Anatoly Adamishin

Anatoly Leonidovich Adamishin (; 11 October 1934 – 13 August 2025) was a Russian diplomat, politician, and businessman. He graduated from Moscow State University, and went on to work in various diplomatic posts in the central offices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and abroad. From 1990 to 1992, Adamishin was the Ambassador of the Soviet Union, and then Russia, to Italy. Then, from 1992 until 1994, he became the 1st Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs.

On 12 December 1993 he was elected to the 1st State Duma by the list of Yavlinsky-Boldyrev-Lukin bloc. He remained in the position of Deputy Minister, and in this regard, he resigned as member of parliament on 11 May 1994. He did not attend the sessions, and was nominally a member of the Committee on CIS Affairs and Relations with Compatriots. From 1994 to 1997, Adamishin was the Ambassador of Russia to the United Kingdom.

Awards Adamishin received several state honors, including two Orders of the Red Banner of Labour (1981, 1984), the Order of Friendship of Peoples (1975), and the Order of the Badge of Honour (1971). He was awarded the honorary title Honored Worker of the Diplomatic Service of the Russian Federation on April 18, 2005.

He was a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (1993).

In 2004, he was awarded the Certificate of Honour of the Government of the Russian Federation.

Selected works (History of Soviet Foreign Policy), with Aleksandr Berežkin and Andrej Gromyko (1980) ( (International Cooperation in the Field of Human Rights: Documents and Materials)) (1993) Transnational Terrorism in the World System Perspective, with Ryszard Stemplowski (2002) Human Rights, Perestroika, and the End of the Cold War, with Richard Schifter (2009)