Krassin Valchev Himmirsky is a Bulgarian career diplomat and poet.
Education
Graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in International Relations with Indonesian language (1962). Received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in American Literature after defending a thesis on “The Development of the Democratic Traditions in Contemporary American ” in the Academy of Social Sciences in Moscow (1974).
Career
As a career diplomat Himmirsky has been assigned at the Bulgarian Embassies in: Jakarta, Indonesia - as chargé d"affaires a.i., cultural and press attache (1964-1968), Washington District of Columbia, United States of America - as chargé d"affaires a.i. and cultural attache (1976-1981), and Moscow, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics - as minister plenipotentiary (1987-1990). Recently he has been employed as a Democratization officer and an Election officer of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (1999-2002). Later he was head of the Science department of the Russian Cultural and Information Centre in Sofia.
Membership
Member of the unions of Bulgarian writers, translators, journalists, member of the International Slavic Fund (Moscow), member of the Board of Bulgarian-Indonesian Friendship Association “Nusantara”.