Yakov Malik, Permanent Representative of the USSR to the UN. UN Security Council Meeting. Trygve Lie, UN Secretary-General (left), and Yakov Malik, Permanent Representative of the USSR to the UN (right). (2 August 1950)

Yakov Malik (1906-1980) Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in diplomatic service since 1937 1937-1939 - worked in Moscow at the USSR People’s Commissariat for Foreign Affairs 1939-1942 - Counsellor at the Plenipotentiary Mission (Embassy since 1941) of the USSR in Japan 1942-1945 - Ambassador of the USSR to Japan 1945-1946 - Political Advisor at the Allied Council for Japan 1946-1953 - Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR 1948-1952 - Permanent Representative of the USSR to the UN and USSR Representative to the UN Security Council 1953-1960 - Ambassador of the USSR to Great Britain 1960-1980 - Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR, in 1967 1976 sharing the office of Permanent Representative of the USSR to the UN and USSR Representative to the UN Security Council