The ambassador of the United States of America to the Russian Federation is the

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from the

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to the

Russian Federation Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...

. Since September 4, 2022,

Elizabeth Rood Elizabeth Rood is an American diplomat who is the '' chargée d'affaires'' of the U.S. mission to Russia since 2022 and the nominee to serve as the United States ambassador to Turkmenistan. Early life and education Rood obtained an Master of Ar ...

is serving as the '' chargée d'affaires ad interim'' after the previous incumbent, John J. Sullivan, stepped down from the role. Sullivan had been confirmed by the

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confirmed on December 12, 2019.

History

The United States first established diplomatic relations with the

Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. ...

in 1780. Diplomatic relations were broken off in 1917 when the

Bolsheviks The Bolsheviks (russian: Большевики́, from большинство́ ''bol'shinstvó'', 'majority'),; derived from ''bol'shinstvó'' (большинство́), "majority", literally meaning "one of the majority". also known in English ...

seized power, and they were not reestablished until 1933. From 1933 to 1991, the United States recognized the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

. After 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 ambassador's title was changed to Ambassador to Russia.

List of ambassadors

Russian Empire (1780–1917)

Soviet Union (1933–1991)

Russian Federation (1992–present)

Notes

References

United States Department of State: Background notes on Russia
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External links

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United States Department of State: Chiefs of Mission for Russia

United States Department of State: Russia
{{Russia–United States relations

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