Mikhail Timofeyevich Yefremov (russian: Михаил Тимофеевич Ефремов; – 19 March 2000), was a Soviet politician and

diplomat A diplomat (from grc, δίπλωμα; romanized ''diploma'') is a person appointed by a state or an intergovernmental institution such as the United Nations or the European Union to conduct diplomacy with one or more other states or internati ...

. ( at WebCite) In 1931 he graduated from the

Samara Samara ( rus, Сама́ра, p=sɐˈmarə), known from 1935 to 1991 as Kuybyshev (; ), is the largest city and administrative centre of Samara Oblast. The city is located at the confluence of the Volga and the Samara (Volga), Samara rivers, with ...

Electro-Technical School and went on to work in the Chief Inspectorate of the Samara Energy Plant from 19311933. After serving in the Red Army from 19331934, he studied at the Kuybyshev Industrial Institute from 19381941. From 1943 to 1951 he served in various positions of the Kuybyshev Regional Committee of the

All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks) "Hymn of the Bolshevik Party" , headquarters = 4 Staraya Square, Moscow , general_secretary = Vladimir Lenin (first) Mikhail Gorbachev (last) , founded = , banned = , founder = Vladimir Lenin , newspaper ...

, and served as First Secretary of the same Committee from October 1952 to December 1959. From 1959 until 1965 he served in various positions of the CPSU when from 13 November 1965 he became Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers, a position he held under 29 October 1971. In 1971 he was accorded the diplomatic rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, and his first

diplomatic posting A diplomatic mission or foreign mission is a group of people from a state or organization present in another state to represent the sending state or organization officially in the receiving or host state. In practice, the phrase usually den ...

came when he was presented his Letter of Credence in

East Berlin East Berlin was the ''de facto'' capital city of East Germany from 1949 to 1990. Formally, it was the Allied occupation zones in Germany, Soviet sector of Berlin, established in 1945. The American, British, and French sectors were known as ...

on 30 October 1971 as the

Ambassador of the Soviet Union to East Germany An ambassador is an official envoy, especially a high-ranking diplomat who represents a state and is usually accredited to another sovereign state or to an international organization as the resident representative of their own government or so ...

. He was Ambassador to East Germany until 7 March 1975, when on 10 March 1975 he began his next posting as

Ambassador of the Soviet Union to Austria The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Austria is the official representative of the President and the Government of the Russian Federation to the President and the Government of the Republic ...

. He served as Soviet ambassador in Vienna until his retirement on 26 October 1986.

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