The ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Islamic Republic of Iran is the official representative of the president and the government of the Russian Federation to the president and the government of Iran.
The ambassador and his staff work at large in the Embassy of Russia in Tehran. There are consulates general in Isfahan and Rasht. The post of Russian ambassador to Iran is currently held by Alexey Dedov, incumbent since 8 September 2022.
History of diplomatic relations
Diplomatic relations between Russia and Iran date back to the medieval period, with the first visit of an envoy from Persia to the Grand Duchy of Moscow being recorded in 1592. The first Russian ambassador, Artemy Volynsky, was appointed in 1715, during the reign of Peter the Great. Following the Russian Revolution in 1917, diplomatic relations were briefly broken off, but were soon re-established, between Persia and at first the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, and later the Soviet Union. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the incumbent Soviet ambassador, Vladimir Gudev, continued as representative of the Russian Federation until 1993.
List of representatives (1715–present) Tsardom of Russia to Persia (1715–1721) NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotesArtemy VolynskyEnvoy17151719Semyon AvramovConsul, Resident17171721
Russian Empire to Persia (1721–1917) NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotesSemyon AvramovConsul, Resident17211732Ambassador17341735Ivan KalushkinResident17371742Vasily BratishchevResident17421748Mikhail GolitsynConsul17451748Ivan DanilovConsul17481751Petr ChekalevskyConsul18 December 175525 May 1760Ilya IgumnovConsul17631769Gavriil BogolyubovConsul17691772Vasily YablonskyConsul17721775Ivan TumanovskyConsul17801785Dmitri SkilichiConsul17821790Sergey LashkarevAppointed chargé d'affaires17861786Did not take up positionMikhail SkibinevskyChargé d'affairesc. 17871804Russo-Persian War - Diplomatic relations interrupted (10 June 1804 - 24 October 1813)Alexey YermolovAmbassador29 June 181710 October 1817Chargé d'affaires6 July 1818July 1826Russo-Persian War - Diplomatic relations interrupted (16 July 1826 - 10 February 1828) assigned as diplomatic agent between 4 April 1827 and 21 April 1828 to negotiate the Treaty of TurkmenchayAlexander GriboyedovMinister Plenipotentiary25 April 182830 January 1829Special representative1 April 182930 June 1830Minister Plenipotentiary5 January 183230 April 1838Minister Plenipotentiary30 April 18389 August 1841Alexander von MedemMinister Plenipotentiary9 August 184111 June 1845Dmitry DolgorukovMinister Plenipotentiary11 June 184520 March 1854Chargé d'affaires (before 5 April 1858)Envoy (after 5 April 1858)20 March 185415 January 1863 Nikolay GirsEnvoy1 August 18636 January 1869 Envoy7 January 1869 24 February 1876Envoy20 April 187625 February 1883Envoy25 February 188322 October 1886Envoy25 October 188612 November 1889Envoy5 October 18891 July 1897Kimon ArgyropouloEnvoy1 July 18978 August 1902Pyotr VlasovEnvoy8 August 19021905Alexey ShpeyerEnvoy19051906Nicholas HartwigEnvoy19061908Envoy19091913Envoy19131915Envoy19153 March 1917
Russian Provisional Government to Persia (March 1917–unaccredited after October 1917) NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotesChief of missionJuly 1917November 1918Consul GeneralSeptember 19181919Chief of mission28 June 191927 August 1919
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic to Persia (1921–1923) NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotesTheodore RothsteinPlenipotentiary Representative27 February 192119 March 1923Boris ShumyatskyPlenipotentiary Representative19 March 192319 July 1923
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to Persia/Iran (1923–1991) NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotesBoris ShumyatskyPlenipotentiary Representative19 July 192314 April 1925Konstantin YurenevPlenipotentiary Representative24 April 19255 August 1927Yakov DavydovPlenipotentiary Representative5 August 19271 October 1930Adolf PetrovskyPlenipotentiary Representative21 December 19301 April 1933Plenipotentiary Representative29 May 19331 April 1935Plenipotentiary Representative 1 April 193514 January 1939Matvey FilimonovPlenipotentiary Representative (before 9 May 1941)Ambassador (after 9 May 1941)11 September 193928 June 1941Andrey SmirnovAmbassador28 June 19411 September 1943Ambassador1 September 194321 May 1944Ambassador28 June 194426 February 1946Ambassador26 February 194617 July 1953Anatoly LavrentievAmbassador17 July 195319 August 1956Nikolai PegovAmbassador19 August 19564 June 1963Ambassador4 June 19633 January 1968Vladimir YerofeyevAmbassador3 January 196829 January 1977Vladimir VinogradovAmbassador29 January 19772 June 1982Ambassador2 June 198223 September 1987Vladimir GudevAmbassador23 September 198725 December 1991
Russian Federation to Iran (1991–present) NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotesVladimir GudevAmbassador25 December 19916 April 1993Ambassador6 April 19936 June 1997Ambassador6 June 19978 February 2001Ambassador8 February 200130 May 2005Ambassador30 May 200517 October 2011Ambassador17 October 20118 September 2022Alexey DedovAmbassador8 September 2022
See also Foreign relations of Iran Foreign relations of Russia
References
External links http://www.rusdiplomats.narod.ru/iran.html https://web.archive.org/web/20120429141047/http://www.knowbysight.info/6_MID/00258.asp