Leonid Drachevsky

Leonid Drachevsky
Drachevsky in 2018
Personal information
Native name
Леонид Драчевский
Born (1942-04-05) 5 April 1942 (age 83)
Height191 cm (6 ft 3 in)
Weight87 kg (192 lb)
Sport
SportRowing

Leonid Drachevsky (Russian: Леонид Вадимович Драчевский; born 5 April 1942) is a Soviet rower from Kazakhstan. He competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City with the men's coxed pair where they qualified for the small final but did not start.[1][2]

Drachevsky later became a diplomat and served as consul in Barcelona in 1992 and as ambassador of Russia to Poland from 1996 to 1999. In 1998 and 1999, he was a Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation. In the period 2000–2004, he was the Plenipotentiary Envoy of the President of Russia to the Siberian Federal District.[3][4] On 23 December 2000, Leonid Drachevsky was promoted to the civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation.[5]

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