Anastas Mikoyan

Anastas Mikoyan
Анастас Микоян Անաստաս Միկոյան
Mikoyan in 1950
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	(1895-11-25)25 November 1895 Sanahin, Tiflis Governorate, Russian Empire (now Armenia)
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)
Children	Stepan Vladimir1 Aleksei Vano Sergo
Occupation	Civil servant, statesman
1 Vladimir was killed in the fighting during the Battle of Stalingrad.

Anastas Ivanovich 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 Soviet statesman, diplomat, and Bolshevik revolutionary who remained in power from Lenin, through the eras of Stalin and Khrushchev, to his retirement under Brezhnev. His longevity inspired the popular Russian saying "from Ilyich [Lenin] to Ilyich [Brezhnev] without heart attack and paralysis".^[1] As a long-serving Politburo member, Mikoyan was known for his roles in the Soviet food industry, de-Stalinization, and international diplomacy, especially during the Cuban Missile Crisis.^[2]