Education
Osadchiy graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1973, and went on to work in various diplomatic posts in the central offices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and abroad.
Osadchiy graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1973, and went on to work in various diplomatic posts in the central offices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and abroad.
From 1997–1999, Osadchiy was the consul-general of Russia in Hamburg, Germany, and from 1999–2000 the consul-general of Russia in Istanbul, Turkey. On 6 August 2004, he was appointed by Vladimir Putin as Ambassador of Russia to Austria, and he presented his credentials in Vienna on 14 September 2004. Osadchiy speaks Russian, English, French, Greek, German and Turkish.