List of ambassadors of Russia to Australia

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Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the Commonwealth of Australia
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Incumbent
Aleksey Pavlovsky  [ ru ]
since 3 April 2019
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Embassy of Russia in Canberra
Style His Excellency
The Honourable
Reports to Minister of Foreign Affairs
Seat Canberra
Appointer President of Russia
Term length At the pleasure of the President
Website Embassy of Russia in Australia

The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Commonwealth of Australia is the official representative of the President and the Government of the Russian Federation to the Prime Minister and the Government of Australia.

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The ambassador and his staff work at large in the Embassy of Russia in Canberra. [1] There is a consulate-general in Sydney. [2] The ambassador of Russia to Australia is concurrently accredited to Fiji, Nauru, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.

The post of Russian Ambassador to Australia is currently held by Aleksey Pavlovsky  [ ru ], incumbent since 3 April 2019. [3]

History of diplomatic relations

Contact between Australia and the Russian Empire began in the 1800s with the visit of the Neva to Sydney, then part of the British-administered Colony of New South Wales. Consular relations began in 1857. Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and the Commonwealth of Australia were formally established on 10 October 1942. [4] The first envoy, Andrey Vlasov  [ ru ], was appointed on 13 October 1942. [4] Representation was upgraded to the exchange of ambassadors after 1948. [4] On 4 April 1954 the ambassador, Nikolai Generalov  [ ru ], was recalled to Moscow in the wake of the Petrov Affair. Diplomatic representation was thereafter suspended until 3 March 1959, when an agreement was made to exchange ambassadors. Ivan Kurdyukov was appointed on 23 June 1959, and presented his credentials on 10 August 1959. [4] With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Soviet ambassador, Vyacheslav Dolgov, continued as representative of the Russian Federation until 1993. [4]

List of representatives (1942 – present)

Representatives of the Soviet Union to the Commonwealth of Australia (1942 – 1991)

NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotes
Andrey Vlasov  [ ru ] Envoy 13 October 19427 December 1944
Nikolai Lifanov  [ ru ] Envoy 7 December 194416 July 1953Ambassador after 1948
Nikolai Generalov  [ ru ] Ambassador 16 July 195323 April 1954
Ivan Kurdyukov Ambassador 23 June 19596 February 1963
Vitaly Loginov  [ ru ] Ambassador 6 February 196320 October 1966
Nikolai Tarakanov  [ ru ] Ambassador 20 October 196624 June 1970
Nikolai Mesyatsev  [ ru ] Ambassador 24 June 197014 July 1972
Dmitry Musin  [ ru ] Ambassador 14 July 197214 January 1975
Aleksandr Basov  [ ru ] Ambassador 14 January 197520 October 1979
Nikolai Sudarikov Ambassador 20 October 197924 April 1983
Yevgeny Samoteykin Ambassador 24 April 198328 August 1990
Vyacheslav Dolgov Ambassador 28 August 199025 December 1991

Representatives of the Russian Federation to the Commonwealth of Australia (1991 – present)

NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotes
Vyacheslav Dolgov Ambassador 25 December 199111 November 1993
Alexander Losyukov Ambassador 11 November 19936 September 1997
Rashit Khamidulin Ambassador 31 August 199820 July 2001
Leonid Moiseyev Ambassador 20 July 200110 November 2005
Alexander Blokhin Ambassador 10 November 200529 June 2010
Vladimir Morozov  [ ru ] Ambassador 29 June 201028 July 2016
Grigory Logvinov  [ ru ] Ambassador 28 July 20163 April 2019
Aleksey Pavlovsky  [ ru ] Ambassador 3 April 2019

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References

  1. ↑ "Embassy of the Russian Federation in Australia". Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia) . Retrieved 30 September 2019.
  2. ↑ "Consulate General of the Russian Federation in Sydney". Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia) . Retrieved 30 September 2019.
  3. ↑ "Ambassador". Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia) . Retrieved 30 September 2019.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 "Миссия - Посольство СССР в Австралии" (in Russian). Справочник по истории Коммунистической партии и Советского Союза 1898 - 1991. Retrieved 30 September 2019.
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