Nikolay Afanasevsky

Nikolay Nikolaevich Afanasevsky (Russian: Николай Николаевич Афанасьевский) (1 October 1940 – 23 June 2005) was a Russian diplomat.[1]

Nikolay Afanasevsky
Russian Ambassador to Poland
In office March 2002 – 23 June 2005
President	Vladimir Putin
Preceded by	Sergey Razov
Succeeded by	Vladimir Grinin
Russian Ambassador to France
In office 18 December 1998 – 20 February 2002
President	Boris Yeltsin Vladimir Putin
Preceded by	Yuri Ryzhov
Succeeded by	Aleksandr Avdeyev
Russian Ambassador to Belgium
In office 24 June 1990 – 3 October 1994
President	Mikhail Gorbachev Boris Yeltsin
Preceded by	Feliks Bogdanov
Succeeded by	Vitaly Churkin
Personal details
Born	(1940-10-01)October 1, 1940 Moscow, Soviet Union
Died	June 23, 2005(2005-06-23) (aged 64)
Nationality	Russia
Alma mater	Moscow State Institute of International Relations
Occupation	Diplomat

Born in Moscow, Afanasevsky graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1964 and went on to work in various diplomatic posts in the central offices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and abroad.[1]

From 1990 to 1992, he was the Ambassador of the Soviet Union in Belgium and continued as the Russian Ambassador until 1994. He served as Ambassador to France from January 1999 to March 2002, and was appointed as Ambassador of Russia to Poland from March 2002 until his death in Warsaw on 23 June 2005.[1]