Arkady Sobolev

{{Short description|Soviet diplomat (1903–1964)}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Arkady Sobolev

| caption = Arkady Sobolev (seated, second from right) at the Dumbarton Oaks Conference, August 1944

| image = Informal meeting in the Study, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., 1944, National Archives (Loxley, Cadogan, Stettinius, Gromyko, Sobolev, Berezhkov, Dunn, Pasvolsky).jpg

| office = Director of the Department of the UN Security Council Affairs

| term_start = 1946

| term_end = 1949

| office2 = Ambassador to Polish People's Republic

| termstart2 = March 2, 1951

| termend2 = June 21, 1953

| predecessor2 = Viktor Lebedev

| successor2 = Georgy Popov

| office3 = Permanent Representative of the Soviet Union to the United Nations

| termstart3 = 1955

| termend3 = 1960

| predecessor3 = Andrey Vyshinsky

| successor3 = Valerian Zorin

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1903|11|25}}

| birth_place = Danilkovo village, Galichsky Uyezd, Kostroma Governorate, Russian Empire

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1964|12|1|1903|11|25}}

| death_place = Moscow, RSFSR, Soviet Union

| party = CPSU

}}

Arkady Aleksandrovich Sobolev ({{langx|ru|Арка́дий Алекса́ндрович Со́болев}}, November 25, 1903 – December 1, 1964) was a Russian Soviet diplomat who served as the Soviet ambassador to the United Nations between 1955 and 1960.Staff report (March 4, 1955). Arkady A. Sobolev named permanent Russian U. N. Envoy. Chicago Tribune He was a specialist in international law. He was also under-secretary for Security and Political Affairs between 1946 and 1949 and Soviet Ambassador to Poland between 1951 and 1953. He died in Moscow following a long illness.Staff report (December 11, 1964). [https://web.archive.org/web/20100715171845/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,897426,00.html Obituary.] TimeStaff report (December 3, 1964). "[https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0A1FFC39581B728DDDAA0894DA415B848AF1D3 Diplomat Served Secretariat as Aide go Trygve Lie-Minister in Moscow]." The New York Times, page 45.

Sobolov was born in 1903 in Danilkovo village, Galichsky Uyezd, Russian Empire.

Alger Hiss, Secretary-General of the San Francisco Conference, where the UN Charter was drafted and signed, spoke about the role of Sobolev and US delegate Leo Pasvolsky: "they were the draftsmen of the Charter in San Francisco. Now, the outline had been written before; I'm talking about the specific language which is a very important part of any treaty, I think it was Pasvolsky and Sobolev who were really responsible for the form the Charter took." Sobolev and Pasvolsky had the primary responsibility to "put the various drafts together into a working text."[http://dag.un.org/bitstream/handle/11176/89612/HissTranscript.pdf United Nations Oral History Project, Alger Hiss, 13 February 1990]