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{{Short description|Person who represents the Russian Federation to the United Nations}}
The '''Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations''' is the leader of [[Permanent Mission of Russia to the United Nations|Russia's diplomatic mission to the United Nations]].{{Infobox political post
|post                     = Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations
|insignia                 = MID emblem.png
|insigniasize             = 150px
|insigniacaption          = Emblem of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia
|image                    = Vasily Nebenzya (2020-02-03).jpg
|imagesize                = 175px
|incumbent                = [[Vasily Nebenzya]]
|acting                   = no
|incumbentsince           = July 27, 2017
|appointer                = [[President of Russia]]
|appointer_qualified      = 
|termlength               =at the pleasure of the President 
|formation                =December 20, 1945
(72 years ago) 
|first                    = [[Andrey Gromyko]]
|website                  = {{URL|http://russiaun.ru/ru}}
|Reports to=National Security Council|Style=His Excellency (formal)

Mr. Ambassador (informal|Body=Ministry of Foreign Affairs}}
[[Vasily Nebenzya]] is charged with representing [[Russia]] in the [[United Nations Security Council]] and the formal meetings of the [[United Nations General Assembly]] except the rare occasion when the most senior officials of Russia are present (such as the [[President of Russia]] or the [[Minister of Foreign Affairs (Russia)|Minister of Foreign Affairs]]). The ambassador must be nominated by the President and confirmed by the [[Federation Council (Russia)|Federation Council]].

The position of Russian/Soviet Permanent Representative to the United Nations is the highest position among all the [[Russian ambassadors]]. They serve in various organizations and countries at the pleasure of the president.

Vasily Nebenzya was nominated to the position by President [[Vladimir Putin]] and was confirmed by the Federation Council. He has been serving since July 27, 2017.

== Permanent Representatives of the Soviet Union to the United Nations ==

{| class=wikitable style="text-align:center;"
|- valign="middle"
! #
! Photo
! Name<ref name="unmission">{{cite web|url=http://www.un.int/russia/new/MainRoot/fotoppen.html|title=Permanent Representatives of the USSR and the Russian Federation to the UN|publisher=Permanent Mission of Russia to the United Nations|access-date=2009-08-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090510081538/http://www.un.int/russia/new/MainRoot/fotoppen.html|archive-date=2009-05-10|url-status=dead}}</ref>
! Date appointed
! Date presented<BR>credentials
! Date until
! U.N. Secretary-General
! Leader
|- style="font-weight:bold; background-color: #DDDDDD"
|-
| 1 || [[File:Andrei Gromyko 1972.jpg|100px]] || [[Andrey Gromyko]] || 10 April 1946 || || May 1948 ||rowspan=3| {{flagicon|NOR}} [[Trygve Lie]] ||rowspan=4| [[Joseph Stalin]]
|-
| 2 || [[File:Yakov Malik 1952.jpg|100px]] || [[Yakov Malik]] || May 1948 || || October 1952
|-
|rowspan=2| 3 ||rowspan=2|  [[File:Valerian Zorin 1962b.jpg|100px]] ||rowspan=2| [[Valerian Zorin]] ||rowspan=2| October 1952 ||rowspan=2| ||rowspan=2| March 1953 
|-
|rowspan=5| {{flagicon|SWE}} [[Dag Hammarskjöld]]
|-
|rowspan=2| 4 ||rowspan=2| [[File:Vyshinskiy AYa.jpg|100px]] ||rowspan=2| [[Andrey Vyshinsky]] ||rowspan=2|  March 1953 ||rowspan=2| ||rowspan=2| 22 November 1954<br>{{small|(Died in office)}} ||[[Georgy Malenkov]]
|-
|rowspan=5|[[Nikita Khrushchev]]
|-
| 5 ||  [[File:Coat of arms of the Soviet Union (1946-1956).svg|100px]] || [[Arkady Sobolev]] || 1955 || 12 April 1955<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.unmultimedia.org/photo/detail/123/0123881.html|title=New Soviet Representative to UN Presents Credentials |date=12 April 1955|location=[[United Nations]], [[New York City]]|publisher=[[United Nations]]|access-date=2009-08-02}}</ref> || 1960
|-
|rowspan=2| 6 ||rowspan=2| [[File:Valerian Zorin 1962b.jpg|100px]]  ||rowspan=2| [[Valerian Zorin]] ||rowspan=2| 1960 ||rowspan=2| ||rowspan=2| 1963
|-
|rowspan=4|{{flagicon|Burma|1974}} [[U Thant]]
|-
|rowspan=2| 7 ||rowspan=2| [[File:Nikolai Fedorenko (cropped).JPG|100px]] ||rowspan=2| [[Nikolai Fedorenko]] ||rowspan=2| 1963 ||rowspan=2| 7 January 1963<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.unmultimedia.org/photo/detail/123/0123891.html|title=New Permanent Representative of the USSR Presents Credentials |date=7 January 1963|location=[[United Nations]], [[New York City]]|publisher=[[United Nations]]|access-date=2009-08-02}}</ref> ||rowspan=2| 1968
|-
|rowspan=4|[[Leonid Brezhnev]]
|-
|rowspan=2| 8 ||rowspan=2| [[File:Yakov Malik 1970.jpg|100px]] ||rowspan=2| [[Yakov Malik]] ||rowspan=2| 1968 ||rowspan=2| ||rowspan=2| November 1976
|-
|rowspan=2|{{flagicon|AUT}} [[Kurt Waldheim]]
|-
|rowspan=4| 9 ||rowspan=4| [[File:Oleg Troyanovsky (cropped).jpg|100px]] ||rowspan=4| [[Oleg Troyanovsky]] ||rowspan=4| November 1976 ||rowspan=4| 6 January 1977<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.unmultimedia.org/photo/detail/123/0123864.html|title=New Permanent Representative of the Soviet Union Presents Credentials |date=6 January 1977|location=[[United Nations]], [[New York City]]|publisher=[[United Nations]]|access-date=2009-08-02}}</ref> ||rowspan=4| March 1986
|-
|rowspan=6|{{flagicon|PER}} [[Javier Pérez de Cuéllar]] || [[Yury Andropov]]
|-
|[[Konstantin Chernenko]]
|-
|rowspan=4|[[Mikhail Gorbachyov]]
|-
| 10 || [[File:Reagan and Dubinin at the Soviet Embassy.png|100px]] || [[Yuri Dubinin]] || March 1986 || 20 March 1986<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.unmultimedia.org/photo/detail/123/0123867.html|title=Ambassador Yuri V. Dubinin Presents Credentials |date=20 March 1986|location=[[United Nations]], [[New York City]]|publisher=[[United Nations]]|access-date=2009-08-02}}</ref> || May 1986
|-
| 11 || [[File:State Emblem of the Soviet Union.svg|100px]] || [[Alexander Belonogov]] || 1986 || || 1990
|-
| 12 || [[File:Yuli Vorontsov (cropped).jpg|100px]] || [[Yuli Vorontsov]] || 1990 || 22 May 1990<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.unmultimedia.org/photo/detail/123/0123872.html|title=New Permanent Representative of Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Presents Credentials|date=22 May 1990|location=[[United Nations]], [[New York City]]|publisher=[[United Nations]]|access-date=2009-08-02}}</ref> || 1991
|}

== Permanent Representatives of the Russian Federation to the United Nations ==

{| class=wikitable style="text-align:center;"
|- valign="middle"
! #
! Photo
! Name<ref name="unmission" />
! Date appointed
! Date presented<BR>credentials
! Date until
! U.N. Secretary-General
! President
|- style="font-weight:bold; background-color: #DDDDDD"
|-
|rowspan=2| 12 ||rowspan=2| [[File:Yuli Vorontsov (cropped).jpg|100px]] ||rowspan=2| [[Yuli Vorontsov]] ||rowspan=2| 26 December 1991 ||rowspan=2| — ||rowspan=2| 7 July 1994 || {{flagicon|PER}} [[Javier Pérez de Cuéllar]] ||rowspan=3| [[Boris Yeltsin]]
|-
|rowspan=2|{{flagicon|EGY}} [[Boutros Boutros-Ghali]]
|-
|rowspan=2| 13 ||rowspan=2| [[File:Evstafiev-Sergey-Lavrov.jpg|100px]] ||rowspan=2| [[Sergey Lavrov]] ||rowspan=2| 7 July 1994 ||rowspan=2| 22 September 1994<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/modelun/amb.html|title=Sergey Lavrov|publisher=[[United Nations]]|access-date=2009-08-02}}</ref> ||rowspan=2| 12 July 2004
|-
|rowspan=3|{{flagicon|GHA}} [[Kofi Annan]] ||rowspan=3| [[Vladimir Putin]]
|-
| 14 || [[File:Andrey Denisov (2018).jpg|100px]] || [[Andrey Denisov]] || 12 July 2004<ref>{{Cite Russian law
|ru_entity=Президент Российской Федерации
|ru_type=Указ
|ru_number=873
|ru_date=12.07.2004
|ru_title=О назначении Денисова А.И. Постоянным Представителем Российской Федерации при Организации Объединенных Наций в Нью-Йорке, США, и Представителем Российской Федерации в Совете Безопасности Организации Объединенных Наций
|ru_url=http://document.kremlin.ru/doc.asp?ID=023403
|en_entity=[[President of Russia]]
|en_type=[[Ukaz]]
|en_number=873
|en_date=12.07.2004
|en_title=On the appointment of A.I. Denisov as the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation at the United Nations Organisation in New York, USA, and the Representative of the Russian Federation in the United Nations Organisation Security Council
|en_url=http://document.kremlin.ru/doc.asp?ID=023403
}}</ref> || 3 August 2004<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2004/bio3587.doc.htm|title=New Permanent Representative of Russian Federation presents credentials|date=3 August 2004|publisher=[[United Nations]]|access-date=2009-08-02}}</ref> || 8 April 2006<ref>{{Cite Russian law
|ru_entity=Президент Российской Федерации
|ru_type=Указ
|ru_number=334
|ru_date=08.04.2006
|ru_title=О Денисове А.И.
|ru_url=http://document.kremlin.ru/doc.asp?ID=033119
|en_entity=[[President of Russia]]
|en_type=[[Ukaz]]
|en_number=334
|en_date=08.04.2006
|en_title=On A.I. Denisov
|en_url=http://document.kremlin.ru/doc.asp?ID=033119
}}</ref>
|-
|rowspan=3| 15 ||rowspan=3| [[File:Amb Vitaly I. Churkin (cropped).jpg|100px]] ||rowspan=3|[[Vitaly Churkin]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.un.int/russia/new/MainRoot/churkin.html|title=Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN|publisher=Permanent Mission of Russia to the United Nations|access-date=2009-08-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090711113114/http://www.un.int/russia/new/MainRoot/churkin.html|archive-date=2009-07-11|url-status=dead}}</ref> ||rowspan=3| 8 April 2006 ||rowspan=3| 1 May 2006<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2006/bio3763.doc.htm|title=New Permanent Representative of Russian Federation presents credentials|date=1 May 2006|publisher=[[United Nations]]|access-date=2009-08-02}}</ref> ||rowspan=3| 20 February 2017<ref>{{cite news|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2017/02/20/europe/russia-un-ambassador-vitaly-churkin-dead/index.html?sr=twCNN022017russia-un-ambassador-vitaly-churkin-dead0540PMStoryLink&linkId=34690750|title=Vitaly Churkin, Russia's ambassador to UN, dies suddenly at 64|date=20 February 2017|publisher=[[CNN]]|access-date=2017-02-20}}</ref><br>{{small|(Died in office)}}
|-
|{{flagicon|KOR}} [[Ban Ki-moon]] || [[Dmitry Medvedev]]
|-
|rowspan=3|{{flagicon|POR}} [[António Guterres]] ||rowspan=3| [[Vladimir Putin]]
|-
| — || [[File:Pyotr Ilichov (cropped).jpg|100px]]||[[Pyotr Ilichov]]<br>{{small|(acting)}} || 20 February 2017 || — || 26 July 2017
|-
| 16 || [[File:Vasily Nebenzya (2020-02-03).jpg|100px]]||[[Vasily Nebenzya]]|| 27 July 2017<ref>{{cite web|title=Указ Президента Российской Федерации №340 от 26 июля 2017 года «О Постоянном представителе Российской Федерации при Организации Объединенных Наций в Нью-Йорке, США, и Представителе Российской Федерации в Совете Безопасности Организации Объединенных Наций|date=27 July 2017 |url=http://kremlin.ru/acts/news/55152|publisher=kremlin.ru|access-date=27 July 2017}}</ref> || 28 July 2017<ref>{{cite web|title=О встрече Постоянного представителя России при ООН В.А.Небензи и Генерального секретаря Организации Объединенных Наций Антониу Гутерреша|date=28 July 2017 |url=http://russiaun.ru/ru/news/pr_crd|publisher=russiaun.ru/ru|access-date=28 July 2017}}</ref> || Incumbent
|}

== See also ==
* [[The Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the United Nations in New York]]

== References ==
{{reflist|2}}

== External links ==
* {{in lang|en|ru}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20100118151245/http://www.un.int/russia/ Permanent Representative of Russia to the United Nations]

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