Nikolai Vasilyevich Novikov

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Nikolai Vasilevich Novikov ( Russian Николай Васильевич Новиков ; born January 25 . Jul / 7. February  1903 greg. In Saint Petersburg , † 1989 ) was a Soviet ambassador.

Life

Novikov studied oriental economics at the Leningrad Oriental Institute until 1930 . From 1930 to 1935 he worked in facilities of the Narkomwneschtorg ( People's Commissariat for Foreign Trade ) in Moscow and Tajikistan . He taught Turkish economics at the Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies. When the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs was dissolved, he taught world economics and world politics at the Institute of the Red Professorship from 1935 .

On May 25, 1938, he was appointed advisor to the East Department of the People's Commissariat.

From 1941 to 1943 he headed Division IV, Europe of the People's Commissariat of the USSR.

During his tenure as ambassador to Cairo , he was also accredited to the governments-in-exile of Greece and Yugoslavia in Cairo. From April 1944 Georgios Papandreou headed the Greek government in exile in Cairo. In 1944, Novikov prepared the establishment of diplomatic relations with Syria and Lebanon , which was formed on November 8, 1943 .

From the end of 1944 he was accredited in the USA. In a telegram to Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov dated September 27, 1946 , Novikov showed the paradigm shift in US foreign policy from the Monroe Doctrine to the Truman Doctrine . On July 26, 1947, the government of Joseph Stalin called him to Moscow for consultations and did not return to Washington until the appointment of his successor, Alexander Panjuschkin.

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/46663/gaddis-smith/origins-of-the-cold-war-the-novikov-kennan-and-roberts-long-tele
predecessor Office successor
Envoy Extraordinary Plenipotentiary of the USSR to Egypt
October 14, 1943 - November 16, 1944
Alexei Dmitrievich Shchiborin
Alexander Yefremovich Bogomolov Ambassador of the USSR to the Greek government in exile in Cairo
November 12, 1943 - December 11, 1945
Konstantin Konstantinowitsch Rodionow
Andrei Andreevich Gromyko Ambassador of the USSR to the USA
April 11, 1946 - October 25, 1947
Alexander Panushkin