The ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the People's Republic of China (PRC) is the official representative of the president and the government of the Russian Federation to the president and the government of China.
The ambassador and his staff work at large in the Embassy of Russia in Beijing. There are consulates general in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenyang and Hong Kong. The post of Russian ambassador to China is currently held by Igor Morgulov, incumbent since 13 September 2022.
History of diplomatic relations
Diplomatic exchanges between Russia and China began in the seventeenth century, with the occasional dispatch of embassies and missions. One of the earliest was that of Fyodor Baykov in the 1650s. Relations were put on a more permanent footing with the opening of the Russian mission in Peking in 1860. Relations were interrupted by the Russian Revolution in 1917, and with the Bolshevik seizure of power, the existing missions in China ceased to be recognised by the Soviets. They nevertheless continued to operate on behalf of Russian émigrés into the 1920s. Diplomatic relations were established between the Soviet Union and the Republic of China, with the visit of representatives from 1921, before being broken off briefly between 1929 and 1932. The mission was raised to the level of an embassy in 1941, and continued after the establishment of the People's Republic of China. With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, diplomatic relations have continued between the People's Republic of China and the Russian Federation.
List of representatives Below are the list of ambassadors from the Tsardom of Russia era to the present day., GIGA, The diplomatic service of China as of November 1984, , 1984 Tsardom of Russia to China (1658–1721) NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotesFyodor BaykovChief of mission16581658Nikolai Spathari1675167816 June 171913 March 1721
Russian Empire to China (1721–1912) NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotesIvan LangResident2 March 1721 August 1722Sava Vladislavich1725 1728Vasily BratishchevChief of mission30 May 17564 October 1757Ivan Kropotov17621763Yury GolovkinAmbassador17 February 18051807Yevfimy PutyatinEnvoy18571858Nikolai IgnatyevSpecial Envoy18591861Resident Minister18611863Envoy30 November 18635 October 1873Chargé d'affaires21 April 1869October 18705 October 187323 March 1874Envoy23 March 187410 November 1882Chargé d'affaires31 March 18788 April 1881Karl WeberEnvoy10 November 188215 October 1883Sergei Popov15 October 188319 March 1886Nikolai LadyzhenskyChargé d'affaires19 March 188623 November 1886Aleksey KumaniEnvoy23 November 18861 April 1890Konstantin Kleimenov1 April 1890September 1891Arthur Cassini17 November 18913 October 1896Chargé d'affaires3 October 189624 November 1898Alexey ShpeyerEnvoy6 November 18978 June 1898Mikhail von Giers24 November 189829 September 190129 September 19011 March 1905Chargé d'affaires27 November 1902February 1903EnvoyApril 1905May 1905May 19057 March 1908Yevgeny Golubev Chargé d'affaires8 March 190830 August 1908Envoy30 August 19081912Mikhail ShchekinChargé d'affaires2 June 191022 September 1910
Russian Empire to the Republic of China (1912–1917) NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotesEnvoy19121916191626 November 1917Continued as de facto representative until 1920
Soviet Russia to the Republic of China (1921–1922) NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotesDiplomatic representativeDecember 19211922Adolph Joffe6 July 19223 June 1923
Soviet Union to the Republic of China (1922–1949) NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotesLev KarakhanDiplomatic representative3 June 192410 September 192619261927Diplomatic relations interrupted (1927–1932)Diplomatic representative20 February 19337 October 193723 November 193710 July 1939Alexander PanyushkinDiplomatic representativeAmbassador after 9 May 194128 August 19393 April 1945Ambassador3 April 194525 February 194825 February 19482 October 1949
Soviet Union to the People's Republic of China (1949–1991) NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotesAmbassador2 October 194913 June 1952Alexander Panyushkin13 June 195210 March 1953Vasili Kuznetsov10 March 19533 December 1953Pavel Yudin3 December 195315 October 1959Stepan Chervonenko15 October 195913 April 1965Sergey Lapin13 April 196512 April 1967Vasily Tolstikov16 October 197024 July 197824 July 197811 March 1986Oleg Troyanovsky11 March 19867 August 19907 August 199025 December 1991
Russian Federation to the People's Republic of China (1991–present) NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotesAmbassador25 December 199124 January 199224 January 199210 June 200510 June 200521 April 2013Andrey Denisov22 April 201313 September 2022Igor Morgulov13 September 2022
See also Representative Office in Taipei for the Moscow-Taipei Coordination Commission on Economic and Cultural Cooperation
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