List of ambassadors of Russia to Finland

The Ambassador of Russia to Finland is a diplomatic post in the Russian civil service. The current ambassador to Finland is Alexander Rumyantsev.

Soviet ambassadors

The first two representatives in Finland of the nascent Soviet Union were technically ambassadors of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.

Name Term start and end
Berzin, JanJan Berzin 1921
Tshernyh, AlekseiAleksei Tshernyh 1921-1925
Lorentz, IvanIvan Lorentz 1925-1927
Aleksandrovsky, SergeiSergei Aleksandrovsky 1927-1929
Maisky, IvanIvan Maisky 1929-1932
Stein, BorisBoris Stein 1933-1934
Assmus, EricEric Assmus 1935-1937
Derevjanski, VladimirVladimir Derevjanski 1938-1939
No ambassador 1939-1940: (Winter War)
Zotov, IvanIvan Zotov 1940-1941
Orlov, PavelPavel Orlov 1941, 1945-1946
No ambassador 1941-1944 (Continuation War)
Abramov, AleksandrAleksandr Abramov 1946-1948
Savonenkov, GrigoriGrigori Savonenkov 1948-1951
Lebedev, ViktorViktor Lebedev 1951-1958
1958-1959
Zaharov, AlekseiAleksei Zaharov 1959-1965
Kovalev, AndreiAndrei Kovalev 1965-1970
Belyakov, AlekseyAleksey Belyakov 1970-1971
Maltsev, ViktorViktor Maltsev 1971-1973
Stepanov, VladimirVladimir Stepanov 1973-1979
Sobolev, VladimirVladimir Sobolev 1979-1988
Aristov, BorisBoris Aristov 1988-1991 (Stayed until 1992 as the Russian Ambassador)

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