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 |
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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) |