title: Consulate-General of the United Kingdom, Saint Petersburg
text: # Consulate-General of the United Kingdom, Saint Petersburg
  
  The Consulate-General of the United Kingdom in Saint Petersburg was part of the diplomatic mission of the United Kingdom in the Russian Federation, before it was shut down, in 2018. It was located on Lafonskaya Street [ru] in Tsentralny District.
  
  The last British Consul General in Saint Petersburg was Sangeeta Ahuja, she was appointed to the post in February 2017, and arrived there in December of the same year.
  
  ## History
  
  As the Russian Federation replaced the Soviet Union, the British Consulate-General in St. Petersburg was re-opened, and Barbara Hay was appointed as its first new Consul-General in 1992. The consulate would go on to operate for 26 years. In 2018, in response to the UK's decision to expel 23 Russian diplomats following the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal, Russia expelled 23 British diplomats, closed the British Council in Russia and closed the Consulate-General.
  
  ## Other locations in Russia
  
  The British Consulate-General in Yekaterinburg is still operational, as well as the Embassy of the United Kingdom in Moscow.
  
  