List of ambassadors of Russia to Poland


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, Krakow, and Poznań. The post of Russian Ambassador to Poland is currently held by, incumbent since 26 August 2014.

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)

Representatives of the Tsardom of Russia to the Kingdom of Poland (1508)

Representatives of the Tsardom of Russia to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1584–1721)

Representatives of the Russian Empire to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1721–1795)

NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotes
Envoy17211725
Vasily DolgorukovEnvoy17251726
Mikhail Bestuzhev-RyuminEnvoy17261731
Envoy17281729
Ambassador17301733
Hermann Karl von KeyserlingAmbassador17331744
Mikhail Bestuzhev-RyuminAmbassador17441748
Hermann Karl von KeyserlingAmbassador17491752
Ambassador17521758
Mikhail VolkonskyAmbassador17571758
Ambassador17581762
Hermann Karl von KeyserlingAmbassador17631764
Nikolai RepninAmbassador17641768
Mikhail VolkonskyAmbassador17691771
Ambassador17711772
Otto Magnus von StackelbergAmbassador17721790
Yakov BulgakovAmbassador17901792
Jacob von SieversAmbassador17931793
Iosif IgelströmAmbassador17931794
Ambassador17941795

Representatives of the Soviet Union to the Republic of Poland (1921–1943)

Representatives of the Soviet Union to the Polish People's Republic (1945–1989)

NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotes
Ambassador6 June 19452 March 1951
Arkady SobolevAmbassador2 March 195121 June 1953
Ambassador21 June 195327 March 1954
Ambassador27 March 19547 May 1955
Panteleimon PonomarenkoAmbassador7 May 19553 October 1957
Peter AbrassimovAmbassador3 October 195714 February 1961
Averky AristovAmbassador14 February 196110 March 1971
Ambassador10 March 197117 May 1978
Boris AristovAmbassador17 May 197811 July 1983
Aleksandr AksyonovAmbassador11 July 19833 January 1986
Vladimir BrovikovAmbassador3 January 1986December 1989

Representatives of the Soviet Union to the Republic of Poland (1989–1991)

NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotes
Vladimir BrovikovAmbassadorDecember 19898 May 1990
Ambassador8 May 199025 December 1991

Representatives of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Poland (1991–present)