List of Soviet and Russian ambassadors in Syria

Appointed / Accredited	Name in Latin letters	Russian	Life dates	Remarks	Russian Prime Minister	Head of State of Syria	Leave post
Sep 14 1944	Daniil Semjonowitsch Solod	Солод, Даниил Семёнович	(* 1908; † 1988)	Envoy	Joseph Stalin	Shukri al-Quwatli	Apr 22, 1950
Apr 22, 1950	Ilya Kaissarowitsch Tawadze	Илья Кайсарович Тавадзе	(* 1904)	Envoy		Hashim Khalid al-Atassi	Nov 24, 1950
Nov 24, 1950	Vasily Afanassjewitsch Belyayev	Василий Афанасьевич Беляев	(* 1904; † 1957)	Envoy			Sep 2 1953
Sep 2 1953	Sergey Sergeyevich Nemchina	Немчина, Сергей Сергеевич	(* 1912; † 1978)	Envoy until November 22, 1955, then Ambassador, 1950 Envoy to Thailand.	Georgi Maximilianowitsch Malenkow	Adib ash-Shishakli	Feb 22, 1958
Nov 3, 1961	Anatoly Alexejewitsch Barkovski	Барковский, Анатолий Александрович	(* 1921)	Ambassador 1970–1973: Ambassador to Nicosia, 1973–1982: Ambassador to Baghdad.	Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev	Maamun al-Kuzbari	Feb 12, 1968
Feb 12, 1968	Nuritdin Akramowitsch Muchitdinow	Мухитдинов, Нуритдин Акрамович	(* 1917; † 2008)		Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev	Nureddin al-Atassi	Apr 1, 1977
Apr 1, 1977	Yuri Nikolayevich Chernyakov	Черняков, Юрий Николаевич	(* 1918; † 2004)	1967–1970: temporarily charge d'affaires in Washington, DC, 1979–1984 - head of the press department, member of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs.		Hafiz al-Assad	May 16, 1979
May 16, 1979	Vladimir Ivanovich Juchin	Юхин, Владимир Иванович	(* 1918)	May 6, 1970 to August 31, 1974 Ambassador to Mali.			Sep 12 1984
Sep 12 1984	Felix Nikolajewitsch Fedotow	Федотов, Феликс Николаевич	(* 1929; † 1997)	1972–1978 Ambassador to Sudan, 1978–1982: Ambassador to the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, 1986–1990: Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates.	Konstantin Ustinowitsch Tschernenko		23 Sep 1986
Sep 24 1986	Alexander Sergeyevich Dzasochov	Дзасохов, Александр Сергеевич	(* 1934)		Andrei Andreevich Gromyko		Jan. 27, 1989
Jan. 27, 1989	Alexander Ivanovich Sotov	Александр Иванович Зотов	(* 1941)		Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev		Dec 25, 1991
Dec 25, 1991		Александр Иванович Зотов	(* 1941)		Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin		13 Sep 1994
13 Sep 1994	Viktor Yuryevich Gogitidze	Гогитидзе, Виктор Юрьевич	(* 1952; † 2014)				Aug 31, 1999
Aug 31, 1999	Robert Wartanowitsch Markarjan	Маркарян, Роберт Вартанович	(* 1949)	2006–2009: Ambassador-at-Large September 2009: Ambassador to Croatia.			Nov 10, 2006
Dec 1, 2006	Sergei Vadimowitsch Kirpichenko	Кирпиченко, Сергей Вадимович	(* 1951)	January 1998 to December 2000 Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates, 2000–2004: Ambassador to Tripoli, 2004–2006 Ambassador-at-Large, 2011 Russia's Ambassador to Cairo and representative to the Arab League.	Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin	Bashar al-Assad	Sep 7 2011
Sep 7 2011	Asamat Rachmetowitsch Kulmuchametow	Кульмухаметов, Азамат Рахметович	(* 1953)	January 4, 2003 to January 28, 2008: Ambassador to Kuwait.	Dmitri Anatolyevich Medvedev		Dec 22, 2014
Dec 22, 2014	Alexander Alexandrovich Kinshchak	Кинщак, Александр Александрович	(* 1962)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Справочник по истории Коммунистической партии и Советского Союза 1898–1991