The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the People's Republic of China (PRC) 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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Beijing } Beijing ( ; ; ), alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the capital of the People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's most populous national capital city, with over 21 ...

. There are consulates general in

Shanghai Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flow ...

Guangzhou Guangzhou (, ; ; or ; ), also known as Canton () and alternatively romanized as Kwongchow or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of Guangdong province in southern China. Located on the Pearl River about north-northwest of Hong Kon ...

Shenyang Shenyang (, ; ; Mandarin pronunciation: ), formerly known as Fengtian () or by its Manchu language, Manchu name Mukden, is a major China, Chinese sub-provincial city and the List of capitals in China#Province capitals, provincial capital of Lia ...

and

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...

. The post of Russian Ambassador to China is currently held by

Andrey Denisov Andrey Ivanovich Denisov (russian: Андре́й Ива́нович Дени́сов; born October 3, 1952) is a Russian diplomat, who served as the Russian Ambassador to China from to . He is fluent in Chinese, as well as English, apart from ...

, incumbent since 22 April 2013.

History of diplomatic relations

Diplomatic exchanges between Russia and China began in the seventeenth century, with the occasional dispatch of embassies and missions. One of the earliest was that of

Fyodor Baykov Fyodor Isakovich Baykov (russian: Фёдор Исакович Байков, c. 1612 – c. 1663) was the first Russian envoy to China (1658). For background see History of Sino-Russian relations. Like many later Russian ambassadors to China (Nicol ...

in the 1650s. Relations were put on a more permanent footing with the opening of the Russian mission in Peking in 1860. Relations were interrupted by the

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in 1917, and with the Bolshevik seizure of power, the existing missions in China ceased to be recognised by the Soviets. They nevertheless continued to operate on behalf of Russian ''émigrés'' into the 1920s. Diplomatic relations were established between the

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and the

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, with the visit of representatives from 1921, before being broken off briefly between 1929 and 1932. The mission was raised to the level of an embassy in 1941, and continued after the establishment of the

People's Republic of China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

. 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, diplomatic relations have continued between the People's Republic of China and the Russian Federation.

List of representatives (1658 – present)

Representatives of the Tsardom of Russia to China (1658 – 1721)

Representatives of the Russian Empire to China (1721 – 1912)

Representatives of the Russian Empire to the Republic of China (1912 – 1917)

Representatives of the Soviet Union to the Republic of China (1921 – 1949)

Representatives of the Soviet Union to the People's Republic of China (1949 – 1991)

Representatives of the Russian Federation to the People's Republic of China (1991 – present)

References

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China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

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