Arkady Sobolev

{{Short description|Soviet diplomat (1903–1964)}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Arkady Sobolev | honorific_suffix = | native_name = {{No bold|Аркадий Соболев}} | native_name_lang = ru | caption = Arkady Sobolev (seated, second from right) at the Dumbarton Oaks Conference, August 1944 | image = Informal meeting in the Study, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., 1944, National Archives (Loxley, Cadogan, Stettinius, Gromyko, Sobolev, Berezhkov, Dunn, Pasvolsky).jpg | office = Director of the Department of the UN Security Council Affairs | term_start = 1946 | term_end = 1949 | office2 = Ambassador to Polish People's Republic | term_start2 = March 2, 1951 | term_end2 = June 21, 1953 | predecessor2 = Viktor Lebedev | successor2 = Georgy Popov | office3 = Permanent Representative of the Soviet Union to the United Nations | term_start3 = 1955 | term_end3 = 1960 | predecessor3 = Andrey Vyshinsky | successor3 = Valerian Zorin | birth_date = {{Birth date|1903|11|25}} | birth_place = Danilkovo village, Galichsky Uyezd, Kostroma Governorate, Russian Empire | death_date = {{Death date and age|1964|12|1|1903|11|25}} | death_place = Moscow, RSFSR, Soviet Union | party = CPSU }}

'''Arkady Alexandrovich Sobolev''' ({{langx|ru|Арка́дий Алекса́ндрович Со́болев}}, November 25, 1903 – December 1, 1964) was a Russian Soviet diplomat who served as the Soviet ambassador to the United Nations between 1955 and 1960.<ref name="trib1955">Staff report (March 4, 1955). Arkady A. Sobolev named permanent Russian U. N. Envoy. ''Chicago Tribune''</ref> He was a specialist in international law. He was also under-secretary for Security and Political Affairs between 1946 and 1949 and Soviet Ambassador to Poland between 1951 and 1953. He died in Moscow following a long illness.<ref name="timeobit">Staff report (December 11, 1964). [https://web.archive.org/web/20100715171845/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,897426,00.html Obituary.] ''Time''</ref><ref name="nytobit">Staff report (December 3, 1964). "[https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0A1FFC39581B728DDDAA0894DA415B848AF1D3 Diplomat Served Secretariat as Aide go Trygve Lie-Minister in Moscow]." ''The New York Times'', page 45.</ref>

Sobolov was born in 1903 in Danilkovo village, Galichsky Uyezd, Russian Empire.

Alger Hiss, Secretary-General of the San Francisco Conference, where the UN Charter was drafted and signed, spoke about the role of Sobolev and US delegate Leo Pasvolsky: "they were the draftsmen of the Charter in San Francisco. Now, the outline had been written before; I'm talking about the specific language which is a very important part of any treaty, I think it was Pasvolsky and Sobolev who were really responsible for the form the Charter took." Sobolev and Pasvolsky had the primary responsibility to "put the various drafts together into a working text."<ref name="Hiss">[http://dag.un.org/bitstream/handle/11176/89612/HissTranscript.pdf United Nations Oral History Project, Alger Hiss, 13 February 1990]</ref>

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{{Permanent Representatives of the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation to the United Nations}}

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