Anatoly Dobrynin

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In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Fyodorovich and the family name is Dobrynin.
Anatoly Dobrynin
Анатолий Добрынин
23rd Central Committee
In office
8 April 1966 – 9 April 1971
Personal details
Born
Anatoly Fyodorovich Dobrynin

(1919-11-16)16 November 1919
Krasnaya Gorka,
Civil servant, politician

Anatoly Fyodorovich Dobrynin (

Soviet ambassador to the United States
for more than two decades, from 1962 to 1986.

He attracted notoriety among the American public during and after the

Nixon administration and the Soviet Politburo
.

Early life and education

Dobrynin was born in the village of Krasnaya Gorka, near

Yakovlev Design Bureau
. He entered the Higher Diplomatic School in 1944 and graduated with distinction.

Career

With Henry Kissinger on January 25, 1974

Dobrynin joined the diplomatic service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1946.[1] He later joined the secretariat of the ministry and worked for Vyacheslav Molotov, Dmitri Shepilov, Andrei Gromyko, and Valerian Zorin. He was appointed deputy secretary general at the United Nations in 1957 and returned to Moscow as head of the foreign ministry's department of the United States and Canada in 1960.[1] Dobrynin was appointed as Soviet Ambassador to the United States in 1962 and he was the Dean of the Diplomatic Corps from July 1979.[2] His tenure lasted until 1986.[1]

Dobrynin had the unique experience of serving as Soviet ambassador to the United States during the terms of six presidents (

US State Department resulted in him being granted his own parking spot in the State Department garage. When President Reagan revoked that privilege in 1981, he remarked about Dobrynin, "I couldn't help liking him as a human being."[3][4]

Dobrynin developed an especially close relationship with Henry Kissinger with whom he often met and dined with up to four times a week. They had a direct line to each other's office; they exchanged gifts, shared inside jokes, and even met each other's parents.[5]

In 1971, he was elected to the Central Committee of the

CPSU Central Committee for two years. At the end of 1988, he retired from the Central Committee and served as an advisor to the Soviet presidency.[1]

He attended the December 1989 Malta Summit, which formally marked the end of the Cold War. He was given the honorary rank of Russian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in 1992.

Works and death

His book, In Confidence: Moscow's Ambassador to Six Cold War Presidents, was published in 1995. (It was last reprinted in 2001 as

ISBN 0-295-98081-8
.)

Dobrynin died in Moscow on 6 April 2010. In a telegram to Dobrynin's family,

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev
paid tribute to Dobrynin, stating:

Anatoly Dobrynin, a talented and memorable figure, professional of the highest calibre and legend of Russian diplomacy has left us. His name is associated with a whole epoch in Russian and global foreign policy.

There can be no overestimating Anatoly Dobrynin’s personal contribution to resolving the Cuban missile crisis and normalising

Soviet-American relations
.

His outstanding abilities as a negotiator and analyst earned him the respect of both colleagues and opponents, and his goodwill, deep knowledge and wealth of life experience won him the respect and liking of everyone around him.[6]

Honours and awards

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Dennis Kavanagh (1998). "Dobrynin, Anatolly Fedorovich". A Dictionary of Political Biography. Oxford: OUP. p. 148. Archived from the original on 27 October 2021. Retrieved 1 September 2013.
  2. U.S. Department of State
    . 1 March 2013. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
  3. ISBN 0-316-51847-6
    .
  4. JSTOR 24916333
    .
  5. JSTOR 24916333
    .
  6. Presidential Press and Information Office
    . 8 April 2010. Retrieved 1 September 2011.

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