Died 1989-07-02.
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Andrei Gromyko
Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko was a Soviet politician and diplomat during the Cold War. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs (1957–1985) and as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (1985–1988). Gromyko was responsible for many top decisions on Soviet foreign policy until he retired in 1988. In the 1940s, Western pundits called him Mr. Nyet, or Grim Grom, because of his frequent use of…
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politics · Soviet diplomat (1909–1989) · politician · diplomat · economist · memoirist · agricultural economist · also Andrei Gromyko, Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko, Gromyko
Born 5 July 1909 · Died 2 July 1989 · Q184267
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1989· 2 entries
Gromyko started working on his memoirs
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1988· 1 entry
“70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR”
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1985· 4 entries
Awarded Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class (1985).
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Gromyko nominated Mikhail Gorbachev for the General Secretary on 11 March 1985
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Career landmark: Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (1985–1988).
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“Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945”
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1984· 2 entries
Awarded USSR State Prize (1984).
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Awarded Order of Lenin (1984).
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1983· 1 entry
Career landmark: First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1983–1985).
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1982· 3 entries
Awarded Lenin Prize (1982).
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Andropov was voted in as General Secretary by the Politburo
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Gromyko's rigid conservatism and distrust of the West continued to underlie the Soviet Union's foreign policy until Mikhail Gorbachev's rise to power in 1985
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1981· 1 entry
In The Times said, "He is one of the most active and efficient members of the Soviet leadership
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1979· 4 entries
Awarded Order of Klement Gottwald (1979).
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Awarded Hero of Socialist Labour (1979).
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Won "Hammer and Sickle" gold medal (1979).
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Awarded Order of Lenin (1979).
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1975· 1 entry
“Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945”
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1973· 2 entries
Gromyko was promoted to a full voting member of the Politburo, the Soviet Union's highest decision-making body
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Career landmark: Member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee (1973–1988).
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1972· 1 entry
And the Agreement on the Prevention of Nuclear War in 1973
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1970· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of the Sun of Peru (1970).
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1969· 4 entries
Awarded Order of Lenin (1969).
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Won "Hammer and Sickle" gold medal (1969).
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Awarded Hero of Socialist Labour (1969).
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“In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin”
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1966· 2 entries
Awarded Order of Lenin (1966).
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Gromyko and Alexei Kosygin persuaded both Pakistan and India to sign the Tashkent Declaration, a peace treaty in the aftermath of the Indo-Pakistan war of 1965
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1959· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Lenin (1959).
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1958· 1 entry
When he addressed Mao Zedong's request for the Soviet Union to back his planned war with Taiwan
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1957· 1 entry
Career landmark: Minister of Foreign Affairs of USSR (1957–1985).
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1954· 1 entry
Awarded Order of the Badge of Honour (1954).
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1953· 1 entry
To talk about their experiences during World War II before returning to Russia, when he was appointed as the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
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1952· 2 entries
Career landmark: ambassador of the Soviet Union to the United Kingdom (1952–1953).
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Not to talk about current politics, but nostalgically, about World War II
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1948· 1 entry
Awarded Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1948).
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1947· 1 entry
“In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow”
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1946· 1 entry
Career landmark: Permanent Representative of the USSR to the United Nations and to the UN Security Council (1946–1948).
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1945· 2 entries
Awarded Order of Lenin (1945).
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“For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945”
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1944· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Lenin (1944).
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1943· 3 entries
The same year as the Tehran Conference, the USSR established diplomatic relations with Cuba and Gromyko was appointed the Soviet ambassador to Havana
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Career landmark: Soviet Ambassador to the United States (1943–1946).
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Leaving that position in 1946 to become the Soviet Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York
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1939· 2 entries
In the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs (renamed Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1946)
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Was called upon by a Central Committee Commission which selected new personnel to work in diplomacy
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1936· 1 entry
After another three years of studying economics, Gromyko became a researcher and lecturer at the Soviet Academy of Sciences
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1934· 1 entry
To Moscow, settling in the northeastern Alexeyevsky District
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1931· 2 entries
“s advice and, after finishing seven years of primary school and vocational education in Gomel, he moved to Borisov to attend technical school. Gromyko became a member of the All-Union Communist Party Bolsheviks in 1931, something he had dreamed of since he learned about the”
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Something he had dreamed of since he learned about the "difference between a poor farmer and a landowner, a worker and a capitalist"
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1924· 1 entry
The villagers asked Gromyko what would happen in the leader's absence
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1909· 1 entry
Born 1909-07-05.
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