Nikolai Pegov (

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: Николай Пегов; 3 April 1905 – 19 April 1991) was a Soviet official and diplomat. He served as the ambassador to Iran, Algeria, and India. Being a member of the Communist Party he also held various posts at the party.

Early years and education

Pegov was born in Moscow on 3 April 1905. His father was a clerk. Pegov began to work in 1919 and joined the Communist Party in 1930. He worked at different factories until 1935 when he enrolled at the Moscow Industrial Academy. He graduated from the academy in 1938.

Career

Following his graduation Pegov began his party career and became the secretary of the Far Eastern Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks. In October 1938 he was appointed first secretary of the Primorsky Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks and in 1940 he was named as the first secretary of the City Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks in

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which he held until 1947. In 1940 he was also made the first secretary of the Vladivostok city committee of the

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. In addition, he served as the first secretary of the Maritime Territory Committee from 1938 to 1948. He became part of the Communist Party's Central Committee in 1947 and remained in the post until 1952. He served as the secretary of the central committee between 1952 and 1953. Pegov was elected as the secretary of the

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in April 1954 and remained in the post until 1956. In August 1956 he was named as the ambassador of the Soviet Union to Iran. He served in the post until 1963. One of the significant activities of Pegov during his term as ambassador to Iran was the Iran–Soviet Memorandum concerning the sovereign rights of two countries in the

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. This agreement is also known as Aram-Pegov agreement (Aram refers to Abbas Aram, Iranian foreign minister and Iranian signatory of the document), and was signed on 15 September 1962. Then Pegov was appointed Soviet ambassador to Algeria in 1964 which he held until 1967. Pegov was the ambassador of India between 1967 and 1973. He was appointed deputy minister of foreign affairs in April 1973 and department head of the

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in 1975. Pegov also held various posts at the Communist Party. He was a member of the central committee at the 18th through 25th congresses. He functioned as a candidate member of the central committee Presidium between 1952 and 1953 and as a deputy to the 1st through 4th convocations of the Supreme Soviet. In December 1982 he retired from politics and public posts.

Death

Pegov died in Moscow on 19 April 1991 and was buried there at the

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Awards

Pegov was the recipient of the

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four times and the

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