Ivanov, Igor Sergeevich

Father - Sergey Ivanov - military officer, colonel. He was buried in the Saatli region of Azerbaijan in 1975. Mother - Elena (Eliko) Sagirashvili - an employee of the traffic police, a native of the Georgian village of Akhmet , located in the Pankisi Gorge. From a year to six, Ivanov lived with his mother’s parents in Georgia ^[4] . At eleven years old, he entered the Moscow Suvorov Military School. He was going to become an officer, but did not go through a medical examination. In 1963 he entered the Maurice Thorez Moscow State Institute of Foreign Languages ​​(Moscow State Linguistic University since 1990), from which he graduated in 1969. He studied English and Spanish at the institute, was a Komsomol of the group, worked in construction teams, helped to harvest crops on collective farms. After the third year, he trained in Cuba through the Soviet foreign economic enterprise Aviaexport.

He graduated from the Moscow Suvorov Military School (1963) and the Moscow State Institute of Foreign Languages ​​named after Maurice Thorez (1969).

In 1969-1973, a researcher at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the USSR Academy of Sciences , assistant referent of academician Nikolai Inozemtsev .

Since 1973, in the service of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs :

• 1973-1978 - second secretary of the 1st European Department of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs, senior engineer of the trade mission in Madrid , first secretary of the USSR Embassy in Spain.
• 1978-1980 - Advisor to the Embassy of the USSR in Spain .
• 1980-1983 - Counselor-Envoy of the USSR Embassy in Spain .
• 1983-1984 - expert of the 1st class of the European Department of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
• 1984-1986 - Advisor to the group at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR, Assistant to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR - Eduard Shevardnadze .
• 1986-1987 - deputy chief - head of the department of the General Secretariat of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
• 1987-1989 - First Deputy Head - Head of the Department of the General Secretariat of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
• 1989-1991 - Head of the General Secretariat of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs, member of the collegium of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs, took part in the development of an agreement on the transfer by the US of the Bering Sea along the Shevardnadze-Baker dividing line .
• 1991-1992 - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the USSR to Spain.
   

  Members of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy Igor Ivanov and Sergey Karaganov
• 1992-1995 - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to Spain.
• 1995-1998 - First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation .
• 1998-2004 - Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. He was recommended for the post by his predecessor, Yevgeny Primakov .

1998-2007 - permanent member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation .

2004-17 July 2007 ^[5] - Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation . He informed the media that he himself asked for his resignation, since he considered that the tasks set for him in organizing the work of the Security Council were set for him at the time of his appointment ^[6] .

From 2011 to the present - President of the Russian Council on Foreign Affairs.

Community Activities

• In June 2010, he was elected to the council of the public movement ZaModernizatsiya.ru ^[7] .
• In June 2012, he was a participant in the Bilderberg Conference from Russia ^[8] .

Wife (since 1972) - Ekaterina Semenovna, daughter of S. P. Kozyrev ^[1] . Daughter is Olga.

• Hero of the Russian Federation ( October 27, 1999 ) ^[9]
• Order “For Merit to the Fatherland”, II degree ( 1999 ) ^[10]
• Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" III degree ( 2005 ) ^[11]
• Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" IV degree ( 1996 ) ^[12]
• Order of the Badge of Honor (1988)
• Medal “In memory of the 850th anniversary of Moscow”
• Gratitude of the President of the Russian Federation ( 1995 , 1996 , 1997 , 1998 , 1999 , 2002 ) ^{[13] [14]}
• Grand Cross of the Order of San Carlos (2001, Colombia ) ^[15]
• Order of Friendship ( 2001 , Vietnam ) ^[16]
• Order of Dostyk of 1 degree ( Kazakhstan , 2001) ^[17]
• Commemorative Medal of A. M. Gorchakov ( 2005 , Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia) ^[18]
• Silver Cross Award of the Russian Biographical Institute (1999)
• Laureate of the prize "Man of the Year" (1999) ^[19]
• Order of the Holy Right Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir II degree (2003, ROC ) ^[20]
• Honored Worker of the Diplomatic Service of the Russian Federation ( July 31, 2003 ) - for his services in implementing the foreign policy of the Russian Federation and many years of fruitful diplomatic activity

In 2002, he published the book “New Russian Diplomacy: Ten Years of the Foreign Policy of the New Russia”. Two years before that, he had also published memoirs “Russian Foreign Policy at the Present Stage” and “Russian Foreign Policy and the World (Articles and Speeches)”. ^[21]

• Ivanov, Igor - an article in the Lentapedia . year 2012.
• Biography of Igor Ivanov
• Biography on the website of the Security Council of Russia
• Criticism of the activities of I. Ivanov in the newspaper Your Day
• Vesti.ru. Igor Ivanov. Biography

• Ivanov Igor Sergeevich // Who is who in Russia and in the near abroad: Directory. - M .: Publishing House "New Time", "Everything for You", 1993. - S. 265. - ISBN 5-86564-033-X
• New appointments // Bulletin of the Ministry of Foreign Relations of the USSR. No. 24 (106) 12/31/1991. - S. 63. ISSN 0234-0038