Vladimir Malygin
Vladimir Malygin | |
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Владимир Ардалионович Малыгин | |
Ambassador of Russia to Malta | |
Assumed office 12 December 2014 | |
President | Vladimir Putin |
Preceded by | Boris Marchuk |
Personal details | |
Born | 19 June 1950 |
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Alma mater | Moscow State Institute of International Relations |
Awards | Order of Friendship Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" Second Class Honoured Worker of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation |
Vladimir Ardalionovich Malygin (Russian: Владимир Ардалионович Малыгин; born 19 June 1950) is a Russian diplomat. He has served in various diplomatic roles since the 1970s, and has been the incumbent Ambassador of Russia to Malta since December 2014.
Career
Malygin was born on 19 June 1950, the son of Ardalion Malygin , a party worker and employee of the Soviet state security organs, who reached the rank of lieutenant general. Vladimir Malygin studied at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, graduating in 1972 and beginning work for the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs.[1][2] His work included postings within the central apparatus of the Ministry, which after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 became the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and abroad. During the Soviet and later Russian periods he worked in the embassies in Sweden, the United Kingdom, and Cyprus.[2] He undertook further studies at the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, graduating in 1989.[1][2] On 18 September 1996 he was awarded the diplomatic rank of Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Envoy 2nd class.[3]
In 2000 Malygin was appointed Deputy Director of the Ministry's General Secretariat, followed by a posting from 2003 as consul general in Edinburgh.[1] He held this post until 2009, having received the diplomatic rank of Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Envoy 1st class, on 29 December 2005.[4] Between 2009 and 2012 he was Deputy Director of the Ministry's Department of Security, and then from 2012 until 2014 Malygin was consul general in Klaipeda, Lithuania.[1] He then became Deputy Director of the Ministry's Second European Department in June 2014, before being appointed Ambassador of Russia to Malta on 12 December 2014.[1][5]
Personal life and awards
In addition to his native Russian, Malygin speaks English and Swedish. He is married to Tatyana, and currently holds the diplomatic rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, awarded on 17 October 2016.[1][2][6] Over his career he has been awarded the Order of Friendship, on 30 March 2020;[7] the Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" Second Class, on 29 October 2010;[8] and the title of Honoured Worker of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation .[2]
References
- ^ a b c d e f "МАЛЫГИН ВЛАДИМИР АРДАЛИОНОВИЧ назначен Чрезвычайным и Полномочным Послом Российской Федерации на Мальте". mid.ru (in Russian). Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
- ^ a b c d e "Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Malta Vladimir MALYGIN". malta.mid.ru. Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
- ^ "Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 18.09.1996 г. № 1365" (in Russian). Kremlin.ru. 18 September 1996. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
- ^ "Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 29.12.2005 г. № 1552" (in Russian). Kremlin.ru. 29 December 2005. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
- ^ "Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 12.12.2014 г. № 763" (in Russian). Kremlin.ru. 12 December 2014. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
- ^ "Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 17.10.2016 № 551 "О присвоении дипломатических рангов"" (in Russian). Государственная система правовой информации. 17 October 2016. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
- ^ "Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 30.03.2020 № 230 "О награждении государственными наградами Российской Федерации"" (in Russian). Государственная система правовой информации. 30 March 2020. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
- ^ "Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 29.10.2010 г. № 1303" (in Russian). Kremlin.ru. 29 October 2010. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
- 1950 births
- Living people
- Ambassadors of Russia to Malta
- Recipients of the Order of Friendship
- Moscow State Institute of International Relations alumni
- Recipients of the Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" II class
- Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation alumni