Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree appointing Aleksei Erkhov as the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Uzbekistan. Previously, Erkhov served as Russia’s ambassador to Turkey.
Aleksei V. Erkhov was born in 1960 in Moscow. In 1983, he graduated from MGIMO University, Moscow (Faculty of International Relations). Since then, he has been in diplomatic service, holding various positions in the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
From 1983 to 1987, he worked at the Embassy of the USSR in Morocco, from 1990 to 1994 at the Embassy of the USSR/Russia in Egypt, and from 1996 to 2000 at the Embassy of Russia in Tel Aviv, Israel, as Counsellor and Head of the Political Section.
From 2000 to 2003, he served as Counsellor, Head of Department at the Directorate for Foreign Relations, Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation. Between 2003 and 2006, he was Minister-Counsellor at the Russian Embassy in Damascus, Syria. From 2009 to 2015, he served as Consul General of Russia in Istanbul, Turkey.
In 2015–2017, Erkhov headed the Directorate of the Crisis Situations Center-Department at the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 2017 until his appointment to Uzbekistan, he served as Russia’s ambassador to Turkey.
Erkhov speaks Arabic, English and French. He is married and a father of three grown-up children.
The previous Russian ambassador to Uzbekistan, Oleg Malginov, had held this post since 2021.