List of ambassadors of Sri Lanka to the Soviet Union

The Sri Lankan Ambassador to the Soviet Union was the Sri Lankan envoy in Moscow (Ulitsa Shepkhina 24, Soviet Union) with concurrent, nonresident Diplomatic accreditation in Budapest, Bukarest, Prague, Warsaw and East Berlin.

Sri Lankan Ambassador to the Soviet Union
Style	His Excellency
Inaugural holder	Gunapala Piyasena Malalasekera
Formation	1957 as Ceylonese Ambassador to the Soviet Union
Final holder	Rodney Vandergert
Succession	Sri Lankan Ambassador to Russia

History

Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Sri Lanka were established on February 19, 1957, and ceased following the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991.^[1]

Ambassadors

Ambassadors	Start of Term	End of Term	Head of State/Government
Gunapala Piyasena Malalasekera	1957	1961	S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike Wijeyananda Dahanayake Dudley Senanayake Sirimavo Bandaranaike
Tikiri Banda Subasinghe	1961	1965	Sirimavo Bandaranaike
B. F. Perera[2]	1965	1968	Dudley Senanayake
M. V. P. Peiris	1968	1969
J. C. T. Kotelawala	1969	1970	Dudley Senanayake Sirimavo Bandaranaike
C. D. S. Siriwardene[3]	1970	1974	Sirimavo Bandaranaike
C. E. S. Weeratunga[4]	1974	1976
Walter Jayawardena	1977	1978	Sirimavo Bandaranaike Junius Richard Jayewardene
R. C. A. Johnpulle[5]	1978	1982	Junius Richard Jayewardene
Neville Kanakaratne	1982	1987
Rodney Vandergert	1987	1991	Junius Richard Jayewardene Ranasinghe Premadasa

See also

• Sri Lankan Ambassador to Russia
• List of heads of missions from Sri Lanka