Oleg Grinevsky
# Oleg Grinevsky

Oleg Alekseyevich Grinevsky (Russian: Олег Алексеевич Гриневский) (3 June 1930 – 5 February 2019) was a Russian diplomat, former Ambassador to Sweden, political scientist, Cand.Sc. (history) and author.

## Early life

Oleg Grinevsky was born in Moscow, in what was then the Russian SFSR, part of the Soviet Union.

## Diplomatic activity

* Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.
* former Soviet security adviser to the Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin governments
* Graduated from MGIMO (Moscow State Institute for International Relations) in 1954.
* Joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, USSR in 1957.
* Senior Adviser at the Soviet Embassy in Washington, D.C., 1954.
* 1983-1989 Head of the Soviet delegation at the Stockholm conference
* 1989-1991 Head of the Soviet delegation at the Vienna conference
* 1991-1997 Russian Ambassador to Sweden
* Since 1999 - scientist, political researcher, author of political and historical books
* Awarded the Swedish Order of the Polar Star (2009)

## International conferences activity

* Participated in the numerous international conferences on security and nuclear security issues.
