List of Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Russia

The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Russia (Russian: Британский Посол в России) is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in the Russian Federation, and in charge of the UK's diplomatic mission in Russia. The official title is Her Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the Russian Federation.

Between 1844 and 1860 the status of the head of mission in Saint Petersburg was reduced from Ambassador to Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. The capital of Russia, and later the Soviet Union (from 1922 to 1991), was moved to Moscow in 1918.

The current Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Russia is "Her Excellency Dame Anne Pringle" who was appointed in 2008

List of heads of mission

For the envoys to Russia from the Court of St James's before the creation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in 1801, see List of Ambassadors of the Kingdom of England to Russia (for the period until 1707) and List of ambassadors of Great Britain to Russia (for the years 1707 to 1800).

Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

1800-1801: Diplomatic Relations were suspended during the Second League of Armed Neutrality.

• 1801–1802: Alleyne Fitzherbert, 1st Baron St Helens>S. T. Bindoff, E. F. Malcolm Smith and C. K. Webster, British Diplomatic Representatives 1789-1852 (Camden 3rd Series, 50, 1934).
• 1802–1804: Sir John Borlase Warren<ref......
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