Anatoly Dobrynin
Anatoly Fyodorovich Dobrynin (Template:Lang-ru, November 16, 1919 – April 6, 2010) was a Russian statesman and a former Soviet diplomat and politician. He was Soviet Ambassador to the United States, serving from 1962 to 1986 and most notably during the Cuban Missile Crisis. He was appointed by Nikita Khrushchev.
Early Life
Dobrynin was born in the village of Krasnaya Gorka, near Mozhaisk in the Moscow Oblast. His father was a locksmith. He attended the Moscow Aviation Institute and after graduation went to work for the Yakovlev Design Bureau. He entered the Higher diplomatic School in 1944 and graduated with distinction.
Diplomatic Career
Dobrynin joined the Diplomatic service working in the Ministry of Foreign affairs, training division. He later joined the secretariat of the ministry working for Molotov, Shepilov, Gromyko and Zorin. He was appointed Deputy Secretary-General at the UN in 1957 and returned to Moscow as head of the North America Department in 1959. Donrynin was appointed Ambassador to the USA in 1962.
Anatoly Dobrynin had the unique experience of serving as Soviet Ambassador to the US during the terms of six US Presidents (Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter and Reagan). The Cold War rivalry made his position one of the key elements of Soviet-US global geopolitical dialogue.
After his long term as ambassador, he returned to Moscow in 1986 , joining the Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and leading the International Department of the CPSU Central Committee for two years.
He attended the December 1989 Malta Summit that marked the end of the Cold War. He was given the honorary rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in 1992
His book, In Confidence: Moscow's Ambassador to Six Cold War Presidents, was published in 1995. (It was last reprinted in 2001 as ISBN 0295980818.)
Dobrynin died in Moscow on April 6, 2010.
External links
- CNN Cold War – Interviews: Anatoly Dobrynin
- Anatoly Dobrynin - Daily Telegraph obituary
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