Alexander Kadakin | |
|---|---|
Александр Кадакин | |
 Kadakin (right) meeting Steel Minister Virbhadra Singh in New Delhi; March 2010. | |
| Russian Ambassador to India | |
| In office 27 October 2009 – 26 January 2017 | |
| President | |
| Preceded by | Vyacheslav Trubnikov |
| Succeeded by | Nikolay Kudashev |
| In office 1999–2004 | |
| Russian Ambassador to Sweden | |
| In office 2004–2009 | |
| Russian Ambassador to Nepal | |
| In office 1993–1997 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 22 July 1949 Chișinău, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Died | 26 January 2017 (aged 67) New Delhi, India |
| Alma mater | Moscow State Institute of International Relations |
Alexander Mikhailovich Kadakin (Russian: Александр Михайлович Кадакин; 22 July 1949 – 26 January 2017) was a Russian diplomat and the Russian Ambassador to India from 2009 until his death in 2017. Kadakin had earlier served as the ambassador to India between 1999 and 2004. He was a noted Indophile.[1][2] Kadakin died from heart failure while in service in New Delhi in 2017. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2018.[3]
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- ^ "Another tryst: imagining India & Russia". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 2016-12-21. Retrieved 2016-11-20.
- ^ "Padma Bhushan to Alexander Kadakin: Befitting for original Indophile". Dipanjan Roy Chaudhury. The Economic Times. 26 January 2018. Retrieved 26 January 2018.