×
AllImagesNewsVideos Maps Shopping Books
Search tools
Andrey Vyshinsky

Andrey Vyshinsky

Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union
Andrey Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky was a Soviet politician, jurist and diplomat. He is best known as a state prosecutor of Joseph Stalin's Moscow Trials and in the Nuremberg trials. He was the Soviet Foreign Minister from 1949 to 1953, after having... Wikipedia
Born: December 10, 1883, Odesa, Ukraine
Died: November 22, 1954 (age 70 years), New York, NY
Books: The Law of the Soviet State, For the Peace and Friendship of Nations, Against the Instigators of a New War: Speech, For Peace and Friendship Among the Peoples, Against the Instigators of a New War, and more
Awards: Order of Lenin, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", and more
Party: Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Previous offices: Permanent Representative of Russia to the United Nations (1953–1954), Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union (1949–1953), and Procurator General of the Soviet Union (1935–1939)
Children: Zinaida Vyshinskaya