Vadim Petrovich Loginov

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Vadim Petrovich Loginow ( Russian Вадим Петрович Логинов ; born June 19, 1927 in Newjansk ; † December 16, 2016 ) was a Soviet politician ( CPSU ) and diplomat . He was deputy foreign minister and ambassador to Angola and Yugoslavia .

Life

Loginov joined the CPSU in 1950. In the same he graduated from the Leningrad Shipbuilding Institute. Between 1953 and 1958 he worked in various functions for the Komsomol . From January to April 1958 he was the first secretary of the Leningrad Oblast Committee of the Komsomol, after which he was a secretary of the Central Committee of the All Union Komsomol. From 1962 to 1965 he was first secretary of the Vyborg City Committee of the CPSU.

After graduating from the diplomatic college at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Moscow in 1967, Loginov entered the diplomatic service of the USSR. From 1968 to 1971 he was First Secretary and Counselor at the Soviet Embassy in Washington . From 1971 to 1974 he was envoy at the Soviet embassy in Warsaw . From 1974 to 1978 he headed the Fourth European Department of the Soviet Foreign Ministry (responsible for Poland and Czechoslovakia , among others ). From March 1978 to December 1983 he was the Soviet ambassador in Luanda . In 1984/1985 he headed the Fifth European Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( Southeastern Europe ). Between 1985 and 1988 he was Deputy Foreign Minister. From 1988 to 1991 he was the USSR Ambassador to Belgrade .

From 1986 to 1990 he was a candidate for the Central Committee of the CPSU.

literature

  • Andrei A. Gromyko et al. (Ed.): Дипломатический словарь . Volume 2. Nauka, Moscow 1986, p. 150.
  • Borys Lewytzkyj (Ed.): Who's who in the Soviet Union. A biographical encyclopedia of 5000 leading personalities in the Soviet Union . 2nd Edition. KG Saur, Munich 1984, p. 197.
  • Leonard Geron, Alex Pravda (Eds.): Who's who in Russia and the new states . 2nd Edition. IB Tauris & Co., London 1993.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (Russian)
personal data
SURNAME Loginov, Vadim Petrovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Логинов, Вадим Петрович (Russian); Loginov, Vadim Petrovich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet politician (CPSU) and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Nevyansk
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 2016