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'.