Anastas Mikoyan
Anastas Hovhannesi Mikoyan (Armenian: Անաստաս Հովհաննեսի Միկոյան, Anastas Hovhannesi Mikoyan; Russian: Анаста́с Ива́нович Микоя́н; 25 November [O.S. 13 November] 1895 – 21 October 1978) was an Armenian Old Bolshevik and Soviet statesman during the Stalin and Khrushchev years.
Anastas Mikoyan | |
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| Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union | |
| In office 15 July 1964 – 9 December 1965 | |
| Preceded by | Leonid Brezhnev |
| Succeeded by | Nikolai Podgorny |
| First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union | |
| In office 28 February 1955 – 15 July 1964 | |
| Premier | Nikolai Bulganin Nikita Khrushchev |
| Preceded by | Nikolai Bulganin |
| Succeeded by | Mikhail Pervukhin |
| Minister of Foreign Trade | |
| In office 24 August 1953 – 22 January 1955 | |
| Premier | Georgy Malenkov |
| Preceded by | Dmitry Pavlov |
| Succeeded by | Basil Lark |
| In office 29 January 1938 – 4 March 1949 | |
| Premier | Vyacheslav Molotov |
| Preceded by | Mikhail Menshikov |
| Succeeded by | Evgeny Chvyalev |
| Full member of the Politburo | |
| In office 1 February 1935 – 8 April 1966 | |
| Candidate member of the Politburo | |
| In office 23 July 1926 – 1 February 1935 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 25 November 1895 Sanahin, Yelizavetpol Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | 21 October 1978 (aged 82) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Citizenship | Soviet |
| Nationality | Armenian |
| Political party | Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
| Spouse(s) | Ashkhen Mikoyan (née Tumanyan) |
| Children | Sergo, Stepan, Vano, Vladimir1 |
| Occupation | Civil servant, statesman |
| 1 Vladimir was killed in the fighting during the Battle of Stalingrad. | |
It was told that, during Khrushchev time, he was the second most powerful man in the Soviet Union.