List of ambassadors of Russia to Japan

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Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Japan
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Incumbent
Nikolai Nozdrev  [ ru ]
since 19 January 2024
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Embassy of Russia in Tokyo
Style His Excellency
Reports to Minister of Foreign Affairs
Seat Tokyo
Appointer President of Russia
Term length At the pleasure of the President
Website Russian Embassy in Japan

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

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The ambassador and his staff work at large in the Embassy of Russia in Tokyo. [1] There are consulates general in Osaka, Niigata, and Sapporo, and a consulate in Hakodate. [2] [3] [4] [5] The post of Russian Ambassador to Japan is currently held by Nikolai Nozdrev  [ ru ], incumbent since 19 January 2024. [6]

History of diplomatic relations

The first official representative of Russia to Japan was Yevfimiy Putyatin in the early 1850s. Putyatin arranged the signing of the Treaty of Shimoda in 1855 which established diplomatic contacts between the two nations, and the Treaty of Tientsin in 1858. Consulates were set up in several Japanese cities, and with the Meiji Restoration in 1868, restrictions on contact with foreign nations were further relaxed. [7] The first consulate was opened in Hakodate in 1858 by Iosif Goshkevich. [8] A consulate in the Imperial capital of Edo, later Tokyo, was first established in 1872 by consul Yevgeny Byutsov  [ ru ], and further developed into the embassy under his successor Karl von Struve. [7] Relations were interrupted with the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War in 1904, but were re-established after the signing of the Treaty of Portsmouth. [7]

After the February Revolution in 1917, contacts were maintained between Japan and the Russian Provisional Government, and the diplomatic mission continued to function, albeit without accreditation, after the October Revolution later that year. The Japanese government established diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union in 1925. [7] The Soviet Union fought the brief Soviet–Japanese War towards the end of the Second World War, and afterwards refused to sign the Treaty of San Francisco, which normalised relations between Japan and the former allied powers. Full diplomatic relations were not resumed until after the Soviet–Japanese Joint Declaration of 1956. [7] Diplomatic relations continued throughout the twentieth century, and since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, ambassadors have been exchanged between Japan and the Russian Federation.

List of representatives (1871 – present)

Representatives of the Russian Empire to Japan (1871–1917)

NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotes
Yevgeny Byutsov  [ ru ] Chargé d'affaires and Consul General1 January 187115 May 1873
Karl von Struve Chargé d'affaires and Consul General (before 3 December 1874)
Minister-Resident (3 December 1874 – 1 July 1876)
Envoy (from 1 July 1876)		15 May 187312 January 1882
Roman Rosen Interim Chargé d'affaires 22 November 187712 August 1879
Mikhail Bartolomey Envoy 12 January 188230 November 1882
Aleksandr Davydov  [ ru ] Envoy 10 April 188320 November 1885
Dmitry Shevich  [ ru ] Envoy 28 January 188628 July 1892
Mikhail Khitrovo  [ ru ] Envoy 28 July 189230 June 1896
Alexey Shpeyer Interim Chargé d'affaires 25 February 18966 November 1897
Roman Rosen Envoy 4 February 189718 November 1899
Alexander Izvolsky Envoy 18 November 189924 October 1902
Roman Rosen Envoy 190228 January 1904
Russo-Japanese War – Diplomatic relations interrupted (1904–1905)
George Bakhmeteff Envoy 19061908
Nikolai Malevsky-Malevich  [ ru ] Envoy 19081916
Vasily Krupensky  [ ru ] Envoy 19163 March 1917

Representatives of the Russian Provisional Government to Japan (March 1917 – unaccredited after October 1917)

NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotes
Vasily Krupensky  [ ru ] Ambassador 3 March 19171921
Dmitri Abrikosov  [ ru ] Chargé d'affaires 19211925

Representatives of the Soviet Union to Japan (1925–1991)

NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotes
Viktor Kopp Plenipotentiary Representative25 February 192531 January 1927
Valerian Dovgalevsky Plenipotentiary Representative5 March 192721 October 1927
Alexander Troyanovsky Plenipotentiary Representative14 November 192724 January 1933
Konstantin Yurenev Plenipotentiary Representative29 January 193316 June 1937
Mikhail Slavutsky  [ ru ]Plenipotentiary Representative27 July 193729 September 1939
Konstantin Smetanin Plenipotentiary Representative (until 9 May 1941)
Ambassador (after 9 May 1941)		29 September 193928 May 1942
Yakov Malik Ambassador 28 May 19429 August 1945
Soviet–Japanese War – Diplomatic relations interrupted (1945–1956)
Ivan Tevosian Ambassador 30 December 195630 March 1958
Nikolai Fedorenko Ambassador 15 June 195816 July 1962
Vladimir Vinogradov Ambassador 16 July 19623 April 1967
Oleg Troyanovsky Ambassador 3 April 196717 April 1976
Dmitry Polyansky Ambassador 17 April 197611 February 1982
Vladimir Pavlov  [ ru ] Ambassador 11 February 198227 February 1985
Peter Abrassimov Ambassador 27 February 198513 May 1986
Nikolai Soloviev  [ ru ] Ambassador 13 May 19867 August 1990
Lyudwig Chizhov  [ ru ] Ambassador 7 August 199025 December 1991

Representatives of the Russian Federation to Japan (1991 – present)

NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotes
Lyudwig Chizhov  [ ru ] Ambassador 25 December 19916 September 1996
Aleksandr Panov Ambassador 6 September 199625 December 2003
Alexander Losyukov Ambassador 2 March 200428 December 2006
Mikhail Bely  [ ru ] Ambassador 28 December 200620 February 2012
Yevgeny Afanasiev  [ ru ] Ambassador 20 February 201229 January 2018
Mikhail Galuzin  [ ru ] Ambassador 29 January 201825 November 2022
Nikolai Nozdrev  [ ru ] Ambassador 19 January 2024

References

  1. ↑ "The Embassy of the Russian Federation to Japan". Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia) . Retrieved 22 October 2019.
  2. ↑ "Consulate General of Russia in Osaka". Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia) . Retrieved 22 October 2019.
  3. ↑ "Генеральное консульство России в Ниигате" (in Russian). Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia) . Retrieved 22 October 2019.
  4. ↑ "Russian Consulate General in Sapporo, Japan". Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia) . Retrieved 22 October 2019.
  5. ↑ "Russian Consulate in Hakodate, Japan". embassypages.com. Retrieved 22 October 2019.
  6. ↑ "WELCOME MESSAGE OF THE AMBASSADOR". Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia) . Retrieved 22 October 2019.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 "Embassy in Tokyo". Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia) . Retrieved 22 October 2019.
  8. ↑ "Consulate in Hakodate". Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia) . Retrieved 22 October 2019.
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