List of Russian ambassadors in Saudi Arabia
This article provides a list of the extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassadors of the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation in Saudi Arabia , according to the date of their appointment or accreditation and dismissal, as well as the annual ordinal of the corresponding presidential decree.
history
In 1926, Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud and his Wahhabis attacked the Kingdom of Hejaz and on September 23, 1932, united the Hejaz with the Najd as an essential part of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia . The Soviet government under Alexei Ivanovich Rykov recognized the regime of Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud in 1926 through Kerim Abdraufowitsch Chakimow . In 1927, in the Agreement of Jeddah , Great Britain gave the area along the west coast of Arabia conquered by the Ottoman Empire in the First World War , called the British Protectorate of Arabia, to Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud and guaranteed the independence of Arabia. On April 13, 1938, Saud ibn Abd al-Aziz refused to accredit a new ambassador, Nasir Tjurjakulowitsch Tjuryakulow , the previous one had been shot on November 9, 1937 during the Stalin purges . On September 11, 1938, the Soviet Jeddah mission was abandoned.
ambassador
Soviet ambassadors
Appointment accreditation |
Surname | Remarks | appointed by | accredited by the government | Leave post |
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1926 | Kerim Abdraufowitsch Chakimow | Plenipotentiary of the Soviet Union in the Kingdom of Hejaz | Alexei Ivanovich Rykov | Hussein ibn Ali (Hejaz) | 1926 |
1926 | Kerim Abdraufowitsch Chakimow | Plenipotentiary of the Soviet Union in the Kingdom of Hejaz, Najd and Allied Territories | Alexei Ivanovich Rykov | Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud | 1928 |
1928 | Nasir Tjurjakulowitsch Tjurjakulow | Plenipotentiary of the Soviet Union in the Kingdom of Hejaz, Najd and Allied Territories | Alexei Ivanovich Rykov | Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud | September 6, 1937 |
September 6, 1937 | Chargé d'affaires | Alexei Ivanovich Rykov | Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud | April 13, 1938 |
Russian ambassador
Appointment accreditation |
Surname | Remarks | appointed by | accredited by the government | Leave post |
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17th January 1990 | Gennady Pavlovich Tarasov | Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin | Fahd ibn Abd al-Aziz | September 6, 1996 № 1320 | |
September 6, 1996, № 1322 | Igor Melichov | Viktor Stepanovich Chernomyrdin | Fahd ibn Abd al-Aziz | October 17, 2000, № 1757 | |
October 17, 2000, № 1758 | Andrei Glebowitsch Baklanov | Mikhail Mikhailovich Kassyanov | Fahd ibn Abd al-Aziz | September 22, 2005, № 1105 | |
22 September 2005, № 1106 | Viktor Sergeevich Kudryavtsev | Mikhail Jefimowitsch Fradkov | Abdullah ibn Abd al-Aziz | February 8, 2010, № 155 | |
February 8, 2010, № 156 | Oleg Oserov | Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin | Abdullah ibn Abd al-Aziz |