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Arkady Shevchenko

Soviet diplomat and defector to the West

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 17, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Arkady Nikolayevich Shevchenko was a Soviet diplomat who was the highest-ranking Soviet official to defect to the West.

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“Arkady Shevchenko” enters the record as soviet diplomat and defector to the West. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Arkady, Shevchenko and Soviet can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Arkady Shevchenko” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.