The Embassy of Russia in Damascus () is the

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of the

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to the

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. The

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is located in Omar Ben Al-Khattab Street in Adawi,

Damascus Damascus ( , ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in the Levant region by population, largest city of Syria. It is the oldest capital in the world and, according to some, the fourth Holiest sites in Islam, holiest city in Islam. Kno ...

History

The USSR Embassy in Damascus opened in February 1946. In January 1992, with the fall of the

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, it became the

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of the Russian Federation. On 21 February 2013, the embassy was attacked as part of a bombing campaign in Damascus. On 28 December 2016, a mortar round landed in the embassy's courtyard but did not explode. Russia evacuated some of its personnel from the embassy following the

fall of the al-Assad regime On 8 December 2024, the Assad regime collapsed during a major offensive by opposition forces. The offensive was spearheaded by Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and supported mainly by the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army as part of the ongoi ...

in December 2024.https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20241216_22/

Ambassadors of Russia to Syria

* Aleksandr Zotov (26 December 1992 to 13 September 1994) * Viktor Gogitidze (13 September 1994 to 31 August 1999) * Robert Markaryan (31 August 1999 to 10 November 2006) *

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(1 December 2006 to 7 September 2011) * Azamat Kulmuhametov (7 September 2011 to 22 December 2014) * Alexander Kinshchak (22 December 2014 to 29 October 2018) * Aleksandr Yefimov (29 October 2018 to present)

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Russia–Syria relations

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History

Ambassadors of Russia to Syria

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