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Ivan Tevosian

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Ivan Tevosian
Иван Тевосян
Հովհաննես Թևոսյան
Tevosian in 1939
Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers
In office
7 December 1953 – 28 December 1956
PremierGeorgy Malenkov
Nikolai Bulganin
In office
13 June 1949 – 15 March 1953
PremierJoseph Stalin
People's Commissar for Ferrous Metallurgy
In office
17 April 1940 – 29 July 1948
PremierVyacheslav Molotov
Joseph Stalin
Preceded byFjodor Merkulov
Succeeded byAnatoli Kuzmin
Candidate member of the 19th Presidium
In office
16 October 1952 – 6 March 1953
Personal details
Born4 January 1902
Shusha, Russian Empire
Died30 March 1958(1958-03-30) (aged 56)
Moscow, Soviet Union
NationalitySoviet
Political partyCommunist Party of the Soviet Union (1919–1958)
ProfessionCivil servant

Ivan Fyodorovich (Hovhannes Tevadrosovich) Tevosian (Russian: Иван Федорович (Тевадросович) Тевосян, Armenian: Հովհաննես Թևատրոսի Թևոսյան; 1902 – 1958) was a Soviet politician of Armenian descent. Hero of Socialist Labor (1943).[1]

Since 1919 Tevosian was the secretary of Russian Communist Party Baku underground committee. Tevosian participated to the 10th Conference of the party.[1]

After finishing the Academy of Mountains in 1927, he worked as the chief engineer of "Elektrostal" factory (Moscow oblast). In 1939-40 he was the Shipbuilding Minister of USSR, in 1940-48 - the Minister of Black Metallurgy, in 1948-49 and again, in the 1950s - the Minister of Metallurgy of USSR, vice-chairman of the Soviet government. Since 1956 Tevosian was the Ambassador of the USSR in Japan.[1]

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