Anatoly Ivanovich Blatov (born Ivanov, Russian: ?????ยด??? ???ยด????? ?????? (??????); 11 July 1914 โ 1 October 1988) was a Soviet diplomat and Communist Party official.
Between 1972 and 1982 he was assistant to Leonid Brezhnev.
Blatov graduated from the Dnipropetrovsk National University of Rail Transport (1940) and Communist Party Supreme School (1945).
He held the following positions:
1945โ1947 โ official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1947โ1948 โ professor at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations
1948โ1949 โ official of the Soviet Information Bureau
1949โ1954 โ various positions at the Soviet Union to Germany
1955โ1968 โ official at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1968โ1972 โ official at the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
1972โ1982 โ assistant to Leonid Brezhnev
1982โ1985 โ official at the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
1985โ1988 โ Ambassador of the Soviet Union to the Netherlands