death_date nationality birth_date signature term_end alma_mater country death_place profession order term_start spouse image name resting_place predecessor birth_place party successor ambassador_from article_title
29 november 1971 russian 5 september 1905 signature ivan samylovsky.png 26 may 1948 june 1947 leningrad institute of oriental studies afghanistan near east moscow , russian sfsr , soviet union diplomat , politician & journalist head of the near east department 20 june 1947 1944 maria samylovskaya samylovskii 5.jpg ivan samylovskii -lrb- samylovsky -rrb- Иван Самыловский novodevichy cemetery ivan bakulin sergei kavtaradze tupanovo , babushkinsky district , vologda oblast communist party of the soviet union ivan ivanov ivan bakulin ussr ivan samylovsky

ivan samylovsky

ivan samylovskii -lrb- samylovsky -rrb- -lrb- russian : Иван Васильевич Самыловский -rrb- -lrb- 5 september 1905 -- 29 november 1971 -rrb- , was a soviet diplomat , politician and journalist .
he held the diplomatic rank of ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary .
he was also the head of the department of the near east of the ussr ministry for foreign affairs -lrb- before 1946 known as nkid , i.e. people 's commissariat for foreign affairs -rrb- .
in his work he specialized in china , turkey , afghanistan , near and middle east -lrb- including the palestine question 1944-1947 -rrb- and the countries of africa .
he is historically known as a leading soviet specialist in soviet-chinese relations .
