Biography of Sergei Leonidowitsch Tichwinski

Sergei Leonidowitsch Tichwinski (* 1. September 1918 in Saint Petersburg; † 24. February 2018 in Moscow) was a russian diplomat and sinologist. He was 99 years old. He studied at Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies. He worked at Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation and Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He received 10 awards, including USSR State Prize, Order of Lenin. He was buried at Troyekurovskoye cemetery.