Mikhail Smirnovsky
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Mikhail Nikolayevich Smirnovsky (Template:Langx; 7 August 1921 – 9 June 1989) was a Soviet diplomat and a specialist in Soviet relations with English-speaking countries. He was first secretary of the Soviet Embassy in Washington, D.C. in 1953, and served a second time in Washington as the minister-counselor and second-ranking officer of the Embassy at the beginning of the 1960s. Around 1963, Smirnovsky returned to the Foreign Ministry in Moscow, where he was chief of the USA section of the Ministry. In 1966, he became Soviet Ambassador to the United Kingdom (with concurrent accreditation in Malta starting in 1967), where he served until 1973.[1][2][3] It is believed that he was later, in Moscow, a member of the Foreign Ministry's Collegium, understood to have been an advisory group of senior officers. He played in US-Soviet relations at critical times, including the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Smirnovsky was viewed by American colleagues as an efficient, businesslike diplomat who, in contrast to many other Soviet officials, eschewed rudeness and avoided unnecessary exaggeration.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
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- 1921 births
- 1989 deaths
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Soviet Union)
- Ambassadors of the Soviet Union to Malta
- Ambassadors of the Soviet Union to the United Kingdom
- Members of the Central Auditing Commission of the 23rd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Members of the Central Auditing Commission of the 24th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Moscow Aviation Institute alumni
- Burials in Troyekurovskoye Cemetery
- Recipients of the Order of the October Revolution
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour