The ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to Republic of Poland is the official representative of the president and the government of the Russian Federation to the president and the government of Poland.
The ambassador and his staff work at large in the Embassy of Russia in Warsaw. There are consulates general in Gdańsk, Kraków, and Poznań. The post of Russian ambassador to Poland is currently vacant, following the recall of on 2 December 2025.
History of diplomatic relations
Poland and Russia have exchanged diplomatic missions for centuries. The first ambassador in the modern meaning of this word, from Poland to Russia, was Antoni Augustyn Deboli, in the late 18th century. After the period of partitions of Poland, in 1918, relations were established between the Second Polish Republic and Soviet Union. After Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939 those relations were broken, to be briefly reestablished in 1941 after the German invasion of the Soviet Union, when the Soviet Union and Polish government in exile agreed to cooperate against their common enemy, Nazi Germany. Those relations were broken in 1943 after discovery of the Katyn massacre. In 1989 the communist government of the Polish People's Republic was replaced with a democratic form that continues to the present; after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Poland recognised the Russian Federation.
List of representatives (1508–present) Tsardom of Russia to the Kingdom of Poland (1508) NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotesEnvoy15081508
Tsardom of Russia to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1584–1721) NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotesEnvoy15841598Envoy15981606Envoy16401648Johann PatkulEnvoy17031703Envoy17011706Vasily DolgorukovEnvoy17061707Envoy17091712Resident17121718 Envoy17141714Ambassador17151721
Russian Empire to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1721–1795)
NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotesEnvoy17211725Vasily DolgorukovEnvoy17251726Mikhail Bestuzhev-RyuminEnvoy17261731Envoy17281729Ambassador17301733Hermann Karl von KeyserlingAmbassador17331744Mikhail Bestuzhev-RyuminAmbassador17441748Hermann Karl von KeyserlingAmbassador17491752Ambassador17521758Mikhail VolkonskyAmbassador17571758Ambassador17581762Hermann Karl von KeyserlingAmbassador17631764Nikolai RepninAmbassador17641768Mikhail VolkonskyAmbassador17691771Ambassador17711772Otto Magnus von StackelbergAmbassador17721790Yakov BulgakovAmbassador17901792Jacob von SieversAmbassador17931793Iosif IgelströmAmbassador17931794Ambassador17941795
Soviet Union to the Republic of Poland (1921–1943)
NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotesLev KarakhanDiplomatic Representative30 May 19219 October 1922Diplomatic Representative16 October 192216 October 1924Pyotr VoykovDiplomatic Representative16 October 19247 June 1927Aleksandr UlyanovChargé d'affaires7 June 19271927Diplomatic Representative17 September 19271 December 1929Yuriy KotsiubynskyChargé d'affaires1 December 192930 January 1930Vladimir Antonov-OvseyenkoDiplomatic Representative3 January 19305 April 1934Yakov DavydovDiplomatic Representative5 April 193426 October 1937Chargé d'affaires19371939Nikolai SharonovDiplomatic Representative1 June 193925 October 1939Invasion of Poland – Diplomatic relations interrupted (1939–1941)Aleksandr BogomolovAmbassador21 August 194125 April 1943Representative to the Polish government-in-exile in LondonRelations deteriorate over investigation of Soviet repressions of Polish citizens and Katyn massacre – Diplomatic relations interrupted (1943–1945)
Soviet Union to the Polish People's Republic (1945–1989)
NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotesAmbassador6 June 19452 March 1951Arkady SobolevAmbassador2 March 195121 June 1953Georgy PopovAmbassador21 June 195327 March 1954Nikolai MikhailovAmbassador27 March 19547 May 1955Panteleimon PonomarenkoAmbassador7 May 19553 October 1957Peter AbrassimovAmbassador3 October 195714 February 1961Averky AristovAmbassador14 February 196110 March 1971Ambassador10 March 197117 May 1978Boris AristovAmbassador17 May 197811 July 1983Aleksandr AksyonovAmbassador11 July 19833 January 1986Vladimir BrovikovAmbassador3 January 1986December 1989
Soviet Union to the Republic of Poland (1989–1991)
NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotesVladimir BrovikovAmbassadorDecember 19898 May 1990Ambassador8 May 199025 December 1991
Russian Federation to the Republic of Poland (1991–present) NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotesAmbassador25 December 19912 November 1996Leonid DrachevskyAmbassador2 November 199616 November 1998Ambassador13 April 199923 February 2002Nikolay AfanasevskyAmbassador23 February 200223 June 2005Vladimir GrininAmbassador21 April 200621 June 2010Ambassador21 June 201026 August 2014Ambassador26 August 20142 December 2025Andrey Ordash Chargé d'affaires25 July 2025
See also List of ambassadors of Poland to Russia
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