Ambassador of India to Russia
Incumbent Vinay Kumar since 2024
Seat	Moscow, Russia
Inaugural holder	Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Formation	1947 (1947)

The following people have served as ambassadors of India to Russia and its predecessor state, the Soviet Union:^[1]

Name	Portrait	Entered office	Left office	Notes
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit		1947	1949	First Woman President of the United Nations General Assembly (1953)
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan		1949	1952	2nd President of India (1962–1967)
Kumara Padma Sivasankara Menon		1952	1961
Subimal Dutt		1961	1962
T. N. Kaul		1962	1966
Kewal Singh		1966	1968
Durga Prasad Dhar		1969	1971
K. S. Shelvankar		1971	1975
Durga Prasad Dhar		1975	1975
Inder Kumar Gujral		1976	1980	12th Prime Minister of India (1997–1998)
V. K. Ahuja		1980	1983
Saiyid Nurul Hasan		1983	1986	Governor of several Indian states
T. N. Kaul		1986	1989
A. S. Gonsalves		1989	1992

Name	Image	Entered office	Left office	Notes
Ronen Sen		1992	1998	Later High Commissioner of India to the United Kingdom and Ambassador of India to the United States.
Satinder Kumar Lambah		1998	2001
K. Raghunath		2001	2004
Kanwal Sibal		2004	2007	24th Foreign Secretary of India (2001-02)
Prabhat Prakash Shukla		2007	2011
Ajai Malhotra		2011	2013
P. S. Raghavan		2014	2016
Pankaj Saran		2016	2018	Deputy National Security Advisor (2018-2022)
D. Bala Venkatesh Varma		2018	2021
Pavan Kapoor		2021	2024	Deputy National Security Advisor (2024-Incumbent)
Vinay Kumar		2024	Incumbent

• Embassy of India School Moscow