List of Ambassadors of Russia and the Soviet Union to Afghanistan

This is a list of Ambassadors to Afghanistan of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union and the Russian Federation:

Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

• Yakov Zakharovich Surits; 23 June 1919 - 1921
• Fyodor Fyodorovich Raskolnikov; 16 July 1921 - 6 February 1924

Soviet Union

• Leonid Nikolayevich Stark; 22 April 1924 - 16 April 1936
• Boris Evseyevich Skvirsky; 16 April 1936 - 1 November 1937
• Konstantin Aleksandrovich Mikhailov; 24 December 1937 - 1 September 1943
• Ivan Nikolayevich Bakulin; 10 November 1943 - 20 June 1947
• Ivan Vasilyevich Samylovsky; 23 June 1947 - 27 May 1948
• Ivan Alekseyevich Ivanov; 27 May 1948 - 11 July 1948
• Artemy Fyodorovich Fyodorov; 4 November 1948 - 10 July 1953
• Mikhail Vasilyevich Degtyar; 10 July 1953 - 3 March 1960
• Sergey Fyodorovich Antonov; 3 March 1960 - 6 October 1965
• Konstantin Ivanovich Aleksandrov; 6 October 1965 - 12 November 1969
• Sergey Petrovich Kiktev; 12 November 1969 - 3 October 1972
• Aleksandr Mikhailovich Puzanov; 3 October 1972 - 5 November 1979
• Fikryat Akhmedzhanovich Tabeyev; 5 November 1979 - 13 August 1986
• Pavel Petrovich Mozhayev; 13 August 1986 - 15 March 1988
• Nikolay Grigoriyevich Egorichev; 15 March 1988 - 14 October 1988
• Yuly Mikhailovich Vorontsov; 14 October 1988 - 15 September 1989
• Boris Nikolayevich Pastukhov; 15 September 1989 - 25 December 1991

Russian Federation

• Boris Nikolayevich Pastukhov; 25 December 1991 - 24 January 1992
• Yevgeny Dmitriyevich Ostrovenko; 24 January 1992 - 31 December 1992
• Mikhail Alekseyevich Konarovsky; 21 February 2002 - 17 February 2004
• Zamir Nabiyevich Kabulov; 17 February 2004 - 21 September 2009
• Andrey Avetisyan; 21 September 2009 – Present

External links

• (English) (Russian) (Persian) Embassy of Russia to Afghanistan
• (Russian) Полномочное представительство - Посольство СССР в Афганистане