Anatoly Adamishin

Anatoly Leonidovich Adamishin (Russian: Анатолий Леонидович Адамишин) (born 11 October 1934)[1] is a Russian diplomat, politician and businessman.[1]

Anatoly Adamishin
Minister for Cooperation with the CIS
In office 28 August 1997 – 23 March 1998
Prime Minister	Viktor Chernomyrdin
Preceded by	Aman Tuleyev
Succeeded by	Ministry dissolved
Ambassador of Russia to the UK
In office 5 September 1994 – 6 June 1997
Preceded by	Boris Pankin
Succeeded by	Yury Fokin
Member of the State Duma
In office 11 January – 11 May 1994
Succeeded by	Sergey Mitrokhin
Parliamentary group	Yabloko
First deputy Foreign Minister
In office October 1992 – October 1994
Minister	Andrei Kozyrev
Ambassador of the Soviet Union/Russia to Italy
In office 12 April 1990 – 24 December 1992
Preceded by	Nikolay Lunkov
Succeeded by	Valery Kenyaykin
Personal details
Born	(1934-10-11) 11 October 1934 Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Nationality	Russian
Alma mater	Moscow State University
Occupation	Diplomat politician author
Awards

Adamishin graduated from Moscow State University, and went on to work in various diplomatic posts in the central offices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and abroad.[1]

From 1986 to 1990, he served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union, in charge of African, humanitarian and cultural affairs.[2][3] From 1990 to 1992, Adamishin was the Ambassador of the Soviet Union, and then Russia, to Italy. Then, from 1992 until 1994, he became the 1st Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs.

On 12 December 1993 he was elected to the 1st State Duma by the list of Yavlinsky-Boldyrev-Lukin bloc. He remained in the position of Deputy Minister, and in this regard, he resigned as member of parliament on 11 May 1994. He did not attend the sessions, and was nominally a member of the Committee on CIS Affairs and Relations with Compatriots. From 1994 to 1997, Adamishin was the Ambassador of Russia to the United Kingdom.[1][3]

Adamishin speaks Russian, English, Italian, Ukrainian, and French.[1]