Alexander Kadakin

Alexander Kadakin
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	Dmitry Medvedev; Vladimir Putin;
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]

^ "Russia's ambassador to India: the quotable Alexander Kadakin". Reuters. Archived from the original on 2016-02-14. Retrieved 2016-11-20.
^ "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.

[1] "Russia's ambassador to India: the quotable Alexander Kadakin". Reuters. Archived from the original on 2016-02-14. Retrieved 2016-11-20.

[2] "Another tryst: imagining India & Russia". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 2016-12-21. Retrieved 2016-11-20.

[3] "Padma Bhushan to Alexander Kadakin: Befitting for original Indophile". Dipanjan Roy Chaudhury. The Economic Times. 26 January 2018. Retrieved 26 January 2018.

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