Diplomatic relations between Russia and Uruguay were established in 1857, at the initiative of the Uruguayan president Gabriel Antonio Pereira who sent a letter to Tsar Alexander II, proposing closer ties between both countries.[1] Thus, Uruguay was the first Latin American republic and the second Latin American state, after the Empire of Brazil, to be recognized by the Russian Empire.[2] In 1866 a Russian consulate was established in Montevideo, and two years later, a Uruguayan consulate was established in Taganrog.[3]
After the October Revolution of 1917, diplomatic relations were interrupted, but were reestablished in 1926.[2] In 1935, during the dictatorship of Gabriel Terra, Uruguay broke relations with the Soviet Union, but they were reestablished again in 1943, during World War II.[4]
^Rodríguez Ayçaguer, Ana María (2008). La diplomacia del anticomunismo: la influencia del gobierno de Getúlio Vargas en la interrupción de las relaciones diplomáticas de Uruguay con la URSS en diciembre de 1935 [The diplomacy of anti-communism: the influence of the Getúlio Vargas government in the interruption of Uruguay's diplomatic relations with the USSR in December 1935]. Departamento de Historia del Uruguay, Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad de la República. p. 94.
С.Н.Кошкин (S.N. Koshkin), "Полтора века дипотношений" ("One and a half centuries of diplomatic relations"), Международная жизнь (Mezhdunarodnaya Zhizn Magazine), No. 11, 2007