Anatoly Dobrynin

Anatoly Dobrynin
Anatoly Dobrynin
Анатолий Добрынин
	Dobrynin in 1977
Head of the International Department of the Central Committee
	In office; 6 March 1986 – 30 September 1988
Preceded by	Boris Ponomarev
Succeeded by	Valentin Falin
Ambassador of the Soviet Union to the United States
	In office; 4 January 1962 – 19 May 1986
Preceded by	Mikhail Menshikov
Succeeded by	Yuri Dubinin
Member of the 27th Secretariat
	In office; 6 March 1986 – 30 September 1988
Full member of the 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th Central Committee
	In office; 9 April 1971 – 14 July 1990
Candidate member of the 23rd Central Committee
	In office; 8 April 1966 – 9 April 1971
Personal details
Born	Anatoly Fyodorovich Dobrynin; 16 November 1919; Krasnaya Gorka, Mozhaysky Uyezd, Moscow Governorate, Russian SFSR
Died	6 April 2010 (aged 90); Moscow, Russia
Political party	Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1946–1991)
Spouse	Irina Dobrynina
Alma mater	Moscow Aviation Institute
Profession	Diplomat, civil servant, politician

Anatoly Fyodorovich Dobrynin (Russian: Анато́лий Фёдорович Добры́нин, 16 November 1919 – 6 April 2010) was a Soviet statesman, diplomat, and politician. He was the Soviet ambassador to the United States for more than two decades, from 1962 to 1986.

He attracted notoriety among the American public during and after the Cuban Missile Crisis at the beginning of his ambassadorship, when he denied the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba. However, he did not know until days later that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev had already sent the missiles and that the Americans already had photographs of them. Between 1968 and 1974, he was known as the Soviet end of the Kissinger–Dobrynin direct communication and negotiation link between the Nixon administration and the Soviet Politburo.