List of ambassadors of Russia to China

The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the People's Republic of China (PRC) is the official representative of the President and the Government of the Russian Federation to the President and the Government of China.

Russian Ambassador to China
Emblem of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia
Incumbent Igor Morgulov since 13 September 2022
Ministry of Foreign Affairs Embassy of Russia in Beijing
Style	His Excellency
Residence	Beijing
Appointer	President of Russia
Term length	At the President's pleasure
Deputy	Ivan Zhelokhovtsev (Deputy Head of Mission)
Website	Embassy of Russia in China

The ambassador and his staff work at large in the Embassy of Russia in Beijing. There are consulates general in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenyang and Hong Kong. The post of Russian Ambassador to China is currently held by Igor Morgulov, incumbent since 13 September 2022.

History of diplomatic relations

Main articles: China–Russia relations, History of Sino-Russian relations, Sino-Soviet relations, and Sino-Russian relations since 1991

Diplomatic exchanges between Russia and China began in the seventeenth century, with the occasional dispatch of embassies and missions. One of the earliest was that of Fyodor Baykov in the 1650s. Relations were put on a more permanent footing with the opening of the Russian mission in Peking in 1860. Relations were interrupted by the Russian Revolution in 1917, and with the Bolshevik seizure of power, the existing missions in China ceased to be recognised by the Soviets. They nevertheless continued to operate on behalf of Russian émigrés into the 1920s. Diplomatic relations were established between the Soviet Union and the Republic of China, with the visit of representatives from 1921, before being broken off briefly between 1929 and 1932. The mission was raised to the level of an embassy in 1941, and continued after the establishment of the People's Republic of China. With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, diplomatic relations have continued between the People's Republic of China and the Russian Federation.

List of representatives (1658 – present)

Representatives of the Tsardom of Russia to China (1658 – 1721)

Name	Title	Appointment	Termination	Notes
Fyodor Baykov	Chief of mission	1658	1658
Nikolai Spathari		1675	1678
Lev Izmailov		16 June 1719	13 March 1721

Representatives of the Russian Empire to China (1721 – 1912)

Name	Title	Appointment	Termination	Notes
Ivan Lang	Resident	2 March 1721	August 1722
Sava Vladislavich		1725	1728
Vasily Bratishchev	Chief of mission	30 May 1756	4 October 1757
Ivan Kropotov		1762	1763
Yury Golovkin	Ambassador	17 February 1805	1807
Yevfimy Putyatin	Envoy	1857	1858
Nikolai Ignatyev	Special Envoy	1859	1861
Lev Ballyuzek	Resident Minister	1861	1863
Aleksandr Vlangali	Envoy	30 November 1863	5 October 1873
Yevgeny Byutsov	Chargé d'affaires	21 April 1869	October 1870
Aleksandr Koyander		5 October 1873	23 March 1874
Yevgeny Byutsov	Envoy	23 March 1874	10 November 1882
Aleksandr Koyander	Chargé d'affaires	31 March 1878	8 April 1881
Karl Weber	Envoy	10 November 1882	15 October 1883
Sergei Popov		15 October 1883	19 March 1886
Nikolai Ladyzhensky	Chargé d'affaires	19 March 1886	23 November 1886
Aleksey Kumani	Envoy	23 November 1886	1 April 1890
Konstantin Kleimenov		1 April 1890	September 1891
Arthur Cassini		17 November 1891	3 October 1896
Aleksandr Pavlov	Chargé d'affaires	3 October 1896	24 November 1898
Alexey Shpeyer	Envoy	6 November 1897	8 June 1898
Mikhail von Giers		24 November 1898	29 September 1901
Pavel Lessar		29 September 1901	1 March 1905
Georgy Planson	Chargé d'affaires	27 November 1902	February 1903
Grigory Kozakov	Envoy	April 1905	May 1905
Dmitry Pokotilov		May 1905	7 March 1908
Yevgeny Golubev	Chargé d'affaires	8 March 1908	30 August 1908
Ivan Korostovets	Envoy	30 August 1908	1912
Mikhail Shchekin	Chargé d'affaires	2 June 1910	22 September 1910

Representatives of the Russian Empire to the Republic of China (1912 – 1917)

Name	Title	Appointment	Termination	Notes
Vasily Krupensky	Envoy	1912	1916
Nikolai Kudashev		1916	26 November 1917	Continued as de facto representative until 1920

Representatives of the Soviet Union to the Republic of China (1921 – 1949)

Name	Title	Appointment	Termination	Notes
Aleksandr Paykes	Diplomatic representative	December 1921	1922
Adolph Joffe		6 July 1922	3 June 1923
Lev Karakhan		3 June 1924	10 September 1926
Aleksey Chernykh		1926	1927
Diplomatic relations interrupted (1927 - 1932)
Dmitry Bogomolov	Diplomatic representative	20 February 1933	7 October 1937
Ivan Luganets-Orelsky		23 November 1937	10 July 1939
Alexander Panyushkin	Diplomatic representative Ambassador after 9 May 1941	28 August 1939	3 April 1945
Apollon Petrov	Ambassador	3 April 1945	25 February 1948
Nikolai Roshchin		25 February 1948	2 October 1949

Representatives of the Soviet Union to the People's Republic of China (1949 – 1991)

Name	Title	Appointment	Termination	Notes
Nikolai Roshchin	Ambassador	2 October 1949	13 June 1952
Alexander Panyushkin		13 June 1952	10 March 1953
Vasili Kuznetsov		10 March 1953	3 December 1953
Pavel Yudin		3 December 1953	15 October 1959
Stepan Chervonenko		15 October 1959	13 April 1965
Sergey Lapin		13 April 1965	12 April 1967
Vasily Tolstikov		16 October 1970	24 July 1978
Ilya Shcherbakov		24 July 1978	11 March 1986
Oleg Troyanovsky		11 March 1986	7 August 1990
Nikolai Solovyov		7 August 1990	25 December 1991

Representatives of the Russian Federation to the People's Republic of China (1991 – present)

Name	Title	Appointment	Termination	Notes
Nikolai Solovyov	Ambassador	25 December 1991	24 January 1992
Igor Rogachyov		24 January 1992	10 June 2005
Sergey Razov		10 June 2005	21 April 2013
Andrey Denisov		22 April 2013	13 September 2022
Igor Morgulov		13 September 2022