United States presidential visits to the Soviet Union and Russia

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Eight United States presidents have made presidential visits to the Soviet Union and Russia since 1945. The first trip by an incumbent president to the Soviet Union was made by Franklin D. Roosevelt, and was an offshoot of Allied diplomatic interactions during World War II. George H.W. Bush visited both the Soviet Union and, following the Soviet Union's collapse, Russia, its sole successor state.

Table of visits

President Dates Nation cities Highlights
Franklin D. Roosevelt February 3–5, 1945  Soviet Union Yalta Attended the Yalta Conference with Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.[1]
Richard Nixon May 22–30, 1972 Moscow, Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), Kiev State Visit. Met with Premier Alexei Kosygin and General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev. Signing of the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, the first Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I), and the U.S.–Soviet Incidents at Sea Agreement.[2] See Moscow Summit (1972).
June 27 – July 3, 1974 Moscow, Minsk, Oreanda Official Visit. Met with General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, President Nikolai Podgorny and Premier Alexei Kosygin. Signing of the Threshold Test Ban Treaty (TTBT).[2]
Gerald Ford November 23–24, 1974 Vladivostok Met with General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev and discussed limitations of strategic arms.[3] See Vladivostok Summit Meeting on Arms Control.
Ronald Reagan May 29 – June 2, 1988 Moscow Summit Meeting with General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. Exchanged ratifications of the INF Treaty.[4] See Moscow Summit (1988).
George H. W. Bush July 29 – August 1, 1991 Moscow, Kiev Summit Meeting. Signed Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I). Addressed the Ukrainian Parliament.[5]
January 2–3, 1993  Russia Moscow Signed the START II Treaty.[5]
Bill Clinton January 12–15, 1994 Moscow Met with President Boris Yeltsin and senior Russian officials. Signed nuclear disarmament agreement with Ukraine.[6]
May 9–11, 1995 Moscow Summit meeting. Attended the 50th anniversary of VE Day ceremonies.[6]
April 18–21, 1996 Saint Petersburg, Moscow Attended the G-7 summit on nuclear safety. Summit Meeting with President Boris Yeltsin.[6]
September 1–3, 1998 Moscow Summit Meetig with President Boris Yeltsin.[6]
June 3–5, 2000 Moscow Summit Meeting with President Vladimir Putin. Addressed the Duma.[6]
George W. Bush May 23–26, 2002 Moscow,
Saint Petersburg		 Summit meeting with President Vladimir Putin. Signed Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty.[7]
November 22, 2002 St. Petersburg Met with President Vladimir Putin.[7]
May 31 – June 1, 2003 St. Petersburg Met with President Vladimir Putin. Attended ceremonies commemorating the city's 300th anniversary.[7]
May 8–9, 2005 Moscow Met with President Vladimir Putin. Attended the 60th anniversary of VE Day ceremonies.[7]
July 14–17, 2006 St. Petersburg Attended the 32nd G8 summit. Met with Chinese President Hu Jintao, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.[7]
November 15, 2006 Moscow Met with President Vladimir Putin.[7]
April 5–6, 2008 Sochi Met with President Vladimir Putin and President-elect Dmitry Medvedev.[7]
Barack Obama July 6–9, 2009 Moscow Met with President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Delivered a commencement speech to the New Economic School.[8]
September 4–6, 2013 Saint Petersburg Attended the G-20 Summit Meeting.

See also

References

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