Andrey Vyshinsky
Soviet politician, jurist and diplomat (1883-1954) · Russia · On the map · Politicians · Died at 70
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 served as Deputy Foreign Minister under Vyacheslav Molotov since 1940.
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1954Died22 November 19541953Order of LeninAward1947Order of LeninAwardState Stalin Prize, 1st degreeAward1945Order of LeninAward1943Order of LeninAward1937Order of LeninAward1933Order of the Red Banner of LabourAward1883Born28 November 1883
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Vyshinsky (bottom, right of Vladmir Lenin, with buttoned shirt), 1922. Lev Kamenev, Lenin, and Grigory Zinoviev, at a congress of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee. 14 years later, he became the chief prosecutor at the Moscow Trials, where Zinoviev and Kamenev were sentenced to death.
Prosecutor General Vyshinsky (centre), reading the 1937 indictment against Karl Radek during the second Moscow Trial
The unconditional surrender of the German Wehrmacht is signed on 8 May 1945 in Karlshorst by Marshal Zhukov, General Sokolovsky and Vyshinsky.
Secretary of State James Byrnes (left) is greeted at the airport en route to the Potsdam Conference by Andrei Gromyko and Vishinsky, 15 July 1945.Awards
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He also headed the Institute of State and Law in the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union.
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Russia
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Politicians
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Politician
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Lived 1883 to 1954 · aged 70
