Ivan Turginov

Ivan Ivanovich Turginov (also Turgarinov, Russian: Иван Иванович Тугаринов; 1905 – 10 October 1966) was a Soviet diplomat. Tuginov was born in Moscow Oblast. Between 1945 and 1948, he was an official of the Soviet administration in Germany and then until 1963 took various leading posts at the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 7 May 1963 and until his death on 10 October 1966 he was the Soviet Ambassador to the Netherlands; he died in Amsterdam.

Ivan Turginov in The Hot War
Ivan Turginov was a Soviet diplomat during World War III. In June, 1952, Turginov was part of a faction that opposed Lavrenty Beria's decision to continue the war. On behalf of his faction, Turginov approached Richard Cunningham Patterson, Jr., the American minister to Switzerland, about U.S. President Harry Truman's offer for a return to the status quo ante bellum. Turginov also wanted clarification about control of Soviet satellite states, and hinted that Lavrenty Beria's position was not stable.

Cunningham alerted Truman via cable.