List of ambassadors of Russia to New Zealand
List of heads of mission

List of ambassadors of Russia to New Zealand

Section Title: List of heads of mission
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designated	acreditated	ambassador	Russian language ru:Список послов СССР и России в Новой Зеландии	lifetime	Observations	Prime Minister of Russia	Prime Minister of New Zealand	Term end

22 June 1945	26 June 1945	Ivan Kornilovich Zyabkin	Иван Корнилович Зябкин	(born 1902)	envoy	Joseph Stalin	Peter Fraser (New Zealand politician)	19 April 1948

4 March 1949	5 July 1949	pl:Aleksandr Aleksandrow (dyplomata)	ru:Александров, Александр Михайлович (1907)	(1907–1983)	envoy From 1939 to 1940 he was Head of the Central European Division of the People's Commissariat of the USSR. From 1940 to 1942 he was Advisor to the Soviet mission in Sofia Bulgaria.	Joseph Stalin	Sidney Holland	10 September 1953

10 September 1953	27 November 1953	pl:Nikołaj Gienierałow	ru:Генералов, Николай Иванович	(1905–1990)	envoy with residence in Canberra, concurrently accredited He was a Member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union From 1936 to 1937 he was member of the central apparatus of the People's Commissariat of the USSR.	Georgy Malenkov	Sidney Holland	15 December 1955

1956	Georgy Rodionov	Георгий Михайлович Родионов	(1915–1960)	Chargé d'affaires	Nikolai Bulganin	Sidney Holland	1960

1960	Nikolai Vasilevitch Ivanov	Николай Васильевич Иванов	(born 1905)	Chargé d'affaires	Nikita Khrushchev	Keith Holyoake	1965

5 March 1965	14 March 1965	Boris Yakovlevich Dorofeev	Борис Яковлевич Дорофеев	envoy	Leonid Brezhnev	Keith Holyoake	21 August 1969

21 August 1969	17 October 1969	Anatoliy Ivantsov	ru:Иванцов, Анатолий Иванович	(born 1922)	envoy starting 12 June 1973 he was ambassador	Leonid Brezhnev	Keith Holyoake	31 August 1974

31 August 1974	25 October 1974	Oleg Pavlovich Selyaninov	Олег Павлович Селянинов	(1915–2010)	Ambassador	Leonid Brezhnev	Bill Rowling	21 January 1979

27 January 1979	pl:Wsiewołod Sofinski	ru:Софинский, Всеволод Николаевич	(1924–2008)	Ambassador He was a Member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Was commended in the Great Patriotic War. In 1951 he graduated from the 1st Leningrad Artillery School, MGIMO.	Leonid Brezhnev	Robert Muldoon	28 March 1984

23 May 1984	pl:Władimir Bykow	ru:Быков, Владимир Леонидович	(1932–2013)	Ambassador In 1957 he graduated from the Moscow State Institute and studied Historical Sciences and entered the foreign service. From 1957 to 1972 he was employed in Warsaw (Poland), the USSR Consulate General in San Francisco and Moscow.	Konstantin Chernenko	David Lange	22 June 1987

22 June 1987	Yuri Mikhailovich Sokolov	Юрий Михайлович Соколов	(born 22 November 1932)	Ambassador (born November 22, 1932 in Simferopol, Crimea) Was the son of Michail and Valentina (Nikolaeva) Sokolov. From 1956-1959 he was employed in Vienna.	Andrei Gromyko	David Lange	18 March 1992

18 March 1992	Alexander Losyukov	ru:Лосюков, Александр Прохорович	(born 1943)	Ambassador	Boris Yeltsin	Jim Bolger	11 November 1993

22 May 1995	Sergey Vladimirovich Belyaev	ru:Беляев, Сергей Владимирович	(born 1953)	Ambassador He graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO). From May 22, 1995 to 15 December 1999 he was ambassador in Wellinton y concurrently accredited in as ambassador in Tonga and Samoa.	Boris Yeltsin	Jim Bolger	15 December 1999

15 December 1999	Gennady Ivanovich Shabannikov	ru:Шабанников, Геннадий Иванович	(1939–2006)	Ambassador In 1967 he graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. In 1978 he graduated from the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.	Boris Yeltsin	Helen Clark

28 July 2004	Mikhail Nikolaevich Lysenko	ru:Лысенко, Михаил Николаевич	(born 1955)	Ambassador	Vladimir Putin	Helen Clark

11 September 2008	Andrey Tatarinov	ru:Татаринов, Андрей Алексеевич	(born 1951)	Ambassador	Dmitry Medvedev	John Key

4 October 2012	Valery Tereshchenko	ru:Терещенко, Валерий Яковлевич	(born 1952)	Ambassador	Dmitry Medvedev	John Key

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On 11 September 2008, Andrey Tatarinov became the Ambassador of Russia to New Zealand.

final_sentence: On 11 September 2008, Andrey Tatarinov became the Ambassador of Russia to New Zealand.