OBITUARIES : Fyodor Gusev; Veteran Soviet Ambassador
Fyodor Gusev, a veteran Soviet diplomat who was his country’s envoy to Great Britain and Canada during World War II and who also attended the Allied conferences at Yalta and Potsdam, has died, the official Tass news agency reported
Tass said the former diplomat died Monday, but did not specify the cause or provide his exact age.
The news agency said Gusev was born in 1905 and had worked in Soviet foreign affairs from 1937 until his retirement in 1975.
In 1940 Gusev took part in negotiations with Nazi Germany. Two years later, after Germany attacked the Soviet Union, Gusev was named ambassador to Canada.
Gusev next became Soviet ambassador to Britain in 1943, a post he held until 1946.
He attended the three-power conferences held by the Soviet Union, the United States and Britain in Yalta in the Soviet Union and in Potsdam near Berlin as a member of his country’s delegation.
After leaving his London post, Gusev served as Soviet deputy foreign minister in 1946-52, and as ambassador to Sweden in 1956-62.
In 1947 he was often in the news as the Allies hammered out agreements over the shape of postwar governments in Europe.
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