List of ambassadors of Russia to Japan
List of ambassadors of Russia to Japan

List of ambassadors of Russia to Japan

Section Title: List of ambassadors of Russia to Japan
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Term of office	Ambassador	Years of life	Comments

Russian Empire

1 January 1871 - 15 May 1873	Evgeny Karlovich Byutsov	1837 - 1904	Charge d’Affaires and Consul General

15 May 1873 - 12 January 1882	Kirill Vasilievich Struve	1835 - 1907	Charge d’Affaires and Consul General ( - 3 December 1874), Resident Minister (3 December 1874 - 1 July 1876), Envoy (1 July 1876 - )

22 November 1877 - 12 August 1879	Roman Romanovich Rosen	1847 - 1921	I.D. Charge d'Affaires

12 January 1882 - 30 November 1882	Michael F. Bartholomew	1836 - 1895	Envoy

10 April 1883 - 20 November 1885	Alexander Petrovich Davydov	1838 - 1885	Envoy

28 January 1886 - 28 July 1892	Dmitry Yegorovich Shevich	1839 - 1906	Envoy

28 July 1892 - 30 June 1896	Mikhail Alexandrovich Hitrovo	1837 - 1896	Envoy

25 February 1896 - 6 November 1897	Alexey Speyer	1854 - 1916	I.D. Charge d'Affaires

4 February 1897 - 18 November 1899	Roman Romanovich Rozen	1847 - 1921	Envoy

18 November 1899 - 24 October 1902	Alexander Petrovich Izvolsky	1856 - 1919	Envoy

1902 - 28 January 1904	Roman Romanovich Rozen	1847 - 1921	Envoy

1905 - 1908	Georgy Petrovich Bakhmetev	1848 - 1928	Envoy

1908 - 1916	Nikolai Andreyevich Malevsky-Malevich	1855 - ?

1916 - 3 March 1917	Vasily Nikolaevich Krupensky	1868 - 1945

Russian Provisional Government and "Embassy without government"

1917 - 1921	Vasily Nikolaevich Krupensky	1868 - 1945	Ambassador

1921 - 1925	Dmitri Ivanovich Abrikosov	1876 - 1951	Charge d’Affaires

USSR

25 February 1925 - 31 January 1927	Viktor Leontievich Kopp	1880 - 1930	Plenipotentiary

5 March 1927 - 21 October 1927	Valerian Savelievich Dovgalevsky	1885 - 1934	Plenipotentiary

14 November 1927 - 24 January 1933	Alexander Antonovich Troyanovsky	1882 - 1955	Plenipotentiary

29 January 1933 - 16 June 1937	Konstantin Konstantinovich Yurenev	1888 - 1938	Plenipotentiary

27 July 1937 - 29 September 1939	Mikhail Mikhailovich Slavutsky	1898 - 1943	Plenipotentiary

29 September 1939 - 28 May 1942	Konstantin Alexandrovich Smetanin	1898 - 1969	Plenipotentiary ( - 9 May 1941), Ambassador (9 May 1941 - )

28 May 1942 - 9 August 1945	Yakov Alexandrovich Malik	1906 - 1980

30 December 1956 - 30 March 1958	Ivan Fedorovich Tevosyan	1902 - 1958

15 June 1958 - 16 July 1962	Nikolay Trofimovich Fedorenko	1912 - 2000

16 July 1962 - 3 April 1967	Vladimir Mikhailovich Vinogradov	1921 - 1997

3 April 1967 - 17 April 1976	Oleg Alexandrovich Troyanovsky	1919 - 2003

17 April 1976 - 11 February 1982	Dmitry Stepanovich Polyansky	1917 - 2001

11 February 1982 - 27 February 1985	Vladimir Yakovlevich Pavlov	1923 - 1998

27 February 1985 - 13 May 1986	Petr Andreevich Abrasimov	1912 - 2009

13 May 1986 - 7 August 1990	Nikolay Nikolaevich Soloviev	1931 - 1998

7 August 1990 - 25 December 1991	Lyudwig Alexandrovich Chizhov	1936 -

Russian Federation

25 December 1991 - 6 September 1996	Lyudwig Alexandrovich Chizhov	1936 -

6 September 1996 - 25 December 2003	Aleksandr Panov	1944 -

2 March 2004 - 28 December 2006	Alexander Prokhorovich Losyukov	1943 -

28 December 2006 - 20 February 2012	Mikhail Mikhailovich Bely	1945 -

20 February 2012 - 29 January 2018	Evgeny V. Afanasiev	1947 -

29 January 2018 -	Mikhail Galuzin	1960 -

Sentence(s)

In March 2004, Losyukov was Ambassador of Russia to Japan.

final_sentence: In March 2004, Losyukov was Ambassador of Russia to Japan.