Anastas Mikoyan
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Anastas Mikoyan | |
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Անաստաս Միկոյան | |
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President of the Soviet Union | |
In office 15 July 1964 – 9 December 1965 | |
Preceded by | Leonid Brezhnev |
Succeeded by | Nikolai Podgorny |
First Deputy Prime Minister 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 | Sanahin, Yelizavetpol Governorate, Russian Empire | 25 November 1895
Died | 21 October 1978 Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | (aged 82)
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. |
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.
It was told that, during Khrushchev time, he was the second most powerful man in the Soviet Union.