Nikolai Georgiyevich Sudarikov (), (2 February 1913 - 2000), was a

Soviet The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...

diplomat A diplomat (from ; romanization, romanized ''diploma'') is a person appointed by a state (polity), state, International organization, intergovernmental, or Non-governmental organization, nongovernmental institution to conduct diplomacy with one ...

. On 20 October 1979, Sudarikov was appointed Ambassador of the Soviet Union to Australia, with concurrent accreditation to

Fiji Fiji, officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists of an archipelago of more than 330 islands—of which about ...

. He was relieved of his post on 23 April 1983 by the Presidium of the

USSR Supreme Soviet The Supreme Soviet of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (SSUSSR) was the highest body of state authority of the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1936 to 1991. Based on the principle of unified power, it was the only branch of government in the ...

, and entered into retirement, a day after the

Australian government The Australian Government, also known as the Commonwealth Government or simply as the federal government, is the national executive government of Australia, a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy. The executive consists of the pr ...

expelled First Secretary of the Soviet embassy in Canberra

Valery Ivanov Valery Nikolayevich Ivanov () (born 1948) was a Soviet diplomat. As First Secretary of the Soviet Embassy to Australia, he was expelled on 22 April 1983 under suspicion of being a spy after allegedly trying to recruit Australian Labor Party ...

on suspicions of being a spy.

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1913 births 2000 deaths Ambassadors of the Soviet Union to Australia Ambassadors of the Soviet Union to Fiji Combe–Ivanov affair Ambassadors of the Soviet Union to North Korea {{russia-diplomat-stub