After the War, he joined the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and from 1949—1952 he was the deputy political adviser to the Soviet Control Commission in Germany. He served in the diplomatic mission of the Soviet Union to East Germany as its head for several months over the period 1952—1953.[1]
After the completion of his mission to Vienna, he returned to Moscow where he became the Head of the European Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, before being posted to Copenhagen on 26 January 1966 as Ambassador of the Soviet Union to Denmark. His mission in the Danish capital finished on 12 November 1968, whereby he returned to Moscow and a position in the central apparatus of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs until his retirement in 1975.[1] He died in Moscow in 1983.
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^ abcde"02867" Ильичёв Иван Иванович (in Russian). Справочник по истории Коммунистической партии и Советского Союза 1898 - 1991. Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2009-03-11. ( at WebCite)