Career
Born in Simbirsk, he became a construction worker at age sixteen. After graduating from the Moscow Aviation Institute in 1935, he went to work in an aircraft factory, and soon became involved in government and party affairs During the Second World War, he served as an adviser to the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics State Defense Committee.
Beginning in 1953, Firyubin filled various diplomatic positions – the Soviet ambassador to Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, the deputy foreign minister of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, and the secretary general of the political advisory committee of the Warsaw Pact states.
He served an increasingly public role in Soviet politics, including serving as deputy of the second convocation of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. He died in Moscow.
