Georgi Nikolayevich Farafonov
Georgi Nikolajewitsch Farafonow ( Russian Георгий Николаевич Фарафонов ; born April 1, 1919 in the village of Farafonowo near Mtsensk , Soviet Russia ; † May 19, 1993 in Moscow ) was a Soviet diplomat.
biography
Georgi Farafonov graduated from Bauman State Technical University in Moscow . Then he worked as an engineer in the air defense . During the years of the Great Patriotic War he was drafted to the front as a soldier in the Red Army . After the war he took up training at the diplomatic school. He then held a leading position at the Soviet Foreign Ministry. As part of this activity, he stayed in Soviet diplomatic missions in Finland , Sweden and Norway . From 1975 to 1979 he was Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the USSR to Iceland . In 1979 he returned to Moscow, where he headed the Scandinavian States Department at the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
After his retirement he became chairman of the veterans' council at the Soviet (from 1992: at the Russian) Foreign Ministry.
Farafonov died on May 19, 1993 as a result of a heart attack . He was buried in the famous Trojekurowo cemetery in Moscow.
His daughter Larissa Georgievna Farafonova works for the Russian Foreign Ministry. She was honored on November 14, 2002 by Russian President Vladimir Putin by ukase No. N 1327 with the Order of Merit of the Fatherland 2nd class.
literature
- Diplomatic dictionary , edited by AA Gromyko, AG Kowaljowa, PP Sewostjanowa, SL Tichwinski in Volume 3, Moscow, "Science", 1985–1986. - Volume 3, p. 508.
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Farafonow, Georgi Nikolajewitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Фарафонов, Георгий Николаевич (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | soviet diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 1, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Farafonowo village near Mtsensk , Soviet Russia |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 19, 1993 |
| Place of death | Moscow |