Andrey Urnov
Andrey Yuryevich Urnov was a Russian diplomat. He was the elder brother of Soviet actor Mark Urnov
Life and career
Born in Moscow on 10 November 1937, Urnov's mother was an actress in the Russian Army Theatre and attended the Mikhail Shchepkin Higher Theatre School. His father worked on microscopes at a closed institute. His paternal grandfather, Mark Kuchnir, was a member of the Constitutional Democratic Party, while his maternal grandfather was a member of the Socialist Revolutionary Party. He graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1961 with a Doctor of Sciences in international relations. He served as deputy head of the International Department of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and joined the Soviet Union's Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1990. From 15 August 1990 to 5 July 1994, he was ambassador of the USSR/Russia to Namibia. He then served as ambassador of Russia to Armenia from 13 September 1994 to 12 November 1998.Urnov died in Moscow on 10 August 2025, at the age of 87.