Arthur Harris and Fedor Gusev 1944 IWM D 20243

Fedor Tarasovich Gusev (

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: ''Фёдор Тарасович Гусев'') (29 April 1905 – 9 March 1987 in

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) was a

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diplomat.

Career

Gusev graduated in 1931 from Law Institute in Leningrad and in 1937 from Diplomatic Institute. Since 1935 he worked for the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs: * 1938–39: head of the 3rd Western Department * 1941: in the 2nd European Department * 1942–43: ambassador in Canada * 1943–46: ambassador in Great Britain * 1946–52: Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union * 1956–62: ambassador in Sweden * later worked in the central apparatus of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs, until 1975. Gusev took part in the

Tehran Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul ...

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and

Potsdam Conference The Potsdam Conference (german: Potsdamer Konferenz) was held at Potsdam in the Soviet occupation zone from July 17 to August 2, 1945, to allow the three leading Allies to plan the postwar peace, while avoiding the mistakes of the Paris Pe ...

s as well as the

European Advisory Commission The formation of the European Advisory Commission (EAC) was agreed on at the Moscow Conference on 30 October 1943 between the foreign ministers of the United Kingdom, Anthony Eden, the United States, Cordell Hull, and the Soviet Union, Vyache ...

. Between 1946–50, he was also member of the

Supreme Soviet of the USSR The Supreme Soviet of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ( rus, Верховный Совет Союза Советских Социалистических Республик, r=Verkhovnyy Sovet Soyuza Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respubl ...

Death

Gusev died on 9 March 1987 in Moscow, and was buried at

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References

External links

Short biography
(in Russian)

(in Russian) * 1905 births 1987 deaths Second convocation members of the Soviet of the Union Ambassadors of the Soviet Union to Canada Ambassadors of the Soviet Union to the United Kingdom Ambassadors of the Soviet Union to Sweden {{Soviet-bio-stub