Ambassador of Ukraine to Russia

Ambassador of Ukraine to Russia
Nominator	Viktor Yanukovych
Inaugural holder	Volodymyr Kryzhanivsky as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Formation	1992
Website	Ukraine Embassy - Moscow

The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the Russian Federation (Ukrainian: Надзвичайний і Повноважний посол України в Російській Федерації) was the ambassador of Ukraine to Russia.

The first Ukrainian ambassador to Russia assumed his post in 1992, the same year a Ukrainian embassy opened in Moscow. During the Soviet time, the embassy of Ukraine to Russia was called the Permanent Delegation of Government of Ukraine to the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union.

List of representatives

Cossack Hetmanate

• 1649–1649 – Syluyan Muzhylovsky
• 1653–1653 – Syluyan Muzhylovsky and K. Burlyai

Ukrainian People's Republic

• 1917–1917 – Petro Stebnytsky (as Commissar in Affairs with Ukraine)
• 1918–1918 – Serhiy Shelukhin
• 1919–1919 – Semen Mazurenko

Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR

• 1921–1923 – Mykhailo Poloz
• 1935–1937 – Vasyl Polyakov
• 1946–1950 – Nikolai Podgorny
• ~1956–1956 – Yuriy Dudin
• ~1982–1991 – Mykhailo Pichuzhkin
• 1991–1991 – Volodymyr Fedorov

Ukraine

• 1992–1994 – Volodymyr Kryzhanivsky
• 1995–1999 – Volodymyr Fedorov
• 1999–2005 – Mykola Biloblotsky
• 2005–2006 – Leonid Osavolyuk (provisional)
• 2006–2008 – Oleh Dyomin
• 2008–2010 – Kostyantyn Gryshchenko
• 2010–2010 – Yevhen Herasymov (provisional)
• 2010–2014 – Volodymyr Yelchenko^[1][2]

See also

• Ukrainian Embassy, Moscow
• Russia Ambassador to Ukraine

References

1. President meets new Ambassador of Ukraine to Russia, Official website of the President of Ukraine (July 2, 2010)
2. Ex-envoy to UN Sergeyev quits the foreign service, becomes retiree, UNIAN (9 February 2016)

External links

• Embassy of Ukraine to the Russian Federation: Previous Ambassadors