Leonid Zamyatin

Leonid Mitrofanovich Zamyatin (; 9 March 1922 – 19 June 2019) was a Soviet ambassador and diplomat.

Biography He graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute, and worked as a diplomat from 1946. In 1986, he was appointed the Soviet ambassador to the United Kingdom. He was forced to resign his ambassadorship after his refusal to condemn the 1991 August coup against Mikhail Gorbachev.

Awards Order of Lenin Order of the October Revolution Order of the Red Banner of Labour Order of Friendship of Peoples Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" Jubilee Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" Medal "For Strengthening of Brotherhood in Arms" Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" Jubilee Medal "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" Lenin Prize