Anatoly Iosifovich Lavrentiev (Russian: Анатолий Иосифович Лаврентьев; 1904 – 1984) was a Soviet diplomat.

In 1939 he was the head of the Eastern European department of the USSR People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs.

From 1943 to 1944 he served as Head of the Middle East Department of the USSR People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs.

[4] According to the CIA report, Lavrentiev was "one of the Kremlin's most ruthless and competent foreign affairs officials.

[7][8][9][10] From 1956 to 1970 years he served as an employee of the central apparatus of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs.