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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Like his famous countryman, Mikhail Lomonosov, Tunkin left for Moscow to study sciences.
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Though, eventually, he became the leading international lawyer in the Soviet Union, Tunkin's interests were always multi-dimensional.
In Legal System: Law of the Soviet Union, Wikipedia lead sentence
was a Soviet jurist
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Wikidata Q4465539, occupation/position claims
occupation/position claim resolves to: Diplomat and Jurist
Wikidata Q4465539, P27 country of citizenship claim
P27 (country of citizenship): Soviet Union
Wikidata Q4465539, P27 country of citizenship claim, additional value 49
citizenship (P27), additional value: Russian
Wikidata Q4465539, P569 date of birth claim (year)
P569 (date of birth): 1906
Wikidata Q4465539, P569 date of birth claim (full date)
P569 (date of birth): 1906-09-30
Wikidata Q4465539, P570 date of death claim (year)
P570 (date of death): 1993
Wikidata Q4465539, P570 date of death claim (full date)
P570 (date of death): 1993-08-23
Wikidata Q4465539, P20 place of death claim
P20 (place of death): Moscow
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