[2] The post of Russian Ambassador to Peru is currently held by Igor Romanchenko [ru], incumbent since 18 June 2018.

[4] The two countries signed their first official document, a Trade and Navigation Agreement in 1874, and by 1909 Peru had six consular missions in the Russian Empire: in Saint Petersburg, Moscow, Riga, Warsaw, Odessa and Kherson.

[4] Relations were strengthened after the 1970 Ancash earthquake, with the Soviet Union sending helicopters and medical aid.

During the internal conflict in Peru, the embassy was targeted by terror group Shining Path, being bombed on at least one occasion.

With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Peru recognised the Russian Federation as its successor state on 26 December 1991.