The embassy is located at 62 Mosfilmovskaya Street, Ramenki District, Moscow, and the current ambassador is Norbert Konkoly.

In 1922, negotiations officially began in Genoa for diplomatic relations between Hungarians and the Soviets, and an agreement was signed by September 1924 in Berlin.

The Soviets insisted that the Hungarians follow through with their agreement, and only in April 1934 did Hungary officially appoint its first ambassador, Mihály Jungerth-Arnóthy, to Moscow.

In February 1939, Hungary joined the Anti-Comintern Pact, which led to a severance of relations once the Soviets withdrew their ambassador in Budapest.

Gyula Szekfű was the first ambassador to move into the building at 21 Povarskaya Street near the Kremlin, which housed the embassy's employees until 1967.