List of Ambassadors of Russia to the United Kingdom
This is a list of heads of mission from Russia to the United Kingdom.
From the Russian Empire
- 1706-1708: Andrei Artamonovich Matveev
- 1710-1712: Boris Ivanovich Kurakin
- 1717-1720: Fedor Pavlovich Veselovskii
- 1720 : Mikhail Petrovich Bestuzhev-Riumin
- 1700–1721: Great Northern War
- 1731-1738: Antoikh Dmitrievich Kantemir
- 1739-1742: Ivan Andreevich Shcherbatov
- 1742-1743: Semen Kirillovich Naryshkin
- 1743-1746: Ivan Andreevich Shcherbatov (again)
- 1746-1755: Petr Grigorevich Chernyshev
- 1754-1763: Seven Years' War
- 1762-1764: Aleksandr Romanovich Vorontsov
- 1764-1765: Genrikh Ivanovich Gross
- 1765-1766: Fedor Ivanovich Gross
- 1765-1768: Aleksei Semenovich Musin-Pushkin
- 1768-1769: Ivan Grigorevich Chernyshev
- 1779-1784: Ivan Matveevich Simolin
- 1784-1800: Semen Romanovich Vorontsov
- 1800 : Vasilii Grigorevich Lizakevich
- 1800 : Iakov Ivanovich Smirnov
- 1801-1806: Semen Romanovich Vorontsov (again)
- 1806 : Pavel Aleksandrovich Stroganov
- 1806-1808: Maksim Maksimovich Alopeus
- 1807–1812: Anglo-Russian War (1807–1812)
- 1812-1834: Khristofor Andreevich Liven
- 1830-1834: pl:Andrzej Matuszewicz (dyplomata): London Conference of 1832
- 1835-1839: Karl Osipovich Pozzo di Borgo
- 1839-1840: Nikolai Dmitrievich Kiselev
- 1840-1854: Filipp Ivanovich Brunnov
- October 1853 – February 1856: Crimean War
- 1856-1857: Mikhail Irineevich Khreptovich
- 1860-1870: Filipp Ivanovich Brunnov (again)
- 1870-1874: Filipp Ivanovich Brunnov (again)
- 1874-1879: Petr Andreevich Shuvalov
- 1879-1882: Aleksei Borisovich Lobanov-Rostovskii
- 1882-1884: Artur Pavlovich Morengeim
- 1884-1902: Egor Egorovich Staal
- 1904-1907: Sergei Dmitrievich Sazonov
- 1902-1916: Aleksandr Konstantinovich Benkendorf
- 1917 : Konstantin Dmitrievich Nabokov
From Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union
- 1918 : Maxim Litvinov (unaccredited)
- 1920-1923: Leonid Krasin (unaccredited)
- 1923-1925: Christian Rakovsky (accredited from 1 February 1924)
- 1925-1926: Leonid Krasin
- 1926-1927: Arkady Rosengolts
- 1929-1932: Grigori Sokolnikov
- 1932-1943: Ivan Maisky
- 1943-1946: Fedor Tarasovich Gusev
- 1946-1952: Georgiy Nikolaevich Zarubin
- 1952-1953: Andrei Gromyko
- 1953-1960: Yakov Malik
- 1960-1966: Aleksandr Alekseevich Soldatov
- 1966-1973: Mikhail Smirnovsky
- 1973-1980: Nikolay Mitrofanovich Lunkov
- 1980-1986: Viktor Ivanovich Popov
- 1986-1991: Leonid Zamyatin
From the Russian Federation
- 1991-1994: Boris Dmitrievich Pankin
- 1994-1997: Anatoliy Leonidovich Adamishin
- 1997-2000: Yuriy Evgenevich Fokin
- 2000-2005: Grigoriy Borisovich Karasin
- 2005-2010: Yury Viktorovich Fedotov
- 2010- : Alexander Vladimirovich Yakovenko