Oleg Grinevsky

Russian diplomat (1930–2019)

Oleg Grinevsky
Олег Алексеевич Гриневский

Ambassador of Russia to Sweden
In office 25 December 1991 (1991-12-25) – 19 June 1997 (1997-06-19)
Succeeded by	Aleksey Nikiforov [ru]
Ambassador of the USSR to Sweden
In office 22 October 1991 – 25 December 1991
Preceded by	Nikolai Uspensky [ru]

Personal details
Born	Oleg Alekseyevich Grinevsky (1930-06-03)3 June 1930 Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died	5 February 2019(2019-02-05) (aged 88)
Alma mater	Moscow State Institute of International Relations
Awards	Order of Friendship of Peoples Order of the Badge of Honour (twice) Order of the Polar Star Commander 1st Class

Oleg Alekseyevich Grinevsky (Russian: Олег Алексеевич Гриневский) (3 June 1930 – 5 February 2019) was a Russian diplomat, former Ambassador to Sweden, political scientist, Cand.Sc. (history) and author.^[1]

Early life

Oleg Grinevsky was born in Moscow, in what was then the Russian SFSR, part of the Soviet Union.

Diplomatic activity

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.
former Soviet security adviser to the Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin governments
Graduated from MGIMO (Moscow State Institute for International Relations) in 1954.
Joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, USSR in 1957.
Senior Adviser at the Soviet Embassy in Washington, D.C., 1954.
1983-1989 Head of the Soviet delegation at the Stockholm conference
1989-1991 Head of the Soviet delegation at the Vienna conference
1991-1997 Russian Ambassador to Sweden
Since 1999 - scientist, political researcher, author of political and historical books
Awarded the Swedish Order of the Polar Star (2009)