Nikolay Firyubin

Nikolay Pavlovich Firyubin (russian: Николай Павлович Фирюбин; 4 April 1908 – 12 February 1983) was a

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diplomat. Born in

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, he became a construction worker at age sixteen. After graduating from the

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in 1935, he went to work in an aircraft factory, and soon became involved in government and party affairs. During the

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, he served as an adviser to the

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. Beginning in 1953, Firyubin filled various diplomatic positions – the Soviet ambassador to Czechoslovakia and to Yugoslavia, the deputy foreign minister of the USSR, and the secretary general of the political advisory committee of the

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states. He served an increasingly public role in Soviet politics, including serving as deputy of the second convocation of the

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

. Firyubin was notable for his marriage to

Ekaterina Furtseva Yekaterina Alexeyevna Furtseva (russian: Екатерина Алексеевна Фурцева; 7 December 1910 – 24 October 1974) was a Soviet Union, Soviet politician and the second woman to be admitted as secretary of the Central Committ ...

, Soviet Minister of Culture and first female member of the

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. He died in Moscow. {{DEFAULTSORT:Firyubin, Nikolay 1908 births 1983 deaths People from Ulyanovsk Ambassadors of the Soviet Union to Czechoslovakia Ambassadors of the Soviet Union to Yugoslavia