title: Oleg Grinevsky
text: # Oleg Grinevsky
  
  Oleg Alekseyevich Grinevsky (Russian: Олег Алексеевич Гриневский) (3 June 1930 – 5 February 2019) was a Russian diplomat, former Ambassador to Sweden, political scientist, Cand.Sc. (history) and author.
  
  ## Early life
  
  Oleg Grinevsky was born in Moscow, in what was then the Russian SFSR, part of the Soviet Union.
  
  ## Diplomatic activity
  
  * Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.
  * former Soviet security adviser to the Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin governments
  * Graduated from MGIMO (Moscow State Institute for International Relations) in 1954.
  * Joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, USSR in 1957.
  * Senior Adviser at the Soviet Embassy in Washington, D.C., 1954.
  * 1983-1989 Head of the Soviet delegation at the Stockholm conference
  * 1989-1991 Head of the Soviet delegation at the Vienna conference
  * 1991-1997 Russian Ambassador to Sweden
  * Since 1999 - scientist, political researcher, author of political and historical books
  * Awarded the Swedish Order of the Polar Star (2009)
  
  ## International conferences activity
  
  * Participated in the numerous international conferences on security and nuclear security issues.
  