List of ambassadors of Russia to the United States

Ambassador of Russia to the United States
Ambassador of Russia to the United States
посол Российской Федерации в США
	Seal of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
	Incumbent; Anatoly Antonov; since 21 August 2017
	Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Style	His Excellency
Residence	Russian ambassador's residence in Washington, D.C.
Appointer	President of Russia
Term length	At the pleasure of the president
Inaugural holder	Andrey Yakovlevich Dashkov; As ambassador of the Russian Empire
Formation	17 August 1808
Succession	Charge d'affairs
Website	Russian Embassy in Washington, D.C.

The Russian ambassador to the United States is the official representative of the president of the Russian Federation and the Russian government to the president of the United States and the United States government. The ambassador's official title is the ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the United States of America.

The ambassador and his staff work at large in the Embassy of Russia in Washington, D.C.^[1] The ambassador to the United States is concurrently appointed as the Russian representative to the Organization of American States.^[2] The ambassador's residence is located at 1125 16th Street Northwest.^[3] Russia also maintains consulates general in New York and Houston.^[4] Since 21 August 2017, the post is held by Anatoly Antonov.^[2]

List of Ambassadors

Name	Appointed	Until
Andrey Yakovlevich Dashkov	1808	1817
Pyotr Ivanovich Poletika	1817	24 April 1822
Fyodor van Tuyll van Serooskerken	19 April 1823	11 April 1826
Pavel Kridener	1827	1837
Alexander de Bodisco	1837	1854
Alexander Medem [de]	1854	1855
Eduard de Stoeckl	1855	1869
Konstantin Katakazi	1869	1872
Karl von Struve	1882	1892
Count Arthur Paul Nicholas Cassini	1898	1905
Roman Rosen	1905	1911
George Bakhmetev	1911	1917

Name	Photo	Appointed	Until
Boris Bakhmetev		1917	1917

Name	Appointed	Credentials presented	Until
Maxim Litvinov	1918	1919
Ludwig Martens	1919	1921
Boris Skvirsky [de]	1922^{[citation needed]}	1933
Alexander Troyanovsky	20 November 1933	8 January 1934	1 October 1938
Konstantin Umansky	11 May 1939 (as plenipotentiary representative)^[5]	9 May 1941	5 November 1941
Maxim Litvinov	10 November 1941	8 December 1941	22 August 1943
Andrei Gromyko	22 August 1943	4 October 1943	11 April 1946
Nikolai Vasilevich Novikov	11 April 1946	3 June 1946	25 October 1947
Alexander Panyushkin	25 October 1947	31 December 1947	12 June 1952
Georgy Zarubin	14 June 1952	25 September 1952	7 January 1958
Mikhail A. Menshikov [ru]	7 January 1958	11 February 1958	4 January 1962
Anatoly Dobrynin	4 January 1962	30 March 1962	19 May 1986
Yuri Dubinin	19 May 1986		15 May 1990
Alexander Bessmertnykh	15 May 1990		15 January 1991
Viktor Komplektov [ru]	15 March 1991		26 December 1991

Name	Appointed	Appointer	Credentials presented	Until
Viktor Komplektov [ru]	1991	Boris Yeltsin		1992
Vladimir Lukin	24 January 1992	Boris Yeltsin		8 February 1994
Yuli Vorontsov	23 July 1994	Boris Yeltsin		16 December 1998
Yuri Ushakov	1999	Boris Yeltsin	22 January 1999	31 May 2008
Sergey Kislyak	26 July 2008^[6]	Dmitry Medvedev	16 September 2008^[7]	22 July 2017
Anatoly Antonov	1 September 2017^[8]	Vladimir Putin	9 September 2017^[9]	10 October 2024^[10]

Ambassador of Russia to the United States
посол Российской Федерации в США
Seal of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Incumbent Anatoly Antonov since 21 August 2017
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Style	His Excellency
Residence	Russian ambassador's residence in Washington, D.C.
Appointer	President of Russia
Term length	At the pleasure of the president
Inaugural holder	Andrey Yakovlevich Dashkov As ambassador of the Russian Empire
Formation	17 August 1808
Succession	Charge d'affairs
Website	Russian Embassy in Washington, D.C.