Arkady Sobolev

Arkady Alexandrovich Sobolev (Russian: Арка́дий Алекса́ндрович Со́болев, 1903–December 1, 1964) was a Russian Soviet diplomat who served as the Soviet ambassador to the United Nations between 1955 and 1960.^[1] He was a specialist in international law. He was also under-secretary for Security and Political Affairs between 1946 and 1949 and Soviet Ambassador to Poland between 1951 and 1953. He died in Moscow following a long illness.^[2][3]

Arkady Sobolev (seated, second from right) at the Dumbarton Oaks Conference, August 1944

Sobolov was born in 1903 in Danilkino, Galich district, Kostroma, Russian Empire.

Alger Hiss, Secretary-General of the San Francisco Conference, where the UN Charter was drafted and signed, spoke about the role of Sobolev and US delegate Leo Pasvolsky: "they were the draftsmen of the Charter in San Francisco. Now, the outline had been written before; I'm talking about the specific language which is a very important part of any treaty, I think it was Pasvolsky and Sobolev who were really responsible for the form the Charter took." Sobolev and Pasvolsky had the primary responsibility to "put the various drafts together into a working text."^[4]

References

1. Staff report (March 4, 1955). Arkady A. Sobolev named permanent Russian U. N. Envoy. Chicago Tribune
2. Staff report (December 11, 1964). Obituary. Time
3. Staff report (December 3, 1964). "Diplomat Served Secretariat as Aide go Trygve Lie-Minister in Moscow." The New York Times, page 45.
4. United Nations Oral History Project, Alger Hiss, 13 February 1990