Yevgeny_Samoteykin
Yevgeny Samoteykin
Soviet diplomat (1928–2014)
Yevgeny Matveyevich Samoteykin ((Russian: Евгений Матвеевич Самотейкин); October 18, 1928,[1] – July 20, 2014) was a Soviet diplomat.[2]
From 1952, Samoteykin worked in the central apparatus of the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in Soviet diplomatic missions abroad. From 1964 he was a personal assistant to the First (later, General) secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Central Committee.[1]
On 24 April 1983 he was appointed as Ambassador of the Soviet Union to Australia, with concurrent accreditation to Nauru, Fiji and Vanuatu, and held the post until 22 August 1990.[3][4][5][6]