Arkady Sobolev

Arkady Aleksandrovich Sobolev (Russian: Арка́дий Алекса́ндрович Со́болев, November 25, 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
Arkady Sobolev (seated, second from right) at the Dumbarton Oaks Conference, August 1944
Director of the Department of the UN Security Council Affairs
In office 1946–1949
Ambassador to Polish People's Republic
In office 2 March 1951 – 21 June 1953
Preceded by	Viktor Lebedev
Succeeded by	Georgy Popov
Permanent Representative of the Soviet Union to the United Nations
In office 1955–1960
Preceded by	Andrey Vyshinsky
Succeeded by	Valerian Zorin
Personal details
Born	(1903-11-25)25 November 1903 Danilkovo village, Galichsky Uyezd, Kostroma Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	1 December 1964(1964-12-01) (aged 61) Moscow, RSFSR, Soviet Union
Political party	CPSU

Sobolov was born in 1903 in Danilkovo village, Galichsky Uyezd, 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]