Anatoly Lavrentiev

Anatoly Iosifovich Lavrentiev (Russian: Анатолий Иосифович Лаврентьев; 1904 – 1984) was a Soviet diplomat. He served as the head of the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs of the Russian SFSR in the Soviet government from 8 March 1944 to 13 March 1946. He was a member of the CPSU (b).[1]

Anatoly Lavrentiev
Анатолий Лаврентьев
People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Russian SFSR
In office
8 March 1944 – 13 March 1946
PremierJoseph Stalin
Preceded byGeorgy Chicherin
Succeeded byNone—post abolished
Ambassador of the Soviet Union to the Kingdom of Bulgaria
In office
1939–1940
Preceded byFyodor Raskolnikov
Succeeded byAlexander Andreyevich Lavrishev
Ambassador of the Soviet Union to the Kingdom of Romania
In office
1940–1941
Ambassador of the Soviet Union to Yugoslavia
In office
1946–1949
Ambassador of the Soviet Union to Czechoslovakia
In office
1951–1952
Preceded byMikhail Silin
Succeeded byAleksandr Bogomolov
Ambassador of the Soviet Union to the People's Republic of Romania
In office
1952–1953
Ambassador of the Soviet Union to Iran
In office
1953–1956
Preceded byIvan Sadchikov
Succeeded byNikolai Pegov
Personal details
Born1904
Russian Empire
Died1984
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
NationalitySoviet
Political partyCommunist Party of the Soviet Union
ProfessionDiplomat, civil servant

Biography

Lavrentiev graduated from the Moscow Power Engineering Institute in 1931 and became a teacher at the Institute.[2]

From 1938 to 1939, he worked as an employee of the apparatus of the People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry of the USSR. In 1939 he was the head of the Eastern European department of the USSR People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs.

From 1939 to 1940 he was the ambassador of the USSR in Bulgaria. From 1940 to 1941 years he served as Plenipotentiary representative of the USSR in Romania and from 1941 he served as the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Envoy of the USSR in Romania.

From 1941 to 1943, he served as a responsible officer of the TASS.

In 1943 he served as the Head of the European Department of the USSR People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs. From 1943 to 1944 he served as Head of the Middle East Department of the USSR People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs.

From 1944 to 1946 he served as People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Russian SFSR. From 1946 to 1949 he served as Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the USSR in Yugoslavia.[3]

From 1949 to 1951 he served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR.

From 1951 to 1952 he served as Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the USSR in Czechoslovakia.[4] According to the CIA report, Lavrentiev was "one of the Kremlin's most ruthless and competent foreign affairs officials."[5] From 1952 to 1953 he served as Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the USSR in Romania.[6]

The Russian ambassador, Anatoly Lavrentiev, meets Iran's prime minister, Mohammad Mosaddegh, on 2 August 1953, before the 1953 Iranian coup d'état.

From 1953 to 1956 he served as Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the USSR in Iran. He met Iran's prime minister, Mohammad Mosaddegh in 1953 and brought forth the Soviet agenda in Iran. After the fall of Mosaddegh in the 1953 Iranian coup d'état, he tried to commit suicide. He was briefly withdrawn but again reinstalled and returned to his post in Iran.[7][8][9][10] From 1956 to 1970 years he served as an employee of the central apparatus of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs.[1]

References
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  3. Unkovski-Korica, Vladimir (2016-08-24). The Economic Struggle for Power in Tito's Yugoslavia: From World War II to Non-Alignment. I.B.Tauris. ISBN 9781786720313.
  4. Gasiorowski, Mark J.; Byrne, Malcolm (2004). Mohammad Mosaddeq and the 1953 Coup in Iran. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 9780815630180.
  5. "THE LIQUIDATION OF RUDOLF SLANSKY AND THE LAVRENTIEV PURGE. | CIA FOIA (foia.cia.gov)". www.cia.gov. Retrieved 2022-12-08.
  6. "MOSCOW REPLACES ENVOY TO RUMANIA; Kavtaradze Relieved After 8 Years by Lavrentiev in Latest of Changes". The New York Times. 1952-07-07. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-11-16.
  7. Bayandor, D. (2010-03-03). Iran and the CIA: The Fall of Mosaddeq Revisited. Springer. ISBN 9780230277304.
  8. Zahedi, Ardeshir (2012-03-21). Memoirs of Ardeshir Zahedi, Volume One: From Childhood to the End of My Father's Premiership (1928-1954). Ibex Publishers. ISBN 9781588140739.
  9. Project, Mossadegh. "Flight of Shah In Iran Strengthens Red's Hand | Aug. 18, 1953". The Mossadegh Project. Retrieved 2017-11-16.
  10. Dehghan, Saeed Kamali (2015-12-16). "Unseen images of the 1953 Iran coup – in pictures". the Guardian. Retrieved 2017-11-16.
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