List of ambassadors of India to Russia
Appearance
Ambassador of India to Russia | |
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Incumbent since 2024Vinay Kumar | |
Seat | Moscow, Russia |
Inaugural holder | Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit |
Formation | 1947 |
The following people have served as ambassadors of India to Russia and its predecessor state, the Soviet Union:[1]
Ambassador of India to the Soviet Union
[edit]Name | Portrait | Entered office | Left office | Notes |
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Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit | ![]() |
1947 | 1949 | First Woman President of the United Nations General Assembly (1953) |
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan | ![]() |
1949 | 1952 | 2nd President of India (1962–1967) |
Kumara Padma Sivasankara Menon | 1952 | 1961 | ||
Subimal Dutt | 1961 | 1962 | ||
T. N. Kaul | 1962 | 1966 | ||
Kewal Singh | 1966 | 1968 | ||
Durga Prasad Dhar | 1969 | 1971 | ||
K. S. Shelvankar | 1971 | 1975 | ||
Durga Prasad Dhar | 1975 | 1975 | ||
Inder Kumar Gujral | ![]() |
1976 | 1980 | 12th Prime Minister of India (1997–1998) |
V. K. Ahuja | 1980 | 1983 | ||
Saiyid Nurul Hasan | ![]() |
1983 | 1986 | Governor of several Indian states |
T. N. Kaul | 1986 | 1989 | ||
A. S. Gonsalves | 1989 | 1992 |
Ambassador of India to Russia
[edit]Name | Image | Entered office | Left office | Notes |
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Ronen Sen | ![]() |
1992 | 1998 | Later High Commissioner of India to the United Kingdom and Ambassador of India to the United States. |
Satinder Kumar Lambah | 1998 | 2001 | ||
K. Raghunath | 2001 | 2004 | ||
Kanwal Sibal | ![]() |
2004 | 2007 | 24th Foreign Secretary of India (2001-02) |
Prabhat Prakash Shukla | 2007 | 2011 | ||
Ajai Malhotra | ![]() |
2011 | 2013 | |
P. S. Raghavan | 2014 | 2016 | ||
Pankaj Saran | ![]() |
2016 | 2018 | Deputy National Security Advisor (2018-2022) |
D. Bala Venkatesh Varma | ![]() |
2018 | 2021 | |
Pavan Kapoor | ![]() |
2021 | 2024 | Deputy National Security Advisor (2024-Incumbent) |
Vinay Kumar | 2024 | Incumbent |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Indian Ambassadors to Russia". Archived from the original on 2018-08-28. Retrieved 2014-08-13.