Russia–Vietnam relations (Russian: Российско-вьетнамские отношения, romanized: Rossiysko-v'yetnamskiye otnosheniya, Vietnamese: Quan hệ Nga – Việt) date back formally to 30 January 1950, when the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics established an embassy to North Vietnam.

[2] The Soviet Union pressured the Viet Minh delegation to accept partition as a compromise solution to the conflict at the 1954 Geneva Conference.

[5]: 93  The pro-Soviet group led by Lê Duẩn eventually developed momentum, especially as China sought to improve its relations with the United States, which Vietnamese leadership viewed as a betrayal of the China-Vietnam relationship.

[8] After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, friendly relations were established between Vietnam and the Russian Federation, the USSR's main successor state.

[16] Between 21 – 23 May 2023, deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, visited Hanoi and met with Vietnam's Communist Party chief Nguyễn Phú Trọng.

[18] He met with Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV)'s General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng and President Tô Lâm.

[19] According to Vietnamese officials, Putin "is expected to announce agreements in sectors including trade, investment, technology and education," and talks will also focus on energy and arms.

[20] On his 14-15 January visit to Ha Noi, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin paid a courtesy call to General Secretary Tô Lâm and State President Lương Cường, held talks with Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính, and met with the National Assembly Chairperson Trần Thanh Mẫn.

[10] An increasingly more assertive People's Republic of China in its claims to the Spratly Islands dispute has prompted Vietnam to gradually deepen its strategic relationship with India, another long-standing USSR and Russian partner and ally, and Russia itself,[22] with the Russian government recently signing several military contracts with Vietnam involving the sale of six Varshavyanka-class submarines[23] and twelve new Sukhoi Su-30MK2 multirole fighter aircraft.

In March 2015, according to the US, these actions caused the US military command to publicly voice concern and acknowledge its diplomatic intervention regarding the issue.

[28] In 1988, the Soviet Foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze discussed the option of withdrawal from Cam Ranh Bay, and the reduction in forces was effected by 1990.

In the telecommunications sector, Russia's VimpelCom on mid-July 2009 announced the commercial launch in Vietnam of its Beeline mobile service through GTEL-Mobile, a joint venture with a Vietnamese state-owned company.

Lavrov was to travel Sunday July 26 to southern Ho Chi Minh City to meet local government officials there.

On Saturday July 25, Vietnam and Russia signed a memorandum of understanding between their respective atomic energy agencies but no details were released.

Vietnam's former wartime enemy, the United States, which normalised diplomatic ties in 1995, received Vietnamese exports worth more than $4 billion in the first five months, the data showed.

[44][45] In September 2021, it was decided to create favourable conditions for the effective operation of Gazprom, Zarubezhneft and Novatek in Vietnam and PetroVietnam in Russia.