Education
Tomsk State University.
Tomsk State University.
At first a Menshevik, he joined the Bolsheviks in May 1917. In 1918-1920 and 1927–1934, he was the Deputy People"s Commissar for Foreign Affairs. In 1919, he issued a statement concerning relations with China called the Karakhan Manifesto.
In 1921, he was the Soviet Ambassador to Poland.
In 1923-1926, the Ambassador to China. After 1934, the Ambassador to Turkey.
Karakhan was arrested and executed in 1937 during the Great Purge. He was posthumously rehabilitated in 1956.
Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union]
A member of the RSDLP from 1904. In October 1917, he was member of the Revolutionary Military Council. Then served as secretary of the Soviet delegation at the Brest-Litovsk peace talks together with Lev Trotsky and Adolph Joffe.
