The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Czech Republic is the official representative of the

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and the

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to the

and the

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. The ambassador and his staff work at large in the

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Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...

. There are consulates general in

Brno Brno ( , ; german: Brünn ) is a city in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. Located at the confluence of the Svitava and Svratka rivers, Brno has about 380,000 inhabitants, making it the second-largest city in the Czech Republic ...

and

Karlovy Vary Karlovy Vary (; german: Karlsbad, formerly also spelled ''Carlsbad'' in English) is a spa town, spa city in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 46,000 inhabitants. It lies on the confluence of the rivers Ohře and Teplá. ...

, and an honorary consul based in

Ostrava Ostrava (; pl, Ostrawa; german: Ostrau ) is a city in the north-east of the Czech Republic, and the capital of the Moravian-Silesian Region. It has about 280,000 inhabitants. It lies from the border with Poland, at the confluences of four rive ...

. The post of Russian Ambassador to the Czech Republic is currently held by , incumbent since 19 February 2016.

History of diplomatic relations

Diplomatic exchanges between the Soviet Union and

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began with the formal establishment of relations on 5 June 1922. Relations were maintained throughout the twentieth century, with a brief break after the

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in 1939, until the reestablishment of relations in 1941. With the repudiation of communism, the country officially became the

Czech and Slovak Federative Republic After the Velvet Revolution in late-1989, Czechoslovakia adopted the official short-lived country name Czech and Slovak Federative Republic ( cz, Česká a Slovenská Federativní Republika, sk, Česká a Slovenská Federatívna Republika; ''� ...

in 1990. With the

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in 1991, a new ambassador, , was appointed as representative of the Russian Federation. He continued as ambassador until the

dissolution of Czechoslovakia The dissolution of Czechoslovakia ( cs, Rozdělení Československa, sk, Rozdelenie Česko-Slovenska) took effect on December 31, 1992, and was the self-determined split of the federal republic of Czechoslovakia into the independent countries o ...

and its separation into the states of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Lebedev continued to as representative to the Czech Republic until 1996, while a new ambassador,

Sergey Yastrzhembsky Sergey Vladimirovich Yastrzhembsky (russian: Серге́й Владимирович Ястржембский, pl, Siergiej Władimirowicz Jastrzębski), born December 4, 1953, Moscow, is a Russian Federation politician and diplomat. He was Yelt ...

, was appointed Russian ambassador to Slovakia in June 1993.

Representatives of the Russian Federation to the Czech Republic (1993 – present)

References

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