The ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to Republic of Poland is the official representative of the

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and the

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to the

and the

government of Poland The government of Poland takes the form of a unitary semi-presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the president is the head of state and the prime minister is the head of government. Executive power is exercised, within the ...

. The ambassador and his staff work at large in the Embassy of Russia in

Warsaw Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and List of cities and towns in Poland, largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the Vistula, River Vistula in east-central Poland. Its population is officially estimated at ...

. There are consulates general in

Gdańsk Gdańsk is a city on the Baltic Sea, Baltic coast of northern Poland, and the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship. With a population of 486,492, Data for territorial unit 2261000. it is Poland's sixth-largest city and principal seaport. Gdań ...

Kraków , officially the Royal Capital City of Kraków, is the List of cities and towns in Poland, second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city has a population of 804,237 ...

, and

Poznań Poznań ( ) is a city on the Warta, River Warta in west Poland, within the Greater Poland region. The city is an important cultural and business center and one of Poland's most populous regions with many regional customs such as Saint John's ...

. The post of Russian ambassador to Poland is currently held by , incumbent since 26 August 2014.

History of diplomatic relations

Poland and Russia have exchanged

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s for centuries. The first ambassador in the modern meaning of this word, from Poland to Russia, was

Antoni Augustyn Deboli Antoni Augustyn Deboli (1747–1810) was a Polish noble, diplomat, and politician. He was the representative of the Polish king Stanisław August Poniatowski to the Russian court, from 1788 to 1795, though he had been active as a diplomat there s ...

, in the late 18th century. After the period of

partitions of Poland The Partitions of Poland were three partition (politics), partitions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth that took place between 1772 and 1795, toward the end of the 18th century. They ended the existence of the state, resulting in the eli ...

, in 1918, relations were established between the

Second Polish Republic The Second Polish Republic, at the time officially known as the Republic of Poland, was a country in Central and Eastern Europe that existed between 7 October 1918 and 6 October 1939. The state was established in the final stage of World War I ...

and

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. After

Soviet invasion of Poland The Soviet invasion of Poland was a military conflict by the Soviet Union without a formal declaration of war. On 17 September 1939, the Soviet Union invaded Second Polish Republic, Poland from the east, 16 days after Nazi Germany invaded Polan ...

in 1939 those relations were broken, to be briefly reestablished in 1941 after the

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, when the Soviet Union and

Polish government in exile The Polish government-in-exile, officially known as the Government of the Republic of Poland in exile (), was the government in exile A government-in-exile (GiE) is a political group that claims to be the legitimate government of a sovere ...

agreed to cooperate against their common enemy,

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. Those relations were broken in 1943 after discovery of the

Katyn massacre The Katyn massacre was a series of mass killings under Communist regimes, mass executions of nearly 22,000 Polish people, Polish military officer, military and police officers, border guards, and intelligentsia prisoners of war carried out by t ...

. In 1989 the communist government of the

Polish People's Republic The Polish People's Republic (1952–1989), formerly the Republic of Poland (1947–1952), and also often simply known as Poland, was a country in Central Europe that existed as the predecessor of the modern-day democratic Republic of Poland. ...

was replaced with a democratic form that continues to the present; after the

dissolution of the Soviet Union The Soviet Union was formally dissolved as a sovereign state and subject of international law on 26 December 1991 by Declaration No. 142-N of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. Declaration No. 142-Н of ...

in 1991, Poland recognised the Russian Federation.

List of representatives (1508–present)

Tsardom of Russia to the Kingdom of Poland (1508)

Tsardom of Russia to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1584–1721)

Russian Empire to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1721–1795)

Soviet Union to the Republic of Poland (1921–1943)

Soviet Union to the Polish People's Republic (1945–1989)

Soviet Union to the Republic of Poland (1989–1991)

Russian Federation to the Republic of Poland (1991–present)

References

{{Lists of ambassadors of Russia

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...

Russia Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, and extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones, sharing Borders ...