# List of ambassadors of Russia to Poland

The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to Republic of Poland is the official representative of the President and the Government of the Russian Federation to the President and the Government of Poland.
The ambassador and his staff work at large in the Embassy of Russia in Warsaw. There are consulates general in Gdańsk, Kraków, and Poznań. The post of Russian Ambassador to Poland is currently held by Sergey Andreyev [ru], incumbent since 26 August 2014.

## History of diplomatic relations

Poland and Russia have exchanged diplomatic missions for centuries. The first ambassador in the modern meaning of this word, from Poland to Russia, was Antoni Augustyn Deboli, in the late 18th century. After the period of partitions of Poland, in 1918, relations were established between the Second Polish Republic and Soviet Union. After Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939 those relations were broken, to be briefly reestablished in 1941 after the German invasion of the Soviet Union, when the Soviet Union and Polish government in exile agreed to cooperate against their common enemy, Nazi Germany. Those relations were broken in 1943 after discovery of the Katyn massacre. In 1989 the communist government of the Polish People's Republic was replaced with a democratic form that continues to the present; after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Poland recognised the Russian Federation.

## List of representatives (1508 – present)
### Representatives of the Tsardom of Russia to the Kingdom of Poland (1508)

| Name | Title | Appointment | Termination | Notes |
| Ivan Chelyadin [ru] | Envoy | 1508 | 1508 | |

### Representatives of the Tsardom of Russia to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1584–1721)

| Name | Title | Appointment | Termination |
| Mikhail Beznin-Nashchokin [ru] | Envoy | 1584 | 1598 |
| Ivan Bezobrazov [ru] | Envoy | 1598 | 1606 |
| Afanasy Pronchishchev [ru] | Envoy | 1640 | 1648 |
| Johann Patkul | Envoy | 1703 | 1703 |
| Grigory Dolgorukov [ru] | Envoy | 1701 | 1706 |
| Vasily Dolgorukov | Envoy | 1706 | 1707 |
| Grigory Dolgorukov [ru] | Envoy | 1709 | 1712 |
| Aleksey Dashkov [ru] | Resident | 1712 | 1718 |
| Semyon Naryshkin [ru] | Envoy | 1714 | 1714 |
| Grigory Dolgorukov [ru] | Ambassador | 1715 | 1721 |

### Representatives of the Russian Empire to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1721–1795)

| Name | Title | Appointment | Termination |
| Sergey Dolgorukov [ru] | Envoy | 1721 | 1725 |
| Vasily Dolgorukov | Envoy | 1725 | 1726 |
| Mikhail Bestuzhev-Ryumin | Envoy | 1726 | 1731 |
| Sergey Dolgorukov [ru] | Envoy | 1728 | 1729 |
| Friedrich Casimir von Loewenwolde [ru] | Ambassador | 1730 | 1733 |
| Hermann Karl von Keyserling | Ambassador | 1733 | 1744 |
| Mikhail Bestuzhev-Ryumin | Ambassador | 1744 | 1748 |
| Hermann Karl von Keyserling | Ambassador | 1749 | 1752 |
| Genrikh Gross [ru] | Ambassador | 1752 | 1758 |
| Mikhail Volkonsky | Ambassador | 1757 | 1758 |
| Fyodor Voeykov [ru] | Ambassador | 1758 | 1762 |
| Hermann Karl von Keyserling | Ambassador | 1763 | 1764 |
| Nikolai Repnin | Ambassador | 1764 | 1768 |
| Mikhail Volkonsky | Ambassador | 1769 | 1771 |
| Kasper von Saldern [ru] | Ambassador | 1771 | 1772 |
| Otto Magnus von Stackelberg | Ambassador | 1772 | 1790 |
| Yakov Bulgakov | Ambassador | 1790 | 1792 |
| Jacob von Sievers | Ambassador | 1793 | 1793 |
| Iosif Igelström | Ambassador | 1793 | 1794 |
| Ivan Ash [ru] | Ambassador | 1794 | 1795 |

### Representatives of the Soviet Union to the Republic of Poland (1921–1943)

| Name | Title | Appointment | Termination | Notes |
| Lev Karakhan | Diplomatic Representative | 30 May 1921 | 9 October 1922 | |
| Leonid Obolensky [ru] | Diplomatic Representative | 16 October 1922 | 16 October 1924 | |
| Pyotr Voykov | Diplomatic Representative | 16 October 1924 | 7 June 1927 | |
| Aleksandr Ulyanov | Chargé d'affaires | 7 June 1927 | 1927 | |
| Dmitry Bogomolov [ru] | Diplomatic Representative | 17 September 1927 | 1 December 1929 | |
| Yuriy Kotsiubynsky | Chargé d'affaires | 1 December 1929 | 30 January 1930 | |
| Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko | Diplomatic Representative | 3 January 1930 | 5 April 1934 | |
| Yakov Davydov | Diplomatic Representative | 5 April 1934 | 26 October 1937 | |
| Pavel Listopad [pl] | Chargé d'affaires | 1937 | 1939 | |
| Nikolai Sharonov | Diplomatic Representative | 1 June 1939 | 25 October 1939 | |
| Invasion of Poland – Diplomatic relations interrupted (1939–1941) |||||
| Aleksandr Bogomolov | Ambassador | 21 August 1941 | 25 April 1943 | Representative to the Polish government-in-exile in London |
| Relations deteriorate over investigation of Soviet repressions of Polish citizens and Katyn massacre – Diplomatic relations interrupted (1943–1945) |||||

### Representatives of the Soviet Union to the Polish People's Republic (1945–1989)

| Name | Title | Appointment | Termination |
| Viktor Lebedev [ru] | Ambassador | 6 June 1945 | 2 March 1951 |
| Arkady Sobolev | Ambassador | 2 March 1951 | 21 June 1953 |
| Georgy Popov | Ambassador | 21 June 1953 | 27 March 1954 |
| Nikolai Mikhailov | Ambassador | 27 March 1954 | 7 May 1955 |
| Panteleimon Ponomarenko | Ambassador | 7 May 1955 | 3 October 1957 |
| Peter Abrassimov | Ambassador | 3 October 1957 | 14 February 1961 |
| Averky Aristov | Ambassador | 14 February 1961 | 10 March 1971 |
| Stanislav Pilotovich [ru] | Ambassador | 10 March 1971 | 17 May 1978 |
| Boris Aristov | Ambassador | 17 May 1978 | 11 July 1983 |
| Aleksandr Aksyonov | Ambassador | 11 July 1983 | 3 January 1986 |
| Vladimir Brovikov | Ambassador | 3 January 1986 | December 1989 |

### Representatives of the Soviet Union to the Republic of Poland (1989–1991)

| Name | Title | Appointment | Termination | Notes |
| Vladimir Brovikov | Ambassador | December 1989 | 8 May 1990 | |
| Yury Kashlev [ru] | Ambassador | 8 May 1990 | 25 December 1991 | |

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

| Name | Title | Appointment | Termination |
| Yury Kashlev [ru] | Ambassador | 25 December 1991 | 2 November 1996 |
| Leonid Drachevsky | Ambassador | 2 November 1996 | 16 November 1998 |
| Sergey Razov [ru] | Ambassador | 13 April 1999 | 23 February 2002 |
| Nikolay Afanasevsky | Ambassador | 23 February 2002 | 23 June 2005 |
| Vladimir Grinin | Ambassador | 21 April 2006 | 21 June 2010 |
| Aleksandr Alekseyev [ru] | Ambassador | 21 June 2010 | 26 August 2014 |
| Sergey Andreyev [ru] | Ambassador | 26 August 2014 | |