Phone +1 713-337-3300 | ||
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Address 1333 West Loop S # 1300, Houston, TX 77027, USA | ||
The Consulate-General of the Russian Federation in Houston (Russian: Генеральное консульство Российской Федерации в Хьюстоне) General'noe konsul'stvo Rossijskoj Federatsii v H'justone) is Russia's diplomatic office in Houston, Texas, United States. It is located in Suite 1300 at Park Towers South.
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The facility serves Alabama, Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas. As of 2010 the consul general is Alexander Konstantinovich Zakharov.
History
In October 2001 the U.S. and Russia formally agreed to establish a Houston consulate. The Russian government approved the establishment on February 12, 2003. On May 9 of that year the United States Department of State confirmed the appointment of the consul general. The facility opened on August 4, 2004.
Russia opened a consulate in Houston due to the proximity to aerospace and petroleum industries. In a 2004 Houston Chronicle article Nikolai V. Sofinskiy, the first consul general, stated that the Houston area had around 40,000 Russian speakers and that Houston's consulate could easily serve the southeastern United States.