List of ambassadors of Russia to Cambodia

The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Kingdom of Cambodia is the official representative of the President and the Government of the Russian Federation to the King and the Government of Cambodia.[1]

Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the Kingdom of Cambodia គ្គរដ្ឋទូតនៃសហព័ន្ធរុស្ស៊ីចក្រកម្ពុជា
Emblem of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Incumbent Dmitry Tsvetkov since 7 November 2013
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Style	His Excellency
Seat	Phnom Penh
Appointer	The President
Term length	At the pleasure of the President
Website	Embassy of Russia in Phnom Penh

The ambassador and his staff work at large in the Embassy of Russia in Phnom Penh.[2] The post of Russian Ambassador to Cambodia is currently held by Dmitry Tsvetkov, incumbent since 7 November 2013.[3]

History of diplomatic relations

Until 1953 Cambodia was under the French rule, gaining independence from France on 9 November 1953. The Soviet Union and Cambodia established diplomatic relations on 13 May 1956. In October 1956 the Soviet Union appointed Aleksandr Anikin as its first representative to Cambodia. Anikin served until 1959.

In 1970 the Soviet Union recalled all its diplomats, including the ambassador, from Cambodia and diplomatic relations between the two countries were interrupted. They resumed in April 1979.

List of representatives (1956 – present)

Representatives of the Soviet Union to Cambodia (1956 – 1991)

Name	Title	Appointment	Termination	Leader of the Soviet Union/ President of Russia	Notes
Aleksandr Anikin	Ambassador	2 October 1956	6 May 1959	Nikita Khrushchev
Aleksandr Abramov	Ambassador	6 May 1959	2 February 1962	Nikita Khrushchev
Konstantin Krutikov	Ambassador	2 February 1962	26 April 1965	Nikita Khrushchev Leonid Brezhnev
Anatoly Ratanov	Ambassador	26 April 1965	14 November 1967	Leonid Brezhnev
Sergei Kudryavtsev	Ambassador	14 November 1967	15 July 1971	Leonid Brezhnev
Diplomatic relations interrupted (1971 - 1979)
Oleg Bostorin	Ambassador	14 May 1979	28 January 1985	Leonid Brezhnev Yuri Andropov Konstantin Chernenko
Yury Razdukhov	Ambassador	28 January 1985	21 April 1988	Mikhail Gorbachev
Rashit Khamidulin	Ambassador	21 April 1988	8 August 1990	Mikhail Gorbachev
Yury Myakotnyh	Ambassador	8 August 1990	25 December 1991	Mikhail Gorbachev Boris Yeltsin

Representatives of the Russian Federation to Cambodia (1991 – present)

Name	Title	Appointment	Termination	Leader of the Soviet Union/ President of Russia	Notes
Yury Myakotnyh	Ambassador	25 December 1991	23 August 1994	Boris Yeltsin
Vadim Serafimov	Ambassador	23 August 1994	12 April 1999	Boris Yeltsin
Viktor Samoilenko	Ambassador	12 April 1999	29 July 2004	Boris Yeltsin Vladimir Putin
Valery Tereshchenko	Ambassador	29 July 2004	25 May 2009	Vladimir Putin Dmitry Medvedev
Aleksandr Ignatov	Ambassador	25 May 2009	7 November 2013	Dmitry Medvedev Vladimir Putin
Dmitry Tsvetkov	Ambassador	7 November 2013		Vladimir Putin

See also

• Foreign relations of Russia
• Foreign relations of Cambodia

References

1. "Russian-Cambodian relations" (in Russian). Embassy of Russia in Phnom Penh. Retrieved 2009-02-18.
2. "Embassy of the Russian Federation in the Kingdom of Cambodia". Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia). Retrieved 9 October 2019.
3. "Ambassador of the Russian Federation". Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia). Retrieved 9 October 2019.

External

• (in English and Russian) Embassy of Russia to Cambodia