List of ambassadors of Russia to Uruguay

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Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the Oriental Republic of Uruguay
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Incumbent
Andrey Budayev  [ ru ]
since 5 October 2020
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Embassy of Russia in Montevideo
Style His Excellency
Reports to Minister of Foreign Affairs
Seat Montevideo
Appointer President of Russia
Term length At the pleasure of the President
Website Embassy of Russia in Uruguay

The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Oriental Republic of Uruguay is the official representative of the President and the Government of the Russian Federation to the President and the Government of Uruguay. [1]

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The ambassador and his staff work at large in the Embassy of Russia in Montevideo. [2] The ambassador to Uruguay is concurrently appointed as the Russian representative to the Latin American Integration Association. [3] The post of Russian Ambassador to Uruguay is currently held by Andrey Budayev  [ ru ], incumbent since 5 October 2020. [4]

History of diplomatic relations

Diplomatic relations at the mission level between the Soviet Union and Uruguay were first established in August 1926, although the missions were not opened until August 1933. [1] The first representative, Aleksandr Minkin  [ ru ], was appointed on 10 March 1934, and presented his credentials on 9 May 1934. [1] Diplomatic relations were broken off by the government of Uruguay on 27 December 1935 and Minkin was recalled. [1] Relations were re-established on 27 January 1943, with Sergei Orlov appointed envoy on 3 November 1943. [5] On 30 November 1964 the mission was upgraded to the level of an embassy. With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Soviet ambassador, Igor Laptev  [ ru ], continued as representative of the Russian Federation until 1993. [5]

List of representatives (1934 – present)

Representatives of the Soviet Union to Uruguay (1934 – 1991)

NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotes
Aleksandr Minkin  [ ru ]Diplomatic representative10 March 193427 December 1935Credentials presented 9 May 1934 [a]
Diplomatic relations interrupted (1935 - 1943)
Sergei Orlov Envoy 3 November 194324 October 1944Credentials presented 18 March 1944 [b]
Nikolai Gorelkin  [ ru ] Envoy 12 November 194417 May 1952Credentials presented 14 February 1945
Vladimir Yerofeyev Envoy 17 May 195227 October 1953
Sergei Mikhailov  [ ru ] Envoy 24 December 195514 December 1960Credentials presented 26 January 1956
Sergei Striganov  [ ru ] Envoy (before 19 December 1964)
Ambassador (after 19 December 1964)		14 December 19603 August 1965Credentials presented 24 March 1961 [c]
Igor Kolosovsky  [ ru ] Ambassador 3 August 196527 January 1970Credentials presented 1 October 1965
Nikolai Demidov  [ ru ] Ambassador 10 June 197023 June 1978Credentials presented 13 July 1970 [d]
Yuri Lebedev  [ ru ] Ambassador 23 June 197826 February 1987Credentials presented 6 November 1978
Igor Laptev  [ ru ] Ambassador 26 February 198725 December 1991

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

NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotes
Igor Laptev  [ ru ] Ambassador 25 December 19916 April 1993
Boris Golovin  [ ru ] Ambassador 6 April 199313 April 1999
Yevgeny Astakhov  [ ru ] Ambassador 13 April 199931 July 2000
Yan Burlyai  [ ru ] Ambassador 31 July 200026 September 2005 [e]
Sergei Koshkin  [ ru ] [6] Ambassador 26 September 20055 November 2013
Aleksei Labetsky  [ ru ] Ambassador 5 November 201310 January 2018
Nikolai Sofinsky  [ ru ] Ambassador 10 January 20185 October 2020
Andrey Budayev  [ ru ] Ambassador 5 October 2020

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Notes

a. ^ Alexandre Minkine, The Brazilian Government claimed an involvement in the Brazilian uprising of 1935 therefore rupture of diplomatic relations. [7]

b. ^ Sergei A. Orlov (1895 died in 1944 in Montevideo), 1944 (5) MARCH 5— Sergei Orlov, first Russian Minister to Uruguay after a five-year interruption in Russian-Uruguayan diplomatic relations, arrives in Montevideo. (Uruguay and the USSR re-established diplomatic relations in 1943.)

c. ^ S.R. Striganov Appointed Soviet Ambassador to Argentina Pravda, 27/9/78. the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet has appointed Sergei Romanovich Striganov (born 1916) ambassador to the Argentine Republic, replacing Semen Petrovich Dyukarev, 64, who is retiring. Striganov is one of the most experienced Soviet diplomats in the field of relations with the … in Montevideo and Moscow were elevated to embassies, Striganov became the first Soviet ambassador to Uruguay. [8]

d. ^ Vladimir Demidov ExteriorM - Uruguay Archivo Hiatórico Dipiomático Carta del Embajador de la URSS en eI Uruguay, Sr.N.V.Demidov 127 Documento 52 – 27.08.1972.

e. ^ Yan Anastasyevich Burlyai Y.A., b. 1947, a Ukrainian by birth, in 1965-1970 studied at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of [9]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "00592" Полномочное представительство СССР в Уругвае (in Russian). Справочник по истории Коммунистической партии и Советского Союза 1898 - 1991. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
  2. ↑ "Посольство Российской Федерации в Восточной Республике Уругвай" (in Russian). Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia) . Retrieved 27 October 2019.
  3. ↑ "Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 10.01.2018 № 11 "О Чрезвычайном и Полномочном После Российской Федерации в Восточной Республике Уругвай и наблюдателе Российской Федерации при Комитете представителей Латиноамериканской ассоциации интеграции по совместительству"" (in Russian). Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации. 10 January 2018. Retrieved 7 November 2019.
  4. ↑ "Посол" (in Russian). Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia) . Retrieved 27 October 2019.
  5. 1 2 Миссия - Посольство СССР в Уругвае (in Russian). Справочник по истории Коммунистической партии и Советского Союза 1898 - 1991. Archived from the original on 7 November 2014. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
  6. ↑ Sergey N. Koshkin
  7. ↑ Brazilian Government claimed an involvement in the Brazilian uprising of 1935
  8. ↑ Siergiej Striganow
  9. ↑ Yan A. Burlyai
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