The ambassador of Russia to Serbia is the official representative of the president and the government of the Russian Federation to the president and the government of Serbia.
The ambassador and his staff work at large in the Embassy of Russiain Belgrade. The current Russian ambassador to Serbia is , incumbent since 10 June 2019.
History
Diplomatic relations between the forerunners of the modern states of Serbia and Russia date back to the early nineteenth century. The Russian Empire supported the Principality of Serbia against the Ottoman Empire. Prince Vasily Dolgorukov was sent with a special mission in 1837, and in 1838, Russia opened a consulate in Belgrade, upgraded to a consulate general in 1839. Gerasim Vashchenko was appointed the first consul, later consul general, to Serbia.
Diplomatic exchanges continued throughout the nineteenth century and into the twentieth, but were broken off after the October Revolution in 1917 brought the Bolshevik regime to power. Over the next few decades the Soviet Union was established, incorporating Russia, while Serbia became part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. The Soviet Union established relations with Yugoslavia and appointed ambassadors to it from 1940 onwards. The dissolution of the Soviet Union occurred in 1991, while the then Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia broke up in 1992. The Republic of Serbia remained one of the two surviving entities of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, along with the Republic of Montenegro, being known as the state of Serbia and Montenegro from 2003. In 2006 Montenegro voted for independence, and became the independent state of Montenegro. The incumbent ambassador to Serbia and Montenegro, , continued as ambassador to Serbia, while a new ambassador, , was appointed ambassador to Montenegro in 2007.
List of representatives Russian Empire NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotesVasily DolgorukovSpecial mission18371837Gerasim VashchenkoConsul before April 1839Consul-General after April 1839February 1838May 1843Yakov Danilevsky Consul-GeneralMay 18431849Dmitry LyovshinConsul-General18491851Consul-General18515 July 1853 Nikolai Mukhin Consul-General18531856Mikhail MilashevichConsul-General18561860Consul-General26 September 186027 July 1863Consul-GeneralAlso diplomatic agent after 4 May 1868 8 August 186325 March 1875 Consul-General and diplomatic agent 25 March 1875 7 August 1877Aleksandr PersianiConsul-General and diplomatic agent until 12 August 1878Resident minister 12 August 1878 - 10 March 1889Envoy after 10 March 18897 August 187713 April 1895Chargé d'affaires189425 April 1895 Roman RosenEnvoy25 April 18954 February 1897Alexander IzvolskyEnvoy4 February 189711 November 1897Envoy11 November 189716 November 1899 Envoy16 September 1900 1904Vladimir Murayov-Apostol-KorobinChargé d'affaires1903 1904Envoy1904 1906Envoy1906 1909Nicholas HartwigEnvoy17 July 190910 July 1914 Vasily ShtrandmanChargé d'affaires10 July 1914 1914Envoy12 July 1914 1916Boris PelekhinChargé d'affaires19151915Envoy19161917Boris PelekhinChargé d'affaires19171917
Russian Federation NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotesAmbassador5 June 2006 27 March 2008Ambassador27 March 200826 September 2012 Credentials presented on 18 April 2008Ambassador26 September 2012 10 June 2019Credentials presented on 22 November 2012Ambassador10 June 2019 Credentials presented on 22 July 2019
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