List of ambassadors of Russia to Turkey

The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Turkey is the official representative of the President and the Government of the Russian Federation to the President and the Government of Turkey.

Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Turkey
Emblem of the Russian Foreign Ministry
since 19 June 2017
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Embassy of Russia in Ankara
StyleHis Excellency
Reports toMinister of Foreign Affairs
SeatAnkara
AppointerPresident of Russia
Term lengthAt the pleasure of the President
WebsiteEmbassy of Russia in Turkey

The ambassador and his staff work at large in the Embassy of Russia in Ankara.[1] There are consulates general in Istanbul, Trabzon and Antalya, and an honorary consul based in Izmir.[2][3][4][5]

The post of Russian Ambassador to Turkey is currently held by Alexei Yerkhov, incumbent since 19 June 2017.[6]

History of diplomatic relations

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Diplomatic relations between the antecedent states of Russia and Turkey date back to the fifteenth century. An early Russian embassy was sent to Constantinople in the mid-1490s, during the reign of Ivan III of Russia.[7] Representatives continued to be exchanged intermittently during the period of the Tsardom of Russia, and after the declaration of the Russian Empire in 1721. Relations were periodically suspended during periods of conflict, and finally came to a close in 1914 with the Ottoman entry into the First World War on the side of the Triple Alliance. During the war, the Russian Revolution toppled the tsar and brought an end to the empire. Relations were resumed and gradually strengthened between the Ottomans and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1919 onwards, and survived the abolition of the Ottoman sultanate in 1922 and the creation of the Republic of Turkey the following year. Meanwhile the Soviet Union had been established that same year. Letters were exchanged between Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Georgy Chicherin, with the official date for the establishment of diplomatic relations being 3 June 1920, the date of Chicherin's letter.[7] The two states remained in diplomatic contact for the remainder of the existence of the Soviet Union.

With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Turkey recognised the Russian Federation as the successor state of the USSR, and the incumbent Soviet ambassador, Albert Chernyshyov [ru], continued as the Russian ambassador to Turkey until 1994.[8] Diplomatic relations fluctuated during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, with tensions rising during the Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War, during which Turkey shot down a Russian jetfighter in 2015.[7] Relations were normalised in the aftermath, though in 2016 the Russian ambassador to Turkey, Andrei Karlov, was assassinated by an off-duty Turkish policeman.[7] He became the fourth Russian ambassador to be killed while in post, and the first since the Soviet ambassador to Poland Pyotr Voykov was assassinated in Warsaw in 1927.

List of representatives (1702 – 1721)

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Representatives of the Tsardom of Russia to the Ottoman Empire (1702 – 1721)

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Name Title Appointment Termination Notes
Pyotr Tolstoy 1702
5 April 1712
March 1713
20 November 1710
November 1712
1714
Aleksey Dashkov [ru] 1718 1721

Representatives of the Russian Empire to the Ottoman Empire (1721 – 1917)

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Name Title Appointment Termination Notes
Aleksey Dashkov [ru] 1721 1723
Ivan Neplyuyev Resident January 1721 1734
Ivan Shcherbatov [ru] 1731 1732
Aleksey Veshnyakov [ru] Resident 1739 1741
Alexander Rumyantsev 16 May 1740 1741
Aleksey Veshnyakov [ru] Resident 1741 29 July 1745
Adrian Neplyuyev [ru] Resident 1746 8 November 1750
Aleksey Obreskov [ru] Chargé d'affaires (until 1752)
Resident (after 1752)
1751 25 September 1768
Sergey Dolgorukov [ru] Envoy 1755 1755
Pavel Levashov [ru] 9 August 1763 25 September 1768
Christopher Peterson [ru] September 1774 1775
Nikolai Repnin 1775 1775
Aleksandr Stakhiev [ru] 23 November 1775 21 January 1781
Yakov Bulgakov 1781 1787
Dmitry Tatishchev January 1792 May 1792
Mikhail Kutuzov 1792 1794
Viktor Kochubey 1793 1797
Aleksandr Khvostov [ru] 1793 February 1794
Vasily Tomara [ru] 1798 1802
Andrey Italinsky [ru] 1802
1812
1806
1816
Grigory Strogonov [ru] 1816 1821
Dmitry Dashkov 1821 1823
Matvey Minchaki 1823 1827
Aleksandr Riboper [ru] 3 February 1827 4 December 1827
Alexey Orlov 1829 1830 Signed the Treaty of Adrianople in 1829
Apollinary Butenyov [ru] 1829 1843
Pyotr Rikman 1837 1838
Vladimir Titov 1840
1843
1842
1853
Aleksandr Ozerov [ru] 1852 1853
Apollinary Butenyov [ru] 1856 1859
Aleksey Lobanov-Rostovsky 1858 1863
Yevgeny Novikov [ru] 1862 1864
Nikolay Ignatyev 1864 1877
Aleksey Lobanov-Rostovsky 1878 1879
Yevgeny Novikov [ru] 1879 1882
Aleksandr Nelidov 1882 1897
Ivan Zinoviev [ru] 1 July 1897 1909
Nikolai Charykov [ru] 25 May 1909 2 March 1912
Mikhail von Giers 1912 20 October 1914

Representatives of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic to the Ottoman Empire (1919 – 1923)

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Name Title Appointment Termination Notes
A. A. Kistyakovsky Diplomatic representative 21 July 1919 1920
Shalva Eliava Authorized representative July 1920 Appointed, did not take up post
Yan Upmal-Angarsky Chargé d'affaires 4 October 1920 December 1920
Polikarp Mdivani Authorized representative 19 February 1921 May 1921
Sergey Natsarenus [ru] Authorized representative 31 May 1921 5 January 1922
Semyon Aralov Authorized representative 5 January 1922 27 April 1923 Ottoman sultanate abolished on 1 November 1922
Marcel Rosenberg Chargé d'affaires 1923 1923
Yakov Surits [ru] Ambassador 14 June 1923 23 July 1923

Representatives of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to the Republic of Turkey (1923 – 1991)

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Name Title Appointment Termination Notes
Yakov Surits [ru] Diplomatic representative 23 July 1923 19 June 1934 Republic of Turkey formed on 29 October 1923
Lev Karakhan Diplomatic representative 29 June 1934 7 May 1937
Mikhail Karsky [ru] Diplomatic representative 7 May 1937 25 November 1937
Aleksey Terentyev [ru] Diplomatic representative 3 April 1938 17 September 1940
Sergey Vinogradov [ru] Diplomatic representative (before 9 May 1941)
Ambassador (after 9 May 1941)
17 September 1940 24 February 1948
Aleksandr Lavrishchev [ru] Ambassador 24 February 1948 19 January 1954
Boris Podtserob Ambassador 19 January 1954 24 February 1957
Nikita Ryzhov [ru] Ambassador 24 February 1957 19 May 1966
Andrey Smirnov Ambassador 19 May 1966 6 January 1969
Vasily Grubyakov [ru] Ambassador 28 January 1969 23 December 1974
Aleksei Rodionov Ambassador 23 December 1974 31 October 1983
Vladimir Lavrov Ambassador 31 October 1983 3 July 1987
Albert Chernyshyov [ru] Ambassador 3 July 1987 25 December 1991

Representatives of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Turkey (1991 – present)

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Name Title Appointment Termination Notes
Albert Chernyshyov [ru] Ambassador 25 December 1991 6 August 1994
Vadim Kuznetsov [ru] Ambassador 13 September 1994 30 June 1998
Aleksandr Lebedev [ru] Ambassador 30 June 1998 27 February 2003
Pyotr Stegny [ru] Ambassador 27 February 2003 31 January 2007
Vladimir Ivanovsky Ambassador 31 January 2007 12 July 2013
Andrei Karlov Ambassador 12 July 2013 19 December 2016 Assassinated
Alexei Yerkhov Ambassador 19 June 2017

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Embassy of the Russian Federation in the Republic of Turkey". Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia). Retrieved 28 October 2019.
  2. ^ "Consulate General of the Russian Federation in Trabzon, Turkey". Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia). Retrieved 28 October 2019.
  3. ^ "ГЕНЕРАЛЬНОЕ КОНСУЛЬСТВО РОССИИ В АНТАЛЬЕ (ТУРЦИЯ)" (in Russian). Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia). Retrieved 28 October 2019.
  4. ^ "Russian Consulate General in Istanbul, Turkey". embassypages.com. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
  5. ^ "Russian Honorary Consulate in Izmir, Turkey". embassypages.com. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
  6. ^ "Ambassador". Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia). Retrieved 28 October 2019.
  7. ^ a b c d "Политические отношения" (in Russian). Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia). Retrieved 28 October 2019.
  8. ^ "00148" Полномочное представительство РСФСР - СССР - Посольство СССР в Турции (in Russian). Справочник по истории Коммунистической партии и Советского Союза 1898 - 1991. Retrieved 28 October 2019.