Alexei Yerkhov
Alexei Vladimirovich Yerkhov is a Russian diplomat and is currently the Russian ambassador to Turkey since June 2017.Early life and career
He graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1983 and started his career as a diplomat in 1996. From 1996-2000, he served as an adviser to the Russian embassy in Israel.
Between the years 2000 and 2003, Yerkhov worked in the presidential administration. He served as deputy chief and then chief of the Department of Foreign Policy Training of the Russian Federation president's control measures on foreign policy, which is headed by Sergei Prikhodko, who is currently First Deputy Head of the Russian Government Office.
From 2003 until 2006, he served as minister-counselor of the Russian embassy in Syria.
He was deputy director of the Secretariat of Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov between 2006 and 2009.
Yerkhov served as Russian Consul General in Istanbul 2009-2015.
From 2015 to 2017, he headed the Department of Crisis Management Center.
On June 19, 2017, he was appointed Ambassador of the Russian Federation in Turkey, replacing the deceased Andrei Karlov.
He has the diplomatic rank "Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Envoy of the First Class".
He speaks Arabic, English and French.
