Andrey Tatarinov

Who is Andrey Tatarinov?

Andrey Alexeyevich Tatarinov is a Russian career diplomat and ambassador who since 20 September 2003 holds the diplomatic rank Minister Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the First Class.

Tatarinov entered the Department of Vietnamese Linguistics at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1968 and graduated in 1973, after which he entered the diplomatic corps of the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs, serving in numerous posts abroad and in the central offices of the Ministry.

His first posting saw him taking up a position at the Soviet embassy in Vietnam, where he was posted from 1973 to 1977. He returned to Moscow and worked in the Department of Vietnam Affairs in the Soviet Foreign Ministry, until 1982 when he was again posted to Hanoi as First Secretary at the Soviet embassy, and stayed in Hanoi until 1988. In 1992, Tatarinov was appointed as Minister-Counsellor at the Russian embassy to Thailand, and held this position until 1997, when he was transferred back to Moscow and became Deputy-Director of the Personnel Department of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.