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The People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) was established in 1917. The Commissar was a member of the Council of the People's Commissars. The People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs replaced the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Empire after the October Revolution.
List of Soviet foreign ministers. ... Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR (3) Vyacheslav Molotov (1890–1986) 19 March 1946: 4 March 1949: 2 years, 350 days:
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs was a union-republic ministry, reflecting the republics' constitutional right to foreign representation. Although the republics had foreign ministries, the central Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Moscow in fact conducted all diplomacy for the Soviet Union. [10]
The People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs of the Russian SFSR (Russian: Народный Коммиссариат Иностранных Дел РСФСР: Narodnyi Komissariat Inostrannykh Del – abbreviated to Narkomindel or NKID) was the central executive state body of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic responsible for conducting the foreign policy and foreign relations ...
Eduard Ambrosis dze Shevardnadze (Georgian: ედუარდ ამბროსის ძე შევარდნაძე; 25 January 1928 – 7 July 2014) was a Soviet and Georgian politician and diplomat who governed Georgia for several non-consecutive periods from 1972 until his resignation in 2003 and also served as the final Soviet minister of foreign affairs from 1985 to 1990.
Ministry of Oil Industry of the USSR (Minnefteprom) (1965—1970 [2]) Ministry of Oil Refining and Petrochemical Industry of the USSR (Minneftekhimprom) (1965 — 27.06.1989 [3]) Ministry of Petroleum Industry of the Eastern USSR (1946–1948) Ministry of Petroleum Industry of the South and West of the USSR (1946–1948)
The new Russia, under Boris Yeltsin, succeeded the Soviet Union. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs implemented the foreign policies set by Stalin and after his death by the Politburo. Andrei Gromyko served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs for nearly thirty years (1957–1985), being the longest-serving foreign minister in the world.
Gromyko's political career started in 1939 in the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs (renamed Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1946). He became the Soviet ambassador to the United States in 1943, leaving that position in 1946 to become the Soviet Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York.