Boris Fedorovich Podtserob ( July 5 (18), 1910 , St. Petersburg - February 11, 1983 , Moscow ) - Soviet diplomat, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary . He was also a strong chess player, mainly playing by correspondence [1] . Father of the Soviet and Russian diplomat A. B. Podtserob .
| Boris Fedorovich Podtserob | ||
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| Date of Birth | July 5 (July 18 ) 1910 | |
| Place of Birth | Saint Petersburg , Russia | |
| Date of death | February 11, 1983 (72 years old) | |
| Place of death | Moscow , USSR | |
| Citizenship |  the USSR | |
| Occupation | diplomat | |
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Content
Biography
Member of the CPSU (b) .
By nationality, Belarusian [1] .
He graduated from Leningrad University .
- 1937 - 1943 - An employee of the central apparatus of the USSR People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs.
- 1943 - 1949 - Senior Assistant People's Commissar (since 1946 - Minister of Foreign Affairs) of the USSR.
- 1949 - 1952 - Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR.
By position, the Secretary General was slightly lower than the Deputy Minister, but higher than a member of the Foreign Ministry board. Then the general was Boris Fedorovich Podtserob. Before, when the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was headed by Molotov, he worked as his senior assistant. So he was an influential and respected person. Then everyone worked until Stalin went to bed. But Podtserob also worked after other heads of the ministry went home, until 5-6 a.m. Stalin once said of him: “This is a man who never sleeps” [1] .
- 1949 - 1954 - Member of the Board of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR.
- 1952 - 1953 - Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR.
- 1952 - 1956 - Member of the Central Audit Commission of the CPSU .
- 1953 - 1954 - Head of the I European Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR.
- 1954 - 1957 - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the USSR to Turkey .
- 1957 - 1965 - General Secretary of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs, member of the Board of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
- 1965 - 1971 - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the USSR to Austria .
- 1971 - 1983 - Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the USSR on special instructions.
He was buried at the Vagankovsky cemetery in Moscow.
Chess Activities
Podtserob was a strong chess player, had the title of candidate for master of sports and played in correspondence competitions (including the semifinals of the USSR championships in correspondence). According to S. Ya. Grodzensky and I.Z. Romanov , Podtserob played in 19 tournaments in absentia and scored 176 points out of 294 possible in them. [2]
He was close friends with world champion M. M. Botvinnik and world champion in correspondence V. V. Ragozin . [3] [4]
According to the memoirs of M. M. Botvinnik, at the end of the 1920s, a time of mass enthusiasm for chess among young people, university philologist Boris Podtserob was deputy chairman of the chess section of the Proletstud in Leningrad: “His memory was amazing. In 1975, while working on the book “Three matches of Anatoly Karpov”, I couldn’t remember the beginning of my game with G. Ravinsky from the 1930 team match. I called Boris Fedorovich. “Well,” he replied, “I was present at this match.” And he dictated the exact order of moves! ” [5] [6]
A similar story occurred with the party Ragozin - P. Noskov from a match between student teams of Leningrad and Moscow (1930). [four]
According to the memoirs of Mikhail Botvinnik, “When S. Flor toured in Austria and gave a clock session to strong Austrian chess players, the Soviet ambassador decided to try his luck. And the whole of Austria gasped in amazement - he was the only participant who won the grand master! ” [3] [5]
In his memoirs, M. M. Botvinnik also gives an example of the art of B.F. Podtserob in analysis - at the end of one of his correspondence parties:
I just have to admit Podtserob’s skill in analysis in general and in the endgame in particular ...
Notable Party
semifinal of the 9th championship of the USSR
by correspondence
1967-1968
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Podtserob - Kuntsevich , semifinal of the 9th USSR Correspondence Championship, 1967-1968
Gambit Blumenfeld
1. d4 Кf6 2. c4 e6 3. Кf3 c5 4. d5 b5 5. Сg5 Фb6 6. С: f6 gf 7. e4 bc 8. Фc2 f5 9. С: c4 Сg7 10. e5 d6 11. Фe2 0–0 12. Kc3 de 13. K: e5 ed 14. K: d5 Qa5 + 15. b4 cb 16.
0–0 Ca6 17.Rad1 Re8 18. Qh5 Qd7 19. Q: f7 + Kh8 (see diagram) 20. Qg8 + !!
Black resigned in view of the options 20 ... L: g8 21. Kf7 # and 20 ... Cp: g8 21. Ke7 ++ Kf8 22. K5g6 + hg 23. K: g6 #.
Rewards
- Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree (11/05/1945)
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Botvinnik M.M. Boris Podtserob
- ↑ Grodzensky S.Ya., Romanov I.Z. Stroke in an envelope. - M .: FiS, 1982.- S. 78.
- ↑ 1 2 Botvinnik M.M. Analytical and critical works 1928-1986: Articles, memoirs. - M .: FiS, 1987. - S. 53-57.
- ↑ 1 2 Vyacheslav Ragozin / Auth. M.M. Yudovich. - M .: FiS, 1984. - S. 14-16.
- ↑ 1 2 Read online “Portraits” of the author Botvinnik Mikhail Moiseevich - RuLIT.Net - Page 30
- ↑ Botvinnik M.M. Three matches of Anatoly Karpov. - M .: Mol. Guard, 1975 .-- S. 67.
Literature
- Diplomatic Dictionary. In 3 volumes. Ch. ed. A. A. Gromyko, A. G. Kovalev, P. P. Sevostyanov, S. L. Tikhvinsky. - M .: Nauka, 1985-1986 - T. 2, p. 388.
- Botvinnik M. Friends leave ... // "64 - Chess Review". - 1983. - No. 6. - S. 7.