest demonstration by Arab students at the YAR embassy in Moscow. Students seize Moscow embassy About 100 North Yemeni students occupied the North Yemeni Embassy in Moscow[5] | Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani | Alexei Kosygin | |
| Salih Ali al-Ashwal | | Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani | Alexei Kosygin | |
| Abdo Othman Muhammed | Abd al-Uthman Muhammad, A.O. Muhammed, 'Abd al-'Uthman,
| Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani | Nikolai Tikhonov | |
| | Yemeni unification, the Yemen Arab Republic was united with South Yemen | Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani | Valentin Pavlov | |
| | The governments in Sanaa and Moscow established strong diplomatic and military relations. | Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas | Alexei Kosygin | |
| Ali Abdulla Al Bugery | Али Абдалла Аль-Бугейри[7] | Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas | Valentin Pavlov | |
| Abdo Ali Abulrahman | Abdo Ali Abul Rahman | Abdul Qadir Bajamal | Mikhail Kasyanov | |
| Abdulwahab al-Rawhani | [8] | Abdul Qadir Bajamal | Mikhail Kasyanov | |
| Saleh Ahmed Al-Helali | Мохамед Салєх Ахмед Аль-Хелялі[9] | Ali Muhammad Mujawar | Vladimir Putin | |
| Ahmed Al-Wahishi | [10] | Ahmed Obeid bin Daghr | Dmitry Medvedev | | |