Anatoly Dobrynin
Soviet Russian diplomat and statesman (1919–2010) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Anatoly Fyodorovich Dobrynin (Russian: Анато́лий Фёдорович Добры́нин, 16 November 1919 – 6 April 2010) was a Soviet statesman, diplomat, and politician. He was the Soviet ambassador to the United States for more than two decades, from 1962 to 1986.
Anatoly Dobrynin | |
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Анатолий Добрынин | |
Head of the International Department of the Central Committee | |
In office 6 March 1986 – 30 September 1988 | |
Preceded by | Boris Ponomarev |
Succeeded by | Valentin Falin |
Ambassador of the Soviet Union to the United States | |
In office 4 January 1962 – 19 May 1986 | |
Preceded by | Mikhail Menshikov |
Succeeded by | Yuri Dubinin |
Member of the 27th Secretariat | |
In office 6 March 1986 – 30 September 1988 | |
Full member of the 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th Central Committee | |
In office 9 April 1971 – 14 July 1990 | |
Candidate member of the 23rd Central Committee | |
In office 8 April 1966 – 9 April 1971 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Anatoly Fyodorovich Dobrynin (1919-11-16)16 November 1919 Krasnaya Gorka, Mozhaysky Uyezd, Moscow Governorate, Russian SFSR |
Died | 6 April 2010(2010-04-06) (aged 90) Moscow, Russia |
Political party | Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1946–1991) |
Spouse | Irina Dobrynina |
Alma mater | Diplomat |
Profession | Civil servant, politician |
He attracted notoriety among the American public during and after the Cuban Missile Crisis at the beginning of his ambassadorship, when he denied the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba. However, he did not know until days later that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev had already sent the missiles and that the Americans already had photographs of them. Between 1968 and 1974, he was known as the Soviet end of the Kissinger–Dobrynin direct communication and negotiation link between the Nixon administration and the Soviet Politburo.