Embassy of Russia (Arab Union)

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The Embassy of Russia to the Arab Union (Arabic: سفارة الروسيا للاتحاد العربي sifārat ar-rūsiyā lil-ittiḥād al-‘arabī) is the diplomatic mission of the Russian Federation to the Arab Union. It is located on Tishreen Square in the Garden City neighbourhood of Ibrahimia, one of the 15 boroughs of the Arab Union's federal capital of Nasser City. A complex of three interconnected buildings of eleven stories each, not including its two underground levels, it is the largest ambassadorial complex in Nasser City and the Arab Union.

The embassy includes a helipad atop the west building, a jail complex in the basement consisting of five open and two solitary cells, a radiation-proof bunker/bomb shelter in the sub-basement, a medical clinic on the ground floor, 33 private residential suites in addition to the ambassador's two-story master suite on the top two floors, an indoor pool and sauna next to the master suite in the central building as well as an outdoor pool atop the east building, an armoury of the Russian Armed Forces on the ground floor, a ground-level ballroom in the central building with vaulted ceiling into the second and third floors, a cinema adjacent to the ballroom, and three underground escape tunnels leading to the Joint Security Committee headquarters on Martyrs' Square, Nasser City's main bunker complex, and Adassieh Airbase.

The embassy was designed by Palestinian architect Amr Youssef Abdullah to the Russian government's specifications, and constructed between 1993 and 1996; it officially opened in April 1997.