List of ambassadors of Russia to Iran

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Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the Islamic Republic of Iran
سفیر فدراسیون روسیه در جمهوری اسلامی ایران
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Incumbent
Alexey Dedov
since 8 September 2022
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Embassy of Russia in Tehran
Style His Excellency
Reports to Minister of Foreign Affairs
Seat Tehran
Appointer President of Russia
Term length At the pleasure of the President
Website Embassy of the Russian Federation in the Islamic Republic of Iran

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.

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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

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 Volynsky Envoy 17151719
Semyon Avramov Consul, Resident17171721

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

NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotes
Semyon Avramov Consul, Resident17211732
Sergey Golitsyn  [ ru ] Ambassador 17341735
Ivan Kalushkin Resident17371742
Vasily Bratishchev Resident17421748
Mikhail Golitsyn Consul17451748
Ivan Danilov Consul17481751
Petr Chekalevsky Consul18 December 175525 May 1760
Ilya Igumnov Consul17631769
Gavriil Bogolyubov Consul17691772
Vasily Yablonsky Consul17721775
Ivan Tumanovsky Consul17801785
Dmitri Skilichi Consul17821790
Sergey Lashkarev Appointed chargé d'affaires 17861786Did not take up position
Mikhail Skibinevsky Chargé d'affaires c. 17871804
Russo-Persian War - Diplomatic relations interrupted (10 June 1804 - 24 October 1813)
Alexey Yermolov Ambassador 29 June 181710 October 1817
Semyon Mazarovich  [ ru ] Chargé d'affaires 6 July 1818July 1826
Russo-Persian War - Diplomatic relations interrupted (16 July 1826 - 10 February 1828)
Aleksandr Obreskov  [ ru ] assigned as diplomatic agent between 4 April 1827 and 21 April 1828 to negotiate the Treaty of Turkmenchay
Alexander Griboyedov Minister Plenipotentiary25 April 182830 January 1829
Nikolai Dolgorukov  [ ru ]Special representative1 April 182930 June 1830
Ivan Simonich  [ ru ]Minister Plenipotentiary5 January 183230 April 1838
Alexander Du Hamel  [ ru ]Minister Plenipotentiary30 April 18389 August 1841
Alexander von Medem Minister Plenipotentiary9 August 184111 June 1845
Dmitry Dolgorukov Minister Plenipotentiary11 June 184520 March 1854
Nikolai Anichkov  [ ru ] Chargé d'affaires (before 5 April 1858)
Envoy (after 5 April 1858)		20 March 185415 January 1863
Nikolay Girs Envoy 1 August 18636 January 1869
Aleksandr Beger  [ ru ] Envoy 7 January 186924 February 1876
Ivan Zinovyev  [ ru ] Envoy 20 April 187625 February 1883
Aleksandr Melnikov  [ ru ] Envoy 25 February 188322 October 1886
Nikolai Dolgorukov  [ ru ] Envoy 25 October 188612 November 1889
Eugene de Bützow  [ ru ] Envoy 5 October 18891 July 1897
Kimon Argyropoulo Envoy 1 July 18978 August 1902
Pyotr Vlasov Envoy 8 August 19021905
Alexey Shpeyer Envoy 19051906
Nicholas Hartwig Envoy 19061908
Stanislav Poklevsky-Kozell  [ ru ] Envoy 19091913
Ivan Korostovets  [ ru ] Envoy 19131915
Nikolai Etter  [ ru ] Envoy 19153 March 1917

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

NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotes
Ivan Kolomiytsev  [ ru ]Chief of missionJuly 1917November 1918
Efim Babushkin  [ ru ]Consul GeneralSeptember 19181919
Ivan Kolomiytsev  [ ru ]Chief of mission28 June 191927 August 1919

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

NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotes
Theodore Rothstein Plenipotentiary Representative27 February 192119 March 1923
Boris Shumyatsky Plenipotentiary Representative19 March 192319 July 1923

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

NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotes
Boris Shumyatsky Plenipotentiary Representative19 July 192314 April 1925
Konstantin Yurenev Plenipotentiary Representative24 April 19255 August 1927
Yakov Davydov Plenipotentiary Representative5 August 19271 October 1930
Adolf Petrovsky Plenipotentiary Representative21 December 19301 April 1933
Sergey Pastukhov  [ ru ]Plenipotentiary Representative29 May 19331 April 1935
Aleksey Chernykh  [ ru ]Plenipotentiary Representative1 April 193514 January 1939
Matvey Filimonov Plenipotentiary Representative (before 9 May 1941)
Ambassador (after 9 May 1941)		11 September 193928 June 1941
Andrey Smirnov Ambassador 28 June 19411 September 1943
Konstantin Mikhailov  [ ru ] Ambassador 1 September 194321 May 1944
Mikhail Maksimov  [ ru ] Ambassador 28 June 194426 February 1946
Ivan Sadchikov  [ ru ] Ambassador 26 February 194617 July 1953
Anatoly Lavrentiev Ambassador 17 July 195319 August 1956
Nikolai Pegov Ambassador 19 August 19564 June 1963
Grigory Zaeitsev  [ ru ] Ambassador 4 June 19633 January 1968
Vladimir Yerofeyev Ambassador 3 January 196829 January 1977
Vladimir Vinogradov Ambassador 29 January 19772 June 1982
Vil Boldyrev  [ ru ] Ambassador 2 June 198223 September 1987
Vladimir Gudev Ambassador 23 September 198725 December 1991

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

NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotes
Vladimir Gudev Ambassador 25 December 19916 April 1993
Sergey Tretyakov  [ ru ] Ambassador 6 April 19936 June 1997
Konstantin Shuvalov  [ ru ] Ambassador 6 June 19978 February 2001
Aleksandr Maryasov  [ ru ] Ambassador 8 February 200130 May 2005
Aleksandr Sadovnikov  [ ru ] Ambassador 30 May 200517 October 2011
Levan Dzhagaryan  [ ru ] Ambassador 17 October 20118 September 2022
Alexey Dedov Ambassador 8 September 2022

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Embassy of the Russian Federation in the Islamic Republic of Iran". Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia) . Retrieved 20 October 2019.
  2. ↑ "Consulate General in Isfahan". Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia) . Retrieved 20 October 2019.
  3. ↑ "Consulate General in Rasht". Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia) . Retrieved 20 October 2019.
  4. ↑ "Ambassador". Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia) . Retrieved 3 February 2022.
  5. 1 2 "Полномочное представительство РСФСР - СССР в Персии, с 1935 - Иране - Посольство СССР в Иране" (in Russian). Справочник по истории Коммунистической партии и Советского Союза 1898 - 1991. Archived from the original on 29 April 2012. Retrieved 20 October 2019.
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