Ambassadors of the Russian Empire to the United States of America

Ambassadors of the Russian Provisional Government

Russian Provisional Government

The Russian Provisional Government was the short-lived administrative body which sought to govern Russia immediately following the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II . On September 14, the State Duma of the Russian Empire was officially dissolved by the newly created Directorate, and the country was...

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Ambassadors of the Soviet Union to the United States of America

Name	Photo	Title	Date appointed	Date presented credentials	Date until	Notes
Maxim Litvinov Maxim Litvinov Maxim Maximovich Litvinov was a Russian revolutionary and prominent Soviet diplomat.- Early life and first exile :...	100px		1918	1919
Ludwig Martens Ludwig Martens Ludwig Christian Alexander Karl Martens was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician and engineer.-Early years:...			1919	1921
Boris Skvirsky			1922	1933
Alexander Troyanovsky			20 November 1933	8 January 1934	1 October 1938
Konstantin Umansky Konstantin Umansky Konstantin Aleksandrovich Umansky , was a Soviet diplomat, editor, journalist and artist.-Biography:Umansky, who was Jewish, was born in Mykolaiv; he began studies at Moscow University in 1918, and joined the Russian Communist Party in 1919....		Plenipotentiary Representative Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	11 May 1939	6 June 1939	5 November 1941	From 11 May 1939 until 9 May 1941, Umansky was a Plenipotentiary Representative and from 9 May 1941 until the end of his diplomatic posting was Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.
Maxim Litvinov Maxim Litvinov Maxim Maximovich Litvinov was a Russian revolutionary and prominent Soviet diplomat.- Early life and first exile :...	100px	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	10 November 1941	8 December 1941	22 August 1943
Andrei Gromyko Andrei Gromyko Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko was a Soviet statesman during the Cold War. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet . Gromyko was responsible for many top decisions on Soviet foreign policy until he retired in 1987. In the West he was given the...		Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	22 August 1943	4 October 1943	11 April 1946
Nikolai Vasilevich Novikov		Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	11 April 1946	3 June 1946	25 October 1947
Alexander Panyushkin		Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	25 October 1947	31 December 1947	12 June 1952
Georgy Zarubin		Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	14 June 1952	25 September 1952	7 January 1958
Mikhail Menshikov		Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	7 January 1958	11 February 1958	4 January 1962
Anatoly Dobrynin Anatoly Dobrynin Anatoly Fyodorovich Dobrynin was a Russian statesman and a former Soviet diplomat and politician. He was Soviet Ambassador to the United States, serving from 1962 to 1986 and most notably during the Cuban Missile Crisis. He was appointed by Nikita Khrushchev....		Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	4 January 1962	30 March 1962	19 May 1986
Yury Dubinin		Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	19 May 1986		15 May 1990
Alexander Bessmertnykh		Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	15 May 1990		15 January 1991
Viktor Komplektov		Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	15 March 1991		26 December 1991
Source: Справочник по истории Коммунистической партии и Советского Союза 1898 - 1991

Ambassadors of the Russian Federation to the United States of America