List of Colombian ambassadors to the Soviet Union and Russia

When the government of Alexander I (Russia) learned that the government of Francisco de Paula Santander , Juan D'Evereux with a letter of accreditation for the Hermitage (Saint Petersburg) had come, they told the government of Andrew Jackson that they faithfully of the principles of the Holy Alliance would not receive envoys from de facto governments in Hispanic America .

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  The embassy is located at 20 Burdenko Street in Moscow .

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  Residence and embassy

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  Shield of embassy

Diplomatic relations were established in 1935 through an exchange of notes between Boris Shtein , the Soviet envoy in Rome and Gabriel Turbay, the Colombian envoy there.

Appointed / Accredited	Head of the diplomatic mission	Remarks	appointed by	accredited at	Leave post
Nov 1, 1943	Alfredo Michelsen Mantilla	(* 1897)	Alfonso López Pumarejo	Joseph Stalin	Jan. 1, 1946
Jan. 1, 1946	Domingo Espinel García	(* 1898 in Choachi (Cundinamarca) February 1976) General From May 1943 - April 1944: Commander of the armed forces, then Minister of Defense in Darío Echandía's cabinet	Mariano Ospina Pérez	Joseph Stalin	Sep 1946
Aug 1968	Pedro Gomez Valderrama		Carlos Lleras Restrepo	Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev	Aug 1969
March 1, 1970	Gonzalo Canal Ramirez	(* October 6, 1916 in Gramalote 1994)	Misael Pastrana Borrero	Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev	Dec 1970
Jan. 1, 1971	Alfonso Gómez Gómez	(* March 12, 1921 in Galán, Santander) Glouverneur of Santander	Misael Pastrana Borrero	Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev	Oct 1973
Apr. 1974	Humberto Muñoz		Alfonso López Michelsen	Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev	Aug 1977
Aug 1977	Pablo Mauricio Obregón González del Corral		Alfonso López Michelsen	Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev	Oct 1978
May 1979	Guillermo Plazas Alcid	(* April 26, 1936 in Baraya, Huila) 1988 Minister of Justice, 1992–1993 Ambassador to Tegucigalpa, 1997–2000 Ambassador to Managua.	Julio César Turbay Ayala	Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev	July 1981
Feb. 1, 1983	Edmundo López Gómez		Belisario Betancur Cuartas	Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov	Feb 1985
Aug 1985	John Gómez Restrepo		Belisario Betancur Cuartas	Andrei Andreevich Gromyko	Nov 1986
Feb. 1, 1987	Carlos Holmes Trujillo		Virgilio Barco Vargas	Andrei Andreevich Gromyko
1991	Ricardo Eastman de la Cuesta	(* 1947; † May 2, 2012 in Bogotá)	César Gaviria Trujillo	Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin	1994
May 26, 2004	Miguel Santamaría Dávila	Мигель Сантамария Давила	Álvaro Uribe Vélez	Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
Apr 23, 2009	Diego José Tobón Echeverri	Диего Хосе Тобон	Álvaro Uribe Vélez	Dmitri Anatolyevich Medvedev
Oct 6, 2011	Rafael Francisco Amador Campos		Juan Manuel Santos	Dmitri Anatolyevich Medvedev

Individual evidence

1. ^ William Schenck Robertson: The first legations of the United States in Latin America . Legations in Latin America, p. 187; Text archive - Internet Archive
2. ↑ Alfredo Michelsen archive.org
3. ^ Domingo Espinel García
4. ↑ Gonzalo Canal Ramírez
5. ^ Humberto Muñoz
6. ↑ Guillermo Plazas Alcid ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2014 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.