# List of ambassadors of Russia to Belgium

The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Kingdom of Belgium is the official representative of the President and the Government of the Russian Federation to the King and the Government of Belgium.
The ambassador and his staff work at large in the Embassy of Russia in Brussels. There is a consulate general in Antwerp. The post of Russian Ambassador to Belgium is currently held by Aleksandr Tokovinin [ru], incumbent since 16 June 2016.

## History of diplomatic relations

Diplomatic relations between the Russian Empire and Belgium were first established in 1853, with the first envoy to Belgium, Mikhail Khreptovich [ru], appointed on 11 April 1853. The last imperial envoy, Dmitry Nelidov [ru], continued to represent Russia as an agent of the Russian Provisional Government after the February Revolution in 1917, but ceased to be recognised by the new Soviet government after the October Revolution later that year. Diplomatic relations were established between the Soviet Union and Belgium in 1935, and a new representative, Yevgeny Rubinin [ru] was appointed on 2 November that year. His tenure came to an end with the German invasion and subsequent occupation of Belgium in 1940. Relations were restored once more in 1941 after the Soviet Union entered the war on the side of the allies, with Aleksandr Bogomolov [ru] appointed envoy to the Belgian government in exile in London. By early 1943 the mission had been upgraded to an embassy. Relations continued after the war, and with the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the incumbent Soviet ambassador, Nikolai Afanasevsky [ru], continued as the representative of the Russian Federation until 1994.

## List of representatives (1853 – present)
### Representatives of the Russian Empire to Belgium (1853 – 1917)

| Name | Title | Appointment | Termination |
| Mikhail Khreptovich [ru] | Envoy | 11 April 1853 | 17 July 1856 |
| Aleksandr Rikhter [ru] | Envoy | 17 July 1856 | 16 April 1859 |
| Nikolay Orlov | Envoy | 3 July 1859 | 13 December 1869 |
| Andrey Bludov [ru] | Envoy | 13 December 1869 | 30 March 1886 |
| Lev Urusov [ru] | Envoy | 3 June 1886 | 19 November 1897 |
| Nikolai Girs [ru] | Envoy | 4 December 1897 | 20 September 1910 |
| Ivan Kudashev [ru] | Envoy | 20 September 1910 | 17 February 1916 |
| Dmitry Nelidov [ru] | Envoy | 10 March 1916 | 3 March 1917 |

### Representatives of the Russian Provisional Government to Belgium (1917)

| Name | Title | Appointment | Termination | Notes |
| Dmitry Nelidov [ru] | Envoy | 3 March 1917 | 26 November 1917 | |

### Representatives of the Soviet Union to Belgium (1935 – 1991)

| Name | Title | Appointment | Termination | Notes |
| Yevgeny Rubinin [ru] | Envoy | 2 November 1935 | 15 July 1940 | |
| Aleksandr Bogomolov | Envoy | 18 October 1942 | 30 November 1943 | Envoy to the Belgian government in exile in London Ambassador in 1943 |
| Viktor Lebedev [ru] | Ambassador | 30 November 1943 | 6 January 1945 | |
| Mikhail Sergeyev [ru] | Ambassador | 20 March 1945 | 12 July 1946 | |
| Aleksei Pavlov [ru] | Ambassador | 18 August 1946 | 25 April 1950 | |
| Viktor Avilov | Ambassador | 24 January 1953 | 9 October 1958 | |
| Sergey Afanasyev [ru] | Ambassador | 9 October 1958 | 31 August 1962 | |
| Pavel Gerasimov [ru] | Ambassador | 29 September 1962 | 25 March 1967 | |
| Vasily Grubyakov [ru] | Ambassador | 31 March 1967 | 28 January 1969 | |
| Fyodor Molochkov [ru] | Ambassador | 28 June 1969 | 8 July 1971 | |
| Vladimir Sobolev | Ambassador | 8 July 1971 | 30 April 1975 | |
| Sergey Romanovsky [ru] | Ambassador | 30 April 1975 | 30 October 1984 | |
| Sergey Nikitin | Ambassador | 30 November 1984 | 25 May 1987 | |
| Feliks Bogdanov [ru] | Ambassador | 25 May 1987 | 8 June 1990 | |
| Nikolay Afanasevsky | Ambassador | 24 June 1990 | 25 December 1991 | |

### Representatives of the Russian Federation to Belgium (1991 – present)

| Name | Title | Appointment | Termination |
| Nikolay Afanasevsky | Ambassador | 25 December 1991 | 3 October 1994 |
| Vitaly Churkin | Ambassador | 3 October 1994 | 25 February 1998 |
| Sergey Kislyak | Ambassador | 25 February 1998 | 28 May 2003 |
| Vadim Lukov [ru] | Ambassador | 30 September 2004 | 27 October 2009 |
| Aleksandr Romanov [ru] | Ambassador | 18 December 2009 | 16 June 2016 |
| Aleksandr Tokovinin [ru] | Ambassador | 16 June 2016 | |