Nikolai Vasilevich Novikov (russian: Никола́й Васи́льевич Но́виков; 7 February 1903 – 1989) was a

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nation ...

diplomat born in

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

Biography

He graduated from the Oriental Institute in St. Petersburg in 1930. In the following years, he held various scientific and academic positions, also serving in the Foreign Office in Moscow and Soviet representative in Cairo during

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...

. Most notably, he served as ambassador of the Soviet Union to the United States, being named to that post on 10 April 1946 until he was relieved of his duties on 24 October 1947; he had been away from Washington since being recalled to Moscow for consultations on 26 July that year. Novikov and his wife had two sons, Yuri (b. 1939) and Nikolai (b. 1943). In 1990, during Glasnost, some of Novikov's papers from 1946 were released; This revealed the influential "Novikov telegram" or "Novikov report" which was, in part, a reaction to the highly critical telegram of

George Kennan George Frost Kennan (February 16, 1904 – March 17, 2005) was an American diplomat and historian. He was best known as an advocate of a policy of containment of Soviet expansion during the Cold War. He lectured widely and wrote scholarly histo ...

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Joseph Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet political leader who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as General Secretar ...

and

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were among the audience of this "top secret" article.)

References

Book review of ''Origins Of The Cold War: The Novikov, Kennan, And Roberts 'Long Telegrams' Of 1946''
from '' Foreign Affairs'' *"Novikov Telegram" https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/novikov.htm 1903 births 1989 deaths Diplomats from Saint Petersburg Ambassadors of the Soviet Union to the United States Ambassadors of the Soviet Union to Egypt Ambassadors of the Soviet Union to Greece Ambassadors of the Soviet Union to Yugoslavia {{Russia-diplomat-stub Institute of Red Professors alumni