Leonid Zamyatin
Soviet ambassador and diplomat (1922–2019)
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Leonid Mitrofanovich Zamyatin (Russian: Леонид Митрофанович Замятин; 9 March 1922 – 19 June 2019) was a Soviet ambassador and diplomat.[1]
Leonid Zamyatin | |
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Леонид Замятин | |
Zamyatin in 1978 | |
| Soviet Ambassador to the UK | |
| In office 10 April 1986 – 19 November 1991 | |
| Preceded by | Viktor Popov |
| Succeeded by | Boris Pankin |
| General Director of TASS news agency | |
| In office 20 April 1970 – 16 February 1978 | |
| Preceded by | Sergey Lapin |
| Succeeded by | Vladimir Khatuntsev |
| Soviet Ambassador to the IAEA | |
| In office 1959–1960 | |
| Preceded by | Vasily Emelyanov |
| Succeeded by | Vyacheslav Molotov |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 9 March 1922 |
| Died | 19 June 2019 (aged 97) |
| Resting place | Kuntsevo Cemetery |
| Party | CPSU |
| Alma mater | Moscow Aviation Institute Soviet MFA Diplomatic School |
Biography
He graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute, and worked as a diplomat from 1946.[1] He became an adviser to the Soviet delegation at the United Nations, and a permanent representative of the Soviet Union on the IAEA Board of Governors.[1] From 1962 to 1970, he served in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union, becoming head of the press department.[1] From 1970 to 1978, he was director general of TASS, the official news agency of the Soviet Union.[1] He was Chairman of the International Information Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1978 to 1986.[1][2] In 1986, he was appointed the Soviet ambassador to the United Kingdom. He was forced to resign his ambassadorship after his refusal to condemn the 1991 August coup against Mikhail Gorbachev.[3]
Awards
- Order of Lenin
- Order of the October Revolution
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Order of Friendship of Peoples
- Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"
- Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
- Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
- Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
- Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
- Jubilee Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
- Medal "For Strengthening of Brotherhood in Arms"
- Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
- Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
- Jubilee Medal "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
- Lenin Prize
