# List of ambassadors of Russia to Austria

The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Austria is the official representative of the President and the Government of the Russian Federation to the President and the Government of the Republic of Austria.
The ambassador and his staff work at large in the Embassy of Russia in Vienna. The post of Russian Ambassador to Austria is currently held by Dmitry Lyubinsky [ru], incumbent since 10 August 2015.

## History of diplomatic relations

The first ambassador of Russia to Austria was Prince Dmitry Mikhailovich Golitsyn and he served in this position from 1763 until 1792. Gallitzinstraße, the street where his ambassadorial villa was located is named after him. In 1792 Count Andrey Kirillovich Razumovsky became ambassador in Vienna, where he kept contact with representatives of the European aristocracy, politicians and artists. While in Vienna, he built the Palais Rasumofsky, and also financed construction of a stone bridge across the Danube. As a patron of the arts, Razumovsky established an art gallery, and commissioned Beethoven to compose the famous Razumovsky string quartets.
Austria is closely linked to the fate of prominent Russian diplomat and statesman Prince Alexander Mikhailovich Gorchakov. He arrived in Vienna in 1833 as an adviser to the embassy, and, from 1854 to 1856, he led the Russian diplomatic mission. Gorchakov became Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Austrian court at the most difficult period for Russia during the Crimean War, during which time he was able to preserve diplomatic relations with Austria and helped to overcome the international isolation of the Russian Empire and reinforced Russia's status as a great power. The Vienna Conference in 1855 was the first presence of Gorchakov in an international forum, and his performance in representing Russia at the Paris Conference of 1856 saw Alexander II appoint him as Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs.
In 1882, scientist and diplomat Prince Aleksey Borisovich Lobanov-Rostovsky was appointed as the Empire's representative in Vienna. In 1891 he bought several houses on Reisnerstraße from Adolphe I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, the former Duke of Nassau, which still houses the embassy and consular section in Vienna, and he also began construction of the Nicholas Orthodox Cathedral.
After the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy in 1918 and the proclamation of the First Austrian Republic, diplomatic relations with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics were established on 25 February 1924. The first Soviet Plenipotentiary in Vienna was Jan Antonovich Berzin. Diplomatic relations were broken in March 1938 after the German invasion of Austria and its incorporation into Nazi Germany. After the Second World War, the USSR and Austria re-established diplomatic relations at the level of political representation, which in 1953 was converted into embassies. The preamble of the Austrian State Treaty, signed on 15 May 1955 by the USSR, United States, United Kingdom, France and Austria, established that the treaty formed the basis of Soviet relations with Austria. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, relations continued between the Russian Federation and the Austrian state.

## Ambassadors

| Name | Title | Date from | Date until | Russian state | Austrian state |
| Dmitry Mikhailovich Golitsyn | Ambassador | October 1761 | April 1792 | Russian Empire | Holy Roman Empire |
| Andrey Kirillovich Razumovsky | Ambassador | 5 October 1801 | 7 September 1806 | Russian Empire | Holy Roman Empire/Austrian Empire |
| Gustav Ernst Graf von Stackelberg | Ambassador | 14 May 1810 | 9 November 1818 | Russian Empire | Austrian Empire |
| Yury Aleksandrovich Golovkin | Envoy | 9 November 1818 | 16 September 1822 | Russian Empire | Austrian Empire |
| Dmitry Pavlovich Tatishchev | Ambassador | 22 August 1826 | 11 September 1841 | Russian Empire | Austrian Empire |
| Pavel Ivanovich Medem | Envoy | 24 December 1848 | 31 August 1850 | Russian Empire | Austrian Empire |
| Peter von Meyendorff | Envoy | 31 August 1850 | 7 January 1854 | Russian Empire | Austrian Empire |
| Aleksandr Mikhailovich Gorchakov | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | 6 May 1854 | 15 April 1856 | Russian Empire | Austrian Empire |
| Viktor Petrovich Balabin | Envoy | 22 July 1864 | 12 August 1864 | Russian Empire | Austrian Empire |
| Ernest Gustavovich Stackelberg | Envoy | 3 August 1864 | 25 April 1868 | Russian Empire | Austrian Empire/Austria-Hungary |
| Nikolay Alexeyevich Orlov | Envoy | 13 December 1869 | 2 May 1870 | Russian Empire | Austria-Hungary |
| Yevgeny Petrovich Novikov | Ambassador | 2 March 1874 | 22 December 1879 | Russian Empire | Austria-Hungary |
| Pavel Petrovich Ubri | Ambassador | 22 December 1879 | 1 June 1882 | Russian Empire | Austria-Hungary |
| Aleksey Borisovich Lobanov-Rostovsky | Ambassador | 13 July 1882 | 6 January 1895 | Russian Empire | Austria-Hungary |
| Pyotr Alekseyevich Kapnist | Ambassador | 9 April 1895 | 1904 | Russian Empire | Austria-Hungary |
| Lev Pavlovich Urusov | Ambassador | 1905 | 1910 | Russian Empire | Austria-Hungary |
| Nikolay Nikolayevich Shebeko | Ambassador | 1913 | 1914 | Russian Empire | Austria-Hungary |
| Voldemar Khristianovich Aussem | Plenipotentiary Representative | 21 May 1924 | 10 December 1924 | Soviet Union | Republic of Austria |
| Adolf Abramovich Ioffe | Plenipotentiary Representative | 12 December 1924 | 19 June 1925 | Soviet Union | Republic of Austria |
| Jan Antonovich Berzin | Plenipotentiary | 19 June 1925 | 7 September 1927 | Soviet Union | Republic of Austria |
| Konstantin Konstantinovich Yurenev | Plenipotentiary | 1 October 1927 | 24 January 1933 | Soviet Union | Republic of Austria |
| Adolf Markovich Petrovsky | Plenipotentiary | 1 April 1933 | 10 November 1934 | Soviet Union | Federal State of Austria |
| Ivan Leopoldovich Lorents | Plenipotentiary | 17 March 1935 | 31 September 1938 | Soviet Union | Federal State of Austria |
| Ivan Ivanovich Ilyichev | Supreme Commissar of the USSR/Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 13 June 1953 | 31 March 1956 | Soviet Union | Republic of Austria |
| Andrey Smirnov | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 31 March 1956 | 14 October 1956 | Soviet Union | Republic of Austria |
| Sergey Georgyevich Lapin | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 19 October 1956 | 16 June 1960 | Soviet Union | Republic of Austria |
| Viktor Ivanovich Avilov | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 16 June 1960 | 13 June 1965 | Soviet Union | Republic of Austria |
| Boris Fedorovich Podtserob | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 30 June 1965 | 20 September 1971 | Soviet Union | Republic of Austria |
| Averky Borisovich Aristov | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 20 September 1971 | 11 July 1973 | Soviet Union | Republic of Austria |
| Mikhail Timofeyevich Yefremov | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 10 March 1975 | 24 October 1986 | Soviet Union | Republic of Austria |
| Gennady Serafimovich Shikin | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 24 October 1986 | 24 May 1990 | Soviet Union | Republic of Austria |
| Valery Nikolayevich Popov | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 24 May 1990 | 30 August 1996 | Soviet Union/Russian Federation | Republic of Austria |
| Vladimir Mikhailovich Grinin | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 30 August 1996 | 29 April 2000 | Russian Federation | Republic of Austria |
| Alexander Vasiliyevich Golovin | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 4 August 2000 | 6 August 2004 | Russian Federation | Republic of Austria |
| Stanislav Viliorovich Osadchy | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 14 September 2004 | 9 March 2010 | Russian Federation | Republic of Austria |
| Sergey Yurevich Nechayev [ru] | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 9 March 2010 | 10 August 2015 | Russian Federation | Republic of Austria |
| Dmitry Yevgenevich Lyubinsky [ru] | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | 10 August 2015 | | Russian Federation | Republic of Austria |