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Leonid Zamyatin

Leonid Zamyatin

Soviet ambassador and diplomat (1922–2019)

Leonid Mitrofanovich Zamyatin (Russian: Леонид Митрофанович Замятин; 9 March 1922 – 19 June 2019) was a Soviet ambassador and diplomat.[1]

Zamyatin in 1978

Biography

He graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute, and worked as a diplomat from 1946.[1] He became an adviser to the Soviet delegation at the United Nations, and a permanent representative of the Soviet Union on the IAEA Board of Governors.[1] From 1962 to 1970, he served in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union, becoming head of the press department.[1] From 1970 to 1978, he was director general of TASS, the official news agency of the Soviet Union.[1] He was Chairman of the International Information Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1978 to 1986.[1][2] In 1986, he was appointed the Soviet ambassador to the United Kingdom. He was forced to resign his ambassadorship after his refusal to condemn the 1991 August coup against Mikhail Gorbachev.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    "Thatcher had a Definite Womanish Feeling towards Gorbachev". Kommersant. 4 May 2005. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Interview with Zamyatin by Marina Kalashnikova.
  2. [2]
    Whitney, Craig R. (6 April 1989). "Soviet Envoy Who Knows How to Please". The New York Times. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
  3. [3]
    "Soviet Turmoil: Moscow Calls 6 Envoys Home". The New York Times. Associated Press. 7 September 1991. Retrieved 24 August 2017.


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