The chancery is located at 4 Mansurovsky Lane (Russian: Мансуровский пер., 4) in the Khamovniki District of Moscow.

[2] The treaty runs for twenty years and has automatic five-year extensions, unless one of the parties terminates the agreement.

It provides for regular consultations on bilateral and multilateral issues of interest, coordination of responses in the event of a crisis, and military cooperation.

[4] In January 1992, the Syrian government recognized the Russian Federation as the legal successor to the Soviet Union.

[5] The present embassy building was designed by the Russian architect Alexander Zelenko in 1910, and became the High Commission of Syria from the end of 1945.