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Soviet ambassador and diplomat (1922–2019) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Leonid Mitrofanovich Zamyatin (Russian: Леонид Митрофанович Замятин; 9 March 1922 – 19 June 2019) was a Soviet ambassador and diplomat.[1]
He graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute, and worked as a diplomat from 1946.[1] He became an adviser to the Soviet delegation at the United Nations, and a permanent representative of the Soviet Union on the IAEA Board of Governors.[1] From 1962 to 1970, he served in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union, becoming head of the press department.[1] From 1970 to 1978, he was director general of TASS, the official news agency of the Soviet Union.[1] He was Chairman of the International Information Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1978 to 1986.[1][2] In 1986, he was appointed the Soviet ambassador to the United Kingdom. He was forced to resign his ambassadorship after his refusal to condemn the 1991 August coup against Mikhail Gorbachev.[3]
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