Anatoly Fyodorovich Dobrynin

Anatoly Fjodorowitsch Dobrynin 2nd v. l. during the Cuban Missile Crisis in the White House in 1962

Anatoly Dobrynin 1967

Anatoly Fjodorowitsch Dobrynin ( Russian Анатолий Фёдорович Добрынин; born November 16, 1919 in Krasnaja Gorka near Moshaisk in the Moscow Governorate , Russian SFSR (today Moscow Oblast , Russia ); † April 6, 2010 in Moscow ) was a Soviet diplomat . He was the Soviet Union's Ambassador to the United States from 1962 to 1986 .

career

After studying at the State Aviation Institute in Moscow , Dobrynin first worked in the Yakovlev - Experimental Design Office .

Then he graduated from the diplomatic school and entered the diplomatic service of the Soviet Union in 1946 . His diplomatic career under several foreign ministers led Anatoly Dobrynin to the UN Secretariat , where he worked from 1957 to 1960. He returned to Moscow as head of the America Department in the State Department.

In January 1962 he was appointed by the CPSU Politburo to succeed Mikhail Menshikov as Ambassador of the Soviet Union to the United States. He took office on March 15, 1962, and presented his credentials on March 30. Dobrynin made a significant contribution to the peaceful solution to the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 . Five Soviet general secretaries and six US presidents served during his 24-year tenure . When he was recalled from the post of ambassador in 1986, he was succeeded by Yuri Dubinin .

Since 1966 Dobrynin was a candidate and from 1971 a full member of the Central Committee of the CPSU . In 1986 he was elected to the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the CPSU and returned to Moscow. In the central committee he took over the management of the international department. In 1988 he left the Central Committee, but continued to work as an advisor to Gorbachev .

Works

• In Confidence: Moscow's Ambassador to Six Cold War Presidents . 2001, ISBN 0-295-98081-8 (first edition: 1995, autobiography, reprint).

Web links

Commons : Anatoly Dobrynin  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• The Kissinger Telcons: The Dobrynin File
• Anatoli Fjodorowitsch Dobrynin in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)