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'''Nikolai Trofimovich Fedorenko''' ({{lang-ru|Николай Трофимович Федоренко}}) ({{OldStyleDate|9 November|1912|27 October}}, [[Pyatigorsk]] - October 2, 2000) was a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] philologist, orientalist, statesman, public figure, professor (1953), and corresponding member of the [[Soviet Academy of Sciences]] (1958).
 
Nikolai Fedorenko graduated from [[Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies]] in 1937. In 1954, he received a rank of [[extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador]] of the [[USSR]]. In 1955-1958, Nikolai Fedorenko was a deputy foreign minister and then [[List of ambassadors of Russia to Japan|Soviet ambassador to [[Japan]] (1958–1962), where he succeeded the late [[Ivan Tevosian]]. In 1963-1968, he was appointed [[Permanent Representative]] of the USSR to the [[United Nations]] and Soviet representative at the [[United Nations Security Council]]. In 1970-1988, Nikolai Fedorenko was the editor-in-chief of the ''[[Foreign Literature]]'' magazine.
 
Nikolai Fedorenko authored a number of works on the history of [[Culture of China|Chinese]] and Japanese culture, Chinese classical and modern literature. He was an honorary member of the [[Tokyo Sinology Institute]] (1961) and honorary academician of the [[Accademia di Belle Arti Firenze|Florentine Art Academy]] (1975). Nikolai Fedorenko was awarded two [[Orders of Lenin]], four other orders, and numerous medals. He also acted as interpreter for Stalin during Mao Zedong's visit to Soviet Union in 1949.