Petro Platonovich Udovychenko ( uk, Петро Платонович Удовиченко) (February 17, 1914 in

Poltava region Poltava Oblast ( uk, Полта́вська о́бласть, translit=Poltavska oblast; also referred to as Poltavshchyna – uk, Полта́вщина, literally 'Poltava Country') is an oblast (province) of central Ukraine. The administrative ...

– May 29, 1992 in

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) he was Ukrainian politician,

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Candidate of science in History,

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, Academician of the

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, Minister of Education of the Ukrainian SSR.

Education

Petro Udovychenko graduated from the Pedagogical Institute of Novomoskovsk (1934), Faculty of History; Higher Party School of the Central Committee (1944);

(1947).

Professional career and experience

In 1934 - 1939 - he worked as a teacher at the school

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In 1939 - 1941 - he was Director Tarnopolsky Teachers College Since 1941 - he worked on the state and party work Since 1944 - he worked in the Commissariat of Foreign Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR. Since 1947 - he lectured at

Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv Kyiv University or Shevchenko University or officially the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv ( uk, Київський національний університет імені Тараса Шевченка), colloquially known as KNU ...

. From 1948 to 1952 - Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR. From 1952 to 1956 - Associate Professor of International Relations and Foreign Policy of the Ukrainian SSR. From 1956 to 1958 - he worked as a Vice-Rector for

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. From 24 March 1958 to 1961 - he was permanent representative of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic to the United Nations. From 1961 to 1967 - he headed of Department of International Relations and Foreign Policy of the

. In 1967 - 1971 - Minister of Education of the Ukrainian SSR. From 1971 to 1984 - he was Acting professor of the history of international relations and foreign policy of the

Author

* "History of Ukrainian SSR Foreign Policy 1919-1922" (1957).Z istoriï zovnishn'oï polityky URSR, 1919-1922 rr by Petro Platonovych Udovychenko
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Diplomatic rank

References

External links

Handbook of the history of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union 1898 - 1991

UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL OFFICIAL RECORDS THIRTY-NINTH YEAR 2542nd MEETING: 25 MAY 1984 NEW YORK

Diplomacy in the Former Soviet Republics James P. Nichol Greenwood Publishing Group, 1.01.1995 - 244.

Ukraine's U.N. Mission celebrates 40th anniversary

Гай-Нижник П. Удовиченко Петро Платонович // Тернопільський Енциклопедичний Словник. – Тернопіль: ВАТ ТВПК “Збруч”, 2009. – Т.4 (додатковий). А–Я. – С.644.
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