Arkady Sobolev

Arkady Sobolev (seated, second from right) at the Dumbarton Oaks Conference, August 1944

Arkady Alexandrovich Sobolev (Russian: Арка́дий Алекса́ндрович Со́болев, 1903–December 1, 1964) was a Russian Soviet diplomat who served as the Soviet ambassador to the United Nations between 1955 and 1960.[1] He was a specialist in international law. He was also under-secretary for Security and Political Affairs between 1946 and 1949 and Soviet Ambassador to Poland between 1951 and 1953. He died in Moscow following a long illness.[2][3]

Sobolov was born in 1903 in Danilkino, Galich district, Kostroma, Russian Empire.

Alger Hiss, Secretary-General of the San Francisco Conference, where the UN Charter was drafted and signed, spoke about the role of Sobolev and US delegate Leo Pasvolsky: "they were the draftsmen of the Charter in San Francisco. Now, the outline had been written before; I'm talking about the specific language which is a very important part of any treaty, I think it was Pasvolsky and Sobolev who were really responsible for the form the Charter took." Sobolev and Pasvolsky had the primary responsibility to "put the various drafts together into a working text."[4]

  1. ^ Staff report (March 4, 1955). Arkady A. Sobolev named permanent Russian U. N. Envoy. Chicago Tribune
  2. ^ Staff report (December 11, 1964). Obituary. Time
  3. ^ Staff report (December 3, 1964). "Diplomat Served Secretariat as Aide go Trygve Lie-Minister in Moscow." The New York Times, page 45.
  4. ^ United Nations Oral History Project, Alger Hiss, 13 February 1990