List of ambassadors of Russia to Finland
Soviet ambassadors
The first four representatives in Finland of the nascent Soviet Union were technically ambassadors of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.

List of ambassadors of Russia to Finland

Section Title: Soviet ambassadors
Table Section Text: The first four representatives in Finland of the nascent Soviet Union were technically ambassadors of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.

Name	Term start and end

Ivar Smilga	1918 (Red Finland only)

Konstantin Kovanko	1918 (unrecognized by Finnish government)

Jan Berzin	1921

Aleksey Chernykh	1921-1925

Ivan Lorents	1925-1927

Sergey Aleksandrovsky	1927-1929

Ivan Maisky	1929-1932

Boris Stein	1933-1934

Eric Assmus	1935-1937

Vladimir Derevyansky	1938-1939

No ambassador	1939-1940: (Winter War)

Ivan Zotov	1940-1941

Pavel Orlov	1941

No ambassador	1941-1944 (Continuation War)

Pavel Orlov	1945-1946

Aleksandr Abramov	1946-1948

Grigory Savonenkov	1948-1951

Viktor Lebedev	1951-1958

No ambassador	1958-1959 (Night Frost Crisis)

Aleksey Zaharov	1959-1965

Andrey Kovalev	1965-1970

Aleksey Belyakov	1970-1971

Viktor Maltsev	1971-1973

Vladimir Stepanov	1973-1979

Vladimir Sobolev	1979-1988

Boris Aristov	1988-1991 (Stayed until 1992 as the Russian Ambassador)

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Vladimir Sobolev served as the Soviet Ambassador to Finland.

final_sentence: Vladimir Sobolev served as the Soviet Ambassador to Finland.