List of ambassadors of Russia to Iran
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{{Infobox official post
| post = Ambassador
| body = the Russian Federation to the Islamic Republic of Iran
| image =
| incumbent =Alexey Dedov
| insignia = MID emblem.png
| incumbentsince = 8 September 2022
| department = Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Embassy of Russia in Tehran
| style = His Excellency
| reports_to = Minister of Foreign Affairs
| seat = Tehran
| appointer = President of Russia
| termlength = At the pleasure of the President
| first =
| formation =
| website = [https://iran.mid.ru/web/iran_en Embassy of the Russian Federation in the Islamic Republic of Iran]
| insigniacaption = Emblem of the Russian Foreign Ministry
| unofficial_names =
| native_name = سفیر فدراسیون روسیه در جمهوری اسلامی ایران
| residence =
}}
The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Islamic Republic of Iran is the official representative of the President and the Government of the Russian Federation to the President and the Government of Iran.
The ambassador and his staff work at large in the Embassy of Russia in Tehran.{{cite web|url=https://iran.mid.ru/web/iran_en |title=Embassy of the Russian Federation in the Islamic Republic of Iran
|publisher=Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia)|accessdate=20 October 2019}} There are consulates general in Isfahan and Rasht.{{cite web|url=https://iran.mid.ru/web/iran_en/consulate-general-in-isfahan|title=Consulate General in Isfahan|publisher=Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia)|accessdate=20 October 2019}}{{cite web|url=https://iran.mid.ru/web/iran_en/consulate-general-in-rasht|title=Consulate General in Rasht|publisher=Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia)|accessdate=20 October 2019}} The post of Russian Ambassador to Iran is currently held by Alexey Dedov, incumbent since 8 September 2022.{{cite web|url=https://iran.mid.ru/en/o_posolstve/ambassador/|title=Ambassador|publisher=Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia)|accessdate=3 February 2022}}
History of diplomatic relations
{{main|Iran–Russia relations}}
Diplomatic relations between Russia and Iran date back to the medieval period, with the first visit of an envoy from Persia to the Grand Duchy of Moscow being recorded in 1592. The first Russian ambassador, Artemy Volynsky, was appointed in 1715, during the reign of Peter the Great. Following the Russian Revolution in 1917, diplomatic relations were briefly broken off, but were soon re-established, between Persia and at first the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, and later the Soviet Union.{{cite web| title = Полномочное представительство РСФСР - СССР в Персии, с 1935 - Иране - Посольство СССР в Иране| url = http://www.knowbysight.info/6_MID/00258.asp| publisher = Справочник по истории Коммунистической партии и Советского Союза 1898 - 1991| accessdate = 20 October 2019| language = ru| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120429141047/http://www.knowbysight.info/6_MID/00258.asp| archive-date = 29 April 2012| url-status = dead}} Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the incumbent Soviet ambassador, Vladimir Gudev, continued as representative of the Russian Federation until 1993.
List of representatives (1715 – present)
=Representatives of the Tsardom of Russia to Persia (1715 – 1721)=
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!Name !Title !Appointment !Termination !Notes |
| Artemy Volynsky
|1715 |1719 | |
| Semyon Avramov
|Consul, Resident |1717 |1721 | |
=Representatives of the Russian Empire to Persia (1721 – 1917)=
| class="wikitable" |
| valign="middle"
!Name !Title !Appointment !Termination !Notes |
| Semyon Avramov
|Consul, Resident |1721 |1732 | |
| {{interlanguage link|Sergey Golitsyn|ru|Голицын, Сергей Дмитриевич}}
|1734 |1735 | |
| Ivan Kalushkin
|Resident |1737 |1742 | |
| Vasily Bratishchev
|Resident |1742 |1748 | |
| Mikhail Golitsyn
|Consul |1745 |1748 | |
| Ivan Danilov
|Consul |1748 |1751 | |
| Petr Chekalevsky
|Consul |18 December 1755 |25 May 1760 | |
| Ilya Igumnov
|Consul |1763 |1769 | |
| Gavriil Bogolyubov
|Consul |1769 |1772 | |
| Vasily Yablonsky
|Consul |1772 |1775 | |
| Ivan Tumanovsky
|Consul |1780 |1785 | |
| Dmitri Skilichi
|Consul |1782 |1790 | |
| Sergey Lashkarev
|Appointed chargé d'affaires |1786 |1786 |Did not take up position |
| Mikhail Skibinevsky
|c. 1787 |1804 | |
| colspan="5" |Russo-Persian War - Diplomatic relations interrupted (10 June 1804 - 24 October 1813) |
| Alexey Yermolov
|29 June 1817 |10 October 1817 | |
| {{interlanguage link|Semyon Mazarovich|ru|Мазарович, Семён Иванович}}
|6 July 1818 |July 1826 | |
| colspan="5" |Russo-Persian War - Diplomatic relations interrupted (16 July 1826 - 10 February 1828) {{interlanguage link|Aleksandr Obreskov|ru|Обресков, Александр Михайлович}} assigned as diplomatic agent between 4 April 1827 and 21 April 1828 to negotiate the Treaty of Turkmenchay |
| Alexander Griboyedov
|Minister Plenipotentiary |25 April 1828 |30 January 1829 | |
| {{interlanguage link|Nikolai Dolgorukov|ru|Долгоруков, Николай Андреевич}}
|Special representative |1 April 1829 |30 June 1830 | |
| {{interlanguage link|Ivan Simonich|ru|Симонич, Иван Осипович}}
|Minister Plenipotentiary |5 January 1832 |30 April 1838 | |
| {{interlanguage link|Alexander Du Hamel|ru|Дюгамель, Александр Осипович}}
|Minister Plenipotentiary |30 April 1838 |9 August 1841 | |
| Alexander von Medem
|Minister Plenipotentiary |9 August 1841 |11 June 1845 | |
| Dmitry Dolgorukov
|Minister Plenipotentiary |11 June 1845 |20 March 1854 | |
| {{interlanguage link|Nikolai Anichkov|ru|Аничков, Николай Адрианович}}
|Chargé d'affaires (before 5 April 1858) |20 March 1854 |15 January 1863 | |
| Nikolay Girs
|1 August 1863 |6 January 1869 | |
| {{interlanguage link|Aleksandr Beger|ru|Бегер, Александр Фёдорович}}
|7 January 1869 |24 February 1876 | |
| {{interlanguage link|Ivan Zinovyev|ru|Зиновьев, Иван Алексеевич (дипломат)}}
|20 April 1876 |25 February 1883 | |
| {{interlanguage link|Aleksandr Melnikov|ru|Мельников, Александр Александрович}}
|25 February 1883 |22 October 1886 | |
| {{interlanguage link|Nikolai Dolgorukov|ru|Долгоруков, Николай Сергеевич}}
|25 October 1886 |12 November 1889 | |
| {{interlanguage link|Eugene de Bützow|ru|Бюцов, Евгений Карлович}}
|5 October 1889 |1 July 1897 | |
| Kimon Argyropoulo
|1 July 1897 |8 August 1902 | |
| Pyotr Vlasov
|8 August 1902 |1905 | |
| Alexey Shpeyer
|1905 |1906 | |
| Nicholas Hartwig
|1906 |1908 | |
| {{interlanguage link|Stanislav Poklevsky-Kozell|ru|Поклевский-Козелл, Станислав Альфонсович}}
|1909 |1913 | |
| {{interlanguage link|Ivan Korostovets|ru|Коростовец, Иван Яковлевич}}
|1913 |1915 | |
| {{interlanguage link|Nikolai Etter|ru|Эттер, Николай Севастьянович}}
|1915 |3 March 1917 | |
=Representatives of the Russian Provisional Government to Persia (March 1917 - unaccredited after October 1917)=
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!Name !Title !Appointment !Termination !Notes |
| {{interlanguage link|Ivan Kolomiytsev|ru|Коломийцев, Иван Осипович}}
|Chief of mission |July 1917 |November 1918 | |
| {{interlanguage link|Efim Babushkin|ru|Бабушкин, Ефим Адрианович}}
|Consul General |September 1918 |1919 | |
| {{interlanguage link|Ivan Kolomiytsev|ru|Коломийцев, Иван Осипович}}
|Chief of mission |28 June 1919 |27 August 1919 | |
=Representatives of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic to Persia (1921 - 1923)=
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!Name !Title !Appointment !Termination !Notes |
| Theodore Rothstein
|Plenipotentiary Representative |27 February 1921 |19 March 1923 | |
| Boris Shumyatsky
|Plenipotentiary Representative |19 March 1923 |19 July 1923 | |
=Representatives of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to Persia/Iran (1923 - 1991)=
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!Name !Title !Appointment !Termination !Notes |
| Boris Shumyatsky
|Plenipotentiary Representative |19 July 1923 |14 April 1925 | |
| Konstantin Yurenev
|Plenipotentiary Representative |24 April 1925 |5 August 1927 | |
| Yakov Davydov
|Plenipotentiary Representative |5 August 1927 |1 October 1930 | |
| Adolf Petrovsky
|Plenipotentiary Representative |21 December 1930 |1 April 1933 | |
| {{interlanguage link|Sergey Pastukhov|ru|Пастухов, Сергей Константинович}}
|Plenipotentiary Representative |29 May 1933 |1 April 1935 | |
| {{interlanguage link|Aleksey Chernykh|ru|Черных, Алексей Сергеевич}}
|Plenipotentiary Representative |1 April 1935 |14 January 1939 | |
| Matvey Filimonov
|Plenipotentiary Representative (before 9 May 1941) |11 September 1939 |28 June 1941 | |
| Andrey Smirnov
|28 June 1941 |1 September 1943 | |
| {{interlanguage link|Konstantin Mikhailov (diplomat)|ru|Михайлов, Константин Александрович|lt=Konstantin Mikhailov}}
|1 September 1943 |21 May 1944 | |
| {{interlanguage link|Mikhail Maksimov (diplomat)|ru|Максимов, Михаил Алексеевич|lt=Mikhail Maksimov}}
|28 June 1944 |26 February 1946 | |
| {{interlanguage link|Ivan Sadchikov|ru|Садчиков, Иван Васильевич}}
|26 February 1946 |17 July 1953 | |
| Anatoly Lavrentiev
|17 July 1953 |19 August 1956 | |
| Nikolai Pegov
|19 August 1956 |4 June 1963 | |
| {{interlanguage link|Grigory Zaeitsev|ru|Зайцев, Григорий Титович}}
|4 June 1963 |3 January 1968 | |
| Vladimir Yerofeyev
|3 January 1968 |29 January 1977 | |
| Vladimir Vinogradov
|29 January 1977 |2 June 1982 | |
| {{interlanguage link|Vil Boldyrev|ru|Болдырев, Вил Константинович}}
|2 June 1982 |23 September 1987 | |
| Vladimir Gudev
|23 September 1987 |25 December 1991 | |
=Representatives of the Russian Federation to Iran (1991 - present)=
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!Name !Title !Appointment !Termination !Notes |
| Vladimir Gudev
|25 December 1991 |6 April 1993 | |
| {{interlanguage link|Sergey Tretyakov (diplomat)|ru|Третьяков, Сергей Михайлович (дипломат)|lt=Sergey Tretyakov}}
|6 April 1993 |6 June 1997 | |
| {{interlanguage link|Konstantin Shuvalov|ru|Шувалов, Константин Викторович}}
|6 June 1997 |8 February 2001 | |
| {{interlanguage link|Aleksandr Maryasov|ru|Марьясов, Александр Георгиевич}}
|8 February 2001 |30 May 2005 | |
| {{interlanguage link|Aleksandr Sadovnikov (diplomat)|ru|Садовников, Александр Алексеевич|lt=Aleksandr Sadovnikov }}
|30 May 2005 |17 October 2011 | |
| {{interlanguage link|Levan Dzhagaryan|ru|Джагарян, Леван Семёнович}}
|17 October 2011 |8 September 2022 | |
| Alexey Dedov
|8 September 2022 | | |
See also
References
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External links
- http://www.rusdiplomats.narod.ru/iran.html
- https://web.archive.org/web/20120429141047/http://www.knowbysight.info/6_MID/00258.asp
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