Anastas Mikoyan

Anastas Mikoyan
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 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd Politburo
In office 1 February 1935 – 8 April 1966
Candidate member of the 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th Politburo
In office 23 July 1926 – 1 February 1935
Personal details
Born	Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan (1895-11-25)25 November 1895 Sanahin, Yelizavetpol Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	21 October 1978(1978-10-21) (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) (1896–1962)
Children	Sergo, Stepan, Vano, Aleksei, Vladimir1
Occupation	Civil servant, statesman
1 Vladimir was killed in the fighting during the Battle of Stalingrad.

Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan (Russian: Анаста́с Ива́нович Микоя́н; Armenian: Անաստաս Հովհաննեսի Միկոյան Anastas Hovhannesi Mikoyan; English pronunciation: /miːkoʊˈjɑːn/; 25 November [O.S. 13 November] 1895 – 21 October 1978) was an Old Bolshevik and Soviet statesman during the mandates of Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev, and Brezhnev. He was the only Soviet politician who managed to remain at the highest levels of power within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, as that power oscillated between the Central Committee and the Politburo, from the latter days of Lenin's rule, throughout the eras of Stalin and Khrushchev, until his peaceful retirement after the first months of Brezhnev's rule.

Mikoyan became an early convert to the Bolshevik cause. Mikoyan was a strong supporter of Stalin during the immediate post-Lenin years. During Stalin's rule, Mikoyan held several high governmental posts, including that of Minister of Foreign Trade. By the end of Stalin's rule, Mikoyan began to lose favour with him. In 1949, Mikoyan lost his long-standing post of foreign trade minister. In October 1952 at the 19th Party Congress Stalin even attacked Mikoyan viciously. When Stalin died in 1953, Mikoyan again took a leading role in policy-making. He backed Khrushchev and his de-Stalinization policy, and became First Deputy Premier under Khrushchev. Mikoyan's position under Khrushchev made him the second most powerful figure in the Soviet Union at the time.

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