Loshchinin was born on 11 September 1940, in
Moscow, then part of the
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, in the
Soviet Union. He graduated from the
Belarusian State University in 1964, and the following year entered the Soviet diplomatic service as an employee of the
Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic's Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1965, becoming third secretary there. Loshchinin studied at the
Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, graduating in 1977, and joining the Soviet
Ministry of Foreign Affairs that year. Between 1989 and 1995 he was deputy Permanent Representative of the Soviet Union, and after the
dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Russian Federation, to the
UN Office and other International Organizations in Geneva. From 18 March 1999 to 7 April 2001, Loshchinin was the
Permanent Representative of Russia to
International Organizations in Vienna. On 7 April 2001, Loshchinin was appointed a deputy minister of Foreign Affairs. On 17 October 2001, he was appointed a
secretary of state in this role. On 22 February 2002, he was further promoted to become First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. He had responsibility for supervising bilateral relations with the
Commonwealth of Independent States countries, relations with the
Federal Assembly, and the
federal subjects of Russia, socio-political organizations, personnel, consular issues, and issues of state protocol. He held this post until 5 December 2011. After retiring from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Loshchinin served as assistant to the
Chairman of the Federation Council from 2012 until 2015. Loshchinin died on 14 March 2023, at the age of 82. Loshchinin's obituary by the
Russian Foreign Ministry noted that he was "an outstanding diplomat and statesman." In addition to his native
Russian, Loshchinin spoke
English and
French. ==Honours and awards==