Yevgeny Samoteykin

Yevgeny Matveyevich Samoteykin (); 18 October 1928 – 20 July 2014) was a Soviet Russian diplomat. He was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He was the Ambassador of the Soviet Union to Australia and to a lesser-degree, Nauru, Fiji and Vanuatu. He served from 24 April 1983 until 22 August 1990. He was also the Ambassador to Papua New Guinea from 1986 until 1990.

Samoteykin was born in Saint Petersburg. He graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1952.

Samoteykin died on 20 July 2014, aged 85.

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