Andrei Gromyko

Biography

Soviet diplomat and statesman, in 1957-1985 - Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR, in 1985-1988 - Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. Doctor of Economics (1956). In 1944, the USSR Ambassador to the United States, Gromyko, led the Soviet delegation at the International Conference at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, USA, on the creation of the United Nations. Participated in the preparation of the Tehran conference, preparation and conduct of the Yalta conference, Crimea, USSR (1945), the conference in Potsdam (1945). In the same year, he led a delegation that signed the …