Nikolai Vasilevich Novikov

Nikolai Vasilyevich Novikov (Russian: Николай Васильевич Новиков; * 25 Januarjul / February 7 1903greg, .. † 1989) was a Soviet ambassador.

Life

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

On May 25, 1938, he was appointed as Consultant of the Division East of the People's Commissariat.

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

In his tenure as ambassador in Cairo, he was also accredited with the exiled governments of Greece and Yugoslavia in Cairo. As of April 1944 led George Papandreou, the Greek government in exile in Cairo. 1944 prepared Novikov the establishment of diplomatic relations with Syria and, on 8 November 1943 resulting Lebanon ago.

From the end of 1944 he was accredited in the United States. In a telegram of 27 September 1946, Vyacheslav M. Molotov Novikov showed the paradigm shift in U.S. foreign policy from the Monroe Doctrine to the Truman Doctrine auf.Am July 26, 1947 he was called by the government of Josef Stalin to Moscow for consultations and returned until the appointment of his successor, Alexander Panyushkin, not to Washington.