# List of ambassadors of Russia to the United States

The Russian ambassador to the United States is the official representative of the president of the Russian Federation and the Russian government to the president of the United States and the United States government. The ambassador's official title is the ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the United States of America.
The ambassador and his staff work at large in the Embassy of Russia in Washington, D.C. The ambassador to the United States is concurrently appointed as the Russian representative to the Organization of American States. The ambassador's residence is located at 1125 16th Street Northwest. Russia also maintains consulates general in New York and Houston. Anatoly Antonov was the most recent ambassador, serving from 21 August 2017 until 10 October 2024.

## List of Ambassadors
### Ambassadors of the Russian Empire to the United States

| Name | Appointed | Until |
| Andrey Yakovlevich Dashkov | 1808 | 1817 |
| Pyotr Ivanovich Poletika | 1817 | 24 April 1822 |
| Fyodor van Tuyll van Serooskerken | 19 April 1823 | 11 April 1826 |
| Pavel Kridener | 1827 | 1837 |
| Alexander de Bodisco | 1837 | 1854 |
| Alexander Medem [de] | 1854 | 1855 |
| Eduard de Stoeckl | 1855 | 1869 |
| Konstantin Katakazi | 1869 | 1872 |
| Karl von Struve | 1882 | 1892 |
| Count Arthur Paul Nicholas Cassini | 1898 | 1905 |
| Roman Rosen | 1905 | 1911 |
| George Bakhmetev | 1911 | 1917 |

### Ambassadors of the Russian Provisional Government to the United States

| Name | Photo | Appointed | Until |
| Boris Bakhmetev | | 1917 | 1917 |

### Ambassadors of the Soviet Union to the United States

| Name | Appointed | Credentials presented | Until |
| Maxim Litvinov | 1918 | 1919 | |
| Ludwig Martens | 1919 | 1921 | |
| Boris Skvirsky [de] | 1922 | 1933 | |
| Alexander Troyanovsky | 20 November 1933 | 8 January 1934 | 1 October 1938 |
| Konstantin Umansky | 11 May 1939 (as plenipotentiary representative) | 9 May 1941 | 5 November 1941 |
| Maxim Litvinov | 10 November 1941 | 8 December 1941 | 22 August 1943 |
| Andrei Gromyko | 22 August 1943 | 4 October 1943 | 11 April 1946 |
| Nikolai Vasilevich Novikov | 11 April 1946 | 3 June 1946 | 25 October 1947 |
| Alexander Panyushkin | 25 October 1947 | 31 December 1947 | 12 June 1952 |
| Georgy Zarubin | 14 June 1952 | 25 September 1952 | 7 January 1958 |
| Mikhail A. Menshikov [ru] | 7 January 1958 | 11 February 1958 | 4 January 1962 |
| Anatoly Dobrynin | 4 January 1962 | 30 March 1962 | 19 May 1986 |
| Yuri Dubinin | 19 May 1986 | | 15 May 1990 |
| Alexander Bessmertnykh | 15 May 1990 | | 15 January 1991 |
| Viktor Komplektov [ru] | 15 March 1991 | | 26 December 1991 |

### Ambassadors of the Russian Federation to the United States

| Name | Appointed | Appointer | Credentials presented | Until |
| Viktor Komplektov [ru] | 1991 | Boris Yeltsin | | 1992 |
| Vladimir Lukin | 24 January 1992 | Boris Yeltsin | | 8 February 1994 |
| Yuli Vorontsov | 23 July 1994 | Boris Yeltsin | | 16 December 1998 |
| Yuri Ushakov | 1999 | Boris Yeltsin | 22 January 1999 | 31 May 2008 |
| Sergey Kislyak | 26 July 2008 | Dmitry Medvedev | 16 September 2008 | 22 July 2017 |
| Anatoly Antonov | 1 September 2017 | Vladimir Putin | 9 September 2017 | 10 October 2024 |
| Alexander Darchiev | 6 March 2025 | Vladimir Putin | | |