Grigory Tunkin
Grigory Ivanovich Tunkin (russian: Григорий Иванович Тункин) ( – 1993) was a Soviet Union, Soviet jurist, diplomat, Corresponding Member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1974), and a Meritorious Scientist of the RSFSR (1972). Early life Tunkin was born in 1906 in the far north of Russia into an Arkhangelsk peasant family. Like his famous countryman, Mikhail Lomonosov, Tunkin left for Moscow to study sciences. Though, eventually, he became the leading international lawyer in the Soviet Union, Tunkin's interests were always multi-dimensional. He wrote his first dissertation on the history of law of the ancient world, spoke many languages fluently and was good at mathematics. Diplomatic career Tunkin was a graduate of the Institute of State and Law, Moscow (1935) and conducted post-graduate study at the same Institute from 1935-1938. From 1939 to 1941, he was the Assistant Chief of the Legal Department of the NKID (Narodnii Komissariat Inostranih Del), or ...
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