Ivan Tevosian | |
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Иван Тевосян Հովհաննես Թևոսյան | |
.jpg) Tevosian in 1939 | |
| Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers | |
| In office 7 December 1953 – 28 December 1956 | |
| Premier | Georgy Malenkov Nikolai Bulganin |
| In office 13 June 1949 – 15 March 1953 | |
| Premier | Joseph Stalin |
| People's Commissar for Ferrous Metallurgy | |
| In office 17 April 1940 – 29 July 1948 | |
| Premier | Vyacheslav Molotov Joseph Stalin |
| Preceded by | Fjodor Merkulov |
| Succeeded by | Anatoli Kuzmin |
| Candidate member of the 19th Presidium | |
| In office 16 October 1952 – 6 March 1953 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 4 January 1902 Shusha, Russian Empire |
| Died | 30 March 1958 (aged 56) Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | Soviet |
| Political party | Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1919–1958) |
| Profession | Civil 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]
