Vladimir Semyonovich Semyonov
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Vladimir Semenovich Semyonov (Russian: Владимир Семёнович Семёнов) (born in 1911, near Kirsanov, Tambov Oblast - died in 1992, Moscow) was a Soviet diplomat and famous for his military administrating in Eastern Germany during the Soviet occupation after the World War II. He was instrumental in the creation of East Germany, and served as the first Soviet ambassador to East Germany.
[edit] Carrier of Soviet diplomat
- 1938 — Semyonov begins work for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MID)
- 1939—1940 — an advisor of Soviet Plenipotentiary Representation in Lithuania
- 1940—1941 — a counsellor of the Soviet Embassy in Nazi Germany
- 1941—1942 — an executive of the 3-rd European Department of the MID
- 1942—1945 — a counsellor of the Soviet Mission in Sweden
- 1945—1946 — a deputy of the a Political Counsellor of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany
- 1946—1949 — a Political Counsellor of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany
- 1949—1953 — a Political Counsellor of the Soviet Control Committee in Germany
- 1953 — Senior Executive, Deputy Chief, Chief of the 3-rd European Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, member of Ministry Board of the MID.
- 1953—1954 — Chief Commissar of USSR in Germany and an ambassador to the East Germany;
- 1954—1955 — an Executive of the 3-rd European Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- 1955—1978 — Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
- 1968-1978 - Chief of the Soviet delegation at the Soviet-American negotiations on reduction of strategic weapons in Helsinki, Vienna, Geneva. Prepared the 1973 SALT-1 and 1978 SALT-2 Treaties for signing by General Secretaries Leonid Brezhnev and Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter.
- 1978—1986 — USSR ambassodor to West Germany
- 1986-1991 — the Foreign Ministry Ambassador at Large, Councellor to the Foreign Minister
