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Andrei Karlov
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Person

Andrei Karlov

1954 – 2016 · aged 62

Soviet and Russian diplomat

Born
4 Feb 1954 · Moscow
Died
19 Dec 2016 · Çankaya
Part ofEastern Orthodoxy265 CE – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 71 years
  1. 4 Feb 1954BornBorn in Moscow
  2. 2001 – 2006RoleRussian ambassador to North Korea
  3. 2011RoleAmbassador of Ukraine
  4. 2013 – 2016RoleRussian ambassador to Turkey
  5. 2016AwardHero of the Russian Federation
  6. 19 Dec 2016DiedDied in Çankaya

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1954 – 2016).

  1. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  2. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  3. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  4. 1956Suez Crisis
  5. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  6. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  7. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  8. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  9. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  10. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  11. 1968Prague Spring
  12. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  13. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  14. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  15. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  16. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  17. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  18. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  19. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  20. 1985Schengen Agreement
  21. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  22. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  23. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  24. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  25. 19941994 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
  27. 19981998 FIFA World Cup
  28. 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan
  29. 2003 – 2011Iraq War
  30. 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
  31. 20062006 FIFA World Cup
  32. 20082008 Summer Olympics
  33. 2008Russo-Georgian War
  34. 20102010 Haiti earthquake
  35. 2010 – 2012Arab Spring
  36. 20112011 Norway attacks
  37. 2011Libyan civil war
  38. 2011 – 2024Syrian civil war
  39. 20122012 Summer Olympics
  40. 20142014 FIFA World Cup

Biography

Andrei Gennadyevich Karlov (Russian: Андрей Геннадьевич Карлов; 4 February 1954 – 19 December 2016) was a Russian diplomat who served as the Russian ambassador to Turkey and earlier as the Russian ambassador to North Korea.

On the evening of 19 December 2016, while speaking at an art gallery exhibition in Ankara, Turkey, he was assassinated by Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş, an off-duty Turkish policeman.

Text from the Wikipedia article Andrei Karlov, CC BY-SA 4.0

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