Georgy Pushkin
politicians walk in snow, past an honour guard with rifles
Pushkin in East Berlin, 1949
Born
Georgy Maksimovich Pushkin

(1909-02-03)3 February 1909
Malaya Konoplyanka village, Smolensk Governorate, Russian Empire
Died2 April 1963(1963-04-02) (aged 54)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
OccupationDiplomat

Georgy Maksimovich Pushkin (Russian: Георгий Максимович Пушкин; 3 February 1909 – 2 April 1963[1]) was an ambassador of the Soviet Union and politician.

He served as ambassador to Hungary beginning in March 1948.[2][3]

From June to October 1949 he served as Head of the Department of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs, at the same time Chairman of the Radio Broadcasting Committee of the USSR Council of Ministers.

He was ambassador to East Germany.[4]

In 1961, he held the office of Deputy Foreign Minister[5] and was the Soviet delegate to the International Agreement on the Neutrality of Laos.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek". portal.dnb.de. Retrieved 2021-01-10.
  2. ↑ "Pushkin Appointed Hungarian Envoy". The Evening Independent (St. Petersburg, Florida). 1948-03-29. Retrieved 2013-12-17. Grigori Pushkin has been appointed Soviet ambassador to Hungary, announced today [...]
  3. ↑ "Requests Stolen By Convict". The Palm Beach Post. 1949-10-21. Retrieved 2013-12-17. Pushkin was replaced as Soviet ambassador in Hungary last June, his handiwork of a "peoples' [OCR error] complete.
  4. ↑ "Russia Shifts Boom Pushkin In Red Ranks". Deseret News. 1952-09-24. Retrieved 2013-12-17. Pushkin, former Russian ambassador to East Germany, has succeeded [...]
  5. ↑ "Steps to restore peace". The Hindu. 1961-04-11. Archived from the original on 2013-06-22. Retrieved 2013-12-17. The British Ambassador to the Soviet Union, Sir Frank Roberts, had talks with the Soviet Far East expert, Mr. Georgi Pushkin, Deputy Foreign Minister, in Moscow on April 10.
  6. ↑ "Russia: The Three Horses". Time. 1961-06-16. Retrieved 2013-12-17. Why not? smiled Soviet Delegate Georgy Pushkin to the U.S.'s W. Averell Harriman at the Laos peace talks last week.

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