Andrei Gromyko

Andrei Gromyko is a well-known Soviet diplomat who worked as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR for almost three decades. He was born in the Gomel region, in the village of Starye Gromyki, studied in Gomel and Minsk.

Gromyko led the Soviet delegation during the creation of the UN and later was the USSR's permanent representative to the United Nations. Participated in the Yalta, Tehran, Potsdam conferences. Time magazine in the late 1940s noted Gromyko's "mind-boggling competence." He bribed with his education, simplicity and soft Belarusian accent. Today he is called the great diplomat of the Soviet era.