Ivan Abramovich Zalkind (; 1 MayDiplomatic Documents of Switzerland 1848–1975: Salkind, Iwan 1885 in Saint Petersburg,Ирошников М.П., Чубарьян А.О.: Тайное становится явным Russia – 27 November 1928 in Leningrad,Архив Александра Н. Яковлева - Альманах "Россия. ХХ век" - Биографический словарь: Залкинд, Иван Абрамович Soviet Union), also known as Ivan Artamonov (), was a Jewish Soviet diplomat. Originally a biologist who got his doctorate from the Sorbonne in Paris, Zalkind took part in the October Revolution on the side of Leon Trotsky. When Trotsky 1917 became People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs (de facto: Soviet foreign minister), he made Zalkind his first deputy (de facto: Permanent Under Secretary of State or Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs).Михайловский, Георгий Николаевич: Записки. Из истории российского внешнеполитического ведомства, 1914–1920 гг. Книга 1. Начало саботажаJohn Reed: Zehn Tage, die die Welt erschütterten, pages 111 and 235. MEHRING, Essen 2011Михайловский, Георгий Николаевич: Записки. Из истории российского внешнеполитического ведомства, 1914–1920 гг. Книга 1. Троцкий в министерствеRussian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Троцкий, Лев ДавидовичAlexander I. Solschenizyn: Zweihundert Jahre zusammen - die Juden in der Sowjetunion, Vol. 2, p. 86. Herbig, München 2003 When Trotsky resigned as foreign minister (because of the peace Treaty of Brest-Litovsk), Zalkind was sent as plenipotentiary and consul to SwitzerlandDavid W. McFadden: Alternative Paths - Soviets and Americans, 1917–1920, p. 107. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1993Ludmila Thomas, Viktor Knoll: Zwischen Tradition und Revolution - Determinanten und Strukturen sowjetischer Aussenpolitik 1917–1941, pp. 229–232. Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2000Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland 1848–1975: Le Ministre de Suisse à Berlin, Ph. Mercier, au Chef du Département politique, F. Calonder from Februar 6, 1918Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland 1848–1975: Rapport du Conseil fédéral sur les mesures à prendre contre l’agitation bolchevique. from November 6, 1918 (Zürich, 1918), Turkey (Istanbul, 1922), Latvia (Liepāja, 1923) and Italy (Genoa, 1924, and Milan, 1925). Back in the Soviet Union, after Trotsky's downfall he was expelled from the Communist party and shot himself.
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