List of Australian ambassadors in Russia
The ambassador in Moscow is also regularly with the governments in Nur-Sultan (formerly Astana) (Kazakhstan), Tashkent (Uzbekistan), Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan), Ashgabat (Turkmenistan), Dushanbe (Tajikistan), Yerevan (Armenia), Chișinău (Moldova) ) and Minsk (Belarus).
history
The Neva under Yuri Fjodorowitsch Lisjanski paid its first official visit during its circumnavigation of the world from 1803 to 1806 in Sydney . Since 1857 there were consuls in both states.
The first Russian Consul General in the Commonwealth of Australia was Mikhail Ustinov in 1903. He was replaced in 1909 by Count Alexander N. d'Abaza Abaza in Melbourne , who resigned from his post in January 1918.
Peter Simonoff was unable to attach a letter of accreditation from Leon Trotsky . British officials overseas represented the Australian government until World War II .
After negotiations between Herbert Vere Evatt and Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov , it was announced on October 13, 1943 that diplomatic relations would be established. The Australian legation opened in Kuibyshev in January 1943 and the Soviet legation opened in Canberra in March 1943 .
From June 12, 1973 to May 29, 1991, the Australian ambassador in Moscow was also regularly accredited to the governments in Ulaanbaatar .
| Appointed | Surname | Remarks | appointed during the reign of | accredited during the government of | Leave post |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan. 2, 1943 | Bill Slater | Appointed in October 1942, opened an embassy in Kuibyshev . | Arthur Fadden | Joseph Stalin | Apr. 1943 |
| Aug 12, 1946 | Noël Deschamps | Charge d'Affaires , The Australian embassy was of Kuibyshev moved to Moscow. | Ben Chifley | ||
| 1947 | Alan Watt | On February 16, 1948, the legation was upgraded to an embassy. | 1950 | ||
| Apr 1954 | After the Petrov affair , the staff of the representations in Moscow and Canberra were withdrawn. | Robert Menzies | Georgi Maximilianowitsch Malenkow | ||
| 1959 | The respective embassies were reopened. | Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev | 1960 | ||
| 1960 | John Keith Waller | CBE. (* February 19, 1914; † 1992) 1957–1960 Ambassador to Bangkok. | 1962 | ||
| Oct 15, 1965 | The governments of the two countries sign a trade agreement. | Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev | |||
| 1965 | John Russell Rowland | (* February 10, 1925 in Armidale † December 31, 1996 in Canberra), diplomat and poet, 1979–1982: Ambassador to Paris. He published five collections of poetry with themes concerned with the Australian landscape, travel. | 1968 | ||
| 1968 | Frederick Blakeney | (* 1913; † 1990) | Gough Whitlam | 1971 | |
| June 12, 1973 | Lawrence John Lawrey | ||||
| Apr. 23, 1974 | James Plimsoll | Aug 4, 1977 | |||
| Aug 4, 1977 | Murray Goulburn Madden Bourchier | (* March 28, 1925 in St Kilda (Melbourne) ; † July 3, 1981) | Malcolm Fraser | Aug 1980 | |
| March 1, 1981 | David Wyke Evans | (* March 13, 1934 in Adelaide ) | 1984 | ||
| March 21, 1984 | Edward Robert Pocock | (* March 14, 1934; † March 29, 2013), 1987–1991: Ambassador in Paris, 1992 High Commissioner in Islamabad , 1992–1995: Ambassador to the EU in Brussels | Bob Hawke | Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin | |
| 28 Sep 1987 | Charles Robin Ashwin | ||||
| May 29, 1991 | Cavan Oliver Hogue | (* January 21, 1937) | Nov 1994 | ||
| Nov 1994 | Geoffrey Bentley | Paul Keating | 1999 | ||
| Nov 18, 1998 | Ruth Pearce | John Howard | Jan. 29, 2002 | ||
| Dec 18, 2001 | Les Rowe | Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin | 2005 | ||
| Feb 28, 2005 | Bob Tyson | ||||
| 2006 | Julie Heckscher | 2008 | |||
| June 2008 | Margaret Twomey | Kevin Rudd | Dmitri Anatolyevich Medvedev | ||
| Jan. 24, 2013 | Paul Myler | Julia Gillard | |||
| March 10, 2016 | Peter Tesch | Malcolm Turnbull | Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter Simonoff trove.nla.gov.au
- ^ John Keith Waller news.google.com
- ^ John Russell Rowland
- ↑ Frederick Blakeney
- ↑ Murray Goulburn Madden Bourchier adb.anu.edu.au
- ^ Edward Robert (Ted) Pocock
- ↑ Ruth Pearce foreignminister.gov.au
- ↑ Leslie Rowe ( Memento of the original from September 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. foreignminister.gov.au
- ↑ Bob Tyson
- ↑ Julie Heckscher
- ↑ Paul Myler ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Пол Майлер
- ↑ Peter Tesch
- ↑ state.gov ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
