[2][3] The post of Russian Ambassador to Canada is currently held by Oleg Stepanov [ru], incumbent since 9 March 2021.

[5] These did not recognise, and were not accredited by, the Soviet state, but continued to function until the late 1920s, funded by the Canadian government to deal with the large number of White émigrés who began to settle in the country.

The first envoy, Fedor Tarasovich Gusev, was appointed on 30 July 1942, and presented his credentials on 21 October that year.

[7] Gusev left the post on 12 August 1943, and in November that year the missions were upgraded to embassies.

[7] Relations cooled significantly after the war, with the Gouzenko Affair and subsequent Kellock–Taschereau Commission in 1946 resulting in increasingly hostile communications.