Clematis chlorotic mottle virus (ClCMV, genus Pelarspovirus, family Tombusviridae) was discovered on clematis (Clematis spp.) in the USA (McLaughlin et al. 2017). In July 2017, some plants from the clematis collection of the Nikita Botanical Gardens, Yalta, Russia, were found to display vein yellowing, mosaic and yellow mottling, similar to ClCMV-infected plants from the USA. The symptoms developed mainly on the upper leaves of the shoot. RT-PCR analysis was done on total RNA extracted from 56 symptomatic and symptomless leaf samples of local and introduced cultivars using random hexamer primers and two ClCMV-specific primer sets ClRdRp_F/ClCP_R2 and ClCP_F/ClCP_R (McLaughlin et al. 2017). RT-PCR yielded 768 and 1043-bp products of the expected sizes from all 29 symptomatic and three symptomless cultivars. These included ‘Ramona’ and ‘Hagley Hybrid’, which had previously tested positive for ClCMV (McLaughlin et al. 2017). The remaining 24 asymptomatic samples were ClCMV-negative. The PCR products from infected plants of the cvs ‘Isago’, ‘Mrs Cholomondeley’, ‘Mrs N Thompson’, ‘Slava’, ‘Etoile Violette’, ‘Proteus’ and ‘Rüütel’ were sequenced directly (MH108622 - MH108628). They shared 98.0 to 99.2% nucleotide identity to each other and to the corresponding genomic region of an American ClCMV isolate (KX712140). Similarly to the US isolate, the ORF4 of the Russian isolates that encodes the movement protein 2 contains a non-canonical UUG start codon (Scheets et al. 2015). To our knowledge, this is the first report of ClCMV on clematis in Russia. Earlier, ClCMV had been detected in clematis cultivars from the UK (McLaughlin et al. 2017). Thus, our results indicate a broad distribution of this virus in Europe.