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Grigori Ivan Golden Boy (григоривановичтн)
Tong Jin 1906 was born in a peasant family in Arkhangelsk, northern Russia. Like his compatriot Mikhail lomonosov, Tomkin left Moscow to study science and eventually became a major international jurist in the Soviet Union. Tang Jin's research direction has been very extensive. He wrote the first paper in the legal history of the ancient world, spoke many languages fluently, and was even good at mathematics.
Tong Jinhe 1935 to 1938 is engaged in postgraduate study in the Institute of Nationalities and Law.
1939- 194 1 Assistant to the Director of the Legal Affairs Department (People's Foreign Affairs Committee) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 194 1 to 1942 as Counsellor in Iran, Chargé d 'affaires of the Soviet Embassy in Canada (1942-44) and the First Far East of the Soviet Foreign Ministry; Minister Counsellor of the Soviet Embassy in Korea (1949- 1950), and then successively worked in the First Far East Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (195 1- 1952) and the Department of Treaty and Law (1952 to/).
As an official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union, 196 1 participated in the United Nations International Law Commission, and he led Soviet delegations to attend international conferences, such as 1958, 1960, the first and second United Nations conferences on the law of the sea, and 1965438 Antarctic delegation meeting.
During the period from 1946 to 1965, Tong Jin was the chairman of the Institute of International Law and Administrative Law of Moscow Advanced Diplomatic Academy (in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs) and served as a professor of international law at the School of Relations of Moscow Institute.
From 1965, he was appointed as the head of the Department of International Law of Moscow State University. Professor Tomkin also served as the president of the Soviet International Law Association until his death.
Tang Jin wrote nine books on international law and general state and legal theory (теориgгосударстви). His works have been translated into many languages, including English.
For more than forty years, his international law textbooks have been the core of the Soviet international law curriculum. With the disintegration of the Soviet Union, his works have far-reaching influence. In 2000, his main thesis was reprinted by Moscow.
He is a member of The Hague Academy of International Law and received honorary doctorates from the University of Paris and the University of Budapest.