Born on March 21, 1950, in Moscow.
1972: graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the USSR Foreign Ministry.
1972: graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the USSR Foreign Ministry.
1972-1976: worked at the Soviet Embassy in Sri Lanka.
1976-1981: worked in the Department of International Economic Organisations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
1981-1988: First Secretary, Adviser, Senior Adviser to the Soviet mission to the UN.
1988-1990: Deputy Head of the Department of International Economic Relations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
1990-1992: Head of the Department of International Organisations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
1992: Head of the Department of International Organisations and Global Problems at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
1992-1994: Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs.
1994-2004: Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN.
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.
March 9, 2004: appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs.
May 21, 2012: Reappointed Minister of Foreign Affairs by Presidential Executive Order.
