Arkady Alexandrovich Sobolev (russian: Арка́дий Алекса́ндрович Со́болев, 1903–1964) was a Russian Soviet diplomat who served as the Soviet ambassador to the

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between 1955 and 1960.Staff report (March 4, 1955). Arkady A. Sobolev named permanent Russian U. N. Envoy. ''

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'' He was a specialist in

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. He was also under-secretary for Security and Political Affairs between 1946 and 1949 and Soviet Ambassador to Poland between 1951 and 1953. He died in Moscow following a long illness.Staff report (December 11, 1964)
Obituary.
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''Staff report (December 3, 1964).
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'', page 45.

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, Secretary-General of the

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, where the

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was drafted and signed, spoke about the role of Sobolev and US delegate

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: "they were the draftsmen of the Charter in San Francisco. Now, the outline had been written before; I'm talking about the specific language which is a very important part of any treaty, I think it was Pasvolsky and Sobolev who were really responsible for the form the Charter took." Sobolev and Pasvolsky had the primary responsibility to "put the various drafts together into a working text."United Nations Oral History Project, Alger Hiss, 13 February 1990
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1903 births 1964 deaths Permanent Representatives of the Soviet Union to the United Nations Ambassadors of the Soviet Union to Poland {{Europe-diplomat-stub