List of ambassadors of Russia to Serbia

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Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Serbia
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since 10 June 2019
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Embassy of Russia in Belgrade
Style His Excellency
The Honourable
Reports to Minister of Foreign Affairs
Seat Belgrade
Appointer President of Russia
Term length At the pleasure of the president
Website Embassy of Russia in Serbia

The ambassador of Russia to Serbia is the official representative of the president and the government of the Russian Federation to the president and the government of Serbia.

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The ambassador and his staff work at large in the Russian embassy in Belgrade. [1] The current Russian ambassador to Serbia is Aleksandr Botsan-Kharchenko  [ ru ], incumbent since 10 June 2019. [2]

History of diplomatic relations

Diplomatic relations between the forerunners of the modern states of Serbia and Russia date back to the early nineteenth century. The Russian Empire supported the Principality of Serbia against the Ottoman Empire. Prince Vasily Dolgorukov was sent with a special mission in 1837, and in 1838, Russia opened a consulate in Belgrade, upgraded to a consulate general in 1839. [3] [4] Gerasim Vashchenko was appointed the first consul, later consul general, to Serbia. [3] [4]

Diplomatic exchanges continued throughout the nineteenth century and into the twentieth, but were broken off after the October Revolution in 1917 brought the Bolshevik regime to power. Over the next few decades the Soviet Union was established, incorporating Russia, while Serbia became part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. The Soviet Union established relations with Yugoslavia and appointed ambassadors to it from 1940 onwards. The dissolution of the Soviet Union occurred in 1991, while the then Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia broke up in 1992. The Republic of Serbia remained one of the two surviving entities of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, along with the Republic of Montenegro, being known as the state of Serbia and Montenegro from 2003. In 2006 Montenegro voted for independence, and became the independent state of Montenegro. The incumbent ambassador to Serbia and Montenegro, Aleksandr Alekseyev  [ ru ], continued as ambassador to Serbia, while a new ambassador, Yakov Gerasimov  [ ru ], was appointed ambassador to Montenegro in 2007. [5]

List of representatives of Russia to Serbia (1805–present)

Russian Empire to the Serbia (1837–1917)

NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotes
Vasily Dolgorukov Special mission18371837
Gerasim Vashchenko Consul before April 1839
Consul-General after April 1839		February 1838May 1843
Yakov Danilevsky Consul-General May 18431849
Dmitry Lyovshin Consul-General 18491851
Fyodor Tumansky  [ ru ] Consul-General 18515 July 1853
Nikolai Mukhin Consul-General 18531856
Mikhail Milashevich Consul-General 18561860
Aleksandr Vlangali  [ ru ] Consul-General 26 September 186027 July 1863
Nikolai Shishkin  [ ru ] Consul-General
Also diplomatic agent after 4 May 1868		8 August 186325 March 1875
Nikolai Kartsov  [ ru ] Consul-General and diplomatic agent25 March 18757 August 1877
Aleksandr Persiani Consul-General and diplomatic agent until 12 August 1878
Resident minister 12 August 1878 - 10 March 1889
Envoy after 10 March 1889		7 August 187713 April 1895
Anatoly Neklyudov  [ ru ] Chargé d'affaires 189425 April 1895
Roman Rosen Envoy 25 April 18954 February 1897
Alexander Izvolsky Envoy 4 February 189711 November 1897
Valery Zhadovsky  [ ru ] Envoy 11 November 189716 November 1899
Nikolai Charykov  [ ru ] Envoy 16 September 19001904
Vladimir Murayov-Apostol-Korobin Chargé d'affaires 19031904
Konstantin Gubastov  [ ru ] Envoy 19041906
Vasily Sergeyev  [ ru ] Envoy 19061909
Nicholas Hartwig Envoy 17 July 190910 July 1914
Vasily Shtrandman Chargé d'affaires 10 July 19141914
Grigory Trubetskoy  [ ru ] Envoy 12 July 19141916
Boris Pelekhin Chargé d'affaires 19151915
Boris Tatishchev  [ ru ] Envoy 19161917
Boris Pelekhin Chargé d'affaires 19171917

Russian Federation to Serbia (2006–present)

NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotes
Aleksandr Alekseyev  [ ru ] Ambassador 5 June 200627 March 2008
Aleksandr Konuzin  [ ru ] Ambassador 27 March 200826 September 2012 Credentials presented on 18 April 2008
Aleksandr Chepurin  [ ru ] Ambassador 26 September 201210 June 2019 Credentials presented on 22 November 2012
Aleksandr Botsan-Kharchenko  [ ru ] Ambassador 10 June 2019 Credentials presented on 22 July 2019

References

  1. ↑ "Посольство Российской Федерации в Черногории" (in Russian). Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia) . Retrieved 21 November 2025.
  2. ↑ "Посол" (in Russian). Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia) . Retrieved 21 November 2025.
  3. 1 2 "СЕРБИЯ" (in Russian). wwhp.ru/rossi-m12.htm. Retrieved 21 November 2025.
  4. 1 2 "Сербия" (in Russian). rusdiplomats.narod.ru. Retrieved 21 November 2025.
  5. ↑ "Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 29.01.2007 г. № 88" (in Russian). Kremlin.ru. 29 January 2007. Retrieved 30 October 2019.
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