Vladimir Semyonov (politician) explained

Vladimir Semyonov Владимир Семёнов
Office:	Ambassador to East Germany
Term Start:	29 May 1953
Term End:	14 July 1954
Predecessor:	Ivan Ilyichev
Successor:	Georgy Pushkin
Office1:	Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
Term Start1:	March 1955
Term End1:	November 1978
Office2:	Ambassador to West Germany
Term Start2:	10 November 1978
Term End2:	15 April 1986
Predecessor2:	Valentin Falin
Successor2:	Yulii Kvitsinsky
Birth Date:	16 February 1911
Birth Place:	Inokovka, Kirsanovsky Uyezd, Russian Empire
Death Place:	Cologne, Germany
Nationality:	Russian
Party:	Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Alma Mater:	MIFLM
Profession:	Diplomat, civil servant

Vladimir Semenovich Semyonov (Russian: Владимир Семёнович Семёнов; 16 February 1911, Kirsanovsky Uyezd, Russia – 18 December 1992, Cologne, Germany) was a Soviet diplomat most notable for his military administration in Eastern Germany during the Soviet occupation after World War II. He was instrumental in the creation of GDR, and served as the first Soviet ambassador to East Germany.

Career as Soviet diplomat

• 1939 – employee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MID)
• 1939–1940 – advisor of Soviet Plenipotentiary Representation in Lithuania
• 1940–1941 – counsellor of the Soviet Embassy in Nazi Germany
• 1941–1942 – executive of the Third European Department of the MID
• 1942–1945 – counsellor of the Soviet Mission in Sweden
• 1945–1946 – deputy to Political Counsellor of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany
• 1946–1949 – Political Counsellor of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany
• 1949–1953 – Political Counsellor of the Soviet Control Committee in Germany
• 1953 — Senior Executive, Deputy Chief, Chief of the Third European Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, member of Ministry Board of the MID.
• 1953–1954 – Chief Commissar of USSR in Germany and an ambassador to the GDR;
• 1954–1955 – Executive of the Third European Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• 1955–1978 – Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
• 1968–1978 – Chief of the Soviet delegation at the Soviet-American negotiations on reduction of strategic weapons in Helsinki, Vienna, Geneva. Prepared the 1973 SALT-1 and 1978 SALT-2 Treaties for signing by General Secretaries Leonid Brezhnev and Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter.
• 1978–1986 – Ambassador to West Germany
• 1986–1991 – Foreign Ministry Ambassador at Large, Counsellor to the Foreign Minister