Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev

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Soviet diplomat (1923-2005)

PoliticiansLived 1923 to 2005 · aged 81

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Alexander Nikolayevich Yakovlev was a Soviet and Russian politician, diplomat, and historian.

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Mikhail Gorbachev and Yakovlev opposite United States President George H. W. Bush on board the SS Maxim Gorkiy at the 1989 Malta Summit.

Yakovlev, as the head of the Commission on the Rehabilitation of Soviet Repression Victims, meets President Vladimir Putin

Awards 19

Order of the Red Banner

Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Order of the October Revolution

Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class

Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class

Order of the Three Stars, 3rd Class

Order of the Red Banner of Labour

Order of Friendship of Peoples

Order of the Red Star

Order of St. Sergius of Radonezh 3rd class

Order of the Liberator

Commander of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland

Commander of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas

Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana

Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas

Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Order of the Three Stars

Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland

Order of St. Sergius of Radonezh

Connected to Alexander 6

Yury BashmetAlso won Order of St. Sergius of Radonezh 3rd class

Rimas KurtinaitisAlso won Commander of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas

Mykola AzarovAlso won Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas

Carlos Andrés PérezAlso won Order of the Liberator

Murat ZyazikovAlso won Order of St. Sergius of Radonezh

Olli RehnAlso won Order of the Three Stars, 3rd Class

About this person

Alexander Nikolayevich Yakovlev was a Soviet and Russian politician, diplomat, and historian. A member of the Politburo and Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union throughout the 1980s, he was termed the "godfather of glasnost", and was the intellectual force behind Mikhail Gorbachev's reform programme of glasnost and perestroika.