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 Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran ( fa, نظام جمهوری اسلامی ایران, Neẓām-e jomhūrī-e eslāmi-e Irān, known simply as ''Neẓām'' ( fa, نظام, lit=the system) among its supporters) is the ruling state a ...

. 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 Tehran. There are consulates general in

Isfahan Isfahan ( fa, اصفهان, Esfahân ), from its Achaemenid empire, ancient designation ''Aspadana'' and, later, ''Spahan'' in Sassanian Empire, middle Persian, rendered in English as ''Ispahan'', is a major city in the Greater Isfahan Regio ...

and Rasht. The post of Russian Ambassador to Iran is currently held by , incumbent since 17 October 2011.

History of diplomatic 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 The Grand Duchy of Moscow, Muscovite Russia, Muscovite Rus' or Grand Principality of Moscow (russian: Великое княжество Московское, Velikoye knyazhestvo Moskovskoye; also known in English simply as Muscovy from the Lati ...

being recorded in 1592. The first Russian ambassador, Artemy Volynsky, was appointed in 1715, during the reign of

Peter the Great Peter I ( – ), most commonly known as Peter the Great,) or Pyotr Alekséyevich ( rus, Пётр Алексе́евич, p=ˈpʲɵtr ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪtɕ, , group=pron was a Russian monarch who ruled the Tsardom of Russia from t ...

. Following the

Russian Revolution The Russian Revolution was a period of Political revolution (Trotskyism), political and social revolution that took place in the former Russian Empire which began during the First World War. This period saw Russia abolish its monarchy and ad ...

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. Following 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 incumbent Soviet ambassador,

Vladimir Gudev Vladimir Viktorovich Gudev (russian: Владимир Викторович Гудев; 17 September 1940 – 6 January 2022) was a Russian diplomat. He served as Ambassador from the Soviet Union and later Russia to Iran from 1987 to 1993, Ambas ...

, continued as representative of the Russian Federation until 1993.

List of representatives (1715 – present)

Representatives of the Tsardom of Russia to Persia (1715 – 1721)

Representatives of the Russian Empire to Persia (1721 – 1917)

Representatives of the Russian Provisional Government to Persia (March 1917 - unaccredited after October 1917)

Representatives of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic to Persia (1921 - 1923)

Representatives of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to Persia/Iran (1923 - 1991)

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

References

External links

*http://www.rusdiplomats.narod.ru/iran.html *https://web.archive.org/web/20120429141047/http://www.knowbysight.info/6_MID/00258.asp {{Foreign relations of Iran Ambassadors of Russia to Iran Iran Russia