Anatoly Dobrynin

Anatoly Dobrynin Анатолий Добрынин
Anatoly Dobrynin on 23 June 1967
Head of the International Department of the Central Committee
In office 6 March 1986 – 30 September 1988
Preceded by	Boris Ponomarev
Succeeded by	Valentin Falin
Ambassador of the Soviet Union to the United States
In office 4 January 1962 – 19 May 1986
Preceded by	Mikhail Menshikov
Succeeded by	Yuri Dubinin
Personal details
Born	(1919-11-16)16 November 1919 Krasnaya Gorka, Mozhaisk Uyezd, Moscow Governorate, Russian SFSR
Died	6 April 2010(2010-04-06) (aged 90) Moscow, Moscow Oblast, Russia

Anatoly Fyodorovich Dobrynin was a Russian statesman and a Soviet diplomat. He was the Soviet Ambassador to the United States. He served during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Dobrynin worked with 6 American presidents. He was well liked in the United States.

Honours and awards

• Hero of Socialist Labour
• Five Orders of Lenin
• Order of the Red Banner of Labour
• Order of Honour