Anatoly Dobrynin

Anatoly Fyodorovich Dobrynin (Russian Анатолий Фёдорович Добрынин; born November 16, 1919 in Krasnaya Gorka in the Moscow Oblast; † April 6, 2010 in Moscow) was a Soviet diplomat. He was from 1962 to 1986 Ambassador of the Soviet Union in the United States.

Career

Anatoly Dobrynin began his diplomatic career with the UN Secretariat, where he worked from 1957 to 1960.

In January 1962 he was appointed by the Politburo of the CPSU Mikhail Menshikov as a successor to the Soviet Ambassador in the United States. On March 15, 1962, he took up his post on 30 March, he presented his credentials. Dobrynin was in 1962 significantly to the peaceful resolution of the Cuban Missile Crisis. During his 24 years of service officiated five Soviet general secretaries and six American presidents. When he was dismissed by the ambassadorship in 1986, followed him Yuri Dubinin.

Since 1966 he was a candidate and in 1971 a full member of the Central Committee of the CPSU. In 1986 he was elected to the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the CPSU and returned to Moscow. In the Central Committee, he took over as head of the international department. In 1988 he resigned from the Central Committee, but remained active as a consultant Gorbachev.