Nikolai Sharonov

Nikolai Ivanovich Sharonov (Russian: Николай Иванович Шаронов, Polish: Nikołaj Szaronow) (born 1901, date of death unknown) was a Soviet diplomat.

Plenipotentiary (полпред) on a shared basis, sometimes via third countries, in Greece (1937–1939), Albania (1937–1939), Poland (1939) and Hungary (1939–1941).

[1] He was the last Soviet ambassador in the Second Polish Republic (replacing Yakov Davydov, executed in the Great Purge).

Officially, in light of growing Polish-German tensions, he supported the Polish government, offering to discuss Soviet economic and military aid;[2] In fact the Soviets were pressured by Nazi Germany to act upon their alliance (Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact);[3] Soviet propaganda was already accusing Poland of border violations and mistreatment of Belarusian and Ukrainian minorities, and mobilization was ordered on September 7.

Sharonov's official reason for leaving the Polish capital of Warsaw was "the troubles in establishing communications with Moscow" due to the ongoing German invasion of Poland that had begun on September 1.