Russia–Uruguay relations

Diplomatic relations between Russia and Uruguay were established in 1857, at the initiative of the Uruguayan president Gabriel Antonio Pereira who sent a letter to Tsar Alexander II, proposing closer ties between both countries.{{Cite web |date=2011-06-15 |title=МИД России {{!}} 12/21/2007 {{!}} Статья Посла России в Уругвае С.Н.Кошкина "Полтора века дипотношений", опубликованная в журнале "Международная жизнь" № 1 |url=http://www.mid.ru/ns_publ.nsf/cb8e241d18a8904ec3256fc7002ddc0e/ede9c16bdd08601bc32573b80038de13?OpenDocument |access-date=2024-05-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615065832/http://www.mid.ru/ns_publ.nsf/cb8e241d18a8904ec3256fc7002ddc0e/ede9c16bdd08601bc32573b80038de13?OpenDocument |archive-date=2011-06-15 }} Thus, Uruguay was the first Latin American republic and the second Latin American state, after the Empire of Brazil, to be recognized by the Russian Empire.{{Cite web |date=2012-10-08 |title=МИД России {{!}} 08/18/2011 {{!}} РОССИЙСКО-УРУГВАЙСКИЕ ОТНОШЕНИЯ |url=http://www.mid.ru/bdomp/ns-rlat.nsf/601debeef6efe270432569dc002f680c/3098893e6f991320c3256e8b002916df!OpenDocument |access-date=2024-05-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121008092933/http://www.mid.ru/bdomp/ns-rlat.nsf/601debeef6efe270432569dc002f680c/3098893e6f991320c3256e8b002916df!OpenDocument |archive-date=2012-10-08 }} In 1866 a Russian consulate was established in Montevideo, and two years later, a Uruguayan consulate was established in Taganrog.{{Cite web |last=Budaev |first=Andrey |date=2022-12-06 |title=165 años de relaciones diplomáticas entre Rusia y Uruguay: Historia y actualidad |url=https://grupormultimedio.com/165-anos-de-relaciones-diplomaticas-entre-rusia-y-uruguay-historia-y-actualidad-id1064904/ |access-date=2024-05-01 |website=Grupo R Multimedio |language=es}}

After the October Revolution of 1917, diplomatic relations were interrupted, but were reestablished in 1926. In 1935, during the dictatorship of Gabriel Terra, Uruguay broke relations with the Soviet Union, but they were reestablished again in 1943, during World War II.{{Cite book |last=Rodríguez Ayçaguer |first=Ana María |title=La diplomacia del anticomunismo: la influencia del gobierno de Getúlio Vargas en la interrupción de las relaciones diplomáticas de Uruguay con la URSS en diciembre de 1935 |publisher=Departamento de Historia del Uruguay, Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad de la República |year=2008 |pages=94 |trans-title=The diplomacy of anti-communism: the influence of the Getúlio Vargas government in the interruption of Uruguay's diplomatic relations with the USSR in December 1935}}

• Russia has an embassy in Montevideo.
• Uruguay has an embassy in Moscow.

File:Embajada Rusa. Br. España 2741.jpg|Embassy of Russia in Montevideo

File:Presnensky District, Moscow, Russia - panoramio (390).jpg|Embassy of Uruguay in Moscow

• Russians in Uruguay

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• [http://www.uruguay.mid.ru/ Embassy of the Russian Federation in Montevideo]
• С.Н.Кошкин (S.N. Koshkin), [https://web.archive.org/web/20110615065832/http://www.mid.ru/ns_publ.nsf/cb8e241d18a8904ec3256fc7002ddc0e/ede9c16bdd08601bc32573b80038de13?OpenDocument "Полтора века дипотношений"] ("One and a half centuries of diplomatic relations"), Международная жизнь (Mezhdunarodnaya Zhizn Magazine), No. 11, 2007

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