Andrey Andreyevich Smirnov (russian: Андре́й Андре́евич Смирно́в), (15 October 1905 in

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– 26 February 1982), was a

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career diplomat. ( at

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Early life

Smirnov graduated from the

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Institute of Planning in 1934, and joined the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs in 1936. From 1940 until

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were broken off with

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on 22 June 1941, he was an adviser at the Embassy of the USSR in Germany.

Diplomatic career

He was appointed as Ambassador of the Soviet Union to Iran on 28 June 1941, awarded the

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on 14 June 1943, and served in

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until 1 September 1943. At the conclusion of his

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Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

, he returned to

and worked in the European Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and was promoted to Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1946, and held this position under 1949. On 31 March 1956, he began his mission as Ambassador of the Soviet Union to Austria, serving in

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only until 14 October 1956. He began his mission as Ambassador of the Soviet Union to West Germany on 14 October 1956, and held the post for 10 years, until 19 May 1966. At the expiration of his mission to

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, he was appointed as Ambassador of the Soviet Union to Turkey on 19 May 1966, and served in the Turkish capital

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until 6 January 1969. At the conclusion of his mission to Turkey, he returned to Moscow as the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, and also served as Chairman of the USSR Commission for

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from 19701973.

References

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