List of ambassadors of Russia to the United States

The Russian ambassador to the United States is the official representative of the president of the Russian Federation and the Russian government to the president of the United States and the United States government. The ambassador's official title is the ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the United States of America.

Ambassador of Russia to the United States
посол Российской Федерации в США
Seal of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Incumbent Alexander Darchiev since 6 March 2025
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Style	His Excellency
Residence	Russian ambassador's residence in Washington, D.C.
Appointer	President of Russia
Term length	At the pleasure of the president
Inaugural holder	Andrey Yakovlevich Dashkov As ambassador of the Russian Empire
Formation	17 August 1808
Succession	Charge d'affairs
Website	Russian Embassy in Washington, D.C.

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

The ambassador and his staff work at large in the Embassy of Russia in Washington, D.C.^[1] The ambassador to the United States is concurrently appointed as the Russian representative to the Organization of American States.^[2] The ambassador's residence is located at 1125 16th Street Northwest.^[3] Russia also maintains consulates general in New York and Houston. Alexander Darchiev is the current ambassador, serving since 6 March 2025.

List of Ambassadors

Russian Empire

Name	Photo	Appointed	Until
Andrey Yakovlevich Dashkov		1808	1817
Pyotr Ivanovich Poletika		1817	1822 April 24
Fyodor van Tuyll van Serooskerken		1823 April 19	1826 April 11
Pavel Kridener		1827	1837
Alexander de Bodisco		1837	1854
Alexander Medem [ru]		1854	1855
Eduard de 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

Russian Provisional Government

Name	Photo	Appointed	Until
Boris Bakhmetev		1917	1917

Soviet Union

Name	Photo	Appointed	Credentials presented	Until
Maxim Litvinov		1918	1919
Ludwig Martens		1919	1921
Boris Skvirsky [ru]		1922[citation needed]	1933
Alexander Troyanovsky		1933 November 20	1934 January 8	1938 October 1
Konstantin Umansky		1939 May 11 (as plenipotentiary representative)[4]	1941 May 9	1941 November 5
Maxim Litvinov		1941 November 10	1941 December 8	1943 August 22
Andrei Gromyko		1943 August 22	1943 October 4	1946 April 11
Nikolai Vasilevich Novikov		1946 April 11	1946 June 3	1947 October 25
Alexander Panyushkin		1947 October 25	1947 December 31	1952 June 12
Georgy Zarubin		1952 June 14	1952 September 25	1958 January 7
Mikhail A. Menshikov [ru]		1958 January 7	1958 February 11	1962 January 4
Anatoly Dobrynin		1962 January 4	1962 March 30	1986 May 19
Yuri Dubinin		1986 May 19		1990 May 15
Alexander Bessmertnykh		1990 May 15		1991 January 15
Viktor Komplektov [ru]		1991 March 15		1991 December 26

Russian Federation

Name	Photo	Appointed	Appointer	Credentials presented	Until
Viktor Komplektov [ru]		1991	Boris Yeltsin		1992
Vladimir Lukin		January 24, 1992	Boris Yeltsin		February 8, 1994
Yuli Vorontsov		July 23, 1994	Boris Yeltsin		December 16, 1998
Yuri Ushakov		1999	Boris Yeltsin	January 22, 1999	May 31, 2008
Sergey Kislyak		July 26, 2008[5]	Dmitry Medvedev	September 16, 2008[6]	July 22, 2017
Anatoly Antonov		September 1, 2017[7]	Vladimir Putin	September 9, 2017[8]	October 10, 2024[9]
Alexander Darchiev		March 6, 2025[10]	Vladimir Putin		Present

See also

• Embassy of Russia, Washington, D.C.
• List of ambassadors of the United States to Russia
• Russia–United States relations
• Soviet Union–United States relations
• Russian Empire–United States relations
• List of diplomatic missions of Russia
• Permanent Representative of Russia to the United Nations
• Permanent Mission of Russia to the United Nations