The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was founded on 6 July 1923. It had three names during its existence: People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs, Ministry of F
Ministry of Foreign Affairs headquarters, completed in 1953
Andrei Gromyko was the longest-serving Minister of Foreign Affairs in the USSR.
Georgy Chicherin 1920s
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Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko was a Soviet politician and diplomat during the Cold War. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet. Gromyko was respon
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…the Council of Ministers and the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs was renamed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. As Soviet foreign minister, Andrei Gromyko noted in his memoirs that working with Nikita Khrushchev was not always an easy task. As Gromyko tells it, "Khrushchev would constantly throw new ideas…
Gromyko in 1972
Gromyko standing between Harry Truman and James Byrnes at the Potsdam Conference in July 1945
Gromyko in 1952
Gromyko and John F. Kennedy in October 1961