List of Ambassador Hotel VIP-guests

April 2008

March 2008

• Michel Legrand, Composer (France)
• Valeriy Siutkin, Vocalist (Russia)

February 2008

• Valentin Yudashkin, Fashion Designer (Russia)
• Sunrise Avenue, a pop band (Finland)
• Neschastny Sluchai, a pop band (Russia)

January 2008

• Official delegation of the House of Representatives of the National Congress of the Republic of Chile, led by its Speaker, Mr. P. Walker
• G.M. Grechko, Astronaut, Honorary President of the Northwest Branch of the Astronautic Federation of Russia
• S.K. Krikalev, Astronaut, President of the Northwest Branch of the Astronautic Federation of Russia
• Ottowan, a pop band (France)
• A.N. Mitta, Film Director (Russia)
• M. Aleksandrova, Theater and Film Actress (Russia)
• T. Fujimoto, Actor (Japan)
• V.A. Barinov, Theater and Film Actor (Russia)
• A.V. Mezhulis, Theater and Film Actor (Russia)
• National basketball team of Croatia

2007

December 2007

• Iranian government delegation led by M. Mohammed, Foreign Minister of Iran
• S. Seppala, urban planning chief of Kotka, Finland
• H. Lindelef, Mayor of Kotka, Finland

November 2007

• Gretar Mar Sigurdsson, Permanent Secretary of State of the Foreign Ministry of Iceland
• Ono Hirohito, head of the Russian office of Tokyo Marine Nihido
• Delegation of the Ministry of Agricultural Policy of Ukraine
• Canadian Senate delegation led by Senate Speaker, Mr. Noel A. Kinsella
• Delegation of Tallinn, Estonia, led by Mayor of Tallinn, Mr. E. Savisaar.

October 2007

• Delegation of the Parliament of Montenegro, led by its Speaker, Mr. Ranko Krivokapic
• Roberto Reggi, Mayor of Piacenza, Italy
• Fabrizio Matteucci, Mayor of Ravenna, Italy
• Ricardo Muti, Conductor (Italy)
• RETRO Party project participants: Ricchi e Poveri, Eruption, Kaoma, Samantha Fox, Digital Emotion
• Delegation of the Healthcare Ministry of China, led by Deputy Minister Cheng Xiuahuang
• Seppo Mittinen, Mayor of Lappeenranta, Finland
• Mats Kaer, Chairman of the Management Board of SEB Bank, Sweden
• Jivan Gasparian, Musician, Doudouk Master (Armenia)
• F.G. Saprykin, Deputy Director, Secretariat of the Council of Baltic Sea States (Russia)
• Andrei Bitov, Writer (Russia)
• Bella Akhmadulina, Poet (Russia)
• E.V. Chernenko, Vice Mayor of Kharkiv, Ukraine
• Official Buergerschaft (Parliament) Delegation of the Free Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Germany, led by its President Berndt Roeder
• Arvo Part, Composer (Estonia)
• Via Artmane, Actress (Latvia)
• Emir Kusturica, Film Director

September 2007

• Delegation of the House of Representatives of the National Congress of Argentina, headed by Deputy Speaker P. Vaga
• Parliamentary delegation of Bavaria, Germany
• A.A. Zhilkin, Governor of the Astrakhan Region, Russia
• I.I. Alekhin, Mayor of Bryansk, Russia
• Official delegation of Riga, Latvia, led by Riga Parliament Speaker J. Birks
• D.V. Dmitrienko, Deputy CEO of the Federal Agency of Sea and River Transport (Russia)
• S.A. Aristov, Deputy Minister of Transport of Russia
• Official delegation of the National Assembly of Slovenia, led by Assembly Speaker J. Sushnik
• Official delegation of the Republic of Srbska, led by M. Dodic, Prime Minister
• Delegation of Imatra, Finland, led by Imatra Mayor Pertti Lintunen
• Official parliamentary delegation of the Republic of Peru, led by Senior Vice President Luis Giampietri.

August 2007

• A.V. Arteev, Deputy Governor of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District
• Official delegation of the National Tourism Agency of Bulgaria, led by A. Krushkova, head of the agency
• Pertti Lintunen, Mayor of Imatra, Finland
• Elena Obraztsova, Opera Singer (Russia).

July 2007

• Trevor Mann, Senior Vice President, Nissan Group
• A.A. Davydenko, Head of the Federal Agency of Sea and River Transport
• Participants of Battle on the Neva, a mixed martial arts tournament.

June 2007

• Aleksei Pushkov, Editor-in-Chief of TV show Postscriptum (TVC)
• Delegation of the Planting Office, of the Department of the Environment of the Riga Parliament
• I.I. Naletov, Vice Admiral, Commander of the Federal Coast Guard
• V.V. Erygin, Head of the Port Authority of Novorossiysk
• A.M. Kim, Senior Deputy Governor of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District
• Delegation of the Defense Ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany, led by Jurgen Kratzmann, Fleet Admiral, Head of the Naval Technology Department at the German Defense Ministry
• Holly Hines, Costume Designer for the ballet Interrupted Aria (US)
• Pelekezela Mpoko, Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Zimbabwe in Russia
• City Hall officials of Shanghai, China
• Mustafa Batdyev, President of Karachaevo-Cherkessiya.

May 2007

• Ruth Danzer, President of the Public Service School of Canada
• Mikhail Kozakov, People’s Artist of Russia
• Sergei Bodrov sr., Film Director and Script Writer (Russia)
• Tuomas Kantelinen, Composer (Finland)
• Peter Quanz, Choreographer, Canada
• Benedict Asgeirsson, Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Iceland in Russia
• Delegation of the Chinese National Assembly of People’s Representatives, headed by Ms. Uyuntsimute, Deputy Chair of a Permanent CNAPR Committee
• Delegation of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

April 2007

• Jean Claude Van Damme, Actor, Film Director (Belgium)
• Calvin Ayre, President, Bodog Entertainment Group (Canada)
• Participants of the Russia vs. America martial arts tournament: Fedor Yemelianenko, Matt Lindland, Eric Pele, Julia Kedzie and others
• Delegation of the Republic of Dagestan, led by Mukhu Aliev, President
• Emma Shapplin, Opera Singer (France)
• Zinovy Margolin, Art Director of the play Enupha
• Delegation of the City of Konstantsy, Romania, led by Mayor Mazere Radu Stefanu
• Tamara Gverdtsiteli, Singer
• Delegation of the Russian Foreign Ministry and UNESCO, led by G.E. Orjonikidze, Deputy Director of the Department of International Institutions, Russian Foreign Ministry, and I.I. Makovetsky, Chairman of the Russian World Heritage Committee
• Delegation of the Mayor’s Office of Turku, Finland, headed by Mikko Lohikoski, Head of the External Relations Department
• Toru Shinagawa, CEO of the Russian Office of the Tokyo-Mitsubishi Bank
• Editors of the international lifestyle and leisure magazine Time Out.

March 2007

• A.I. Denisov, Senior Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia
• B.G. Kolbin, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of External Economic Relations and Trade of the Republic of Bashkortostan
• Delegation of the Ministry of Culture of China, led by a department director

February 2007

• Francesco Bandarin, UNESCO Project Manager
• Igor I. Makovetskiy, President of Russian Committee of Global Heritage
• Matti Aura, General Secretary of European Seaport Organization (ESPO), Finland
• Patrick Verhoeven, Chairman of Finnish Ports Association
• Nikolaj Znaider, Conductor, Denmark
• Paul Edwards, Producer of Toska Project, UK
• Paul Curran, Artistic Director of Toska Project, UK
• Astrakhan Region delegation headed by Konstantin A. Markelov, Vice Governor, Chairman of Astrakhan Region Government
• Sergey M. Mironov, Chairman of Spravedlivaya Rossia Party, Chairman of the Council of Federation of the Russian Federation
• A group of Finnish Councilors of the St. Petersburg Governor
• Georgiy M. Grechko, Cosmonaut

January 2007

• Mr. Fomvikhan, Extraodinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador Lao People's Democratic Republic in the Russian Federation
• Paul Brown, Artistic Director of performance “Electra”, U.S.A.
• Jou Yupeng, Vice Mayor of Shanghai
• De Martino Andrea, Mayor of Florence, Italy

2006

December 2006

• Francis Goya, Guitarist, Belgium
• S.A. Raev, Minister of Culture of Kirghizia
• Alexander Gradskiy, Singer, Composer, Russia
• Grand Prix group of figure skaters headed by Valentin N. Piseev, President of Figure Skaters Federation of the Russian Federation
• Ottavio Ciquante, President of International Ice Skaters Association
• Jacek Karnovski, President of the City of Sopot, Poland
• Tatyana Ovsienko, Singer, Russia
• Sergey Penkin, Singer, Russia

November 2006

• Parliament of Estonian Republic official delegation
• Official delegation of National Assembly of People’s Power of the Republic of Cuba headed by Riccardo Alark de Kesads, Chairman
• Roman Viktiuk, Producer
• Langa-Chernov Russiyskiy, Grand Duke, Riga, Latvia
• Roman Kozak, Artistic Director of the Pushkin Theater
• Konstantin Raikin, People’s Actor of the Russian Federation
• Michael Neiman, Composer, UK
• Viacheslav Zaitsev, Honored Art Worker of the Russian Federation
• Boris G. Kolbin, Vice Chairman of the Government, Minister of Foreign Economic Relations of the Republic of Bashkortostan

October 2006

• Jivan Gasparyan, Musician (duduk), Armenia
• Delegation of Khanty-Mansisk Autonomous Area headed by Alexander Filippenko, Governor
• Dolores Kondrashova, Stylist
• The Republic of Mali official delegation
• Henry Lindelof, Mayor of Kotka, Finland
• Bela Ahmadulina, Poetess
• Chulpan Khamatova, Honored Actress of the Russian Federation
• Bürgeschaft of Free and Hanseatic Hamburg official delegation headed by Roeder Berdt, President.
• Bad Boys Blue band, U.S.A.
• Lary Dany, Illusionist, France

September 2006

• Jean Claude Jitrois, French Couturier and Sara Marshal, Top Model
• Marat Sultanov, Speaker of Kirghizian Parliament
• Senate of the State of California official delegation headed by Richard Alarcon, Senator, and Ezilda Samoville, External Relations Director
• Trade Department Group of the Embassy of Korean Republic in the Russian Federation
• Sergey Lazarev, Singer, Russia
• Vlad Topalov, Singer, Russia
• Yulia Savicheva, Singer, Russia
• Alena Sviridova, Singer, Russia
• Yana Churikova, TV Presenter, Russia
• A group of representatives of Surgut Administration headed by Yakov S. Chernyak, Acting Head of Administration
• Baccara band, Italy
• Blestiaschie band, Russia
• Delegation of the City of Turku headed by M. Pukkinen, Mayor
• Goran Bregovich, Musician
• Alexander Golutva, First Assistant Chief Executive Officer of Federal Culture and Cinematography Agency of the Russian Federation

July 2006

• Harlem Blues and Jazz Band
• Sergey V. Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
• Andrei I. Denisov, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

June 2006

• Executive Committee of Baltic Cities’ Council
• Standing Committee of National People's Congress of Shanghai delegation headed by Gun Suepin, Chairman
• Sergey Yu. Yurskiy, People's Actor of Russia
• The Republic of Bashkortostan delegation headed by Rafael I. Baidavletov, Chairman of the Government

May 2006

• Lagting Aland Islands delegation (Finland) headed by Barbora Sundbak
• The City of Gdansk delegation (Poland) headed by Bogdan Oleshek, Chairman of City Council

April 2006

• Pavel P. Borodin, Secretary of State of the Union of Russia and Belorussia
• Jacek Maria Maihrovski, President Krakow, Poland

March 2006

• Vladimir Vinokur, People's Actor of Russia

February 2006

• Valentin Yudashkin, Couturier

2005

December 2005

• Armas Lahoniitty, Mayor of Turku, Finland

November 2005

• Halnazar Agakhanov, Extraodinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Turkmenistan in the Russian Federation

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