People of the Revolution and the USSR
Diplomacy and international organization
Citizenship: Soviet Union
People of the thaw and the stagnation 1953–1985
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- Otto Wille Kuusinen Otto Wille Kuusinen From Finnish labour leader to Comintern veteran and Khrushchev's theoretician
- Georgy Nikolayevich Zarubin Георгий Николаевич Зарубин The Soviet diplomat who represented Moscow in all three major Western Allied capitals during the early Cold War
- Vasily Vasilyevich Kuznetsov Василий Васильевич Кузнецов Three-time interim head of state and Gromyko's First Deputy for 22 years
- Mikhail Alexeyevich Menshikov Михаил Алексеевич Меньшиков Trade-and-diplomacy official sacked by Stalin over bananas, then returned as a Cold War ambassador under Khrushchev
- Valerian Aleksandrovich Zorin Валериан Александрович Зорин The Soviet Cold War diplomat who denied the Cuban missiles at the UN Security Council
- Arkady Alexandrovich Sobolev Аркадий Александрович Соболев Soviet diplomat who co-drafted the UN Charter, the Soviet face at the UN through the early Cold War
- Georgy Maksimovich Pushkin Георгий Максимович Пушкин The Soviet diplomat who warned Khrushchev about Berlin
- Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko Андрей Андреевич Громыко “Mister Nyet,” whose last move was to nominate the reformer
- Vladimir Semyonovich Semyonov Владимир Семёнович Семёнов Four-decade architect of Soviet German policy
- Pyotr Andreyevich Abrassimov Пётр Андреевич Абрасимов The Soviet 'governing ambassador' who managed Cold War Berlin
- Alexander Ivanovich Alexeyev Александр Иванович Алексеев KGB officer turned first Soviet ambassador to Cuba who won Castro's trust and warned Khrushchev against the missile deployment
- Stepan Vasilievich Chervonenko Степан Васильевич Червоненко Soviet ambassador for 24 years across the Sino-Soviet split, Prague Spring, and détente
- Andrei Mikhailovich Alexandrov-Agentov Андрей Михайлович Александров-Агентов The foreign-policy aide who served four Soviet General Secretaries
- Oleg Alexandrovich Troyanovsky Олег Александрович Трояновский From Stalin's interpreter to UN ambassador, the Soviet diplomat who weathered Cold War crises with wit
- Anatoly Fyodorovich Dobrynin Анатолий Фёдорович Добрынин The ambassador whose 24 years in Washington made him the hidden circuit of Soviet–American diplomacy
- Vladimir Mikhailovich Vinogradov Владимир Михайлович Виноградов Soviet Middle East diplomat who witnessed the 1973 war and the Iranian Revolution from inside
- Georgy Markovich Korniyenko Георгий Маркович Корниенко Gromyko's point man on America who ran arms-control talks, opposed the Afghan invasion, and demanded truth over KAL 007