Ambassador of theRussian Federation to theKingdom of Belgium
Emblem of the Russian Foreign Ministry
Incumbent Denis Gonchar since 29 July 2025
Ministry of Foreign Affairs Embassy of Russia in Brussels
Style	His Excellency The Honourable
Reports to	Minister of Foreign Affairs
Seat	Brussels
Appointer	President of Russia
Term length	At the pleasure of the president
Formation	1853
First holder	Mikhail Khreptovich [ru]
Website	Embassy of Russia in Belgium

Theambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Kingdom of Belgium is the official representative of thepresident and thegovernment of the Russian Federation to theking and thegovernment of Belgium.

The ambassador and his staff work at large in theEmbassy of Russia inBrussels.^[1] There is aconsulate general inAntwerp.^[2] As of September 2025,Denis Gonchar is the Russian ambassador to Belgium. He presented his credentials toKing Philippe on 17 September 2025.^[3]

Diplomatic relations between theRussian Empire and Belgium were first established in 1853, with the first envoy to Belgium,Mikhail Khreptovich [ru], appointed on 11 April 1853. The last imperial envoy,Dmitry Nelidov [ru], continued to represent Russia as an agent of theRussian Provisional Government after theFebruary Revolution in 1917, but ceased to be recognised by the new Soviet government after theOctober Revolution later that year. Diplomatic relations were established between theSoviet Union and Belgium in 1935, and a new representative,Yevgeny Rubinin [ru] was appointed on 2 November that year. His tenure came to an end with theGerman invasion and subsequentoccupation of Belgium in 1940. Relations were restored once more in 1941 after the Soviet Union entered the war on the side of theallies, withAleksandr Bogomolov [ru] appointed envoy to theBelgian government in exile in London. By early 1943 the mission had been upgraded to an embassy. Relations continued after the war, and with thedissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the incumbent Soviet ambassador,Nikolai Afanasevsky [ru], continued as the representative of the Russian Federation until 1994.^{[4][5][6][7][8]}

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