Valerian Shuvaev

Valerian Vladimirovich Shuvaev (; 16 March 1955 – 3 July 2024) was a Russian diplomat. He worked in a number of North African and Middle Eastern countries, and served as ambassador of Russia to Libya between 2004 and 2008, to Iraq between 2008 and 2012, to Morocco between 2018 and 2022, and to Algeria from 2022 until his death in 2024.

Biography Shuvaev was born on 16 March 1955 in Barnaul, in what was then the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, in the Soviet Union. He graduated from Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1977, and was assigned to the Soviet embassy in Lebanon. He worked there between 1977 and 1981, and again between 1986 and 1991. From 1992 until 1995, he was a department head in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs's Middle East and North Africa Department, and then minister-counselor at the Russian embassy in Morocco from 1995 until 1998. He once again returned to Russia to serve as a department head and deputy director of the Foreign Ministry's Middle East and North Africa Department until 2004.

Shuvaev had the diplomatic rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, and had been awarded the Order of Courage. He had received an official letter of thanks from the President of Russia, and had the title of . In addition to his native Russian, he also spoke French and Arabic.