Yevgeny Matveyevich Samoteykin (( Russian: Евгений Матвеевич Самотейкин); October 18, 1928, [1] – July 20, 2014) was a Soviet diplomat. [2]
From 1952, Samoteykin worked in the central apparatus of the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in Soviet diplomatic missions abroad. From 1964 he was a personal assistant to the First (later, General) secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Central Committee. [1]
On 24 April 1983 he was appointed as Ambassador of the Soviet Union to Australia, with concurrent accreditation to Nauru, Fiji and Vanuatu, and held the post until 22 August 1990. [3] [4] [5] [6]
Yevgeny Matveyevich Samoteykin (( Russian: Евгений Матвеевич Самотейкин); October 18, 1928, [1] – July 20, 2014) was a Soviet diplomat. [2]
From 1952, Samoteykin worked in the central apparatus of the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in Soviet diplomatic missions abroad. From 1964 he was a personal assistant to the First (later, General) secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Central Committee. [1]
On 24 April 1983 he was appointed as Ambassador of the Soviet Union to Australia, with concurrent accreditation to Nauru, Fiji and Vanuatu, and held the post until 22 August 1990. [3] [4] [5] [6]