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 - October 2, 2000) was a Soviet philologist, orientalist, statesman, public figure, professor (1953), and corresponding member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1958).

Nikolai Fedorenko graduated from Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies

Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies

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 in 1937. In 1954, he received a rank of extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador of the USSR. In 1955-1958, Nikolai Fedorenko was a deputy foreign minister and then Soviet ambassador to Japan

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 (1958–1962). In 1963-1968, he was appointed Permanent Representative

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 of the USSR to the UN and Soviet representative at the United Nations Security Council

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. In 1970-1988, Nikolai Fedorenko was the editor-in-chief of the Foreign Literature magazine.

Nikolai Fedorenko authored a number of works on the history of Chinese

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 and Japanese culture, Chinese classical and modern literature. He was an honorary member of the Tokyo Sinology Institute (1961) and honorary academician of the Florentine Art Academy

Accademia di Belle Arti Firenze

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 (1975). Nikolai Fedorenko was awarded two Orders of Lenin, four other orders, and numerous medals.