Embassy of the United Kingdom, Moscow
Embassy of the United Kingdom in Moscow | |
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Location | Arbat District,Moscow, Russia |
Address | 1 Lugansk People's Republic Square |
Coordinates | 55°45′01″N37°34′37″E/ 55.75028°N 37.57694°E |
Ambassador | Nigel Casey |
Website | Office website |
TheEmbassy of the United Kingdom in Moscowis the chiefdiplomatic missionof theUnited Kingdomin theRussian Federation.It is located in theArbat Districtof Moscow, on Smolenskaya Embankment of the riverMoskva.The current ambassador isNigel Casey.[1]
History[edit]
The embassy site at 10 Smolenskaya Embankment, comprising 0.92 hectares, was offered to the British Government in the mid-1960s and exchanged for two sites in London by an agreement signed in March 1987. The building contains offices for 250 embassy staff; 31 flats for staff and facilities for their recreation and welfare, including a swimming pool and cafeteria, medical centre and kindergarten, workshops and stores, and covered car parking for 85 cars. The architects of the embassy wereAhrends, Burton and Koralek(ABK) of London and Dublin. The embassy was officially opened byAnne, Princess Royalon 17 May 2000.[2]
In 2007, a sculpture ofSherlock HolmesandDoctor Watsonas portrayed byVasily LivanovandVitaly Solominwas erected on the embankment alongside the embassy (sculptor Andrey Orlov).[3]
In July 2022, the city authorities renamed the territory the embassy is located in from Smolenskaya Embankment to Lugansk People's Republic Square; the embassy stated that it would continue to use the previous address.[4]
Outside Moscow[edit]
Outside Moscow, there is currently one BritishConsulate-GeneralinYekaterinburgwhere the senior officer is the Consul-General. There was formerly aBritish Consulate-General in St. Petersburgbut it was closed in 2018 because of a diplomatic fallout following thepoisoning of a former Russian intelligence officer in the United Kingdom.
See also[edit]
- Russia-United Kingdom relations
- Consulate-General of the United Kingdom, Saint Petersburg
- Diplomatic missions in Russia
References[edit]
- ^"Nigel Casey CMG MVO".GOV.UK.Retrieved8 December2023.
- ^"British Embassy in Moscow".UK Government Web Archive.Archived fromthe originalon 17 February 2013.Retrieved21 November2014.
- ^(in Russian)Livanov and Solomin immortalized in bronze—Komsomolskaya Pravda
- ^"Moscow gives British Embassy new address on 'Luhansk People's Republic Square'".Reuters.8 July 2022.
External links[edit]
- British Embassy MoscowArchived12 November 2008 at theWayback Machine(in English and Russian)