Daniel Semyonovich Solod (Russian: Даниил Семёнович Солод; 1908–1988) was a Soviet diplomat and orientalist.[1] He began working in the Soviet diplomatic corps in 1937. In 1940 and 1941 he served as officer at the Soviet embassy in Yugoslavia. He was then transferred to Iran, where he served as an officer at the Soviet embassy from 1941 to 1943. From 1944 to 1950 he was the Soviet consul to Egypt. He served as the Soviet envoy to Lebanon and Syria. From 1953 to 1956 he returned to Egypt, as the Soviet envoy (becoming ambassador in 1954).[2][3] Returning from Egypt, he was put in charge of the Near East department at the Soviet Foreign Ministry.[4] Between 1959 and 1962 he was the Soviet ambassador to Guinea. After returning from Guinea, he worked at the Africa Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR until 1970.[2]
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