Farit Mukhametshin

Farit Mukhametshin
Фарит Мухаметшин
Mukhametshin in 2013
Russian Federation Senator from Samara Oblast
Incumbent
Assumed office 17 September 2018
Preceded by	Dmitry Azarov
Ambassador of Russia to Moldova
In office 5 April 2012 – 2 July 2018
Preceded by	Valery Kuzmin [ru]
Succeeded by	Oleg Vasnetsov [ru]
Head of Rossotrudnichestvo
In office 17 October 2008 – 5 March 2012
Succeeded by	Konstantin Kosachev
Ambassador of Russia to Uzbekistan
In office 17 June 2003 – 17 October 2008
Preceded by	Dmitri Ryurikov [ru]
Succeeded by	Vladimir Tyurdenev [ru]
Personal details
Born	(1947-01-31) 31 January 1947 (age 77) Bolshie Kokuzy [ru], Apastovsky District, Tatar ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Alma mater	Kazan Aviation Institute Moscow State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs All-Russian State University of Justice [ru]
Awards	Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" Third and Fourth Classes Order of Alexander Nevsky Order of Honour (Russia) Order of Friendship (Russia) Order of Friendship of Peoples Order of Friendship [ru] (Uzbekistan) Order of Honour (Moldova)

Farit Mubarakshevich Mukhametshin (Russian: Фарит Мубаракшевич Мухаметшин; born 31 January 1947) is a Russian politician and diplomat. He has served as a member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly as the representative of Samara Oblast since 2018. He has previously been head of the Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo), and as ambassador of Russia to Moldova, and to Uzbekistan.