List of ambassadors of Russia to Iraq

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Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Iraq
سفير الاتحاد الروسي لدى جمهورية العراق
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Incumbent
Elbrus Kutrashev  [ ru ]
since 8 April 2021
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Embassy of Russia in Baghdad
Style His Excellency
The Honorable
Reports to Minister of Foreign Affairs
Residence The Embassy
Seat Baghdad, Iraq
Appointer The President
Term length At the pleasure of the President
Formation29 November 1944
First holder Grigory Zaitsev  [ ru ]
Website Embassy of Russia- Baghdad

The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Iraq is the official representative of the President and the Government of the Russian Federation to the Prime Minister and the Government of Iraq.

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The ambassador and his staff work at large in the Embassy of Russia in Baghdad. [1] There is a Russian consulate-general in Erbil. [2] The current ambassador is Elbrus Kutrashev  [ ru ], incumbent since 8 April 2021. [3]

Background

The historic relations between Russia and Iraq began when the latter was part of the Ottoman Empire. The Russian imperial government still showed wide interest in the region. Since the 19th century, a Russian consulate was functioning in Baghdad, due to the Shia Muslims' pilgrimage to the holy cities of Baghdad, Karbala and Najaf. After the Russian Empire annexed the North Caucasus and Central Asia this further increased due to the large Shia populations native to those regions. According to the Russian consul in Baghdad on 19 November 1890, 19,500 pilgrims from the North Caucasus and Central Asia visited the holy shrines in Iraq. [4] However, after the end of the Ottoman rule in the region, the diplomatic mission was ended.

Soviet Union re-established diplomatic ties with newly independent Iraq on 9 September 1944. In 1955, relations were disrupted by the Iraqi side. In July 1958, both countries resumed diplomatic relations.

Timeline of the diplomatic relations

List of representatives (1944 – present)

Representatives of the Soviet Union to the Kingdom of Iraq (1944 - 1958)

NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotes
Grigory Zaitsev  [ ru ] Envoy 29 November 194420 January 1949
Ivan Yakushin  [ ru ] Chargé d'affaires 19528 January 1955
Diplomatic relations interrupted (1955 - 1958)

Representatives of the Soviet Union to the First Iraqi Republic (1958 - 1968)

NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotes
Grigory Zaitsev  [ ru ] Ambassador 31 July 195815 October 1961
Mikhail Yakovlev  [ ru ] Ambassador 15 October 19617 August 1965
Vasily Nikolayev  [ ru ] Ambassador 7 August 19651968

Representatives of the Soviet Union to the Second Iraqi Republic (1968 - 1991)

NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotes
Vasily Nikolayev  [ ru ] Ambassador 196817 December 1969
Veniamin Likhachyov  [ ru ] Ambassador 20 February 197029 December 1973
Anatoly Barkovsky  [ ru ] Ambassador 29 December 197317 March 1982
Viktor Minin  [ ru ] Ambassador 17 March 198219 December 1989
Viktor Posluvalyuk  [ ru ] Ambassador 13 March 199025 December 1991

Representatives of the Russian Federation to the Second Iraqi Republic (1991 - 2003)

NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotes
Viktor Posluvalyuk  [ ru ] Ambassador 13 March 199022 April 1992
Nikolai Kartuzov  [ ru ] Ambassador 22 August 19946 August 1999
Aleksandr Shein  [ ru ] Ambassador 9 August 199929 March 2002
Vladimir Titorenko Ambassador 29 March 200216 May 2003

Representatives of the Russian Federation to the Coalition Provisional Authority (2003 - 2004)

NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotes
Vladimir Titorenko Ambassador 16 May 20038 December 2003
Ilya Morgunov  [ ru ] Chargé d'affaires 8 December 200328 June 2004

Representatives of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Iraq (2004 - present)

NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotes
Ilya Morgunov  [ ru ] Chargé d'affaires 28 June 20043 March 2005
Vladimir Chamov  [ ru ] Ambassador 3 March 200516 October 2008
Valeryan Shuvayev  [ ru ] Ambassador 16 October 20082 March 2012
Ilya Morgunov  [ ru ] Ambassador 2 March 20123 October 2016
Maksim Maksimov  [ ru ] Ambassador 3 October 20168 April 2021
Elbrus Kutrashev  [ ru ] Ambassador 8 April 2021

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References

  1. ↑ "Embassy of Russia in the Republic of Iraq".
  2. ↑ "Consulate of Russia in Erbil, Iraq".
  3. ↑ "The Ambassador, Russian embassy in Iraq".
  4. ↑ Litvinov VP State regulation of pilgrimage of Shiite Muslims of Turkestan (late XIX - early XX centuries) // Bulletin of the Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University. - 2014. - T. 14. - No. 3. - S. 38 - 39.
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