Russian consulate, Jerusalem, Diplomatic mission in East Jerusalem, Palestine

The Russian Consulate General in Jerusalem was the diplomatic mission of the Russian Empire, established in December 1858 and operating until 1914. Its building was erected between 1859 and 1864 as part of the Russian Compound on Meidam Square in the centre of West Jerusalem. Today the former consulate building houses various departments of the Jerusalem municipality.

The consulate opened in December 1858, when Alexander II approved posting the ROPIT agent V. I. Dorgobuzhinov as consul with a staff of two. A plot near the Church of the Holy Sepulchre was bought first, but finds there, including the Threshold of the Judgment Gate, passed to the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society for the Alexander Compound. The consulate was built instead on Meidam Square among the Russian Buildings (1859–1864), became a general consulate in 1891, and closed in 1914 when its diplomats left for Egypt; Britain then used the building as an administrative centre.

The building on Meidam Square, erected between 1859 and 1864 as part of the Russian Compound, later passed to the Jerusalem municipality, whose departments still occupy it. Its former diplomatic role survives mainly in the name and in the record of consuls such as Alexander Yakovlev, head of the mission from 1897 to 1907.

The former consulate building stands on Meidam Square in the Russian Compound, west of the Old City, and is now occupied by departments of the Jerusalem municipality, so it is not open to visitors. It can be seen from the square while walking through the compound, near the other Russian buildings erected between 1859 and 1864.

The consulate building was sold by the Soviet government in 1964 as part of the "orange deal"; P. V. Platonov of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society called the sale illegal. Today the former consulate houses various departments of the Jerusalem municipality.