List of ambassadors of the Soviet Union to Poland

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This is a list of ambassadors and envoys from the Soviet Union to Poland.

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Second Polish Republic

Second Polish Republic and the Soviet Union had established tentative diplomatic relations during the Polish–Soviet War (1919–1920) for the purpose of negotiation wartime treaties, but neither state had a stable diplomatic mission in the other country. Such missions were created in the aftermath of the Peace of Riga negotiations (March 1921). Formal relations were established on 27 April 1921.

For the next two years, Poland received representatives in a rank of an envoy from both the Russian SSR and the Ukrainian SSR.

On 23 July 1923, Poland recognized the creation of the Soviet Union, the representatives for Russian and Ukrainian SSRs were to be replaced by a single representative of the United SSR (USSR). Soviet representatives in the following years in the rank of an envoy consisted of:

On 16 February 1930 the Soviet diplomatic mission in Poland was upgraded to the rank of an embassy. Soviet ambassadors in Poland consisted of:

On 17 September 1939, when the Soviets invaded Poland, Soviet Union broke the diplomatic relations with Poland.

Polish government in exile

On 30 July 1941 Polish-Soviet relations were reestablished following the Sikorski-Mayski Agreement.

Soviet Union again withdrew its recognition of the Polish government in exile after the Polish government requested investigation into the Katyn massacre.

People's Republic of Poland

Soviet Union established official diplomatic relations with its own puppet Polish communist government, the Polish Committee of National Liberation, on 1 August 1944. On 5 January 1945 an official Soviet embassy was opened to the Provisional Government of the Republic of Poland. Soviet ambassadors in communist Poland (People's Republic of Poland) were:

Third Polish Republic

Soviet ambassadors in non-communist Poland included:

After the fall of Soviet Union, Soviet ambassadors were followed by the ambassadors from the post-Soviet states. See: List of ambassadors of Russia to Poland.

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