The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Argentine Republic is the official representative of the President and the Government of the Russian Federation to the President and the

Government of Argentina The government of Argentina, within the framework of a federal system, is a presidential representative democratic republic. The President of Argentina is both head of state and head of government. Executive power is exercised by the President. ...

. The ambassador and his staff work at large in the

Embassy of Russia This is a list of diplomatic missions of Russia. These missions are subordinate to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Russian Federation has one of the largest networks of embassies and consulates of any country. Russia has significant ...

in Buenos Aires. The post of Russian Ambassador to Argentina is currently held by , incumbent since 20 June 2018.

History of diplomatic relations

The Russian Empire maintained consulates in Argentina during the early twentieth century. These represented Russian interests in the country until 1909, after which relations were maintained through the embassy in Brazil, with acting as '' charge d'affaires''. Shtein was appointed the first envoy to Argentina in 1916, and continued after the

February Revolution The February Revolution ( rus, Февра́льская револю́ция, r=Fevral'skaya revolyutsiya, p=fʲɪvˈralʲskəjə rʲɪvɐˈlʲutsɨjə), known in Soviet historiography as the February Bourgeois Democratic Revolution and somet ...

in 1917 as representative of the Russian Provisional Government. After the Bolshevik seizure of power in the October Revolution that year, Shtein's accreditation was revoked on 26 November 1917. The Argentine government continued to recognize him as the Russian envoy however, and he functioned in this role into the 1930s, during which there was no official representation from the USSR. Official relations between the Soviet Union and the Argentine Republic were established in June 1946, with the first ambassador, , appointed on 12 July 1946, and presenting his credentials on 12 September that year. With the

dissolution of the Soviet Union The dissolution of the Soviet Union, also negatively connoted as rus, Разва́л Сове́тского Сою́за, r=Razvál Sovétskogo Soyúza, ''Ruining of the Soviet Union''. was the process of internal disintegration within the Sov ...

in 1991, the Soviet ambassador, , continued as representative of the Russian Federation until 1993.

Representatives

Representatives of the Russian Empire to Argentina (1900 - 1917)

Representatives of the Soviet Union to Argentina (1946 - 1991)

Representatives of the Russian Federation to Argentina (1991 - present)

References

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