List of ambassadors of India to Russia

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Ambassador of India to Russia
Emblem of India.svg
Incumbent
D.B. Venkatesh Varma
since 2018
SeatMoscow, Russia
Inaugural holderVijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Formation1947 (1947)

The following people have served as Ambassadors of India to Russia and its predecessor state, the Soviet Union:[1]

Ambassador of India to Soviet Union[]

Name Portrait Entered office Left office Notes
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit 1965b.jpg 1947 1949 First Woman President of the United Nations General Assembly (1953)
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Photograph of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan presented to First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy in 1962.jpg 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 Inder Kumar Gujral 071.jpg 1976 1980 12th Prime Minister of India (1997–1998)
V. K. Ahuja 1980 1983
Saiyid Nurul Hasan Saiyid Nurul Hasan 16.jpg 1983 1986 Governor of several Indian states
T. N. Kaul 1986 1989
A. S. Gonsalves 1989 1992

Ambassador of India to Russia[]

Name Image Entered office Left office Notes
Ronen Sen Defense.gov News Photo 070716-D-9880W-084 (cropped).jpg 1992 1998 Former Indian ambassador to US and High Commissioner to UK
S. K. Lambah 1998 2001
K. Raghunath 2001 2004
Kanwal Sibal The Indian Ambassador to Russia Mr. Kanwal Sibal exchanging the signed document on Intellectual Property Rights in the presence of the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh and the President of Russia, Mr. Vladimir Putin, in Moscow.jpg 2004 2007 24th Foreign Secretary of India (2001-02)
Prabhat Prakash Shukla 2007 2011
Ajai Malhotra Dmitry Medvedev with ambassadors 14 July 2011-8.jpeg 2011 2013
P. S. Raghavan 2014 2016
Pankaj Saran Pankaj Saran (cropped).jpg 2016 2018 Deputy National Security Advisor (2018-present)
Pawan kumar 2021 Present

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2018-08-28. Retrieved 2014-08-13.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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