# List of ambassadors of Russia to Iran

The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Islamic Republic of Iran is the official representative of the President and the Government of the Russian Federation to the President and the Government of Iran.
The ambassador and his staff work at large in the Embassy of Russia in Tehran. There are consulates general in Isfahan and Rasht. The post of Russian Ambassador to Iran is currently held by Alexey Dedov, incumbent since 8 September 2022.

## History of diplomatic relations

Diplomatic relations between Russia and Iran date back to the medieval period, with the first visit of an envoy from Persia to the Grand Duchy of Moscow being recorded in 1592. The first Russian ambassador, Artemy Volynsky, was appointed in 1715, during the reign of Peter the Great. Following the Russian Revolution in 1917, diplomatic relations were briefly broken off, but were soon re-established, between Persia and at first the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, and later the Soviet Union. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the incumbent Soviet ambassador, Vladimir Gudev, continued as representative of the Russian Federation until 1993.

## List of representatives (1715 – present)
### Representatives of the Tsardom of Russia to Persia (1715 – 1721)

| Name | Title | Appointment | Termination | Notes |
| Artemy Volynsky | Envoy | 1715 | 1719 | |
| Semyon Avramov | Consul, Resident | 1717 | 1721 | |

### Representatives of the Russian Empire to Persia (1721 – 1917)

| Name | Title | Appointment | Termination | Notes |
| Semyon Avramov | Consul, Resident | 1721 | 1732 | |
| Sergey Golitsyn [ru] | Ambassador | 1734 | 1735 | |
| Ivan Kalushkin | Resident | 1737 | 1742 | |
| Vasily Bratishchev | Resident | 1742 | 1748 | |
| Mikhail Golitsyn | Consul | 1745 | 1748 | |
| Ivan Danilov | Consul | 1748 | 1751 | |
| Petr Chekalevsky | Consul | 18 December 1755 | 25 May 1760 | |
| Ilya Igumnov | Consul | 1763 | 1769 | |
| Gavriil Bogolyubov | Consul | 1769 | 1772 | |
| Vasily Yablonsky | Consul | 1772 | 1775 | |
| Ivan Tumanovsky | Consul | 1780 | 1785 | |
| Dmitri Skilichi | Consul | 1782 | 1790 | |
| Sergey Lashkarev | Appointed chargé d'affaires | 1786 | 1786 | Did not take up position |
| Mikhail Skibinevsky | Chargé d'affaires | c. 1787 | 1804 | |
| Russo-Persian War - Diplomatic relations interrupted (10 June 1804 - 24 October 1813) |||||
| Alexey Yermolov | Ambassador | 29 June 1817 | 10 October 1817 | |
| Semyon Mazarovich [ru] | Chargé d'affaires | 6 July 1818 | July 1826 | |
| Russo-Persian War - Diplomatic relations interrupted (16 July 1826 - 10 February 1828) Aleksandr Obreskov [ru] assigned as diplomatic agent between 4 April 1827 and 21 April 1828 to negotiate the Treaty of Turkmenchay |||||
| Alexander Griboyedov | Minister Plenipotentiary | 25 April 1828 | 30 January 1829 | |
| Nikolai Dolgorukov [ru] | Special representative | 1 April 1829 | 30 June 1830 | |
| Ivan Simonich [ru] | Minister Plenipotentiary | 5 January 1832 | 30 April 1838 | |
| Alexander Du Hamel [ru] | Minister Plenipotentiary | 30 April 1838 | 9 August 1841 | |
| Alexander von Medem | Minister Plenipotentiary | 9 August 1841 | 11 June 1845 | |
| Dmitry Dolgorukov | Minister Plenipotentiary | 11 June 1845 | 20 March 1854 | |
| Nikolai Anichkov [ru] | Chargé d'affaires (before 5 April 1858) Envoy (after 5 April 1858) | 20 March 1854 | 15 January 1863 | |
| Nikolay Girs | Envoy | 1 August 1863 | 6 January 1869 | |
| Aleksandr Beger [ru] | Envoy | 7 January 1869 | 24 February 1876 | |
| Ivan Zinovyev [ru] | Envoy | 20 April 1876 | 25 February 1883 | |
| Aleksandr Melnikov [ru] | Envoy | 25 February 1883 | 22 October 1886 | |
| Nikolai Dolgorukov [ru] | Envoy | 25 October 1886 | 12 November 1889 | |
| Eugene de Bützow [ru] | Envoy | 5 October 1889 | 1 July 1897 | |
| Kimon Argyropoulo | Envoy | 1 July 1897 | 8 August 1902 | |
| Pyotr Vlasov | Envoy | 8 August 1902 | 1905 | |
| Alexey Shpeyer | Envoy | 1905 | 1906 | |
| Nicholas Hartwig | Envoy | 1906 | 1908 | |
| Stanislav Poklevsky-Kozell [ru] | Envoy | 1909 | 1913 | |
| Ivan Korostovets [ru] | Envoy | 1913 | 1915 | |
| Nikolai Etter [ru] | Envoy | 1915 | 3 March 1917 | |

### Representatives of the Russian Provisional Government to Persia (March 1917 - unaccredited after October 1917)

| Name | Title | Appointment | Termination |
| Ivan Kolomiytsev [ru] | Chief of mission | July 1917 | November 1918 |
| Efim Babushkin [ru] | Consul General | September 1918 | 1919 |
| Ivan Kolomiytsev [ru] | Chief of mission | 28 June 1919 | 27 August 1919 |

### Representatives of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic to Persia (1921 - 1923)

| Name | Title | Appointment | Termination | Notes |
| Theodore Rothstein | Plenipotentiary Representative | 27 February 1921 | 19 March 1923 | |
| Boris Shumyatsky | Plenipotentiary Representative | 19 March 1923 | 19 July 1923 | |

### Representatives of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to Persia/Iran (1923 - 1991)

| Name | Title | Appointment | Termination |
| Boris Shumyatsky | Plenipotentiary Representative | 19 July 1923 | 14 April 1925 |
| Konstantin Yurenev | Plenipotentiary Representative | 24 April 1925 | 5 August 1927 |
| Yakov Davydov | Plenipotentiary Representative | 5 August 1927 | 1 October 1930 |
| Adolf Petrovsky | Plenipotentiary Representative | 21 December 1930 | 1 April 1933 |
| Sergey Pastukhov [ru] | Plenipotentiary Representative | 29 May 1933 | 1 April 1935 |
| Aleksey Chernykh [ru] | Plenipotentiary Representative | 1 April 1935 | 14 January 1939 |
| Matvey Filimonov | Plenipotentiary Representative (before 9 May 1941) Ambassador (after 9 May 1941) | 11 September 1939 | 28 June 1941 |
| Andrey Smirnov | Ambassador | 28 June 1941 | 1 September 1943 |
| Konstantin Mikhailov [ru] | Ambassador | 1 September 1943 | 21 May 1944 |
| Mikhail Maksimov [ru] | Ambassador | 28 June 1944 | 26 February 1946 |
| Ivan Sadchikov [ru] | Ambassador | 26 February 1946 | 17 July 1953 |
| Anatoly Lavrentiev | Ambassador | 17 July 1953 | 19 August 1956 |
| Nikolai Pegov | Ambassador | 19 August 1956 | 4 June 1963 |
| Grigory Zaeitsev [ru] | Ambassador | 4 June 1963 | 3 January 1968 |
| Vladimir Yerofeyev | Ambassador | 3 January 1968 | 29 January 1977 |
| Vladimir Vinogradov | Ambassador | 29 January 1977 | 2 June 1982 |
| Vil Boldyrev [ru] | Ambassador | 2 June 1982 | 23 September 1987 |
| Vladimir Gudev | Ambassador | 23 September 1987 | 25 December 1991 |

### Representatives of the Russian Federation to Iran (1991 - present)

| Name | Title | Appointment | Termination |
| Vladimir Gudev | Ambassador | 25 December 1991 | 6 April 1993 |
| Sergey Tretyakov [ru] | Ambassador | 6 April 1993 | 6 June 1997 |
| Konstantin Shuvalov [ru] | Ambassador | 6 June 1997 | 8 February 2001 |
| Aleksandr Maryasov [ru] | Ambassador | 8 February 2001 | 30 May 2005 |
| Aleksandr Sadovnikov [ru] | Ambassador | 30 May 2005 | 17 October 2011 |
| Levan Dzhagaryan [ru] | Ambassador | 17 October 2011 | 8 September 2022 |
| Alexey Dedov | Ambassador | 8 September 2022 | |