Daniil Semjonowitsch Solod

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Daniil Semjonowitsch Solod in Syria in 1944

Daniil Semjonowitsch Solod ( Russian Даниил Семёнович Солод ; * 1908 in Ukraine , † 1988 ) was a Soviet ambassador .

Life

Daniil Semjonowitsch Solod was a member of the CPSU and entered the foreign service in 1937.

He was a member of the People's Commissariat of the USSR from 1937 to 1939 . From 1939 to 1940 he headed the staff of the People's Commissariat. He was accredited at the Belgrade Embassy from 1940 to 1941 . In 1941 he was employed in Moscow . From 1941 to 1943 he was accredited at the embassy in Tehran . From 1943 to 1944 he was accredited as Counselor in Cairo . From 1944 to 1950 he was consul in Egypt . During his tenure in Syria, he was also accredited as ambassador to the government of Lebanon, based in Damascus . It was passed in Damascus in 1950 with the sympathy of the Syrian notables. From 1951 to 1953 he was Deputy Head of the Middle East Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Moscow.

In 1954, Solod was promoted to ambassador in Cairo. The Suez crisis began during his tenure as ambassador to Cairo . He was instrumental in orienting the Free Officers under Muhammad Nagib to the Soviet Union. In this phase, the plans for the great Aswan High Dam were concretized and Egypt oriented itself strategically towards the Soviet Union.

From 1956 to 1960 he was Deputy Head of the Middle East Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Moscow.

On December 30, 1959, he was appointed ambassador to Guinea . In November 1961 Ahmed Sékou Touré accused him of being involved in a teacher conspiracy . At a diplomatic reception in Conakry, Solod was pulled aside by the chief of protocol and summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he was declared a persona non grata . Nikita Sergejewitsch Khrushchev sent a new ambassador to Conakry in January 1962. In terms of foreign policy, Ahmed Sékou Touré subsequently oriented himself more towards Mao Zedong .

From 1962 to 1970 he taught at the Institute for Africa at the Academy of Sciences in Moscow.

predecessor Office successor
Soviet ambassador to Damascus
1944–1950
Ilya Kaissarowitsch Tawadze
Soviet ambassador to Beirut
1944–1950
Ilya Kaissarowitsch Tawadze
Semyon Pavlovich Kozyrev Soviet ambassador to Cairo
October 12, 1953–1. January 1956
Yevgeny Dmitrievich Kisselev
Pavel Gerasimov Soviet ambassador in Conakry
1960–1962
Dmitri Danilowitsch Degtjar

Individual evidence

  1. Biography Reference for the History of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union 1898-1991
  2. DANIEL SOLOD: BIOGRAPHY, on People.SU , accessed March 1, 2015