Pakistan and the Soviet Union established diplomatic relations in 1948. Pakistan’s first Ambassador, Mr. Shuaib Qureshi, arrived in Moscow in December 1949. Since then, twenty-twoAmbassadors, including some well-known personalities such as Sahibzada Yaqoob Khan, Jamshed Marker, Abdul Sattar and Ashraf Jehangir Qazi, have served in Moscow.
The list of Ambassadors of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan to Russia (and former Soviet Union):
1.
Mr. Shuaib Qureshi
December 1949 – July 1952
2.
Mr. Akhtar Hussain
July 1956 – May 1959
3.
Mr. Agha Hilaly
June 1959 – September 1961
4.
Mr. M. Arshad Hussain
September 1961 – September 1963
5.
Mr. Athar Iqbal
October 1963 – August 1966
6.
Mr. Salman A. Ali
October 1966 – November 1969
7.
Mr. Jamshed K. A. Marker
December 1969 – March 1972
8.
Mr. S.K. Dehlvi (senior)
March 1972 – May 1975
9.
Mr. Sajjad Hyder
June 1975 – January 1979
10.
Mr. Sahibzada Yaqoob Khan
January 1979 – October 1980
11.
Mr. Iftikhar Ali
December 1980 – September 1984
12.
Mr. Shahid M. Amin
October 1984 – August 1988
13.
Mr. Abdul Sattar
August 1988 – November 1990
14.
Mr. Ashraf Jehangir Qazi
Mid-1991 – September 1994
15.
Mr. Tanveer A. Khan
October 1994 – January 1997
16.
Mr. Mansoor Alam
April 1997 – 20 July 2000
17.
Mr. S. Iftikhar Murshed
28 August 2000 – 20 April 2005
18.
Mr. Mustafa Kamal Kazi
21 April 2005 – 20 April 2008
19.
Mr. M. Khalid Khattak
22 July 2008 – 21 January 2013
20.
Mr. Alamgir Babar
19 February 2013 –04 January 2014
21.
Mr. Zaheer A. Janjua
12 May 2014 – 30 January 2016
22.
Mr. Qazi M. Khalilullah
12 March 2016 – 31 December 2019
23.
Mr. Shafqat Ali Khan
March 2020 – to date
The list of Ambassadors of the Russian Federation (and former Soviet Union) to Pakistan:
Mr. Ivan Bakulin
November 1949 – February 1950
Mr. Alexander Stetsenko
February 1950 – January 1956
Mr. Ivan Shpedko
January 1956 – February 1960
Mr. Mikhail Kapitsa
February 1960 – November 1961
Mr. Alexey Nesterenko
November 1961 – August 1965
Mr. Mikhail Degtyar
August 1965 – May 1971
Mr. Alexey Rodionov
May 1971 – December 1974
Mr. Sarvar Azimov
December 1974 – July 1980
Mr. Vitaliy Smirnov
July 1980 – May 1985
Mr. Abdurakhman Vezirov
May 1985 – July 1988
Mr. Viktor Yakunin
July 1988 – December 1991
December 1991 – April 1993
Mr. Alexandr Alexeev
April 1993 – September 1998
Mr. Andrei Gulyaev
September 1998 – December 1999
Mr. Edward Shevchenko
June 2000 – July 2004
Mr. Sergey Peskov
July 2004 – September 2008
Mr. Andrey Budnik
September 2008 – December 2013
Mr. Alexey Dedov
December 2013 – April 2019
Mr. Danila Ganich
April 2019 – to date