Ivan Ilyichev

Ivan Ivanovich Ilyichev (Russian: Иван Иванович Ильичёв; 14 August 1905 – 2 September 1983) was a Soviet military official and diplomat.

[1] Born in Navoloki, Kaluga Governorate in 1905, Ilyichev joined the Russian Communist Party (bolsheviks) in 1925 and went on to serve in the Red Army.

He studied at the Lenin Military-Political Academy until May 1938, and after graduation he became the head of the Political Directorate of the Red Army Intelligence, as a Brigade Commissar.

[1] After the completion of his mission to Vienna, he returned to Moscow where he became the Head of the European Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, before being posted to Copenhagen on 26 January 1966 as Ambassador of the Soviet Union to Denmark.

His mission in the Danish capital finished on 12 November 1968, whereby he returned to Moscow and a position in the central apparatus of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs until his retirement in 1975.