List of Russian ambassadors in India

The embassy is located in Shantipath, Chanakyapuri, at the Railway Museum in New Delhi .

appointed:	accredited:	Name in Latin letters (transcription)	Russian	Remarks	appointed during the reign of	accredited during the government of	Leave post
Oct 23, 1947	Jan. 1, 1948	Kirill Wassiljewitsch Novikow	Новиков, Кирилл Васильевич	(* 1905; † 1983)	Joseph Stalin	Jawaharlal Nehru	Apr 29, 1953
Apr 29, 1953	4th July 1953	Ivan Alexandrowitsch Benediktow	Бенедиктов, Иван Александрович	(* 1902; † 1983)	Georgi Maximilianowitsch Malenkow	Jawaharlal Nehru	Sep 1 1953
Sep 1 1953	Nov 2, 1953	Mikhail Alexejewitsch Menshikov	Меньшиков, Михаил Алексеевич	(September 21, 1902 - July 19, 1976) January 7, 1958 - January 4, 1962: Ambassador to Washington, DC	Georgi Maximilianowitsch Malenkow	Jawaharlal Nehru	Oct 26, 1957
Oct 26, 1957	Dec. 19, 1957	Panteleimon Kondratievich Ponomarenko	Пономаренко, Пантелеймон Кондратьевич	(* 1902; † 1984)	Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin	Jawaharlal Nehru	Apr 22, 1959
Apr 22, 1959	June 27, 1959	Ivan Alexandrowitsch Benediktow	Бенедиктов, Иван Александрович	(March 23, 1902 - July 30, 1983)	Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev	Jawaharlal Nehru	Apr 12, 1967
Apr 12, 1967	Sep 14 1967	Nikolai Mikhailovich Pegov	Пегов, Николай Михайлович	(April 3, 1905, † April 19, 1991), 1956–1963: Ambassador Tehran, 1964–1967: Ambassador to Algiers	Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev	Indira Gandhi	Apr 26, 1973
1973	Jan. 21, 1974	Wil Konstantinowitsch Boldyrew	Болдырев, Вил Константинович	Chargé (born September 12, 1924 † 2003), 1964-1967: counselor in Algiers, from 1968 in New Delhi, 1974–1978: Deputy Head of the Middle East Department. Ambassador to Tehran from June 2, 1982 to September 23, 1987.	Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev	Indira Gandhi	1974
Jan. 2, 1974	Apr 3, 1978	Viktor Fyodorowitsch Malzew	Мальцев, Виктор Фёдорович	(* 1917; † 2003)	Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev	Indira Gandhi	Dec 24, 1977
Dec 24, 1977	Apr 5, 1983	July Mikhailovich Vorontsov	Воронцов, Юлий Михайлович	(* 1929; † 2007)	Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev	Morarji Desai	Jan. 20, 1983
Jan. 21, 1983		Vasily Nasarowitsch Rykow	Рыков, Василий Назарович		Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov	Indira Gandhi	Aug 26, 1988
Aug 26, 1988		Viktor Fyodorovich Issakov	Исаков, Виктор Фёдорович	(* December 12, 1932)	Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev	Rajiv Gandhi	July 15, 1991
July 15, 1991		Anatoly Matveyevich Drjukow	Дрюков, Анатолий Матвеевич	(* September 4, 1936 in Voronezh )	Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin	PV Narasimha Rao	Dec 25, 1991
Dec 25, 1991		Anatoly Matveyevich Drjukow	Дрюков, Анатолий Матвеевич		Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin	PV Narasimha Rao	May 1, 1996
May 1, 1996		Albert Sergejewitsch Tschernyschow	Чернышёв, Альберт Сергеевич	(* August 18, 1936 in Voronezh ; † 2012) 1987–1993: Ambassador to Ankara	Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin	HD Deve Gowda	Nov 11, 1999
Nov 11, 1999		Alexander Michailowiscch Kadakin	Кадакин, Александр Михайлович	(* July 22, 1949 in Chișinău )	Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	July 29, 2004
July 29, 2004		Vyacheslav Ivanovich Trubnikov	Трубников, Вячеслав Иванович		Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin	Manmohan Singh	Oct 27, 2009
Oct 27, 2009	Nov 20, 2009	Alexander Michailowiscch Kadakin	Кадакин, Александр Михайлович	(† January 26, 2017 in New Delhi )	Dmitri Anatolyevich Medvedev	Manmohan Singh	Jan. 26, 2017
18 Aug 2017		Nikolai Rischatowitsch Kudaschew	Кудашев, Николай Ришатович		Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin	Narendra Modi

Web links

• Embassy of the Russian Federation in the Republic of India ( Memento from September 27, 2014 in the web archive archive.today )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kirill Vasilyevich Novikov  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Mikhail Alekseyevich Menshikov
3. ^ Note of January 29, 1959: "Neutralité de la Suisse" in the Dodis database of diplomatic documents in Switzerland
4. ^ Documents by and about Pegov, Nikolai in Dodi's database of Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland
5. ↑ Anatoly Matveyevich Dryukov  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.