Ambassador of theRussian Federation to theRepublic of Korea
Emblem of the Russian Foreign Ministry
Incumbent Georgy Zinoviev since 7 December 2023
Ministry of Foreign Affairs Embassy of Russia in Seoul
Style	His Excellency
Reports to	Minister of Foreign Affairs
Seat	Seoul
Appointer	President of Russia
Term length	At the pleasure of the president
Website	Russian Embassy in South Korea

Theambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Korea is the official representative of thepresident and thegovernment of the Russian Federation to thepresident and thegovernment of South Korea.

The ambassador and his staff work at large in theEmbassy of Russia inSeoul.^[1] There is aconsulate general inBusan.^[2] The post of Russian ambassador to South Korea is currently held byGeorgy Zinoviev, incumbent 7 December 2023.^[3]

TheRussian Empire established relations with theJoseon Dynasty in 1884.^[4] However Korea was deprived of its right to conduct independent foreign policy by theJapan-Korea Treaty of 1905, while the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (the eventual successor to the Russian Empire) did not formally recognise theProvisional Government of the Republic of Korea in exile.^{[citation needed]} In 1948, three years after the end ofJapanese rule in Korea, the USSR recognised only one government on theKorean peninsula—the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, commonlyNorth Korea.^[5] In September 1990, towards the end of its existence, the USSR established relations with the Republic of Korea (commonly known asSouth Korea).^[6]

• Karl Ivanovich Weber, appointed 14 October 1885

• Karl Ivanovich Weber (as above)
• Alexey Shpeyer, appointed 28 March 1898^[4]
• Paul Pavlov,^[7] appointed 13 December 1898.^[4]

• Russia-Korea Treaty of 1884
• List of diplomatic missions in South Korea
• List of ambassadors of Russia to North Korea

• Halleck, Henry Wager. (1861).International law: or, Rules regulating the intercourse of states in peace and war New York: D. Van Nostrand.OCLC 852699
• Kim, Chun-gil. (2005).The History of Korea. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press.ISBN 9780313332968;ISBN 9780313038532;OCLC 217866287
• Korean Mission to the Conference on the Limitation of Armament, Washington, D.C., 1921-1922. (1922).Korea's Appeal to the Conference on Limitation of Armament. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office.OCLC 12923609
• Seung-Ho Joo and Tae-Hwan Kwak. (2001).Korea in the 21st Century. Huntington, N.Y.: Nova Science Publishers.ISBN 9781560729907;OCLC 47200831
• Warner, Denis Ashton and Peggy Warner. (1974).The Tide at Sunrise: a History of the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905. New York: Charterhouse.OCLC 422325975

• Lists of ambassadors of Russia
• Ambassadors of Russia to South Korea
• Lists of ambassadors to South Korea

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