Vladimir Semyonov (diplomat)

Carrier of Soviet diplomat

• 1939 – employee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• 1939–1940 – advisor of Soviet Plenipotentiary Representation in Lithuania
• 1940–1941 – counsellor of the Soviet Embassy in Nazi Germany
• 1941–1942 – executive of the Third European Department of the MID
• 1942–1945 – counsellor of the Soviet Mission in Sweden
• 1945–1946 – deputy of the a Political Counsellor of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany
• 1946–1949 – Political Counsellor of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany
• 1949–1953 – Political Counsellor of the Soviet Control Committee in Germany
• 1953 — Senior Executive, Deputy Chief, Chief of the Third European Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, member of Ministry Board of the MID.
• 1953–1954 – Chief Commissar of USSR in Germany and an ambassador to the GDR;
• 1954–1955 – Executive of the Third European Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• 1955–1978 – Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
• 1968–1978 – Chief of the Soviet delegation at the Soviet-American negotiations on reduction of strategic weapons in Helsinki, Vienna, Geneva. Prepared the 1973 SALT-1 and 1978 SALT-2 Treaties for signing by General Secretaries Leonid Brezhnev and Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter.
• 1978–1986 – USSR ambassador to West Germany
• 1986–1991 – Foreign Ministry Ambassador at Large, Counsellor to the Foreign Minister