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Visits By Foreign Leaders of Russia
| Visitor | Description | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Premier Khrushchev | Official visit at Washington and Camp David (Maryland) Afterwards visited New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Des Moines and Ames (Iowa). Revisited Washington and Camp David September 25–27. Departed U.S. September 27. | September 15–16, 1959 |
| Chairman Aleksei N. Kosygin | Informal meetings with President Johnson at Glassboro (N.J.). Kosygin led the Soviet delegation to the 5th Emergency Session of the U.N. General Assembly. | June 23–25, 1967 |
| General Secretary Leonid I. Brezhnev | Official visit at Washington and San Clemente (Calif.). | June 18–26, 1973 |
| General Secretary Mikhail S. Gorbachev | Official Working Visit. Signed INF Treaty December 8. | December 7–10, 1987 |
| President Mikhail S. Gorbachev | Met with President Reagan in New York City. | December 7, 1988 |
| President Mikhail S. Gorbachev | Summit meeting in Washington, D.C. and Camp David, Md. Afterwards visited Minneapolis-St. Paul and San Francisco, meeting with South Korean President Roh Tae-woo. Departed the U.S. June 4. | May 30–June 3, 1990 |
| President Boris N. Yeltsin | Attended U.N. Security Council Summit Meeting in New York City and discussed strategic arms reductions with President Bush at Camp David, Md. | January 31–February 1, 1992 |
| President Boris N. Yeltsin | State Visit. Addressed a joint meeting of Congress June 17. Also visited Annapolis, Md. Afterwards visited Wichita, Kans. | June 15–18, 1992 |
| Prime Minister Viktor S. Chernomyrdin | Met with President Clinton during a private visit. | August 31–September 2, 1993 |
| President Boris N. Yeltsin | State visit; addressed U.N. General Assembly September 26. Visited Seattle before departing the U.S., September 29. | September 26–29, 1994 |
| President Boris N. Yeltsin | Summit meeting with President Clinton at Hyde Park, New York. | October 23, 1995 |
| Prime Minister Viktor S. Chernomyrdin | Met with President Clinton and IMF officials; attended meeting of U.S.-Russian Joint Commission on Economic and Technological Cooperation. Later visited New York City. | January 28–February 2, 1996 |
| Prime Minister Viktor S. Chernomyrdin | Attended meeting of the U.S.-Russia Bilateral Commission. Afterwards visited Chicago. | February 5–8, 1997 |
| President Boris N. Yeltsin | Attended the Economic Summit Meeting in Denver, Colorado. | June 20–22, 1997 |
| Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin | Working visit. | March 9–12, 1998 |
| Prime Minister Sergei Stepashin | Working visit. Attended meeting of U.S.-Russia Joint Commission and met with President Clinton. Also visited Seattle (Washington) July 25. | July 26–27, 1999 |
| President Vladimir Putin | Met with President Clinton at the UN Millenium Summit in New York City. | September 6–7, 2000 |
| President Vladimir Putin | Met with President Bush in Washington, D.C., and Crawford, Texas. Also visited “Ground Zero” in New York City. | November 12–15, 2001 |
| Premier Mikhail Kasyanov | Working visit. | January 30–February 4, 2002 |
| President Vladimir Putin | Official select visit at Camp David, MD. | September 26–27, 2003 |
| President Vladimir Putin | Attended G-8 Economic Summit at Sea Island, Georgia. | June 8–10, 2004 |
| President Vladimir Putin | Working visit. | September 16, 2005 |
| President Vladimir Putin | Working visit. Met with President Bush at Kennebunkport, Maine. | July 1–2, 2007 |
| President Dimitry Medvedev | Attended the G-20 Economic Summit Meeting. | November 14–15, 2008 |
| President Dmitri Medvedev | Met with President Obama at the UN General Assembly in New York City. | September 23, 2009 |
| President Dmitri Medvedev | Attended the G-20 Economic Summit in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. | September 24–25, 2009 |
| President Dmitri Medvedev | Attended the Nuclear Security Summit. | April 12–13, 2010 |
| President Dmitriy Medvedev | Working visit. | June 22–24, 2010 |
| President Dimitry A. Medvedev | Attended the Asia-Pacific Economic and Cooperation Summit at Honolulu and Kapolei, Hawaii. | November 10–13, 2011 |
| Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev | Attended the G-8 Economic Summit at Camp David, MD. | May 18–19, 2012 |
| President Vladimir Putin | Met with President Obama at the UN General Assembly Meeting in New York City. | September 28, 2015 |