Nikolay Nikolaevich Afanasevsky (born 1 October 1940 in Moscow

Moscow

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, Russian SFSR, died 23 June 2005 in Warsaw

Warsaw

Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...

, Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

) was a Russian diplomat

Diplomat

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Afanasevsky graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1964, and went on to work in various diplomatic posts in the central offices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and abroad.

From 1990 to 1992, he was the Ambassador of the USSR in Belgium

Belgium

Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

 and continued as the Russian Ambassador

Ambassador of Russia to Belgium

This is a list of Ambassadors to Belgium of the Russian Empire, Soviet Union and the Russian Federation:- Russian Empire :* Mikhail Irineyevich Khreptovich; 11 April 1853 - 17 July 1856* Aleksandr Borisovich Rikhter; 17 July 1856 - 16 April 1859...

 until 1994. Appointment as Ambassador to France followed from January 1999 to March 2002, and was appointed as Ambassador of Russia to Poland

Ambassador of Russia to Poland

Poland and Russia had exchanged diplomatic missions for centuries. The first ambassador in the modern meaning of this word, from Poland to Russia, was Antoni Augustyn Deboli, in late 18th century. After the period of partitions of Poland, in 1918, relations were established between the Second...

from March 2002 until his death in Warsaw on 23 June 2005.