Menshikov, Mikhail Alekseevich

Mikhail Alekseevich Menshikov
Mikhail Alekseevich Menshikov
	January 20, 1962 - September 11, 1968
Head of the government	Dmitry Stepanovich Polyansky; Gennady Ivanovich Voronov
Predecessor	Sergey Georgievich Lapin
Successor	Alexey Alekseevich Rodionov
USSR Foreign Trade Minister
	March 4, 1949 - November 6, 1951
Head of the government	Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin
Predecessor	Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan
Successor	Pavel Nikolaevich Kumykin
Birth	November 8 (November 21 ) 1902 ; village Posevkino , Borisoglebsky district , Tambov province , Russian Empire
Death	July 19, 1976 (73 years); Moscow , RSFSR , USSR
Children	sons Stanislav , Gennady, Michael ; daughter Natalia
The consignment	VKP (b) since 1927.
Education	Moscow Institute of National Economy. G.V. Plekhanov
Profession	Foreign Trade Economist , Diplomat

Mikhail Alekseevich Menshikov ( November 21, 1902 , the village of Posevkino , Tambov Province - July 19, 1976 , Moscow ) - a Soviet statesman and political figure, diplomat .

Content

Biography

Since 1916 - an employee at the cannery.

1917 - graduated from Borisoglebsky accounting courses, assistant clerk of the village volispolkoma.

1918 - 1919 - serving in the Red Army .

1919 — 1922 - Head of District Press Agencies in the Don Region and the Tambov Province. Member of the suppression of the peasant uprising in the Tambov region ( 1921 ).

1922 — 1924 - cadet of the School named after the All-Russian Central Executive Committee .

From 1924 he worked as an accountant, an economist at refrigerating plants.

1924 — 1930 - student of the evening department of the Faculty of Economics of the Moscow Plekhanov Institute of National Economy.

1928 - 1930 - economist at Cold-export of the People's Commissariat of Internal Trade of the USSR.

1930 - operative of the expert management of Soyuzryb.

1930 — 1936 - an operative-merchandiser, director of the English-Russian cooperative society ARKOS ( London ).

1936— 1938 - Director of the ﬁ sh fruit office of Exportkhleb of the People’s Commissariat of Foreign Trade of the USSR.

1938 — 1943 — Chairman of the Exporles of the USSR Commissariat of Foreign Trade.

1943–1946 - Deputy Director of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) ( USA ).

1946 — 1949 - Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade of the USSR.

March 4, 1949 - November 6, 1951 - Minister of Foreign Trade of the USSR. He was removed from office as “unable to cope with the duties assigned to him”. The reason for the removal was the story of the importation of bananas from Mexico ^[2] .

1952 — 1953 - Deputy Plenipotentiary of the USSR Council of Ministers on the affairs of the Soviet-Chinese joint-stock companies Soyuzkitneft and Soyuzkitmetall, China.

September 1, 1953 - October 26, 1957 - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the USSR to India .

From February 25, 1956 to March 29, 1966 - candidate member of the Central Committee of the CPSU .

From February 5 to October 26, 1957 - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the USSR in Nepal .

January 7, 1958 - January 4, 1962 - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the USSR to the USA .

Simultaneously with the change of the White House host, there was a replacement and the host of our embassy in Washington ... Relations between Ambassador Menshikov and the head of Soviet diplomacy A. A. Gromyko did not develop in the best way. Therefore, taking advantage of the coming to power of a new American president, the Kremlin’s foreign minister quickly replaced Menshikov with another, younger ambassador, Anatoly Dobrynin.
- Alexander Feklisov ^[3]

1962 — 1968 - Minister of Foreign Affairs of the RSFSR .

Since 1968, retired.

Diplomatic rank

Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador

Awards

The order of Lenin
three orders of the Red Banner of Labor
medals

Notes

↑ ON OLD SQUARE (Unc.) (Inaccessible link) . The appeal date is March 25, 2013. Archived February 28, 2014.
↑ Armenians in the “case of Lavrenty Beria” (Neopr.) . The appeal date is March 25, 2013. Archived April 4, 2013.
↑ Over the ocean and on the island. Notes Scout <Alexander Feklisov (Neopr.) (Inaccessible link) . The appeal date is March 25, 2013. Archived April 4, 2013.

Links

Handbook of the history of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union 1898-1991

[1] ON OLD SQUARE (Unc.) (Inaccessible link) . The appeal date is March 25, 2013. Archived February 28, 2014.

[2] Armenians in the “case of Lavrenty Beria” (Neopr.) . The appeal date is March 25, 2013. Archived April 4, 2013.

[3] Over the ocean and on the island. Notes Scout <Alexander Feklisov (Neopr.) (Inaccessible link) . The appeal date is March 25, 2013. Archived April 4, 2013.