List of ambassadors of Ukraine to Russia
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| Ambassador of Ukraine to Russia | |
|---|---|
since June 2010 | |
| Nominator | Viktor Yanukovych |
| Inaugural holder | Volodymyr Kryzhanivsky as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary |
| Formation | 1992 |
| Website | Ukraine Embassy - Moscow |
The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the Russian Federation (Ukrainian: Надзвичайний і Повноважний посол України в Російській Федерації) is the ambassador of Ukraine to Russia. The current ambassador is Volodymyr Yelchenko. He assumed the position in July 2010.
The first Ukrainian ambassador to Russia assumed his post in 1992, the same year a Ukrainian embassy opened in Moscow. During the Soviet time, the embassy of Ukraine to Russia was called the Permanent Delegation of Government of Ukraine to the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union.
List of representatives
Cossack Hetmanate
- 1649-1649 - Syluyan Muzhylovsky
- 1653-1653 - Syluyan Muzhylovsky and K.Burlyai
Ukrainian Peole's Republic
- 1917-1917 - Petro Stebnytsky (as Commissar in Affairs with Ukraine)
- 1918-1918 - Serhiy Shelukhin
- 1919-1919 - Semen Mazurenko
Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR
- 1921—1923 — Mykhailo Poloz
- 1946—1950 — Nikolai Podgorny
- ~1956—1956 — Yuriy Dudin
- ~1982—1991 — Mikhail Pichuzhkin
- 1991—1991 — Vladimir Fedorov
Ukraine
- 1992—1994 — Volodymyr Kryzhanivsky
- 1995—1999 — Vladimir Fedorov
- 1999—2005 — Mykola Biloblotsky
- 2005—2006 — Leonid Osavolyuk (provisional)
- 2006—2008 — Oleh Dyomin
- 2008—2010 — Kostyantyn Gryshchenko
- 2010—2010 — Yevhen Herasymov (provisional)
- 2010–present — Volodymyr Yelchenko