Yuri Merzlyakov

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Yuri Merzlyakov in 2012.

Yuri Nikolayevich Merzlyakov (Russian: Юрий Николаевич Мерзляков; born 9 April 1949) is a Russian diplomat, who was one of the 3 co-chairmen of the OSCE Minsk Group.

Yuri Merzlyakov graduated from MGIMO in 1971 and Diplomatic Academy of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1979, and worked at various positions in the central offices of the Soviet and Russian Ministries of Foreign Affairs and diplomatic missions abroad. In 1998-1999 he held the position of the special envoy at the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the head of the Working Group on the Caspian Sea.

Yuri Merzlyakov has a rank of the 1st class Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, speaks English, French and Swahili. He is married and has a daughter.

Mr. Yuri Merzlyakov was appointed on July 19, 2010 by the Russian President Dimitri Medvedev as new Russian Ambassador in Estonia for replacing his colleague Nikolai Uspenski.

References

• Biography
• Medvedev Appoints Yuri Merzlyakov as New Russia’s Ambassador in Estonia

Diplomatic posts
Preceded by ?	Ambassador of Russia to Madagascar and the Comors 1993–1997	Succeeded by ?
Preceded by Valery Nikolayenko	Ambassador of Russia to Kazakhstan 1999–2003	Succeeded by Vladimir Babichev
Preceded by Nikolay Uspensky	Ambassador of Russia to Estonia 2010–present	Succeeded by Incumbent