Sergey Lapin (diplomat)

[1] From 1945 to 1953 he was Deputy Chairman of the Committee for Broadcasting, when in 1953 he began a career in diplomacy as Counsellor at the Embassy of the Soviet Union in East Germany.

In 1955 he returned to Moscow to work in the European Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, whilst also holding the position of Secretary of the CPSU at the MFA.

[1] From 19 October 1956 until 16 June 1960 he was located in Vienna, as Ambassador of the Soviet Union to Austria, and then relocated back to Moscow as 1st Deputy Chairman of the USSR State Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, whilst also holding the position of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.

[1] After the completion of his mission to Beijing, he returned once again to Moscow as Director-General of TASS, and held that position until 24 April 1970.

Many popular Soviet artists of Jewish descent, such as Nina Brodskaya, Emil Gorovets, Maya Kristalinskaya, Larisa Mondrus, Vadim Mulerman, and Aida Vedishcheva, met numerous obstacles in their careers.