15 Facts About Anatoly Dobrynin

Anatoly Fyodorovich Dobrynin was a Soviet statesman, diplomat, and politician.

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

Anatoly Dobrynin attracted notoriety among the American public during and after the Cuban Missile Crisis at the beginning of his ambassadorship, when he denied the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba.

Anatoly Dobrynin was born in the village of Krasnaya Gorka, near Mozhaisk in the Moscow Oblast, on 16 November 1919.

Anatoly Dobrynin attended the Moscow Aviation Institute and after graduation went to work for the Yakovlev Design Bureau.

Anatoly Dobrynin entered the Higher Diplomatic School in 1944 and graduated with distinction.

Anatoly Dobrynin joined the diplomatic service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1946.

Anatoly Dobrynin later joined the secretariat of the ministry and worked for Vyacheslav Molotov, Dmitri Shepilov, Andrei Gromyko, and Valerian Zorin.

Anatoly Dobrynin 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.

Anatoly Dobrynin was appointed as Soviet Ambassador to the United States in 1962 and he was the Dean of the Diplomatic Corps from July 1979.

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

Anatoly Dobrynin developed an especially close relationship with Henry Kissinger with whom he often met and dined with up to four times a week.

Anatoly Dobrynin attended the December 1989 Malta Summit, which formally marked the end of the Cold War.

Anatoly Dobrynin was given the honorary rank of Russian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in 1992.

Anatoly Dobrynin's name is associated with a whole epoch in Russian and global foreign policy.