Vadim Zagladin

Vadim Valentinovich Zagladin (June 23, 1927 - November 17, 2006) was a Soviet politician and ideologist.

He graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, and taught there from 1949 to 1956. From 1964 to 1988, he was First Deputy Secretary of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, assisting Secretaries Boris Ponomarev and Anatoly Dobrynin. From 1988 to 1991, he was a close advisor to Mikhail Gorbachev regarding perestroika and glasnost, and continued his senior advisory role within the Gorbachev Foundation until his death. He was also Vice-President of the Association for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation (AEAC), promoting links between Russia and NATO.