Location Damascus Phone +963 940 128 208 | Ambassador Alexander Kinshak | |
Address 6th Tishreen Street, Damascus, Syria Similar Saudi Arabia Embassy, Venezuela Embassy, United Arab Emirates, Syrian Data, Egypt Embassy | ||
The Embassy of Russia in Damascus (Arabic: سفارة روسيا الاتحادية في دمشق) is the diplomatic mission of the Russian Federation to the Syrian Arab Republic. The chancery is located in Omar Ben Al-Khattab Street in Adawi, Damascus.
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The USSR Embassy in Damascus opened in February 1946. In January 1992, with the fall of the Soviet Union, it became the de facto embassy of the Russian Federation.
Attacks
On December 28, 2016, a mortar round landed in the Embassy's courtyard but did not explode.
Ambassadors of Russia to Syria
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Embassy of Russia in Damascus Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA