predecessor successor death_date birth_place death_place imagesize nationality party office profession birth_date term_start article_title term_end name
nikolai pegov pyotr abrasimov mikhail zimyanin pavel yudin post abolished yuli vorontsov vladimir matskevich sergey lapin 11 july 2003 okip , poltava oblast , russian empire moscow , russian federation 190px russian communist party of the soviet union head committee ambassador of the soviet union to france ambassador of of the soviet union to czechoslovakia ambassador of the soviet union the to china full member of the 22nd , 23rd , cadres 24th , 25th , 26th , 27th central committee abroad department of the central diplomat , civil servant 3 september 1915 july october 1959 31 october 1961 1959 3 may 1973 13 april 1965 15 stepan chervonenko
 30 13 april 1965 25 april 1989 september 1988 20 january 1983 27 april 1973 stepan chervonenko Степан Червоненко
stepan chervonenko

stepan vasilievich chervonenko -lrb- ; , ; born , okip , poltava oblast , russian empire , died 11 july 2003 , moscow , russian federation -rrb- was the soviet ambassador to peking in 1961 .
whilst serving as the ambassador to peking , chervonenko was present during the breakup of sino-soviet relations .
in a meeting with the vice premier chen yi , chervonenko was told that moscow should stop `` severing the friendship between the two countries . ''
chervonenko also served in czechoslovakia in 1968 -lrb- in office from 1965 until 1973 , preceded by mikhail zimyanin , succeeded by vladimir matskevich -rrb- .
chervonenko is known for his role in suppressing the prague spring of 1968 .
in 1973 he was appointed soviet ambassador to france , a post which he retained until 1983 .
he was subsequently appointed head of the cadres abroad department of the cpsu central committee .
spouse lyudmila chikolini -lrb- 1917 -- 2002 -rrb- , a historian .
