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| nationality = [[Soviet people|Soviet]]
| spouse = {{marriage|[[Lydia Gromyko|Lydia Grinevich]]|1931}}<ref name="wife">{{cite web|script-title=ru:Соседи по парте|language=ru|publisher=RPP|url=http://rpp.nm.ru/zemliaki/so_a-d.html|access-date=11 September 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100310060301/http://www.rpp.nm.ru/zemliaki/so_a-d.html|archive-date=10 March 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| children = 2, including [[Anatoly Gromyko|Anatoly]]
| profession = [[Economist]], [[diplomat]], [[civil servant]]
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Gorbachev succeeded Gromyko in office as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=n1YVAAAAIBAJ&pg=5744,3071609&dq=andrei+gromyko&hl=en|title=Demoted Politburo 'more equal'|author=McManus, Doyle|date=4 October 1988|work=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]|access-date=12 September 2010}}{{Dead link|date=April 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> After his resignation Gorbachev praised Gromyko for his half-century of service to USSR. Critics, such as [[Alexander Belonogov]], the [[Permanent Representative of Russia to the United Nations|Permanent Representative of the Soviet Union to the United Nations]], claimed Gromyko's foreign policy was permeated with "a spirit of intolerance and confrontation".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Wx8fAAAAIBAJ&pg=1376,2138096&dq=andrei+gromyko&hl=en|title=Soviet official critical of Gromyko in party newspaper|author=Parks, Michael|date=3 October 1988|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|access-date=12 September 2010}}{{Dead link|date=April 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
After retiring from active politics in 1989 Gromyko started working on his memoirs.<ref name="gromykobio">{{cite web | script-title=ru:Громыко Андрей Андреевич | language = ru | publisher = hrono.ru | url = http://www.hrono.ru/biograf/bio_g/gromyko_aa.php | access-date = 8 October 2010 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100920115916/http://www.hrono.ru/biograf/bio_g/gromyko_aa.php| archive-date= 20 September 2010 | url-status= live}}</ref> Gromyko died on 2 July 1989, just 16 days before what would have been his 80th birthday, after being [[hospital]]ised for a [[Blood vessel|vascular]] problem that was not further identified.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Pall-bearers along towards MS Portrait of former Soviet Foreign... |url=https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/andrei-gromyko-funeral-ussr-moscow-novodevichy-cemetery-news-footage/1162931839 |access-date=2023-08-16 |website=Getty Images |date=19 July 2019 |language=en-us}}</ref> His death was followed by a minute of silence at the [[Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union|Congress of People's Deputies]] to commemorate him. The Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union ([[TASS]]), the central news organ in the USSR, called him one of the country's most "prominent leaders". [[President of the United States]] [[George H. W. Bush]] sent his condolences to Gromyko's son, Anatoly.<ref name="AP">{{cite news|title=Andrei Gromyko Dies, Was Soviet Diplomat for 50 Years|url= https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/73885751.html?dids=73885751:73885751&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jul+04,+1989&author=David+Remnick&pub=The+Washington+Post+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=Andrei+Gromyko+Dies,+Was+Soviet+Diplomat+for+50+Years&pqatl=google|date=4 July 1989|newspaper= [[The Washington Post]]|access-date=20 November 2010|author=Remnick, David }} (pay-fee)</ref> Gromyko was offered a grave in the [[Kremlin Wall Necropolis]], but at the request of his family he was not buried near the [[Moscow Kremlin Wall]] but instead at the [[Novodevichy Cemetery]].<ref name="gromykobio"/><ref>{{cite news|title=Novodevichy Cemetery|url=http://www.passportmagazine.ru/article/1099/|access-date=12 September 2013|work=Passport Magazine|date=April 2008}}</ref><ref name=":0" />
==Personal life==
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There is a story that Gromyko was leaving a Washington hotel one morning and was asked by a reporter; "Minister Gromyko, did you enjoy your breakfast today?" His response was "Perhaps."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/2559747.stm|title=Postcard from Budapest|date=10 December 2002|publisher=[[BBC]]|access-date=12 September 2010}}</ref>
During his twenty-eight years as minister of foreign affairs Gromyko became renowned by his peers for being consumed by his work. Henry Kissinger once said "If you can face Gromyko for one hour and survive, then you can begin to call yourself a diplomat". Gromyko's work influenced Soviet and Russian ambassadors such as [[Anatoly Dobrynin]].
<blockquote>He has concealed a veritable treasure-trove from future generations and taken to the grave with him an inestimable knowledge of international connection between the historical events and major figures of his time, which only he could offer. What a pity that this very man proved incapable to the very end of evoking his experience. As a faithful servant of the state, he believed that he should restrict himself to a sober, concise presentation of the bare essentials.{{sfn|Elliott|Lewin|2005|pp=237–38}}</blockquote>
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