Consulate General of Japan, Saint Petersburg

The Consulate-General of Japan in Saint Petersburg was the consulate of Japan in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It was located at 29 Nabereznaya Reki Moiki (Russian: Набережная реки Мойки, 29) in the Tsentralny district of Saint Petersburg.[1]

Consulate-General of Japan in Saint Petersburg
Генеральное консульство Японии в Санкт-Петербурге
在サンクトペテルブルク日本国総領事館
LocationSaint Petersburg
Address29 Nabereznaya Reki Moiki
Coordinates59°56′29.043″N 30°19′12.777″E

The building was constructed in 1851 for Aleksey Lobanov-Rostovsky, with reconstructions and extensions in 1868 and 1875.[2]

The decision to open a consulate-general in Leningrad, as it was then named, was taken by the Japanese cabinet following a bill passed in the Diet. This happened on 30 March, 1971 with effect from April 1.[3] This was part of a consular agreement in which consulates were also opened in Osaka, Sapporo and Nakhodka.[4]

On June 2023, Russia ordered the closure of Japan's Consulates General in Saint Petersburg, Khabarovsk, Vladivostok and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk as well as expelling 12 Japanese diplomats after Japan ordered the closure of Russia's Consulates General in Osaka and Sapporo

See also

References
  1. Информация о Генеральном консульстве Японии в Санкт-Петербурге (in Russian). Consulate-General of Japan in Saint Petersburg. Archived from the original on 2008-06-02. Retrieved 2008-07-03.
  2. История здания консул (in Russian). DipInfo. Archived from the original on 2017-03-15. Retrieved 2011-11-17.
  3. Summary of world broadcasts: Far East: Part 3, Monitoring Service of the BBC, 1971
  4. Sena, Gupta (1976), Soviet-Asian relations in the 1970s and beyond, Praeger, p. 300, ISBN 978-0-275-23740-0
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