Nikolai Fedorenko

Soviet philologist, orientalist, statesman and academic (1912–2000) Nikolai FedorenkoНиколай ФедоренкоPersonal detailsBorn27 October [O.S. 9 November] 1912Died2 October 2000(2000-10-02) (aged 87)MoscowAlma materMoscow Institute of Oriental StudiesOccupationDiplomat, philologist, orientalistAwardsOrder of Lenin, Order of the October Revolution, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, Order of Friendship of Peoples, Order of the Badge of Honour, Medal "For Labour Valour", Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" Nikolai Trofimovich Fedorenko (Russian: Николай Трофимович Федоренко; 9 November [O.S. 27 October] 1912 – October 2, 2000) was a Soviet philologist, orientalist, statesman, public figure, professor (1953), and corresponding member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1958). Biography Nikolai Fedorenko graduated from Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies in 1937. In 1954, he received a rank of extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador of the USSR. In 1955–1958, Nikolai Fedorenko was a deputy foreign minister and then Soviet ambassador to Japan (1958–1962), where he succeeded the