List of ambassadors of Russia to Serbia

Diplomatic relations between the forerunners of the modern states of Serbia and Russia date back to the early nineteenth century. The Russian Empire supported the Principality of Serbia against the Ottoman Empire. Prince Vasily Dolgorukov was sent with a special mission in 1837, and in 1838, Russia opened a consulate in Belgrade, upgraded to a consulate general in 1839.^[3][4] Gerasim Vashchenko was appointed the first consul, later consul general, to Serbia.^[3][4]

Diplomatic exchanges continued throughout the nineteenth century and into the twentieth, but were broken off after the October Revolution in 1917 brought the Bolshevik regime to power. Over the next few decades the Soviet Union was established, incorporating Russia, while Serbia became part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. The Soviet Union established relations with Yugoslavia and appointed ambassadors to it from 1940 onwards. The dissolution of the Soviet Union occurred in 1991, while the then Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia broke up in 1992. The Republic of Serbia remained one of the two surviving entities of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, along with the Republic of Montenegro, being known as the state of Serbia and Montenegro from 2003. In 2006 Montenegro voted for independence, and became the independent state of Montenegro. The incumbent ambassador to Serbia and Montenegro, Aleksandr Alekseyev [ru], continued as ambassador to Serbia, while a new ambassador, Yakov Gerasimov [ru], was appointed ambassador to Montenegro in 2007.^[5]