Background
Son of Alexander Obukhov (1910–1991) – director of "Soyuzliftmontazh" which made lifts, elevators and cable roads in Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.
Son of Alexander Obukhov (1910–1991) – director of "Soyuzliftmontazh" which made lifts, elevators and cable roads in Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.
Graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1961.
History) and author Joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics in 1963. Served at the Soviet Embassy in Thailand.
Senior Adviser at the Staff of Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Semyonovich Semyonov since 1968. Since 1971 joined the Soviet-American negotiations on reduction of strategic weapons in Helsinki, Vienna, Geneva.
Deputy Chief, Chief of Soviet delegation in Geneva negotiating the INF treaty with the United States of America. Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) is between the United States and the Soviet Union, signed in Washington, District of Columbia by United States. President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev on December 8, 1987.
Obukhov flew to Washington, District of Columbia on a special flight with the Treaty’s copy in hands to give it over to the Presidents Reagan and Gorbachev for signing. In 1988—1989 chief of Department of United States of America and Canada at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. 1990—1991 — Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister, in charge of Soviet-American relations and negotiations on reduction of strategic weapons. 1991—1992 - Russian Deputy Foreign Minister
1992—1996 – Ambassador of Russia to Denmark.
While in Denmark, befriended Prince Dimitry Romanoff and Nikolaj Romanoff.
Participated in the noble activities of the Romanoff Fund for Russia. Since 1997 – Ambassador at Large, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Russia.
1997—2003 — head of the Russian delegation at the Russian-Lithuanian negotiations on border issues. Prepared the Treaty on Russian-Lithuanian State border and the Treaty on the Delimitation of the Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf in the Baltic Sea for signing by the Presidents of Russia and Lithuania.
On 23–25 October 1997 the Treaty on Russian-Lithuanian border was signed by Presidents Boris Yeltsin and Algirdas Brazauskas.
1999—2002 годах — the Russian Representative at the Council of Baltic Sea States, Chairman of Senior Officials Committee at the Council of Barentz/Euroarctic Region. Since 2003 — head of the Russian delegation at the Russian-Lithuanian Commission on the border issues. Participated in numerous negotiations on border issues in Vilnius, Warsaw, Minsk.
Since 2009 — head of the Russian delegation at the Russian-Latvian Commission on the border issues, co-chairman to the Joint Latvia-Russia Demarcation commission set up in accordance with Article 5 of the Treaty between the Republic of Latvia and the Russian Federation on the State Border of Latvia and Russia.
Participated in the numerous on border issues in Riga, Daugavpils. Participated in the international conferences "Overcoming nuclear danger" held by the World Political Forum.
Literary and philosophical works:
«The Philosophy of Political Violence»
«On the Way to Reducing the Military Tension»
«The Soviet-American Relations: the Past and the Present»
«A Dangerous Step»«Edward Teller: the Thermo-Nuclear Bomb Legacy». «Nuclear Non-Proliferation: A Brief Encyclopedia».
Moscow, 2009.
«Russia-Denmark: the Painters of the Imperial Courts».
Socialist Policy of Peace: the Theory and the Practice».
Member of the Russian Academy of Arts.