Georgy Pushkin

{{Short description|Soviet diplomat and politician}}

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| alt = politicians walk in snow, past an honour guard with rifles

| caption = Pushkin in East Berlin, 1949

| birth_name = Georgy Maksimovich Pushkin

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| birth_place = Malaya Konoplyanka village, Smolensk Governorate, Russian Empire

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Georgy Maksimovich Pushkin ({{langx|ru|Георгий Максимович Пушкин}}; 3 February 1909 – 2 April 1963{{Cite web|title=Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek|url=https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&cqlMode=true&query=nid%3D134132661|access-date=2021-01-10|website=portal.dnb.de}}) was an ambassador of the Soviet Union and politician.

He served as ambassador to Hungary beginning in March 1948.

{{cite news

| url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=950&dat=19480329&id=XQBQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=jVUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1466,3080279

| title=Pushkin Appointed Hungarian Envoy

| work=The Evening Independent (St. Petersburg, Florida)

| date=1948-03-29

| accessdate=2013-12-17

| quote=Grigori Pushkin has been appointed Soviet ambassador to Hungary, announced today [...]

}}

{{cite news

| url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1964&dat=19491021&id=mtoiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=58wFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2065,4493136

| title=Requests Stolen By Convict

| work=The Palm Beach Post

| date=1949-10-21

| accessdate=2013-12-17

| quote=Pushkin was replaced as Soviet ambassador in Hungary last June, his handiwork of a "peoples' [OCR error] complete.

}}

From June to October 1949 he served as Head of the Department of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs, at the same time Chairman of the Radio Broadcasting Committee of the USSR Council of Ministers.

He was ambassador to East Germany.

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| url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=336&dat=19520924&id=6wgpAAAAIBAJ&sjid=NU4DAAAAIBAJ&pg=3762,4764497

| title=Russia Shifts Boom Pushkin In Red Ranks

| work=Deseret News

| date=1952-09-24

| accessdate=2013-12-17

| quote=Pushkin, former Russian ambassador to East Germany, has succeeded [...]

}}

In 1961, he held the office of Deputy Foreign Minister{{cite news

| url=http://www.hindu.com/2011/04/11/stories/2011041155380601.htm

| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130622085358/http://www.hindu.com/2011/04/11/stories/2011041155380601.htm

| url-status=dead

| archive-date=2013-06-22

| title=Steps to restore peace

| date=1961-04-11

| accessdate=2013-12-17

| work=The Hindu

| quote=The British Ambassador to the Soviet Union, Sir Frank Roberts, had talks with the Soviet Far East expert, Mr. Georgi Pushkin, Deputy Foreign Minister, in Moscow on April 10.

}} and was the Soviet delegate to the International Agreement on the Neutrality of Laos.{{cite news

|url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,895349,00.html

|title=Russia: The Three Horses

|work=Time

|date=1961-06-16

|accessdate=2013-12-17

|quote=Why not? smiled Soviet Delegate Georgy Pushkin to the U.S.'s W. Averell Harriman at the Laos peace talks last week.

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