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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Maxim Maximovich Litvinov was a Russian revolutionary and prominent Soviet statesman and diplomat who served as People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs from 1930 to 1939.
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…Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the USSR 1 Georgy Chicherin (1872–1936) 6 July 1923 21 July 1930 7 years, 15 days Lenin II Rykov I–II–III–IV–V 2 Maxim Litvinov (1876–1951) 21 July 1930 3 May 1939 8 years, 286 days Molotov I–II–III–IV 3 Vyacheslav Molotov (1890–1986) 3 May 1939 15 March 1946 6 years, 305 days…
Official portrait, 1946
Maxim Litvinov in 1896
Litvinov in 1902
Litvinov in 1905