List of ambassadors of Russia to the United States

Russian ambassador's residence in Washington, D.C.

Ambassadors of the Russian Empire to the United States of America

Name	Photo	Title	Date from	Date until
Andrey Yakovlevich Dashkov			1808	1817
Pyotr Ivanovich Poletika			1817	1822
Fyodor van Tuyll van Serooskerken			1822	1826
Pavel Kridener			1827	1837
Alexander Bodisko			1837	1854
Alexander Medem			1854	1855
Eduard Stoeckl			1855	1869
Konstantin Katakazi			1869	1872
Karl von Struve			1882	1892
Count Arthur Paul Nicholas Cassini			1898	1905
Roman Rosen			1905	1911
George Bakhmetev			1911	1917

Ambassadors of the Russian Provisional Government to the United States of America

Name	Photo	Title	Date from	Date until
Boris Bakhmetev			1917	1922

Ambassadors of the Soviet Union to the United States of America

Name	Photo	Title	Date appointed	Date presented credentials	Date until	Notes
Maxim Litvinov			1918	1919
Ludwig Martens			1919	1921
Boris Skvirsky			1922	1933
Alexander Troyanovsky			20 November 1933	8 January 1934	1 October 1938
Konstantin Umansky		Plenipotentiary Representative Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	11 May 1939	6 June 1939	5 November 1941	From 11 May 1939 until 9 May 1941, Umansky was a Plenipotentiary Representative and from 9 May 1941 until the end of his diplomatic posting was Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.[1]
Maxim Litvinov		Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	10 November 1941	8 December 1941	22 August 1943
Andrei Gromyko		Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	22 August 1943	4 October 1943	11 April 1946
Nikolai Vasilevich Novikov		Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	11 April 1946	3 June 1946	25 October 1947
Alexander Panyushkin		Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	25 October 1947	31 December 1947	12 June 1952
Georgy Zarubin		Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	14 June 1952	25 September 1952	7 January 1958
Mikhail A. Menshikov		Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	7 January 1958	11 February 1958	4 January 1962
Anatoly Dobrynin		Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	4 January 1962	30 March 1962	19 May 1986
Yuri Dubinin		Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	19 May 1986		15 May 1990
Alexander Bessmertnykh		Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	15 May 1990		15 January 1991
Viktor Komplektov		Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	15 March 1991		26 December 1991
Source: Справочник по истории Коммунистической партии и Советского Союза 1898 - 1991[1]

Ambassadors of the Russian Federation to the United States of America

Name	Photo	Title	Date from	Date presented credentials	Date until	Notes
Viktor G. Komplektov		Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	26 December 1991	-	February 1992
Vladimir Lukin		Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	1992		1994
Yuli Vorontsov		Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	1994		1998
Yuri Ushakov		Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	1999		2008
Sergey Ivanovich Kislyak		Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	26 July 2008[2]	16 September 2008[3]	Present

References

1. Полномочное представительство - Посольство СССР в Соединённых Штатах Америки (in Russian). Справочник по истории Коммунистической партии и Советского Союза 1898 - 1991. Retrieved 2009-08-01.
2. "УКАЗ Президента РФ от 26.07.2008 N 1122" (in Russian). Presidential Press and Information Office. Retrieved 2008-10-16.
3. "Diplomatic List: Order of Precedence and Date of Presentation of Credentials". Department of State. 29 May 2009. Retrieved 2009-06-14.

Daniel Fredrick Hepler