The Russian president Vladimir Putin by the September 5 decree appointed Alexey Erkhov as new ambassador to Uzbekistan, to replace Oleg Malginov who had worked since March 2021.
Alexey Erkhov, 65, a graduate of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, has been serving as the Russian ambassador to Turkiye since 2017.
He has been in diplomatic service since 1983. He worked in the Russian embassies in Morocco (1983-1987), Egypt (1990-1994), and Israel (1996-2000).
In 2003-2006, he served as a counselor-envoy of the Russian embassy in Syria, and in 2009-2015, he was the Russian consul general in Istanbul.
In 2015-2017, he served as the director at the department of the Situation and Crisis Center of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
