List of ambassadors of the Soviet Union to Czechoslovakia

Ambassador of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to Czechoslovakia
Emblem of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union
Ministry of Foreign Affairs Embassy of Russia in Prague
Style	His Excellency
Residence	Prague

The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to Czechoslovakia was the official representative of the General Secretary and the Government of the Soviet Union to the President and the Government of Czechoslovakia.

The position of Soviet ambassador to Czechoslovakia lasted from the first establishment of relations in 1922, until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Representation was maintained between the Czechoslovakian state and the Soviet Union's successor, the Russian Federation, until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1993. Thereafter the Russian Federation has maintained relations with both successor states, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and has ambassadors to both.

History of diplomatic relations

Main article: Czechoslovakia-Soviet Union relations

Diplomatic exchanges between the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia began with the formal establishment of relations on 5 June 1922, after the formation of the First Czechoslovak Republic, which had declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918. The first Soviet representative, Pavel Mostovenko  [ ru ], was appointed on 9 December 1922. ^[1] On 9 June 1934 relations were upgraded to the level of missions, with Sergey Aleksandrovsky  [ ru ] serving as plenipotentiary from that date. Relations were interrupted on 16 March 1939 with the German occupation of Czechoslovakia. ^[1]

With the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, the USSR entered the Second World War on the side of the Allies. Following the reestablishment of relations on 18 July 1941, Viktor Lebedev  [ ru ] was duly accredited to the Czechoslovak government-in-exile in London on 24 October 1943 . ^[2] Relations were maintained after the war, during which period the Third Czechoslovak Republic and then the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic were formed. With the repudiation of communism, the country officially became the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic in 1990. With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, a new ambassador, Aleksandr Lebedev  [ ru ], was appointed as representative of the Russian Federation. ^[2] He continued as ambassador until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia and its separation into the states of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Lebedev continued to as representative to the Czech Republic until 1996, while a new ambassador, Sergey Yastrzhembsky, was appointed Russian ambassador to Slovakia in June 1993.

List of representatives (1922– 1993)

Representatives of the Soviet Union to Czechoslovakia (1922 – 1991)

Name	Title	Appointment	Termination	Notes
Pavel Mostovenko  [ ru ]	Diplomatic representative	9 December 1922	14 February 1923
Konstantin Yurenev	Diplomatic representative	14 February 1923	3 March 1924
Otto Aussem  [ ru ]	Diplomatic representative	1924	1924
Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko	Diplomatic representative	23 June 1924	13 December 1928
Aleksandr Arosev	Diplomatic representative	2 March 1929	4 June 1933
Sergey Aleksandrovsky  [ ru ]	Diplomatic representative Plenipotentiary (after 9 June 1934)	4 June 1933	16 March 1939
Viktor Lebedev  [ ru ]	Ambassador	24 October 1943	6 January 1945
Valerian Zorin	Ambassador	22 March 1945	7 March 1948
Mikhail Silin  [ ru ]	Ambassador	7 March 1948	26 October 1951
Anatoly Lavrentiev	Ambassador	26 October 1951	7 July 1952
Aleksandr Bogomolov	Ambassador	7 July 1952	23 January 1954
Nikolay Firyubin	Ambassador	23 January 1954	23 August 1955
Ivan Grishin  [ ru ]	Ambassador	11 December 1955	20 February 1960
Mikhail Zimyanin	Ambassador	20 February 1960	8 April 1965
Stepan Chervonenko	Ambassador	8 April 1965	27 April 1973
Vladimir Matskevich	Ambassador	27 April 1973	6 February 1980
Aleksandr Botvin  [ ru ]	Ambassador	6 February 1980	26 April 1984
Viktor Lomakin  [ ru ]	Ambassador	26 April 1984	14 May 1990
Boris Pankin	Ambassador	14 May 1990	29 August 1991

Representatives of the Russian Federation to Czechoslovakia (1991 – 1993)

Name	Title	Appointment	Termination	Notes
Aleksandr Lebedev  [ ru ]	Ambassador	25 December 1991	1 January 1993

References

1. "00623" Полномочное представительство РСФСР - СССР в Чехословакии (in Russian). Справочник по истории Коммунистической партии и Советского Союза 1898 - 1991. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
2. Миссия - Посольство СССР в Чехословакии (in Russian). Справочник по истории Коммунистической партии и Советского Союза 1898 - 1991. Archived from the original on 5 March 2017. Retrieved 16 October 2019.