Adolf Markovich Petrovsky was a Soviet diplomat

Diplomat

A diplomat is a person appointed by a state to conduct diplomacy with another state or international organization. The main functions of diplomats revolve around the representation and protection of the interests and nationals of the sending state, as well as the promotion of information and...

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From 10 December 1924 until 31 January 1930, Petrovsky was the Plenipotentiary Representative of the Soviet Union in Estonia; from 31 January 1930 to 21 December 1930 he was Plenipotentiary Representative of the USSR in Lithuania; from 21 December 1930 to 1 April 1933 he was Plenipotentiary Representative of the USSR in Persia.

From 1 April 1933 until 10 November 1935, he was Plenipotentiary Representative of the Soviet Union in Austria

Ambassador of Russia to Austria

Russian–Austrian contacts began with Frederick III in 1436, and towards the end of the 15th century, Emperor Maximilian I and Ivan III exchanged diplomatic missions. Regular Russian communications with the Austrian court began in 1698, when Peter the Great led the Grand Embassy to Vienna and met...

, with concurrent accreditation as Plenipotentiary Representative of the USSR in Hungary.