List of ambassadors of India to Russia

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{{Infobox official post
|post = Ambassador
|body = India to Russia
|flag = Flag of India.svg
|incumbent = D.B. Venkatesh Varma
|incumbentsince = 2018
|seat = [[Moscow]], [[Russia]]
|formation = {{Start date|1947}}
|inaugural = [[Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit]]
}}

The following people have served as [[Ambassador]]s of [[India]] to [[Russia]] and its predecessor state, the [[Soviet Union]]:<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.indianembassy.ru/index.php/en/home/indian-ambassadors-to-russia |title=Archived copy |access-date=2014-08-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180828040813/http://www.indianembassy.ru/index.php/en/home/indian-ambassadors-to-russia |archive-date=2018-08-28 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Ambassador of India to [[Soviet Union]]==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name
! width=50|Portrait
! Entered office
! Left office
! Notes
|-
| [[Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit]]
| [[File:Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit 1965b.jpg|60px]]
| 1947
| 1949
| [[President of the United Nations General Assembly|First Woman President of the United Nations General Assembly]] (1953)
|-
| [[Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan]]
| [[File:Photograph of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan presented to First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy in 1962.jpg|60px]]
| 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]]
| [[File:Inder Kumar Gujral 071.jpg|60px]]
| 1976
| 1980
| 12th [[Prime Minister of India]] (1997–1998)
|-
| V. K. Ahuja
|
| 1980
| 1983
|
|-
| [[Saiyid Nurul Hasan]]
| [[File:Saiyid_Nurul_Hasan_16.jpg|60px]]
| 1983
| 1986
| [[Governors of states of India|Governor]] of several [[States and union territories of India|Indian states]]
|-
| [[T. N. Kaul]]
|
| 1986
| 1989
|
|-
| A. S. Gonsalves
|
| 1989
| 1992
|
|-
|}

==Ambassador of India to [[Russia]]==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name
! Entered office
! Left office
! Notes
|-
| [[Ronen Sen]] || 1992 || 1998
| Former [[List of ambassadors of India to the United States|Indian ambassador to US]] and [[List of High Commissioners of India to the United Kingdom|High Commissioner to UK]]
|-
| S. K. 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 (India)|National Security Advisor]] (2018-present)
|-
| D. Bala Venkatesh Varma || 2018 || ''[[Incumbent]]'' ||
|-
|}

== See also==
* [[Embassy of India School Moscow]]

== References ==
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{{Ambassadors of India}}

[[Category:Ambassadors of India to Russia| ]]
[[Category:Lists of ambassadors to Russia|India]]
[[Category:Lists of ambassadors of India|Russia]]

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