List of ambassadors of Russia to Egypt
Ambassador of the His Excellency The Honourable | |
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Reports to | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
Seat | Cairo |
Appointer | President of Russia |
Term length | At the pleasure of the President |
Formation | 1783 |
First holder | Kondraty von Tonus |
Website | Embassy of Russia in Cairo |
The Ambassador of Russia to Egypt is the official representative of the
Government of Egypt
.
The ambassador and his staff work at large in the
Russian EmbassyCairo. There are consulates-general in Alexandria and Hurghada, as well as a trade mission and cultural centre based in Cairo, and a second cultural centre in Alexandria.[1] The ambassador to Egypt is concurrently appointed as the Russian representative to the Arab League.[2]
in The current incumbent Russian Ambassador to Egypt is Georgy Borisenko, incumbent since 27 April 2020.[3]
History of diplomatic relations
Formal diplomatic relations between the
People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs on 9 December 1917.[5] This marked a break in official relations between Egypt, which had been established as a British protectorate in 1914 as the Sultanate of Egypt, and the new Soviet state. Smirnov nevertheless continued to operate as envoy on behalf of Russian interests until 6 October 1923 when the newly nominally independent Kingdom of Egypt ceased to recognise the former imperial representatives.[5]
Sporadic efforts by the Soviet Union to re-establish relations with Egypt continued over the next two decades, at first led by People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs
Mostafa El-Nahas was accepted by the Soviet government, and Maisky and El-Nahas met in Alexandria to formalise relations on 26 August 1943.[5] The announcements of the establishment of relations took place in Egypt on 7 September, and in Russia on 9 September.[5]
The first ambassador, appointed on 14 October was
Egyptian revolution of 1952, which formed the Arab Republic of Egypt. The status of the official representative was raised from envoy to ambassador in 1954, and continued after the formation of the United Arab Republic between Egypt and Syria on 22 February 1958.[6] The new state had its capital in Cairo, and the former Soviet representative to Egypt, Yevgeny Kiselyov , continued as ambassador. A consulate-general was opened in Damascus in 1958, though with the secession of Syria from the Union in 1961, this was upgraded to an embassy with its own representation.[6] Egypt continued to be known as the United Arab Republic until 1971 when it become known once more as the Arab Republic of Egypt. With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Soviet ambassador Vladimir Polyakov instead became the representative of the Russian Federation, and continued in post until 1995.[6]
List of representatives (1784 - present)
Representatives of the Russian Empire to the Egypt Eyalet (1784-1867)
Name | Title | Appointment | Termination | Notes |
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Kondraty von Tonus | Consul-general | November 1784 | 1789 | |
Carlo Rosetti | Consul-general | 1792 | 18.. | |
Giorgio Chivini | Consul-general | 1818 | 1824 | |
Antonio Pezzoni | Consul-general | 1826 | 1831 | |
Aleksandr Dyugamel | Consul-general | 8 August 1833 | 12 November 1837 | |
Aleksandr Medem | Consul-general | 1838 | 1841 | |
Yegor Kremer | Consul-general | 1841 | 1845 | |
Aleksandr von Fok | Consul-general | 1845 | 1853 | |
Nikolay Girs | Consul-general | 1856 | 1858 | |
Aleksandr Lagovsky | Consul-general | 1858 | 1866 |
Representatives of the Russian Empire to the Khedivate of Egypt (1867-1914)
Name | Title | Appointment | Termination | Notes |
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Ivan Leks | Diplomatic agent | 13 July 1868 | 26 January 1883 | Relations suspended between 12 April 1877 and 1 August 1878 during the Russo-Turkish War |
Mikhail Khitrovo | Diplomatic agent | 2 March 1883 | 3 June 1886 | |
Aleksandr Koyander | Diplomatic agent | 3 June 1886 | 1902 | |
Pyotr Maksimov | Diplomatic agent | 1902 | 1905 | |
Aleksei Smirnov | Diplomatic agent | 1905 | 1914 | Status raised to envoy on 5 August 1911 |
Representatives of the Russian Empire to the Sultanate of Egypt (1914-1917)
Name | Title | Appointment | Termination | Notes |
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Aleksei Smirnov | Envoy | 1914 | 3 March 1917 |
Representatives of the Russian Provisional Government to the Sultanate of Egypt (1917)
Name | Title | Appointment | Termination | Notes |
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Aleksei Smirnov | Envoy | 3 March 1917 | 26 October 1917 |
Representatives of the Soviet Union to the Kingdom of Egypt (1943-1953)
Name | Title | Appointment | Termination | Notes |
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Nikolai Novikov
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Envoy | 14 October 1943 | 16 November 1944 | |
Aleksei Shchiborin | Envoy | 16 November 1944 | 7 February 1950 | |
Semyon Kozyrev | Envoy | 7 February 1950 | 18 June 1953 |
Representatives of the Soviet Union to the Arab Republic of Egypt (1953-1958)
Name | Title | Appointment | Termination | Notes |
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Semyon Kozyrev | Envoy | 18 June 1953 | 12 October 1953 | |
Daniel Solod | Envoy | 12 October 1953 | 1 January 1956 | Status raised to ambassador in 1954 |
Yevgeny Kiselyov | Ambassador | 1 January 1956 | 22 February 1958 |
Representatives of the Soviet Union to the United Arab Republic (1958-1971)
Name | Title | Appointment | Termination | Notes |
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Yevgeny Kiselyov | Ambassador | 22 February 1958 | 6 August 1959 | |
Vladimir Yerofeyev | Ambassador | 6 August 1959 | 16 June 1965 | |
Dmitri Pozhidaev | Ambassador | 16 June 1965 | 29 August 1967 | |
Sergei Vinogradov | Ambassador | 29 August 1967 | 27 August 1970 | |
Vladimir Vinogradov | Ambassador | 9 October 1970 | 11 September 1971 |
Representatives of the Soviet Union to the Arab Republic of Egypt (1971-1991)
Name | Title | Appointment | Termination | Notes |
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Vladimir Vinogradov | Ambassador | 11 September 1971 | 4 April 1974 | |
Vladimir Polyakov | Ambassador | 4 April 1974 | 27 September 1983 | |
Alexander Belonogov | Ambassador | 7 July 1984 | 14 August 1986 | |
Gennady Zhuravlyov | Ambassador | 14 August 1986 | 7 August 1990 | |
Vladimir Polyakov | Ambassador | 7 August 1990 | 25 December 1991 |
Representatives of the Russian Federation to the Arab Republic of Egypt (1991-present)
Name | Title | Appointment | Termination | Notes |
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Vladimir Polyakov | Ambassador | 25 December 1991 | 4 July 1995 | |
Vladimir Gudev | Ambassador | 4 July 1995 | 21 April 2000 | |
Andrey Denisov | Ambassador | 21 April 2000 | 28 December 2001 | |
Nikolai Kartuzov | Ambassador | 2 July 2002 | 9 June 2004 | |
Mikhail Bogdanov | Ambassador | 21 January 2005 | 12 June 2011 | |
Sergei Kirpichenko | Ambassador | 7 September 2011[7] | 2 September 2019[8] | |
Georgy Yevgenyevich Borisenko | Ambassador | 27 April 2020 |
References
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- ^ "Ambassador". Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia). Retrieved 7 November 2019.
- ^ "Ambassador". Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia). Retrieved 2 May 2020.
- ^ a b c "Египет (резиденция в Каире)". Archived from the original on 27 October 2010. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
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- ^ a b c "Посольство СССР в Объединённой Арабской Республике, с 11.9.1971 - Египте" (in Russian). knowbysight.info. Archived from the original on 23 November 2017. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
- ^ "Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 07.09.2011 г. № 1170" (in Russian). Kremlin.ru. 7 September 2011. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
- ^ "Умер посол России в Египте Сергей Кирпиченко". ria.ru (in Russian). RIA Novosti. 2 September 2019. Retrieved 4 September 2019.