Dmitri Shepilov

Dmitri Shepilov Дмитрий Шепилов
Dmitri Shepilov in 1955
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office 1 June 1956 – 15 February 1957
Premier	Nikolai Bulganin
Preceded by	Vyacheslav Molotov
Succeeded by	Andrei Gromyko
Editor-in-chief of Pravda
In office 1952–1956
Preceded by	Leonid Ilichev
Succeeded by	Pavel Satyukov
Head of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee
In office 20 July 1949 – 27 October 1952
Preceded by	Post established (Mikhail Suslov as Propaganda and Agitation Department head)
Succeeded by	Mikhail Suslov
Candidate member of the 19th Presidium
In office 27 February 1956 – 29 June 1957
Member of the 19th, 20th Secretariat
In office 14 February – 29 June 1957
In office 7 December – 24 December 1956
Personal details
Born	Dmitri Trofimovich Shepilov 5 November [O.S. 23 October] 1905 Ashgabat, Russian Empire
Died	18 August 1995(1995-08-18) (aged 89) Moscow, Russia
Nationality	Soviet and Russian
Political party	Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Profession	Economist

Dmitri Trofimovich Shepilov (Russian: Дми́трий Трофи́мович Шепи́лов, Dmitrij Trofimovič Šepilov; 5 November [O.S. 23 October] 1905 – 8 August 1995) was a Soviet politician and Minister of Foreign Affairs who joined the abortive plot to oust Nikita Khrushchev from power in 1957.

Dmitri Shepilov was born in Askhabad in (current capital of Turkmenistan) the Transcaspian Oblast of the Russian Empire in a working-class family of Russian ethnicity. He graduated from the Law School of the Moscow State University in 1926 and was sent to work in Yakutsk, where he worked as a deputy prosecutor and acting prosecutor for Yakutia. In 1928–1929 Shepilov worked as an assistant regional prosecutor in Smolensk. In 1931–1933 Shepilov studied at the Institute of Red Professors in Moscow while simultaneously working as the "responsible secretary" of the magazine On the Agrarian Front. After graduating in 1933, Shepilov was made head of the political department of a sovkhoz. In 1935 he was made Deputy Chief of the Sector of Agricultural Science of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party.

In 1937 Shepilov became a Doctor of Science and was made the Scientific Secretary of the Institute of Economics of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. He also taught economics in Moscow's colleges between 1937 and 1941.