Yevgeny Samoteykin

Yevgeny Matveyevich Samoteykin (Russian: Евгений Матвеевич Самотейкин; October 18, 1928^[1] – July 20, 2014) was a Soviet diplomat.^[2]

From 1952, Samoteykin worked in the central apparatus of the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in Soviet diplomatic missions abroad. From 1964 he was a personal assistant to the First (later, General) secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Central Committee.^[1]

On 24 April 1983 he was appointed as Ambassador of the Soviet Union to Australia, with concurrent accreditation to Nauru, Fiji and Vanuatu, and held the post until 22 August 1990.^[3][4][5][6]