The ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Kingdom of Cambodia is the official representative of the president and the government of Russia to the king and the government of Cambodia.

The ambassador and his staff work at large in the Embassy of Russia in Phnom Penh. The post of Russian ambassador to Cambodia is currently held by , incumbent since 4 May 2020.

History of diplomatic relations

Until 1953 Cambodia was under the French rule, gaining independence from France on 9 November 1953. The Soviet Union and Cambodia established diplomatic relations on 13 May 1956. In October 1956 the Soviet Union appointed as its first representative to Cambodia. Anikin served until 1959.

In 1970 the Soviet Union recalled all its diplomats, including the ambassador, from Cambodia and diplomatic relations between the two countries were interrupted. They resumed in April 1979.

List of representatives (1956–present) Soviet Union to Cambodia (1956–1991) NameTitleAppointmentTerminationLeader of the Soviet Union/ President of RussiaNotesAmbassador2 October 19566 May 1959Nikita KhrushchevAmbassador6 May 19592 February 1962Nikita KhrushchevAmbassador2 February 196226 April 1965Nikita Khrushchev Leonid BrezhnevAmbassador26 April 196514 November 1967Leonid BrezhnevSergei KudryavtsevAmbassador14 November 196715 July 1971Leonid BrezhnevDiplomatic relations interrupted (1971 - 1979)Ambassador14 May 197928 January 1985Leonid Brezhnev Yuri Andropov Konstantin ChernenkoAmbassador28 January 198521 April 1988Mikhail GorbachevRashit KhamidulinAmbassador21 April 19888 August 1990Mikhail GorbachevAmbassador8 August 199025 December 1991Mikhail Gorbachev Boris Yeltsin

Russian Federation to Cambodia (1991–present) NameTitleAppointmentTerminationLeader of the Soviet Union/ President of RussiaNotesAmbassador25 December 199123 August 1994Boris YeltsinVadim SerafimovAmbassador23 August 199412 April 1999Boris YeltsinAmbassador12 April 199929 July 2004Boris Yeltsin Vladimir PutinValery TereshchenkoAmbassador29 July 200425 May 2009Vladimir Putin Dmitry MedvedevAmbassador25 May 20097 November 2013Dmitry Medvedev Vladimir PutinAmbassador7 November 20134 May 2020Vladimir PutinAmbassador4 May 2020Vladimir Putin

See also Foreign relations of Russia Foreign relations of Cambodia

References

External Embassy of Russia to Cambodia