Nikolai SPASSKY

In 1983 Nikolai Spassky graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR. Nikolai Spassky has degrees of Candidate of Science in history and Doctor of Science in politics. In 1983-1985 he worked as consultant in the Press Department of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1985 he moved to Department of the USA and Canada in the same ministry where he worked till 1991 as a consultant, senior consultant, third and, later, first secretary. In 1991 Nikolai Spassky was appointed as counselor at the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 199l-1997 he was successively employed as expert, deputy director, first deputy director and director of North America Department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russian Federation. Over the period from 1997 to 2004 he was an Ambassador of Russia to Italy and San-Marino. In 2004-2006 he worked in the capacity of Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of Russia. In 2006-2008 he was Deputy Head of the Federal Atomic Energy Agency, state secretary. Since April of 2008 Nikolay Spassky has been holding the office of Deputy Director General of the State Corporation on Atomic Energy ‘Rosatom'.