Andrey Tatarinov

Andrey Alexeyevich Tatarinov (; born 1 January 1951) is a Russian career diplomat and ambassador who since 20 September 2003 holds the diplomatic rank Minister Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the First Class.

Tatarinov entered the Department of Vietnamese Linguistics at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1968 and graduated in 1973, after which he entered the diplomatic corps of the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs, serving in numerous posts abroad and in the central offices of the Ministry. a post he held from May 2001 until early 2004.

From January 2004 to December 2007, he was deputy director of the Department of ASEAN Member States and Common Asian Problems at the Foreign Affairs Ministry, and from 2004 he was also the Special Representative of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia on ASEAN Member States and South Pacific Countries, a position he holds to the current day. He presented his credentials to Anand Satyanand, the Governor-General of New Zealand, on 12 November 2008, and to Tuiatua Tupua Tamasese Efi, the O le Ao o le Malo of Samoa on 5 February 2009. He was appointed ambassador to Singapore on 20 February 2015.

Tatarinov speaks Russian, English, French and Vietnamese.