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Grigory Tunkin

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Grigory Ivanovich Tunkin (1906 to 1993) was a Soviet legal scholar and diplomat regarded as the leading Soviet authority on international law, who taught the subject at Moscow State University for decades and wrote nine treatises and more than 250 articles that shaped Soviet legal education. He served as a legal adviser to the Soviet Foreign Ministry and as a diplomat in Iran, Canada and North Korea, presided over the United Nations International Law Commission in 1961, and led Soviet delegations to major conferences on the law of the sea, Antarctic governance and diplomatic relations.

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