Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the United Arab Emirates | |
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سفير الاتحاد الروسي لدى الإمارات العربية المتحدة | |
Incumbent Timur Zabirov | |
Ministry of Foreign Affairs Embassy of Russia in Abu Dhabi | |
Style | His Excellency The Honourable |
Reports to | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
Seat | Abu Dhabi |
Appointer | President of Russia |
Term length | At the pleasure of the President |
Formation | 1986 |
First holder | Feliks Fedotov |
Website | Embassy of Russia in Abu Dhabi |
The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the United Arab Emirates is the official representative of the President and the Government of the Russian Federation to the President and the Government of the United Arab Emirates.
The ambassador and his staff work at large in the Embassy of Russia in Abu Dhabi. There is a Consulate General in Dubai, and a trade mission in the country.[1]
The post of Russian Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates is currently held by Timur Zabirov, incumbent since 30 August 2021.
Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and the United Arab Emirates were first established in December 1971.[2] However embassies were not established, nor ambassadors accredited, until 1986. Feliks Fedotov was the first ambassador, assigned to the post on 24 September 1986, and serving until 11 September 1990.[2] His successor, Konstantin Kharchev, was the sitting ambassador during the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, and continued as representative of the Russian Federation until 15 August 1992.[2]
Name | Title | Appointment | Termination | Notes |
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Feliks Fedotov | Ambassador | 24 September 1986 | 11 September 1990 | |
Samat Gilmutdinov | Ambassador | 23 September 2018 | Until now |
Name | Title | Appointment | Termination | Notes |
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Konstantin Kharchev | Ambassador | 25 December 1991 | 15 August 1992[3] | |
Oleg Derkovsky | Ambassador | 15 August 1992[4] | 30 January 1998[5] | |
Sergei Kirpichenko | Ambassador | 30 January 1998[6] | 30 November 2000[7] | |
Sergei Yakovlev | Ambassador | 30 November 2000[8] | 3 March 2006[9] | |
Andrey Zakharov | Ambassador | 3 March 2006[10] | 13 December 2008 | |
Andrey Andreyev | Ambassador | 23 July 2009[11] | 16 April 2013 | |
Aleksandr Yefimov | Ambassador | 16 April 2013[12] | 11 October 2018 | |
Sergei Kuznetsov | Ambassador | 4 April 2019[13] | 16 January 2021[14] | |
Timur Zabirov | Ambassador | 30 August 2021 |