Andrey Vyshinsky

Andrey Vyshinsky
Andrey Vyshinsky
Андрей Вышинский
	Vyshinsky in 1940
Procurator General of the Soviet Union
	In office; 3 March 1935 – 31 May 1939
Premier	Vyacheslav Molotov
Preceded by	Ivan Akulov
Succeeded by	Mikhail Pankratov
Procurator General of the Russian SFSR
	In office; 11 May 1931 – 25 May 1934
Premier	Vyacheslav Molotov
Preceded by	Nikolai Krylenko
Succeeded by	Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko
Minister of Foreign Affairs
	In office; 4 March 1949 – 5 March 1953
Premier	Joseph Stalin
Preceded by	Vyacheslav Molotov
Succeeded by	Vyacheslav Molotov
Permanent Representative of the Soviet Union to the United Nations
	In office; 5 March 1953 – 22 November 1954
Premier	Georgy Malenkov
Preceded by	Valerian Zorin
Succeeded by	Arkady Sobolev
Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union
	In office; 31 May 1939 – 15 May 1944
Premier	Vyacheslav Molotov Joseph Stalin
Candidate member of the 19th Presidium
	In office; 16 October 1952 – 6 March 1953
Personal details
Born	Andrey Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky; 10 December 1883; Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	22 November 1954 (aged 70); New York City, U.S.
Resting place	Kremlin Wall Necropolis, Moscow
Nationality	Soviet
Political party	RSDLP (Mensheviks) (1903–1920) ; Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1920–1954)
Profession	Jurist, diplomat, civil servant
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Andrey Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky (Russian: Андре́й Януа́рьевич Выши́нский; Polish: Andrzej Wyszyński) (10 December [O.S. 28 November] 1883 – 22 November 1954) was a Soviet politician, jurist and diplomat.

He is best known as a state prosecutor of Joseph Stalin's Moscow Trials and in the Nuremberg trials. He was the Soviet Foreign Minister from 1949 to 1953, after having served as Deputy Foreign Minister under Vyacheslav Molotov since 1940. He also headed the Institute of State and Law in the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union.