Petro Platonovich Udovychenko (Ukrainian: Петро Платонович Удовиченко) (17 February 1914 in Poltava region – 29 May 1992 in Kyiv) he was Ukrainian politician, diplomat, Ph.D. Candidate of science in History, Professor, Academician of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations, Minister of Education of the Ukrainian SSR.^[1]

Petro Udovychenko graduated from the Pedagogical Institute of Novomoskovsk (1934), Faculty of History; Higher Party School of the Central Committee (1944); Ph.D. (1947).

1934-1939 – he worked as a teacher at the school Dnipropetrovsk.

1939-1941 – he was Director Tarnopolsky Teachers College.

Since 1941 he worked on the state and party work.

Since 1944 he worked in the Commissariat of Foreign Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR.

Since 1947 he lectured at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.

1948-1952 – Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR.

1952-1956 – Associate Professor of International Relations and Foreign Policy of the Ukrainian SSR.

1956-1958 – he worked as a Vice-Rector for Academic Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.

March 24, 1958 - 1961 – he was permanent representative of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic to the United Nations.^[2]

1961-1967 – he headed of Department of International Relations and Foreign Policy of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.

1967-197 – Minister of Education of the Ukrainian SSR.

1971-1984 – he was Acting professor of the history of international relations and foreign policy of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.

• "History of Ukrainian SSR Foreign Policy 1919-1922" (1957).^[3]

• Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

• Handbook of the history of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union 1898 - 1991
• UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL OFFICIAL RECORDS THIRTY-NINTH YEAR 2542nd MEETING: 25 MAY 1984 NEW YORK
• Diplomacy in the Former Soviet Republics James P. Nichol Greenwood Publishing Group, 1.01.1995 - 244.
• Ukraine's U.N. Mission celebrates 40th anniversary
• Гай-Нижник П. Удовиченко Петро Платонович // Тернопільський Енциклопедичний Словник. – Тернопіль: ВАТ ТВПК “Збруч”, 2009. – Т.4 (додатковий). А–Я. – С.644.