Nikolai Fedorenko

Nikolai Trofimovich Fedorenko (Russian: Николай Трофимович Федоренко) (9 November 1912, Pyatigorsk - October 2, 2000) was a Soviet philologist, orientalist, statesman, public figure, professor (1953), and corresponding member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1958).

Nikolai Fedorenko graduated from Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies in 1937. In 1954, he received a rank of extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador of the USSR. In 1955-1958, Nikolai Fedorenko was a deputy foreign minister and then Soviet ambassador to Japan (1958–1962), where he succeeded the late Ivan Tevosian. In 1963-1968, he was appointed Permanent Representative of the USSR to the United Nations and Soviet representative at the United Nations Security Council. In 1970-1988, Nikolai Fedorenko was the editor-in-chief of the Foreign Literature magazine.

Nikolai Fedorenko authored a number of works on the history of Chinese and Japanese culture, Chinese classical and modern literature. He was an honorary member of the Tokyo Sinology Institute (1961) and honorary academician of the Florentine Art Academy (1975). Nikolai Fedorenko was awarded two Orders of Lenin, four other orders, and numerous medals.

This article includes content derived from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969–1978, which is partially in the public domain.

Permanent Representatives of the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation to the United Nations
Soviet Union
  • Andrei Gromyko
  • Valerian Zorin
  • Andrey Vyshinsky
  • Arkady Sobolev
  • Valerian Zorin
  • Nikolai Fedorenko
  • Yakov Malik
  • Oleg Troyanovsky
  • Yuri Dubinin
  • Alexander Belonogov
  • Yuli Mikhailovich Vorontsov
Russian Federation
  • Yuli Mikhailovich Vorontsov
  • Sergey Lavrov
  • Andrey Denisov
  • Vitaly Churkin
Authority control
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Persondata
Name Fedorenko, Nikolai
Alternative names
Short description Soviet diplomat
Date of birth 1912
Place of birth
Date of death October 2, 2000
Place of death


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