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.

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.

Ambassadors AmbassadorsStart of TermEnd of TermHead of State/Government Gunapala Piyasena Malalasekera 1957 1961 S. W. R. D. BandaranaikeWijeyananda DahanayakeDudley SenanayakeSirimavo BandaranaikeTikiri Banda Subasinghe 1961 1965 Sirimavo BandaranaikeB. F. PereraBenjamin Franklin Perera (*1901), C.M.G., O.B.E., son of K. S. Perera. 1956-1958 Deputy High Commissioner in London. 1958-1961 High Commr in Canberra (Australia) and New Zealand. 1961-1965 ambassador in Bonn Germany) 1930 married a daughter of Dr. C. P. de Fonseka; 1949: cr. OBE (Civil). CMG, 1955.1965 1968 M. V. P. Peiris 1968 1969 J. C. T. Kotelawala 1969 1970 C. D. S. SiriwardeneCodippiliarachchige Don Stanislaus Siriwardene (* 1911) B.A London University. 1941 married to Telinade Silva 3 daughters Advocate of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka 1962-1970: Lecturer at the Ceylon Law College. 1962-1970: Senator. 1970-1974: Ambassador to the USSR, GDR, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Romania. 1974: he was Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Pakistan.1970 1974 C. E. S. WeeratungaConrad Edward Somadasa Weeratunga1974 1976Walter Jayawardena 1977 1978 R. C. A. JohnpulleRajakone Christopher Algernon Johnpulle1978 1982 Neville Kanakaratne 1982 1987Rodney Vandergert 1987 1991

See also Sri Lankan Ambassador to Russia List of heads of missions from Sri Lanka

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