Aleksandr Kapto

Aleksandr Kapto
Kapto in 2014
Russian Ambassador to North Korea
In office
10 October 1990  24 January 1992
PresidentMikhail Gorbachev
Boris Yeltsin
Preceded byGennady Bartoshevich
Succeeded byYuri Fadeyev
Personal details
Born
Aleksandr Semyonovich Kapto

(1933-04-14)14 April 1933
Vyshchetarasivka, Tomakivka Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Died19 April 2020(2020-04-19) (aged 87)
Moscow, Russia
Alma materDnipropetrovsk University
OccupationDiplomat, author

Aleksandr Semyonovich Kapto (Russian: Александр Семёнович Капто; 14 April 1933 – 19 April 2020) was a Soviet, Russian and Ukrainian sociologist, political scientist, diplomat, journalist and politician. He earned a philosophy degree in 1967 and his Ph.D. in 1985. In 2008 he was head of the UNESCO International Board of the Institute of Socio-Political Research under the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS).