List of ambassadors of Russia to Yugoslavia

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Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Yugoslavia
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Emblem of the Russian Foreign Ministry
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Embassy of Russia in Belgrade
Style His Excellency
Reports to Minister of Foreign Affairs
Seat Belgrade
Appointer President of Russia
Term length At the pleasure of the President

The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to Yugoslavia was the official representative of the President and the Government of the Russian Federation to the President and the Government of Yugoslavia.

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The position of Soviet ambassador to Yugoslavia lasted from the first establishment of relations between the Soviet Union and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1940, until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. This encompassed the period of the Yugoslav government-in-exile between 1941 and 1945, and the establishment of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia in 1945. Relations were briefly broken off between 1949 and 1953, and continued thereafter, including after the renaming of the state as the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1963 until 1992. Representation was maintained between the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union's successor, the Russian Federation, until the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1992. Thereafter the Russian Federation maintained relations with many of Yugoslavia's successor states, including Serbia and Montenegro, otherwise known as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia between 1992 and 2003, and the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro from 2003 and 2006. After the separation of this union into the independent countries of Serbia and Montenegro in 2006, the Russian Federation continues to appoint representatives to both of them.

History of diplomatic relations

Vasily Valkov, Soviet ambassador to Yugoslavia after the Tito-Stalin split had caused the breaking of diplomatic relations between 1949 and 1953 Vasily Valkov 1948.jpg
Vasily Valkov, Soviet ambassador to Yugoslavia after the Tito–Stalin split had caused the breaking of diplomatic relations between 1949 and 1953

Diplomatic exchanges between the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia began with the formal establishment of relations on 24 June 1940, towards the very end of the existence of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and shortly before its invasion and occupation by Axis forces the following year. The first Soviet representative, Viktor Plotnikov  [ ru ], was appointed on 26 June 1940, and presented his credentials on 12 July 1940. [1] With the invasion and occupation of Yugoslavia in 1941, a Yugoslav government-in-exile was established, eventually settling in London. The Soviet ambassador to the Allied governments  [ ru ] Aleksandr Bogomolov  [ ru ], representative to many of the governments-in-exile that were based in London during the occupation of their countries, was accredited to the Yugoslav government-in-exile from 21 August 1941 onwards. [2] During the war, power shifted to the hands of the Partisan movement, led by Josip Broz Tito, and with the expulsion of Axis forces towards the end of the war, Tito formed a government to which the Soviet Union duly accredited Ivan Sadchikov  [ ru ] as its first ambassador. [2] Sadchikov was succeeded by Anatoly Lavrentiev in 1946, but relations between Titov and Stalin soured during the second half of the 1940s, and diplomatic relations were broken off in 1949. They were only restored in 1953 following Stalin's death in March that year, and in June 1953 Vasily Valkov was appointed the new Soviet ambassador. [2] Relations were maintained thereafter, including during the changing of the country's name to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1963, with the last Soviet ambassador, Gennady Shikin, being appointed in September 1991. With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991, Shikin remained as ambassador of the Russian Federation, and continued to serve during the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1992. [2]

With the breakup of Yugoslavia, many of the former constituent republics declared independence and established themselves as separate nations. The Russian Federation duly established relations and appointed ambassadors to them: to Croatia in 1992, to Slovenia in 1994, to Bosnia and Herzegovina and to Macedonia in 1996. The former republics of Serbia and Montenegro combined to form the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1992, and Shikin continued as ambassador in Belgrade to this state until 1996. [2] In 2003 the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was officially renamed the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro, and three years later was dissolved to form the separate states of Serbia, and 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. [3]

List of representatives (1940– 1992)

Representatives of the Soviet Union to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1940 – 1941)

NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotes
Viktor Plotnikov  [ ru ]Plenipotentiary26 June 19408 May 1941

Representatives of the Soviet Union to the Yugoslav government-in-exile (1941 – 1945)

NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotes
Aleksandr Bogomolov Ambassador 21 August 194112 November 1943
Nikolai Novikov Ambassador 31 October 194316 November 1944
Viktor Lebedev  [ ru ] Ambassador 16 November 194413 March 1945

Representatives of the Soviet Union to the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia (1945 – 1963)

NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotes
Ivan Sadchikov  [ ru ] Ambassador 13 March 194526 February 1946
Anatoly Lavrentiev Ambassador 13 March 194616 August 1949
Tito–Stalin split and Informbiro period - Diplomatic relations interrupted (1949 - 1953)
Vasily Valkov Ambassador 27 June 195323 August 1955
Nikolay Firyubin Ambassador 23 August 19551 October 1957
Ivan Zamchevsky  [ ru ] Ambassador 1 October 195727 November 1960
Alexei Yepishev Ambassador 27 November 196030 June 1962
Alexander Puzanov Ambassador 30 June 19621963

Representatives of the Soviet Union to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1963 – 1991)

NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotes
Alexander Puzanov Ambassador 196312 April 1967
Ivan Benediktov Ambassador 12 April 196719 January 1971
Vladimir Stepakov  [ ru ] Ambassador 19 January 197116 May 1978
Nikolai Rodionov  [ ru ] Ambassador 16 May 197827 May 1986
Viktor Maltsev  [ ru ] Ambassador 27 May 198628 November 1988
Vadim Loginov  [ ru ] Ambassador 28 November 198820 September 1991
Gennady Shikin Ambassador 20 September 199125 December 1991

Representatives of the Russian Federation to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1991 – 1992)

NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotes
Gennady Shikin Ambassador 25 December 199128 April 1992

Representatives of the Russian Federation to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1992 – 2003)

NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotes
Gennady Shikin Ambassador 28 April 199229 January 1996
Yury Kotov  [ ru ] Ambassador 29 January 199631 December 1999
Valery Yegoshkin  [ ru ] Ambassador 31 December 19997 February 2002
Vladimir Ivanovsky Ambassador 7 February 20024 February 2003

Representatives of the Russian Federation to Serbia and Montenegro (2003 – 2006)

NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotes
Vladimir Ivanovsky Ambassador 4 February 200322 September 2004
Aleksandr Alekseyev  [ ru ] Ambassador 22 September 20045 June 2006

Appointment of representatives to successor nations

PostNameAppointmentNotes
Ambassador to Croatia Leonid Kerestedzhiyants  [ ru ]8 September 1992 [4]
Ambassador to Slovenia Aleksey Nikiforov  [ ru ]23 December 1994 [5]
Ambassador to Macedonia Pyotr Dobroserdov  [ ru ]25 September 1996 [6]
Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina Yakov Gerasimov  [ ru ]December 1996
Ambassador to Serbia Aleksandr Alekseyev  [ ru ]5 June 2006
Ambassador to Montenegro Yakov Gerasimov  [ ru ]29 January 2007 [3]

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References

  1. ↑ Полномочное представительство СССР в Югославии (in Russian). Справочник по истории Коммунистической партии и Советского Союза 1898 - 1991. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 30 October 2019.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Миссия - Посольство СССР в Югославии (in Russian). Справочник по истории Коммунистической партии и Советского Союза 1898 - 1991. Archived from the original on 27 August 2017. Retrieved 30 October 2019.
  3. 1 2 "Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 29.01.2007 г. № 88" (in Russian). Kremlin.ru. 29 January 2007. Retrieved 30 October 2019.
  4. ↑ "Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 08.09.1992 г. № 1067" (in Russian). Kremlin.ru. 8 September 1992. Retrieved 30 October 2019.
  5. ↑ "Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 23.12.1994 г. № 2211" (in Russian). Kremlin.ru. 23 December 1994. Retrieved 30 October 2019.
  6. ↑ "Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 25.09.1996 г. № 1393" (in Russian). Kremlin.ru. 25 September 1996. Retrieved 30 October 2019.
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