List of ambassadors of Russia to Brazil

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Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the Federative Republic of Brazil
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Incumbent
Aleksey Labetsky  [ ru ]

since 28 January 2021
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Embassy of Russia in Brasília
Style His Excellency
The Honourable
Reports to Minister of Foreign Affairs
Seat Brasília
Appointer President of Russia
Term length At the pleasure of the President
Website Embassy of Russia in Brazil

The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Federative Republic of Brazil is the official representative of the President and the Government of the Russian Federation to the President and the Government of Brazil. [1] [2] [3] [4]

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The ambassador and his staff work at large in the Embassy of Russia in Brasília. [5] There are consulates general in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. [6] [7] The post of Russian Ambassador to Brazil is currently held by Aleksey Labetsky  [ ru ], incumbent since 28 January 2021. [8] Since 1995 the ambassador to Brazil has been concurrently accredited to the Republic of Suriname. [8] [9]

History of diplomatic relations

Consular relations between Russia and what became the modern state of Brazil date back to the early nineteenth century. With the French invasion of Portugal in 1807 during the Napoleonic Wars, the Portuguese Court was transferred to its colony in Brazil. The new capital of the Portuguese Empire was thereafter in Rio de Janeiro. [10] In early July 1811 Friedrich von der Pahlen was appointed envoy to the Portuguese court in Rio de Janeiro. On 30 July that year Xavier and Mikhail Labensky were appointed Consul General and Vice Consul respectively in Rio de Janeiro. [10] Rio de Janeiro ceased to be the capital of the Portuguese Empire in April 1821, with the return of the court to Portugal. The Russian mission moved to Portugal with the court, though consular relations were maintained between Russia and Brazil until November 1827. [10] One of the early consuls during this period was Grigori Langsdorf, who carried out expeditions to the interior of Brazil, gathering material on the flora and fauna, as well as conducting cartographic studies. [10]

Diplomatic relations between the Russian Empire and the Empire of Brazil were first established on 3 October 1828. [11] Frants Borel-Palentssky  [ ru ], the head of the Consular Affairs Expedition of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 1809, had taken a particular interest in the initial establishment of the consulate in Brazil, was appointed the first envoy to Brazil. [10] They continued after the establishment of the First Brazilian Republic in 1889, but were broken off after the October Revolution in 1917 and the establishment of the Soviet Union. [11] Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and the United States of Brazil were established briefly in 1945, but were broken off in 1947 after the establishment of the Fourth Brazilian Republic, by the elected government of the anti-communist and USA-aligned military officer Eurico Dutra. [12] Relations were restored in 1961. With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Brazilian government was among the first to recognize the Russian Federation as the successor state of the USSR. [11] The Soviet ambassador, Leonid Kuzmin  [ ru ], continued as representative of the Russian Federation until 1992. [2]

List of representatives (1828 – present)

Representatives of the Russian Empire to the Empire of Brazil (1828 – 1889)

NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotes
Frants Borel-Palentssky  [ ru ] Envoy 3 October 182820 December 1831
Apollon Maltits Chargé d'affaires 20 December 183116 March 1835
Sergey Lomonosov Chargé d'affaires (16 March 1835 - 11 March 1841)
Resident Minister (11 March 1841 - 23 November 1843)
Envoy (23 November 1843 - 11 March 1848)
16 March 183511 March 1848
Alexander Medem Envoy 3 November 18489 February 1854
Otton Evers Chargé d'affaires 13 February 185413 April 1857
Dmitry Glinka Envoy 7 July 18563 April 1871
Iosif Koskul Envoy 3 April 187118 August 1881
Aleksandr Ionin  [ ru ] Envoy 2 July 18831889

Representatives of the Russian Empire to the Republic of Brazil (1889 – 1917)

NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotes
Aleksandr Ionin  [ ru ] Envoy 188922 December 1892
Mikhail von Giers Envoy 11 May 18958 June 1898
Alexey Shpeyer Envoy 8 June 18981904
Mavriky Prozor  [ ru ] Envoy December 19041909
Peter Maksimov Envoy 19101915
Aleksandr Shcherbatsky  [ ru ] Envoy 191626 October 1917

Representatives of the Soviet Union to the Republic of Brazil (1946 – 1991)

NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotes
Yakov Surits  [ ru ] Envoy 13 May 194620 October 1947
Ilya Chernyshyov  [ ru ] Ambassador 12 December 196121 October 1962
Andrey Fomin  [ ru ] Ambassador 21 November 196230 September 1965
Sergey Mikhailov  [ ru ] Ambassador 30 September 196530 May 1974
Dmitry Zhukov  [ ru ] Ambassador 30 May 197424 March 1981
Vladimir Chernyshyov  [ ru ] Ambassador 2 September 19815 September 1986
Viktor Isakov  [ ru ] Ambassador 5 September 198626 August 1988
Leonid Kuzmin  [ ru ] Ambassador 8 September 198825 December 1991

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

NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotes
Leonid Kuzmin  [ ru ] Ambassador 25 December 19913 September 1992
Iosif Podrazhanets  [ ru ] Ambassador 3 December 199317 April 1998
Vasily Gromov  [ ru ] Ambassador 11 January 199915 July 2004
Vladimir Tyurdenev  [ ru ] Ambassador 15 July 200423 November 2009
Sergei Akopov  [ ru ] Ambassador 15 February 201028 January 2021
Aleksey Labetsky  [ ru ] Ambassador 28 January 2021

References

  1. ПРЕДСТАВИТЕЛИ РОССИЙСКОЙ ИМПЕРИИ В ДРУГИХ СТРАНАХ (in Russian). Worldwide Historical Project. Archived from the original on 2011-09-28. Retrieved 2009-11-18.
  2. 1 2 "00561" Посольство СССР в Бразилии (in Russian). Справочник по истории Коммунистической партии и Советского Союза 1898 - 1991. Retrieved 2009-11-18.
  3. Посольство СССР в Бразилии (in Russian). Справочник по истории Коммунистической партии и Советского Союза 1898 - 1991. Archived from the original on 2014-11-06. Retrieved 2009-11-18.
  4. ПОСЛЫ РОССИЙСКОЙ ФЕДЕРАЦИИ В СТРАНАХ АМЕРИКАНСКОГО РЕГИОНА (in Russian). Worldwide Historical Project. Archived from the original on 2006-11-29. Retrieved 2009-11-18.
  5. "Посольство Российской Федерации в Федеративной Республике Бразилии" (in Russian). Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia) . Retrieved 7 October 2019.
  6. "Генеральное консульство Российской Федерации в Рио-Де-Жанейро" (in Russian). Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia) . Retrieved 7 October 2019.
  7. "Генеральное консульство Российской Федерации в Сан-Паулу" (in Russian). Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia) . Retrieved 7 October 2019.
  8. 1 2 "Посол" (in Russian). Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia) . Retrieved 6 October 2019.
  9. "Российско-суринамские отношения" (in Russian). Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia) . Retrieved 6 October 2019.
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 "ИСТОРИЯ СОЗДАНИЯ РОССИЙСКОГО ГЕНКОНСУЛЬСТВА В РИО-ДЕ-ЖАНЕЙРО" (in Russian). Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia) . Retrieved 7 October 2019.
  11. 1 2 3 "История двусторонних отношений" (in Russian). Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia) . Retrieved 7 October 2019.
  12. Sidney J. Munhoz; Francisco Carlos Teixeira da Silva (6 September 2022). Brazil - United States Relations. EDUEM. pp. 160–161. ISBN   9788576286592.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)