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List of ambassadors of Russia to the United States
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| post | Ambassador |
| body | Russia to the United States |
| native_name | посол Российской Федерации в США |
| insignia | MID emblem.png |
| insigniasize | 120px |
| insigniacaption | Seal of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
| department | Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
| incumbent | Alexander Darchiev |
| incumbentsince | 6 March 2025 |
| style | His Excellency |
| residence | Russian ambassador's residence in Washington, D.C. |
| appointer | President of Russia |
| termlength | At the pleasure of the president |
| inaugural | Andrey Yakovlevich Dashkov |
| As ambassador of the Russian Empire | |
| formation | 17 August 1808 |
| succession | Charge d'affairs |
| website |
As ambassador of the Russian Empire The Russian ambassador to the United States is the official representative of the president of the Russian Federation and the Russian government to the president of the United States and the United States government. The ambassador's official title is the ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the United States of America.

The ambassador and his staff work at large in the Embassy of Russia in Washington, D.C. The ambassador to the United States is concurrently appointed as the Russian representative to the Organization of American States. The ambassador's residence is located at 1125 16th Street Northwest. Russia also maintains consulates general in New York and Houston. Alexander Darchiev is the current ambassador, serving since 6 March 2025.
List of Ambassadors
[[Russian Empire]]
| Name | Photo | Residence | Appointed | Arrived | Exequatur | Until | Prior position | Later position | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrey Yakovlevich Dashkov (as consul general and chargé d'affaires) | [[File:A .Dashkov.jpg | 100px | center]] | Philadelphia | June 20, 1808 | July 1, 1809-07-01 | July 15, 1809 | August 17, 1811 | None | None |
| Friedrich von der Pahlen (minister) | Washington, Philadelphia | April 13, 1809 | June 26, 1810 (entered duty) | July 23, 1811 | None | Minister to Portugal-Brazil | ||||
| Andrey Yakovlevich Dashkov (as minister) | [[File:A .Dashkov.jpg | 100px | center]] | Washington | July 28, 1811 | November 1811 (entered duty) | March 1819 | None | None | |
| Pyotr Ivanovich Poletika | [[File:Poletika-pi.jpg | 100px | center]] | 1817 | April 24, 1822 | None | Foreign Ministry adviser | |||
| Fyodor van Tuyll van Serooskerken | [[File:Teyl van Seraskerken (cropped).jpg | 100px | center]] | April 19, 1823 | April 11, 1826 | Minister to Portugal-Brazil | None | |||
| Pavel Kridener | [[File:Kridener_PA.jpg | 100px | center]] | 1827 | 1837 | None | Minister to Switzerland | |||
| Alexander de Bodisco | [[File:Portrait of Alexander Andreevich Bodisko. Illustration for an American newspaper (edition not specified). 1840.jpg | 100px | center]] | 1837 | 1854 | Consul General in Stockholm | None | |||
| 1854 | 1855 | |||||||||
| Eduard de Stoeckl | [[File:Eduard de Stoeckl.jpg | 100px | center]] | 1855 | 1869 | Secretary of the U.S. Legation | None | |||
| Konstantin Katakazi | [[File:Konstantin Katakazi.jpg | 100px | center]] | 1869 | 1872 | Foreign Ministry | None | |||
| Heinrich von Offenberg | 1872 | 1875 | Minister to Romania | None | ||||||
| [[File:Shishkin NP.jpg | 100px | center]] | 1875 | 1880 | Minister to Serbia | Minister to Greece | ||||
| 1880 | 1882 | Minister to Greece | Minister to Japan | |||||||
| Karl von Struve | [[File:Portrait of the Russian Minister at Washington.jpg | 100px | center]] | 1882 | 1892 | Minister to Japan | Ambassador to the Netherlands | |||
| 1892 | 1895 | None | Minister to Wuerttemburg | |||||||
| 1895 | 1897 | Minister to Wuerttemburg | None | |||||||
| Count Arthur Paul Nicholas Cassini | [[File:Portrait of Count Cassini.jpg | 100px | center]] | 1898 | 1905 | Minister to China | Ambassador to Spain | |||
| Roman Rosen | [[File:TR Roman Baron Rosen.jpg | 100px | center]] | 1905 | 1911 | Minister to Japan | State Council | |||
| George Bakhmetev | [[File:Portrait of George Bakhmeteff.jpg | 100px | center]] | 1911 | 1917 | Minister to Japan | None |
[[Russian Provisional Government]]
| Name | Photo | Appointed | Until | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boris Bakhmetev | [[File:Boris Bakhmetev.jpg | 100px | center]] | 1917 | 1917 |
[[Soviet Union]]
| Name | Photo | Residence | Appointed | Credentials presented | Until | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maxim Litvinov | [[File:Litvinoff Profile.jpg | 100px | center]] | 1918 | 1919 | ||
| Ludwig Martens | [[File:Martens-1920.jpg | 100px | center]] | 1919 | 1921 | ||
| [[File:Boris Skvirsky (cropped).jpg | 100px | center]] | 1922 | 1933 | |||
| Alexander Troyanovsky | [[File:Alexander Troyanovsky (cropped).jpg | 100px | center]] | November 20, 1933 | January 8, 1934 | October 1, 1938 | |
| Konstantin Umansky | [[File:Konstantin Umansky (cropped).jpg | 100px | center]] | May 11, 1939 | May 9, 1941 | November 5, 1941 | |
| Maxim Litvinov | [[File:RIAN archive 409024 Soviet diplomat Maxim Litvinov.jpg | 100px | center]] | November 10, 1941 | December 8, 1941 | August 22, 1943 | |
| Andrei Gromyko | [[File:Andrej Gromyko 1967.png | 100px | center]] | August 22, 1943 | October 4, 1943 | April 11, 1946 | |
| Nikolai Vasilevich Novikov | [[File:Nikolai_Novikov.jpg | 100px | center]] | April 11, 1946 | June 3, 1946 | October 25, 1947 | |
| Alexander Panyushkin | [[File:Alexander Panyushkin.jpg | 100px | center]] | October 25, 1947 | December 31, 1947 | 1952 June 12, 1952 | |
| Georgy Zarubin | [[File:Georgi Zarubin 1956.jpg | 100px | center]] | June 14, 1952 | September 25, 1952 | 1958 January 7, 1958 | |
| [[File:Mikhail_A._Menshikov.jpg | 100px | center]] | January 7, 1958 | February 11, 1958 | January 4, 1962 | ||
| Anatoly Dobrynin | [[File:AF Dobrynin 01.png | 100px | center]] | January 4, 1962 | March 30, 1962 | May 19, 1986 | |
| Yuri Dubinin | [[File:Reagan and Dubinin at the Soviet Embassy.png | 100px | center]] | May 19, 1986 | May 15, 1990 | ||
| Alexander Bessmertnykh | [[File:Alexander Bessmertnykh.jpg | 100px | center]] | May 15, 1990 | January 15, 1991 | ||
| [[File:Viktor Komplektov.jpg | 100px | center]] | March 15, 1991 | December 26, 1991 |
[[Russia|Russian Federation]]
| Name | Photo | Appointed | Appointer | Credentials presented | Until | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| [[File:Viktor Komplektov.jpg | 100px | center]] | 1991 | Boris Yeltsin | 1992 | |||||||||
| Vladimir Lukin | [[File:Vladimir Lukin Moscow Interfax 02-2011.jpg | 100px | center]] | January 24, 1992 | Boris Yeltsin | February 8, 1994 | ||||||||
| Yuli Vorontsov | [[File:Yuli_Vorontsov_(cropped).jpg | 100px | center]] | July 23, 1994 | Boris Yeltsin | December 16, 1998 | ||||||||
| Yuri Ushakov | [[File:Юрий Викторович Ушаков.jpg | 100px | center]] | 1999 | Boris Yeltsin | January 22, 1999 | May 31, 2008 | |||||||
| Sergey Kislyak | [[File:Sergey Ivanovich Kislyak 2016.jpg | 100px | center]] | title = УКАЗ Президента РФ от 26.07.2008 N 1122 | publisher = Presidential Press and Information Office | url = http://document.kremlin.ru/doc.asp?ID=047256 | access-date = October 16, 2008 | language = ru | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080813171844/http://document.kremlin.ru/doc.asp?ID=047256 | archive-date = August 13, 2008 }} | Dmitry Medvedev | September 16, 2008 | July 22, 2017 |
| Anatoly Antonov | [[File:Antonov HR(1).jpg | 100px | center]] | September 1, 2017 | Vladimir Putin | September 9, 2017 | last= | first= | date=October 10, 2024 | title=Putin Relieves Russian Ambassador to U.S. With No Replacement Named | url=https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/10/10/putin-relieves-russian-ambassador-to-us-with-no-replacement-named-a86643 | access-date=November 26, 2024 | website=The Moscow Times | language=en}} |
| Alexander Darchiev | [[File:Alexander Darchiev 05.2025 (cropped).jpg | 100px | center]] | March 6, 2025 | Vladimir Putin | Present |
Notes
References
Bibliography
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- "Ambassador". [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia)]].
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- (29 May 2009). "Diplomatic List: Order of Precedence and Date of Presentation of Credentials". [[Department of State]].
- [https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3384934 Новый посол России в США Анатолий Антонов заступит на пост 1 сентября]
- [https://ria.ru/world/20170908/1502113201.html Посол России в США Антонов вручил Трампу верительные грамоты]
- (October 10, 2024). "Putin Relieves Russian Ambassador to U.S. With No Replacement Named".
- (6 March 2025). "Putin, mending ties with US, names veteran diplomat Darchiev as new ambassador". [[Reuters]].
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