Anatoly Blatov

Anatoly Ivanovich Blatov (born Ivanov, Russian: Анато́лий Ива́нович Блатов (Иванов); 11 July 1914 – 1 October 1988) was a Soviet diplomat and Communist Party official. Between 1972 and 1982 he was assistant to Leonid Brezhnev.

Blatov graduated from the Dnipropetrovsk National University of Rail Transport (1940) and Communist Party Supreme School (1945). He held the following positions:^[1]^[2]

1945–1947 – official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1947–1948 – professor at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations
1948–1949 – official of the Soviet Information Bureau
1949–1954 – various positions at the Soviet Union to Germany
1955–1968 – official at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1968–1972 – official at the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
1972–1982 – assistant to Leonid Brezhnev
1982–1985 – official at the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
1985–1988 – Ambassador of the Soviet Union to the Netherlands