Arkady Sobolev

Arkady Alexandrovich Sobolev was a Russian Soviet diplomat who served as the Soviet ambassador to the United Nations between 1955 and 1960. He was a specialist in international law. He was also under-secretary for Security and Political Affairs between 1946 and 1949 and List of ambassadors of the [Soviet Union to Poland|Soviet Ambassador to Poland] between 1951 and 1953. He died in Moscow following a long illness.
Sobolov was born in 1903 in Danilkovo village, Galichsky Uyezd, Russian Empire.
Alger Hiss, Secretary-General of the San Francisco Conference, where the Charter of [the United Nations|UN Charter] was drafted and signed, spoke about the role of Sobolev and US delegate Leo Pasvolsky: "they were the draftsmen of the Charter in San Francisco. Now, the outline had been written before; I'm talking about the specific language which is a very important part of any treaty, I think it was Pasvolsky and Sobolev who were really responsible for the form the Charter took." Sobolev and Pasvolsky had the primary responsibility to "put the various drafts together into a working text."