Leonid Drachevsky | |
Native Name Lang: | ru |
Birth Date: | 5 April 1942 |
Birth Place: | Alma-ata, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union |
Height: | 191 cm |
Weight: | 87 kg |
Sport: | Rowing |
Leonid Drachevsky (Russian: Леонид Вадимович Драчевский; born 5 April 1942) is a Soviet rower from Kazakhstan. He competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City with the men's coxed pair where they qualified for the small final but did not start.[1] [2]
Drachevsky later became a diplomat and served as consul in Barcelona in 1992 and as ambassador of Russia to Poland from 1996 to 1999. In 1998 and 1999, he was a Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation. In the period 2000-2004, he was the Plenipotentiary Envoy of the President of Russia to the Siberian Federal District.[3] [4] On 23 December 2000, Leonid Drachevsky was promoted to the civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation.[5]
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