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
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, 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)
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.