 His first diplomatic posting came in 1946 when he was posted as the Consul-General of the Soviet Union in Tianjin, China, until 1948.From 1949 to 1952 he was Assistant Manager of the 1st Far East Department of the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and from 1952 to 1953 he was posted as Adviser at the Embassy of the Soviet Union to the People's Republic of China, acting for a time as chargé d'affaires.Returning to Moscow in 1955, he managed the Far East Department of the Foreign Affairs Ministry until 1957, when in 1958 he was posted as the Senior Political Adviser at the Permanent Mission of the Soviet Union to the United Nations until June 1959.